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<blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 4420373" data-attributes="member: 41321">Way back in high school we were taking a field trip with a chartered bus (not a school bus).&nbsp; The driver seemed a little... out of it.&nbsp; On the highway he kept straying into the breakdown lane and over the rumble strips.&nbsp; The bus also occasionally made this awful grinding sound that I believe was him grinding the gears (or so I was told - I've only ever driven automatics before).&nbsp; But the worst part was when the teachers responsible for directing the driver were arguing about which route to take.&nbsp; It came to a point where he needed to decide whether to get off of a certain exit or stay on the highway, and he chose to do neither.&nbsp; He pulled up right in front of the exit sign, the highway on one side of us and the exit on the other, and stopped.&nbsp; I thought we were going to hit the sign, he had pulled up to it so fast.&nbsp; At this point one of the older kids (old enough to drive) in the back of the bus stood up and asked in all seriousness if they wanted him to drive.&nbsp; After staying there for a few moments the teachers came to an agreement about which way to go, and the bus driver backed up onto this busy highway, then finally picked a route.I wasn't on this bus, but friends of mine were on another bus with the high school orchestra going on another field trip when they saw a rolling single tire pass them on the side of the highway.&nbsp; It was a tire from their bus.&nbsp; Nobody got hurt, and the bus was able to pull over safely minus one tire, but that was an experience they didn't easily forget.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merkuri, post: 4420373, member: 41321"] Way back in high school we were taking a field trip with a chartered bus (not a school bus). The driver seemed a little... out of it. On the highway he kept straying into the breakdown lane and over the rumble strips. The bus also occasionally made this awful grinding sound that I believe was him grinding the gears (or so I was told - I've only ever driven automatics before). But the worst part was when the teachers responsible for directing the driver were arguing about which route to take. It came to a point where he needed to decide whether to get off of a certain exit or stay on the highway, and he chose to do [I]neither[/I]. He pulled up right in front of the exit sign, the highway on one side of us and the exit on the other, and stopped. I thought we were going to hit the sign, he had pulled up to it so fast. At this point one of the older kids (old enough to drive) in the back of the bus stood up and asked in all seriousness if they wanted him to drive. After staying there for a few moments the teachers came to an agreement about which way to go, and the bus driver [I]backed up[/I] onto this busy highway, then finally picked a route. I wasn't on this bus, but friends of mine were on another bus with the high school orchestra going on another field trip when they saw a rolling single tire pass them on the side of the highway. It was a tire from their bus. Nobody got hurt, and the bus was able to pull over safely minus one tire, but that was an experience they didn't easily forget. [/QUOTE]

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