I’m a school bus driver and in the mornings the kids beg me to play music on the radio. So I turn it on, set it to “SCAN” and then I don’t hear one fucking actual song the entire rest of the ride. Even the local classical station is somehow just people babbling.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Real radio be like: 30 minutes of music free ads.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Oof. Your bus doesn’t happen to have a way of using one of those Bluetooth FM blaster things does it? Just play something off your phone through that tuned to the right station on the radio. The one I drove didn’t havr nothing for that, but mine was old as shit.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Our buses have an aux input jack. I just don’t ever feel like messing around with an aux cable and USB-C adapter just for 15 minutes of music. Although i would really enjoy making my elementary school kids listen to Shpongle.
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Play them incomprehensible jazz prog and metal. The stuff only the music prodigy will even be able to identify as music.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Music streaming makes this worse. Radio has become a race to the bottom. If you’re listening to radio you probably prefer the bullshit gossip.
DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
What do you do when you’re not driving a school bus?
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When I was 19 I was in a band with this really strange kid. He was super charismatic though, and just seemed to make friends with anybody he met. One of those people happened tk be this 40 year old bus driver. We went over his place one time to smoke a joint, and he showed us his grow room. This was in like 2005 or so, so all very illegal. He got in my face about not telling anybody and how I better not be a narc. Anyway… Then we ate some pot brownies and watched a movie. The brownie I ate wasn’t doing anything so I ate another and learned a very important life lesson about edibles. If you’re not feeling the first one, don’t eat the second one. I was high as fuck. Banished to the shadow realm, some light say. Took a few hours to regain my composure and walk home. It was a weird fuckin night.
So yeah. Probably anecdotal but “what do school bus drivers do when not driving a school bus?” - grow weed, and eat pot brownies with teenage punk rockers and watch movies.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not a bus driver but I’ve seen enough of them to answer this question.
When they aren’t driving the bus, they are either waiting for kids to get on or off the bus or they are briefly investigating who threw the stray projectile that hit them before they pulled over but usually settle for the complete silence as each kid pretends to not remember what throwing even is, let alone admit who threw anything. That silence never lasts more than a minute after they start driving again, though sometimes it will only be whispers for a while if the bus driver screamed in rage or broke down in tears.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Ride my bicycle. I’m a retired software engineer.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
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gibson@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
At least real radio doesn’t collect your information
underisk@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
More of a technical limitation than an intentional choice, but sure.
dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I prefer to call it a ‘mechanical failsafe’.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Until you dial in to one of those give-away events, sure.
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
but that’s a very consensual action, they literally have to ask you for those information not just start harvesting in the background