WEBVTT - MINI: School Bus Etiquette

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<v Speaker 1>Christian O'Connell Christian O'Connell Show podcast yesterday, Patsy noticed something

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<v Speaker 1>about her daughter and if you had to get the

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<v Speaker 1>school bus to school, right, and most of us did

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<v Speaker 1>school bus track?

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<v Speaker 2>Yep, yeah, me too, Patsy.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, definitely did school bus stop outside your house or

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<v Speaker 3>did you go to the central bus stop?

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<v Speaker 4>No, we were in the bush, so down down the driveway.

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<v Speaker 3>I always saw that on American movies and was jealous

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<v Speaker 3>that you had the school bus pull up outside their house.

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<v Speaker 2>No, no, no, you have to go on walk cages

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<v Speaker 2>with your school bank kicking it along the streets, and

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<v Speaker 2>so there were loads of other kids there and you went.

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<v Speaker 2>Then there was a mad pylon to even just get

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<v Speaker 2>on the bus as well. So what did you notice then,

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<v Speaker 2>where is Aldie on the on the school bus?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, she's normally right behind the driver up.

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<v Speaker 5>The floor when she gets bus six.

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<v Speaker 4>So they've had to put her.

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<v Speaker 2>We all knew at school. Well what they say about

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<v Speaker 2>the kids at the front, you're going to fight your way.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why I had to fight your way to the back.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, she's she's getting there. She's like two seats back.

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<v Speaker 2>But this is brilliant, it's like a great gate. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>going to pitch the Channel nine. I've got a show

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<v Speaker 2>that can take on the Cube on ten with Andy Lee.

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<v Speaker 3>Now, school bus, it's like musical chairs, but on a bus,

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<v Speaker 3>I've got to fight your way to that back.

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<v Speaker 5>So but it's kind of by default because they've got

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<v Speaker 5>all these new preppies that have started.

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<v Speaker 4>She's grade four, so she's nearly middle school. So she's

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<v Speaker 4>had to.

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<v Speaker 2>Go a couple of seats, find a weaker kid or

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<v Speaker 2>a smaller kid than you go, I'm taking that seat.

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<v Speaker 2>That's how it works.

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<v Speaker 4>But there is a hierarchy, isn't there?

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<v Speaker 3>Definitely everyone knows it.

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<v Speaker 2>Back at the back, the way is the kids at

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<v Speaker 2>the front, all right, the kids at the front. Then

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<v Speaker 2>it's then then there's the middle front. Then there's the

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<v Speaker 2>back front, and then there's the back. Right, if you

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<v Speaker 2>break it down right, the middle bit right, so it's

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<v Speaker 2>middle front or middle back? Middle front. Were the nerds,

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<v Speaker 2>weren't they? They were sort of intelligent kids?

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<v Speaker 3>Well why at the front is the kids who were

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<v Speaker 3>there for the backpacks on their knees like prim and proper.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that was me as up the front?

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<v Speaker 5>Well you as will I never got a line up

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<v Speaker 5>fronts never ventured past about three seats because I was

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<v Speaker 5>too petrified of the tough girls and boys at the.

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<v Speaker 3>Back at the back every day, you're gonna fight if

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<v Speaker 3>you get kids out of the way, especially on that bench back.

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<v Speaker 3>The right at the end of the bus is the

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<v Speaker 3>primo spot.

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<v Speaker 2>And within that there's always a hierarchy. Within the hierarchy. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>Queen Ant is always right in the middle.

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<v Speaker 3>Looking down the aisle.

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<v Speaker 4>Down the aisle, that.

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<v Speaker 2>Is the king pin spot. You see who's coming down.

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<v Speaker 2>You shall not pass as some little kids thinks it's

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<v Speaker 2>their time to come to the back. And then on

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<v Speaker 2>the henchmen, they always frank my henchman, they send like

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<v Speaker 2>an X wing. Find do they send one of them

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<v Speaker 2>out there to defend them off, to see what they want.

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<v Speaker 3>Our bus was always overcreated as well, so most people

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<v Speaker 3>were standing up hanging off those.

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<v Speaker 2>Real safe Yeah, no seat belts already in the day,

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<v Speaker 2>no worry about personal safety. The bus driver never used

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<v Speaker 2>to see sit down to some of the kids. Do

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<v Speaker 2>you also sometimes just run up and down the bus

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<v Speaker 2>We also do. If you're at the back. You also

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<v Speaker 2>get to sort of flip the burd and stuff like that.

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<v Speaker 3>To the cars and you can get away with Murdy.

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<v Speaker 2>To pull your pants down and do a movie and

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<v Speaker 2>stuff like. That's to love the back seat.

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<v Speaker 3>Now, we didn't play a pan start.

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<v Speaker 2>Sorry, it's a Catholic school I went to. It was

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<v Speaker 2>a different thing.

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<v Speaker 3>It was the priest.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, let's go to lines. Now, where did you

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<v Speaker 2>sit on the school bus?

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<v Speaker 1>So?

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<v Speaker 2>Jack and I were at the back. I was never

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<v Speaker 2>the king pin in the middle though, you know, at

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<v Speaker 2>the back right there, controlling the alleyway from Drod that

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<v Speaker 2>the gang plank down the middle. Were you ever there?

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<v Speaker 3>No, I would say I was one seat from the back.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah I was. I would I made it to the back.

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<v Speaker 2>But I wasn't a henchman. I was the court chester.

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<v Speaker 2>There's always a room for the court chester at any

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<v Speaker 2>king sat.

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<v Speaker 3>The king would know me by first name basis.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's enough, isn't it. You know, it's like the

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<v Speaker 2>Godfather's run that way. All right, let's go to e Fie.

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<v Speaker 5>How are you?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm good Fie. So is this bringing it all back

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<v Speaker 2>school bus etiquette?

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<v Speaker 6>Surely, sure he is. The thing you could do was

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<v Speaker 6>get the best, big tighter st sack to watch the

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<v Speaker 6>stacks on in the middle of the bus.

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<v Speaker 2>You kind of won your first big battle at school,

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<v Speaker 2>haven't you getting into the middle. But it's a long

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<v Speaker 2>way from the front to the middle.

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<v Speaker 3>That's I can't believe you missed all this by just

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<v Speaker 3>sitting in the front.

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<v Speaker 4>Seats, a timid little thing up the front.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't imagine that we're paying the price for that.

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<v Speaker 4>Now it's all coming out.

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<v Speaker 2>Now it's been reversed. You and I are at the

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<v Speaker 2>front trying to get to the back. But look who's

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<v Speaker 2>at the back right in that's central one pat our

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<v Speaker 2>heads in, let's go, let's got a Jodie.

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<v Speaker 6>I was started at the front. Where's my way sort

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<v Speaker 6>of to the middle. But where I knew the hierarchy

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<v Speaker 6>on my bus was on very very cold mornings, the

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<v Speaker 6>bus couldn't actually make it up a hill. So the

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<v Speaker 6>kids that were very cool in the back seat they

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<v Speaker 6>got to stay on the bus and all the rest

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<v Speaker 6>of us plugs had to get out and walk.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow whatever. The cheapest sort of coach hire company was

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<v Speaker 2>in town. That's the school they would ring around, so

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<v Speaker 2>they got the dirtiest buses, but just about to go

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<v Speaker 2>out of sort of being use basically go that's the

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<v Speaker 2>one to put young, precious children and on.

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<v Speaker 3>So were you the walker, Jodey did or did you

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<v Speaker 3>get to sit at the back?

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I was a walker, Still coming back today.

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