Busses

Jean-F said:
With all due respects SGF, I put it you that you were either swiped by a passing bus, and fell to the ground, or knocked over by a bus, which then passed over you, without the wheels going over your body, as had you been run over by the wheels of the bus in 1971, you may not have been around in 1974, for another bus to have a go.
Swiped, knocked over, or run over, it must have been traumatic, so I’m not making light of it.
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The first was the school bus, it reversed into me dropping me on the floor, went over me with me underneath it but the back wheel squashed my foot.

The second was in 1974 and I was racing to Stoke train station from work to see my Mum, Dad and little sister off to Nigeria.
I was racing down Campbell Road on my bike when a bus turned straight into me knocking me off my bike.
I remember lots of screaming but got back on my bike and made it to see my family off.
I cycled home and when I got there the Police were waiting for me, called an ambulance and I spent the night in hospital with a badly bruised body - no breaks.
PMT bought me a new bike.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
The first was the school bus, it reversed into me dropping me on the floor, went over me with me underneath it but the back wheel squashed my foot.

The second was in 1974 and I was racing to Stoke train station from work to see my Mum, Dad and little sister off to Nigeria.
I was racing down Campbell Road on my bike when a bus turned straight into me knocking me off my bike.
I remember lots of screaming but got back on my bike and made it to see my family off.
I cycled home and when I got there the Police were waiting for me, called an ambulance and I spent the night in hospital with a badly bruised body - no breaks.
PMT bought me a new bike.
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PMT bought you a bike? Some hormonal woman? It’s okay, I Googled it, bus company in Stoke.
Well I’m glad that aside from your foot, you got off lightly from fighting buses, my young cousin had his foot run over by a bus in Basildon when he was 9 or10, it was amputated and he has a prosthetic, he’s a taxi driver now in Basildon, and in his mid fifties.
 
Change OP's name to That Jekka Boy.

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Malevolence said:
I'll ask my old man if it was him. :D
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Lol
When I had my first accident at 13 it scared the hell out of me because I thought the driver and conductor were going to lose their jobs and come after me.
For months I put my guitar case up against my bedroom handle and couldn't stop looking out of the window for them and it made it worse because I lived in a bungalow :(
If it was your dad please tell him I'm sorry that I selfishly got run over - well it was my fault because I was messing about.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Lol
When I had my first accident at 13 it scared the hell out of me because I thought the driver and conductor were going to lose their jobs and come after me.
For months I put my guitar case up against my bedroom handle and couldn't stop looking out of the window for them and it made it worse because I lived in a bungalow :(
If it was your dad please tell him I'm sorry that I selfishly got run over - well it was my fault because I was messing about.
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Parents are in Spain at the moment, but the moment he gets back I'll ask and it will be really freaky if it was him and he actually remembers it. Must've been really scary for you though. Because you know what bus drivers are like, at first you think you might be able to take him if he's alone but then a minute later three of them turn up at once.
 
Malevolence said:
Parents are in Spain at the moment, but the moment he gets back I'll ask and it will be really freaky if it was him and he actually remembers it. Must've been really scary for you though. Because you know what bus drivers are like, at first you think you might be able to take him if he's alone but then a minute later three of them turn up at once.
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First one was at Hanley High School over in Bucknall/Werrington and that's the one where I thought the driver/conductor were going to come and kill me :)
Now here's a sub story: I come from a very large Irish based Fenton family and I have 28 cousins.
Before I was born in 1958 I had a 3 year old cousin who was with her Nanny (childminder) in Longton Bus Station and the bus reversed over the pair of them killing them both and according to family the Nanny's head was decapitated.
Apparently after that incident a country wide law was passed that all buses reversing had to have the conductor standing behind them so in 1971 when it happened to me, my whole family went mad about it and took action. I have no idea of the outcome but poo'd myself.

Second one was right outside the Plough Hotel on Campbell Road.
I'd been cycling from the Michelin Apprentice School in Hanford and the bus was turning into the street where the Gardeners Retreat is (gigging there soon) and took me with it.
I got on my broken bike, made it to Stoke Station to see my parents & sister off and then somehow got back to Longton Hall Road in Blurton where Coppers were waiting for me.
 
That Jekka Gal said:
I am not a fan of buses for a number of reasons. Mainly because I am borderline claustrophobic and I don't like things I can't get out of when I want to. Of course, back in the days when common sense prevailed you could more or less hop on and off at will. Not so anymore. A few months ago I was on a very crowded bus in Swindon that was stuck in a jam on the way into the bus station where I was to get off. We were crammed in cheek by Jowel and I suddenly started feeling very nauseous and my head started spinning. I really wanted off. Would the driver let me off? No. Health and Safety, more than my job's worth guvnor etc. so I smashed the emergency glass panel and hit the emergency door release switch, leapt off and legged it without looking back. I was lucky not to have been caught but I avoided using the bus after that.

Anyhow, the real rant about buses was brought on because it took me 45 minutes to get into Shirley last night. I was only coming from Behind the Walls. The reason? You guessed it - buses. Stopping every 20 yards to discorge their passengers and holding us all up while the innumerate driver struggled to take his fares.

And I thought to myself why not bring back conductors? And why not bring back the buses with open decks so that you can hop off and on at will? Wouldn't it help to get the traffic moving?
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Too easy!
 
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