Those last two entries would have made for perfect conversation between the avatars involved.
NakedDumblydore
Your comment just continues the appropriate gravatar trend. I fear mine will break it, though, unless I end my entry with “Curses!” or “Fools!” or something. Curses!
a99steaksauce
But isnt the content the most important part in the end?… ~
PedanticJerkass
Can we… can we go just one day with mentioning avatars? Please?
Ah, good times. I recall my first experience with vodka laced Gatorade on a high school field trip to Utah with the skiing club. On the back bench in the dark, cruising through Nevada.
That’s funny, because whenever someone tells me they’re scared to fly, I always tell them being on a plane feels just like being on a bus, only ya know…in the air.
When someone tells me they’re scared to fly, I tell them that a plane just went down over the Atlantic last week, so we’re probably not due for another crash for at least a couple months.
Or if there hasn’t been a crash in a while, I nod along and say, “Yeah, best to wait until God gets another one out of his system.”
Charter buses (like Greyhound buses), as this one appears to be, sometimes do, having ridden on a few myself. You don’t see them on shuttle buses or normal county or city buses, though.
That’s actually a city bus ( http://www.bloomingtontransit.com/ ). I don’t know of a BT bus having seatbelts, but they have a fair number of new vehicles and also it’s important to the premise of the joke.
Kisai
Wheelchair accessible buses have seatbelts… for the wheelchair. These seats are the bench seats directly behind the driver.
The bus that is drawn, is a transit bus, however these buses are sometimes hired for charter purposes if it’s run by a private company. Where I used to live, the school buses would normally be chartered (as the city had no public transit) and driven by their regular driver.
Luke
As a current Bloomington resident who wrecked his car last year and has since ridden nearly every bus in town, the only seatbelts I’ve ever seen are for the driver or wheelchairs–neither really accessible to the average passenger.
I suppose he might have drawn the one bus I haven’t been on… the angle of the lightbar isn’t familiar to me either.
Seatbelts dont protect you, they protext the person in front of you from having you smash into them.
In car collisions its quite possible for the person in the back to servive, but kill the guy in front.
So its not really about “trust”.
I dunno how it is in bus’s though.
Actually, seat belts do protect you. Imagine being in a car and being ejected through the windshield to hit the ground at nearly the speed the car was traveling. Seat belts also prevent you from being bounced around inside the car, which can be also be very painful. Not the perfect solution, but better than not using them.
David
…yeah, if you’re not wearing a seatbelt, I’m pretty sure that guy in the back *can’t* kill you, because you are dozens of feet ahead of the car on the pavement.
It’s been in discussion as a federal regulation lately, but you know what’s really funny? Our federal highway regulations for vehicle safety standards (the crash test rating system) is entirely based on testing for both “with seatbelt” and “without seatbelt” standards.
So, the reason we can’t get high performance supercars without ugly add-on bumpers or additional weight is because we expect people to still not wear seatbelts.
Since 1985, it’s been the law, in Texas, that all drivers and passengers in any vehicle made after 1976 must wear their seatbelt. Yet, for the past 26 years, the law has had to be constantly tweaked because people still refuse to wear them. Because it too much trouble, or it’s uncomfortable, or because (and I’ve actually heard this excuse) it’ll mess up the person’s clothes.
Seriously, that’s like having to make a law telling people not to drink bleach — and then having to constantly tweak the penalties because people refuse to stop doing it.
116 thoughts on “Bus”
Jen Aside
Walky, you ain’t helping your case for PANTS.
TemplarKnight
In my experience, waving around a seatbelt like nunchucks usually keeps pants on rather than removes them.
NakedDumblydore
Not necessarily. If someone pisses their pants in fear of the seatbelt nunchaku, they’ll probably take them off sooner rather than later.
ryan
if only they had some comfy pants to change into…
Steven
Obviously it’s Sal.
Bill M.
Not according to the tags, so sayeth the Willis.
Steven
Sir, do not bring FACTS into this.
Mancuso
Ooooh, I can haz use that?
ScytheAkse
I <3 walky
JackNapier
I take it that, on a separate bus, some girl is swinging hers around as though it were the Lasso of Truth.
OhHayMike
True story. We had seatbelts once. Blood was shed.
Wandering Meme
No no no! You Gotta start your stories off dramatic! Like this:
“No $#!+, THERE I WAS…”
Zuche
Those last two entries would have made for perfect conversation between the avatars involved.
NakedDumblydore
Your comment just continues the appropriate gravatar trend. I fear mine will break it, though, unless I end my entry with “Curses!” or “Fools!” or something. Curses!
a99steaksauce
But isnt the content the most important part in the end?… ~
PedanticJerkass
Can we… can we go just one day with mentioning avatars? Please?
David Herbert
Also, without seatbelts, you can have more kids on the bus than can normally fit.
JackNapier
And they go flying so much higher when you hit the speedbumps.
alex
thus building up a nice, squishy cushion in the front of the buss in case of an actual collision. see? safer!
Mrelegos
The trick is having so many kids in there that they’re crammed in tight enough to function as a mutual seatbelt for each other.
Palmetto
You can get that third kid on the seat, the one who’s got one butt cheek on the seat and the other hanging out in the aisle.
NCP19
Best Dorothy and Joyce faces to date in my opinion
Compass
Nothing like sitting on the cool “Not a Seat” seat in the back.
fellixe
Ah, good times. I recall my first experience with vodka laced Gatorade on a high school field trip to Utah with the skiing club. On the back bench in the dark, cruising through Nevada.
John Harmon
That’s funny, because whenever someone tells me they’re scared to fly, I always tell them being on a plane feels just like being on a bus, only ya know…in the air.
NakedDumblydore
When someone tells me they’re scared to fly, I tell them that a plane just went down over the Atlantic last week, so we’re probably not due for another crash for at least a couple months.
Or if there hasn’t been a crash in a while, I nod along and say, “Yeah, best to wait until God gets another one out of his system.”
valkeer1
Already Walky is making an ass of himself….& they haven’t even left yet! Go Walky!
meanderling
Huh. I’ve never been on a bus with seatbelts! Our campus buses/shuttle buses home (about a ~120 mile ride) certainly don’t have them.
I guess I wouldn’t be trusted not to do that anyways.
Henry
Charter buses (like Greyhound buses), as this one appears to be, sometimes do, having ridden on a few myself. You don’t see them on shuttle buses or normal county or city buses, though.
Francis
That’s actually a city bus ( http://www.bloomingtontransit.com/ ). I don’t know of a BT bus having seatbelts, but they have a fair number of new vehicles and also it’s important to the premise of the joke.
Kisai
Wheelchair accessible buses have seatbelts… for the wheelchair. These seats are the bench seats directly behind the driver.
The bus that is drawn, is a transit bus, however these buses are sometimes hired for charter purposes if it’s run by a private company. Where I used to live, the school buses would normally be chartered (as the city had no public transit) and driven by their regular driver.
Luke
As a current Bloomington resident who wrecked his car last year and has since ridden nearly every bus in town, the only seatbelts I’ve ever seen are for the driver or wheelchairs–neither really accessible to the average passenger.
I suppose he might have drawn the one bus I haven’t been on… the angle of the lightbar isn’t familiar to me either.
hest
OTOH I (a european) haven’t seen a bus without seatbelts since … well, sometime in the previous millennium.
Darkflame
Seatbelts dont protect you, they protext the person in front of you from having you smash into them.
In car collisions its quite possible for the person in the back to servive, but kill the guy in front.
So its not really about “trust”.
I dunno how it is in bus’s though.
Habap
Actually, seat belts do protect you. Imagine being in a car and being ejected through the windshield to hit the ground at nearly the speed the car was traveling. Seat belts also prevent you from being bounced around inside the car, which can be also be very painful. Not the perfect solution, but better than not using them.
David
…yeah, if you’re not wearing a seatbelt, I’m pretty sure that guy in the back *can’t* kill you, because you are dozens of feet ahead of the car on the pavement.
Ridureyu
I am pretty sure that Walky, like Nunchaku, will be banned in the UK if he keeps up his behavior.
fellixe
Walkychaku!
Andrusi
I read that as Walkykachu.
fellixe
Gesundheit
Henry
Last panel is timed perfectly. I burst out laughing when I saw it, loud enough that I think the people down the hall heard me.
Daeva
“A fellow ‘chukker, I see!”
fezzam
NINJA RICK!?!?
Noel Schornhorst
That’s precisely my first thought after reading this, until I saw the sleeve and thought “Oh… Walky!”
Locke
They’re on a bus, now?
Damn, that means we won’t see them for months.
Tristan J
i see wot you did thar
Romanticide
The publicity is trying to sell me a “modest bathing suit” Is this foreshadowing or something O.o
fellixe
A good depilatory creme should take care of that shadowing if you want to wear something skimpier.
Mkvenner
What happen to Dina?
Plasma Mongoose
She was crushed underfoot in the last comic.
Wandering Meme
Snap, crackle, pop happened, only not in the wholesome, balanced breakfasty way.
Plasma Mongoose
Has having seatbelts on buses become law in Indiana cos they’re not required over here in Oz.
goatman95111
It’s been in discussion as a federal regulation lately, but you know what’s really funny? Our federal highway regulations for vehicle safety standards (the crash test rating system) is entirely based on testing for both “with seatbelt” and “without seatbelt” standards.
So, the reason we can’t get high performance supercars without ugly add-on bumpers or additional weight is because we expect people to still not wear seatbelts.
Plasma Mongoose
Unless you have access to autobahns, you can never fully utilise the power of a high performance sports vehicle anyway.
fellixe
No, sadly I only ever drove on the autobahn in a 1973 Mercedes ambulance. Not very zippy, I’m afraid.
Habap
Then I assume you were not prone for that ride.
thomas0comer
By the time you read this comment, Plasma Mongoose will have a new avatar.
Roborat
Studies show that school buses don’t need seatbelts, kids are safer with closely spaced, padded seats.
Michelle J Caboose
Since 1985, it’s been the law, in Texas, that all drivers and passengers in any vehicle made after 1976 must wear their seatbelt. Yet, for the past 26 years, the law has had to be constantly tweaked because people still refuse to wear them. Because it too much trouble, or it’s uncomfortable, or because (and I’ve actually heard this excuse) it’ll mess up the person’s clothes.
Seriously, that’s like having to make a law telling people not to drink bleach — and then having to constantly tweak the penalties because people refuse to stop doing it.
Alechsa
I knew that was Walky before I saw the tags for the strip…. I have officially read too much of Willis’ comics… or perhaps not enough :\
Freeholder
My brain knew it was Walky, my heart hopped it was Sal.
Sir Robin
I hoped it was Ninja Rick, would make sense wouldn’t it?
Michelle J Caboose
So does this mean you’re a Seventh-Day Advent Hoppist?
CartmanUK31
Rimmer you really are a smeghead :p RD reference win!!
Aizat
Dude, seatbelt chucks yo.
Joebo
Never thought about it, but yeah, that would have totally happened.
Mkvenner
Wait, why are they taking a bus? Can’t they just walk?
Aydr
What makes you think it’s walking distance?
Ridureyu