Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell Christian O'Connell Show podcast yesterday, Patsy noticed something
Speaker 1: about her daughter and if you had to get the
Speaker 1: school bus to school, right, and most of us did
Speaker 1: school bus track?
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, me too, Patsy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely did school bus stop outside your house or
Speaker 3: did you go to the central bus stop?
Speaker 4: No, we were in the bush, so down down the driveway.
Speaker 3: I always saw that on American movies and was jealous
Speaker 3: that you had the school bus pull up outside their house.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you have to go on walk cages
Speaker 2: with your school bank kicking it along the streets, and
Speaker 2: so there were loads of other kids there and you went.
Speaker 2: Then there was a mad pylon to even just get
Speaker 2: on the bus as well. So what did you notice then,
Speaker 2: where is Aldie on the on the school bus?
Speaker 4: Well, she's normally right behind the driver up.
Speaker 5: The floor when she gets bus six.
Speaker 4: So they've had to put her.
Speaker 2: We all knew at school. Well what they say about
Speaker 2: the kids at the front, you're going to fight your way.
Speaker 2: That's why I had to fight your way to the back.
Speaker 5: Well, she's she's getting there. She's like two seats back.
Speaker 2: But this is brilliant, it's like a great gate. I'm
Speaker 2: going to pitch the Channel nine. I've got a show
Speaker 2: that can take on the Cube on ten with Andy Lee.
Speaker 3: Now, school bus, it's like musical chairs, but on a bus,
Speaker 3: I've got to fight your way to that back.
Speaker 5: So but it's kind of by default because they've got
Speaker 5: all these new preppies that have started.
Speaker 4: She's grade four, so she's nearly middle school. So she's
Speaker 4: had to.
Speaker 2: Go a couple of seats, find a weaker kid or
Speaker 2: a smaller kid than you go, I'm taking that seat.
Speaker 2: That's how it works.
Speaker 4: But there is a hierarchy, isn't there?
Speaker 3: Definitely everyone knows it.
Speaker 2: Back at the back, the way is the kids at
Speaker 2: the front, all right, the kids at the front. Then
Speaker 2: it's then then there's the middle front. Then there's the
Speaker 2: back front, and then there's the back. Right, if you
Speaker 2: break it down right, the middle bit right, so it's
Speaker 2: middle front or middle back? Middle front. Were the nerds,
Speaker 2: weren't they? They were sort of intelligent kids?
Speaker 3: Well why at the front is the kids who were
Speaker 3: there for the backpacks on their knees like prim and proper.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was me as up the front?
Speaker 5: Well you as will I never got a line up
Speaker 5: fronts never ventured past about three seats because I was
Speaker 5: too petrified of the tough girls and boys at the.
Speaker 3: Back at the back every day, you're gonna fight if
Speaker 3: you get kids out of the way, especially on that bench back.
Speaker 3: The right at the end of the bus is the
Speaker 3: primo spot.
Speaker 2: And within that there's always a hierarchy. Within the hierarchy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Queen Ant is always right in the middle.
Speaker 3: Looking down the aisle.
Speaker 4: Down the aisle, that.
Speaker 2: Is the king pin spot. You see who's coming down.
Speaker 2: You shall not pass as some little kids thinks it's
Speaker 2: their time to come to the back. And then on
Speaker 2: the henchmen, they always frank my henchman, they send like
Speaker 2: an X wing. Find do they send one of them
Speaker 2: out there to defend them off, to see what they want.
Speaker 3: Our bus was always overcreated as well, so most people
Speaker 3: were standing up hanging off those.
Speaker 2: Real safe Yeah, no seat belts already in the day,
Speaker 2: no worry about personal safety. The bus driver never used
Speaker 2: to see sit down to some of the kids. Do
Speaker 2: you also sometimes just run up and down the bus
Speaker 2: We also do. If you're at the back. You also
Speaker 2: get to sort of flip the burd and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: To the cars and you can get away with Murdy.
Speaker 2: To pull your pants down and do a movie and
Speaker 2: stuff like. That's to love the back seat.
Speaker 3: Now, we didn't play a pan start.
Speaker 2: Sorry, it's a Catholic school I went to. It was
Speaker 2: a different thing.
Speaker 3: It was the priest.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to lines. Now, where did you
Speaker 2: sit on the school bus?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: Jack and I were at the back. I was never
Speaker 2: the king pin in the middle though, you know, at
Speaker 2: the back right there, controlling the alleyway from Drod that
Speaker 2: the gang plank down the middle. Were you ever there?
Speaker 3: No, I would say I was one seat from the back.
Speaker 2: Yeah I was. I would I made it to the back.
Speaker 2: But I wasn't a henchman. I was the court chester.
Speaker 2: There's always a room for the court chester at any
Speaker 2: king sat.
Speaker 3: The king would know me by first name basis.
Speaker 2: And that's enough, isn't it. You know, it's like the
Speaker 2: Godfather's run that way. All right, let's go to e Fie.
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good Fie. So is this bringing it all back
Speaker 2: school bus etiquette?
Speaker 6: Surely, sure he is. The thing you could do was
Speaker 6: get the best, big tighter st sack to watch the
Speaker 6: stacks on in the middle of the bus.
Speaker 2: You kind of won your first big battle at school,
Speaker 2: haven't you getting into the middle. But it's a long
Speaker 2: way from the front to the middle.
Speaker 3: That's I can't believe you missed all this by just
Speaker 3: sitting in the front.
Speaker 4: Seats, a timid little thing up the front.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine that we're paying the price for that.
Speaker 4: Now it's all coming out.
Speaker 2: Now it's been reversed. You and I are at the
Speaker 2: front trying to get to the back. But look who's
Speaker 2: at the back right in that's central one pat our
Speaker 2: heads in, let's go, let's got a Jodie.
Speaker 6: I was started at the front. Where's my way sort
Speaker 6: of to the middle. But where I knew the hierarchy
Speaker 6: on my bus was on very very cold mornings, the
Speaker 6: bus couldn't actually make it up a hill. So the
Speaker 6: kids that were very cool in the back seat they
Speaker 6: got to stay on the bus and all the rest
Speaker 6: of us plugs had to get out and walk.
Speaker 2: Wow whatever. The cheapest sort of coach hire company was
Speaker 2: in town. That's the school they would ring around, so
Speaker 2: they got the dirtiest buses, but just about to go
Speaker 2: out of sort of being use basically go that's the
Speaker 2: one to put young, precious children and on.
Speaker 3: So were you the walker, Jodey did or did you
Speaker 3: get to sit at the back?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was a walker, Still coming back today.
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