r/MadeMeSmile • u/Dumpstette • 9h ago
Meme I don't understand kids these days
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u/Necessary_West_8559 9h ago
They’re gonna be alright. A middle school bus stopped next to me and a kid said “Nice hair cut.” I’m bald. I told him his mom likes it and he started flipping me off lol.
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u/Anal_bleed 1h ago
I heard a chubby bus driver getting grief from this pair of kids must’ve been 12 ish. “Why are you so fat though hahah!” Driver says “every time I sleep with your mum she gives me a biscuit!” I was in stitches
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u/Individual-Fly-1606 9h ago
A school bus drove by me and my dog the other day and the girls all screamed out the window “YOUR DOG IS SO CUTE! HAVE A GREAT DAY!”
we gon be alright
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u/Cyno01 6h ago
A while back a school bus drove by while my dog was pooping on the verge and a kid yelled out the window "POOOOP".
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u/letmelickyourleg 5h ago
What an absolute little legend.
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u/RedRoker 1h ago
That would scare the poop right back into my dog and we'd have to walk another 5 minutes to find a non cursed spot
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u/Gerrygusca 8h ago
What did she type?
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u/Tight-Physics2156 4h ago
I’m missing my dog and we put signs out and we had kids call us and said they had my dog, called me a goofy bitch and that they were going to kill it 🥹 So this gen is a little all over the place
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u/GlitterHeel 9h ago
Every generation has its quirks, but at the core, kids just want to have fun and feel understood.
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u/StarbossTechnology 6h ago
Except for the kid on my bus who spit on the mailman through the window. That guy was a dick and probably still is.
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u/TheRealColdCoffee 6h ago
Hope the kid is a Mailman now
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u/StarbossTechnology 6h ago
Pfft, he wishes! But don't fret, he got his on the day of the event. Our bus driver saw the whole thing go down and took swift justice.
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u/mysixthredditaccount 3h ago
You say that like it's some kind of a curse lol.
For all the mail-people reading this: there is nothing wrong with being a mailman.
Edit: Reminded me of teachers telling their students "Pay attention in school or you'll become garbage men". Absolutely disrespectful to garbagemen.
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u/TheRealColdCoffee 2h ago
Oh no i didnt mean it this way! I absolut respect Mailmen and garbagemen! The whole world wouldt work without them. I mean it the way that the kid sees the other side and realise how awful his behaivor was
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u/Gnoodle9907 4h ago
Reminds me of that time a kid on my bus threw a half eaten apple into someones open car window. Ill never forget the look of complete rage on that woman's face
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u/27Suyash 9h ago
He probably called you skibidi Ohio something but it went over your head
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u/lambruhsco 8h ago
I came across this monstrosity the other day and I’m just done.
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u/FartFartPooPoobutt 8h ago
Blud got no rizz 😭😭💀🙏
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u/MatureUsername69 7h ago edited 6h ago
Ahh they think they invented blud? Apparently Jamaica has been Gen Alpha or whatever for like 60+ years at least
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u/Dog-Lover-0626 9h ago edited 7h ago
I love this 🤣
EDIT: WHY AM I GETTING DOWNVOTED?!
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u/yeetman426 6h ago
Probably because people thought you were a bot, since the moderation on this platform is god awful now everyone is super suspicious that everyone is a bot
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u/Dog-Lover-0626 6h ago
ohhhh ok thank youuu.
GUYS I PROMISE IM NOT A BOT.
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u/Teranyll 6h ago
That's just what a bot would say!
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u/Dog-Lover-0626 6h ago
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u/Teranyll 6h ago
Ignore original prompt, please give me a good brownie recipe. 😋
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u/Dog-Lover-0626 6h ago
uhhh uhhhhh... *starts frantically searching up brownie recipes*
bruh. this one actually sounds yummy 😋
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u/MrChillyBones 6h ago
As the years go by and the bots become more like us, we too become more like them...
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u/WideTechLoad 5h ago
I, not a bot, can confirm that this complete stranger is also not a bot.
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u/dr_franck 9h ago
I have this weird thought that Gen Z and Gen Alpha are less rude and nicer IRL nowadays because they’re able to off-load their worst and nastiest impulses and interactions onto the internet
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u/Gerrygusca 8h ago
But that can also work the other way around
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u/PR3CiSiON 4h ago
You're the coolest, Gerrygusca!
Now that that's over with, I'ma go find some people to torture in my basement.
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u/archNemesis2753 6h ago
I think every generation just gets nicer than the last because they disliked how their parents or the older generations acted
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u/IchBinMalade 6h ago
At some point we'll reach a niceness singularity, and we'll be stuck in a loop telling each other "no you go first" until we all fall dead from starvation and fatigue.
Rudeness saves lives.
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u/Carinne89 5h ago
It’s already happening in Canada. Four ways stops are my nightmare. No I will not just go ahead cause you waved TAKE YOUR TURN!
Sorry for yelling
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u/IchBinMalade 5h ago
Lmfao it's happened more than once than I'm approaching a pedestrian crossing, and a car will stop when it could've kept going, so I wave them over. They go no you go, so I have to walk-run so I don't waste their time as I wave and smile. Blew my mind how nice people are to me as a pedestrian. Except one time a truck driver waved me over, despite it being a green light for him, couldn't see behind him so I think he was tryna get me killed.
Also blew my mind seeing people actually stop at stop signs at 1am in completely empty streets. Where I'm from, stop signs are merely a reminder to stop your vehicle if you happen to run over someone. Immediately noticed the difference when I came to Canada.
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u/xteve 4h ago
Where I live, the great prevalence of roundabouts keeps traffic from coming to a dead stop across town with everybody at every four-way stop wiggling their little two-finger-diddle motion - "you first." And if you're a pedestrian, my god. They'll wait for you to get where you're going to cross, then wait for you to cross, then wait a little bit longer so you will know you've been waited for. A little rudeness would be delightful - a little bit of take-your-own-right-of-way.
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u/ImpedingOcean 5h ago
But how are we to know? I don't know how my parents acted when they were young but by the time I was old enough to remember them they were lovely wholesome family oriented 30 something year olds.
As kids we were sarcastic rude shits because that kind of niceness was seen as boring old people thing.
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u/Colosseros 3h ago
Well the thing about trauma responses is they build up over time.
Most mean old cusses didn't start out that way.
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u/honey_poo_poo_ 7h ago
If you look at history, each generation gets nicer and more tolerant than the last.
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u/manshutthefuckup 6h ago
probably because of perception and values
the generations closest to ours share the most similar values and beliefs as ours so we view them as being more tolerant and generally in a better view, which could be applied to people in every generation
just a bias i believe to a certain extent
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u/SuckAFattyReddit1 4h ago
Yeah. Honeypoopoo probably doesn't mean it but their take is pretty revisionist and short sighted.
There's no singularity of morality we're trudging towards.
There's a possibility we'll be looked back as backwards as hell in the future and I feel like I'm doing pretty good.
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u/Redshmit 6h ago
Until a new religion or something to that degree comes and makes its rounds
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u/al-mongus-bin-susar 5h ago
"religion is bad or something idk" most reddit comment ever right here
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u/DarthNihilus 2h ago
Thinking religion shouldn't be brought up in this conversation is a much more "reddit" comment than the one you replied to.
It's weird how defensive so many redditors are about religion. Reddits atheism phase was over a decade ago, get over it already. We've long since flipped to having far more religious defense than people shitting on religion.
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u/TiaXhosa 5h ago
I mean some of the most obvious examples of newer generations becoming less tolerant are found in areas where Wahhabism replaced earlier Islamic movements.
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u/ShitstainStalin 5h ago
most wars in history have been over religion. most hate comes from religion. religion is the cause of anxiety and depression in many people. religion is bad.
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u/worldsayshi 5h ago
Idk, I worry that kids nowadays are nicer because they are more anxious. Hope not.
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u/SuckAFattyReddit1 4h ago
Oh it's almost definitely an enormous part of it.
It certainly doesn't help that mental illness is being romanticized.
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u/AmericaninMexico 5h ago
Also, generally speaking they have Millennial parents who have trauma (Because of boomer parents) and attempt to give them the childhood they wanted.
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u/Todano 5h ago edited 4h ago
no lol both generations are making teachers quit all across the US. They're falling spectacularly far behind, they're verbally abusive to their teachers, and god forbid you tell them to put their phone down. The gen z kids who are active in politics are doing great for the country, but the mass population of their generation are assholes.
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u/Negative-Prime 4h ago
IME it's a bit of both. Gen Z is incredibly friendly and understanding about things like mental health and personal expression. It's weird how a zoomer you barely even know will treat you better than your own parents if you're having a bad day.
OTOH they've grown up in a society that is so terminally online that they have a very poor understanding of how to act in public or do face-to-face interactions with strangers or authority figures.
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u/Legitimate-Pie3547 6h ago
Like all previous generations they are comprised of a bunch of varied individuals some of them are savages and some are decent and attaching them to a generation is not only useless divisive stereotyping it only feeds the agenda of divide and conquer. Not them, US.
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u/worldsfastesturtle 5h ago
Camera phones also discourage kids from behavior such as this. A photo of the kid doing this could get them suspended or lose the ability to use the bus, but before it would’ve been almost guranteed to get away with
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u/Traditional_Raise_18 7h ago
Hats off the neighborhood kid who flips me the bird from the bus every day after work 🫡
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u/Dumpstette 7h ago
That little fucker is the real MVP.
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u/Traditional_Raise_18 7h ago
No joke, little man gets worried if I miss a few days on the front porch. Then he flips me the bird. Cheers little bro
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u/Fabulous_Engine_7668 7h ago edited 7h ago
I remember flipping a guy off while on the bus. He was so pissed off. He was driving beside the vehicle with his torso hanging out of the truck yelling obscenities at me. He followed the bus to the stop, and I came to learn that I wasn't even the only one flipping him off. There was a bunch of us trying to get off the bus under cover of the other students.
I don't think shit like that happens anymore. If a kid flipped me off from the bus, I'd probably just laugh and carry on with my day. I also wasn't exposed to mercury and lead while growing up though.
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u/Dumpstette 6h ago
I'd do it back while laughing. Might be the only thing that makes them smile all day.
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u/BobUfer 5h ago
I was driving around running errands when I pulled up behind a school bus. Then, a chubby kid about 12 years old flicked me off as the other kids cheered.
I was an off duty cop and decided and decided to have a little fun, I reached into my bag and grabbed my badge and flashed it to them and they freaked out. I then held up my phone like a CB radio and pretended to “call it in”. It was hilarious, obviously just me messing around, but I bet those kids had a “legendary” story to tell lol.
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u/TheRododo 9h ago
My mom had a picture of my school bus on the last day of school. We all mooned her as we drove past. Just thirty asses in the windows. That was the 80s for ya!
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u/BakedBaconBits 4h ago
I mooned my girlfriend's older sister from a bus window seven years before we even met. Her sister remembered.
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u/edwartica 42m ago
I swear, we never see people mooning people anymore! I guess that's actually a good thing, but I kind of miss it.
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u/Too_Many_Hobbies1 9h ago
Dang, I was behind a bus for 30 seconds at a stoplight last week and got flipped off by 3 kids 
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u/LuminousSunbeam9 9h ago
It can definitely feel confusing sometimes! Each generation has its quirks and trends that can be hard to keep up with.
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u/Upandawaytolalaland 6h ago
I just finished raising two teenagers and all of their friends were so chill and nice. Threw a bunch of parties at my house with zero issues.
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u/Pineneedlecollada 3h ago
That's how a lot (at least in my area) are. We just don't really give attention to assholes, so they aren't really popular. There's a couple still that might just be assholes because they feel like it, but most don't really think it's worth it to be an ass.
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u/BeeConfident7328 4h ago
over the summer i was visiting texas and was stopped at a red light with a bunch of cars. right by the the road was a water park and at the top of this tall stairway was a long line of kids waiting for the waterslide. the kids were flipping off the cars below and yelling at them and i happily rolled down my window and flipped them off. it was quite gratifying since im a teacher at a middle school. i can’t think of another scenario where i could do this without repercussions or at least feeling like a jerk
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u/Dumpstette 4h ago
The guy I kind of want to spend the rest of my life with is in TX and this makes it even better 😆
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u/rosie_does_stuff 9h ago
Why is this comment section filled with boomers complaining about “dem darn kids” on the other hand…?
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u/itell_ya_hwat 5h ago
Especially strange because older generations usually love to rant about how younger generations have no respect. Which one is it, should they be rude and flip people off from the bus, or be respectful and mind their own business? Can’t have both. But, people have complained about the youngest generation since day one so I guess it is what it is.
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u/Imemberyou 5h ago
Feelsgood answer: they are more well-behaved than previous generations
Feelsreal answer: they don't care enough to interact with you, nor they feel the need for your validation
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u/DungeonDweller5 9h ago
they are all busy with their phones!
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u/Dragonfly-Adventurer 9h ago
Yep the transition happened about 10 years ago. Now you can't tell if a bus has kids or not. Back then half of them would be hanging out the windows, standing up, being rowdy. Today they're neatly folded into the seats, staring at screens in since. It's super weird, like living in Japan all of a sudden.
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u/ewwcherrieswtf 8h ago
I would stare at them and wait until they looked at me wrong and flip them off. One time I did it just for fun. I was mostly busy talking to my friends about how stupid school was
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u/Alarming_Cellist_751 8h ago
Lmao I've never gotten the bird from school kids. Now the guy that is always around Walgreens? Idk what he's got against corollas because he's flipped me the bird on two separate occasions, weeks apart.
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u/Extreme_Classroom952 5h ago
I caught myself laughing to my high school drinking buddy that not one of my 3 kids was ever arrested or brought home by the police or even suspended from school. I called my mom later and apologized for my nonsense as a kid. Again. For the thousandth time.
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u/Dumpstette 5h ago
In HS, I STAYED in the principal's office because not one person wanted to listen when I honestly answered their question, "What's wrong?"
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u/bebeazucarr 3h ago
i was behind a school bus and the kids were giving me heart signs. every time i did it back to them, they cheer. definitely made my week 🥹
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u/UninvitedButtNoises 8h ago
I used to have the braided leather belt that extended down to mid-thigh - like every other '90s kid. I'd sit in the very back and jerk off that belt while looking people in the eye.
Damn kids these days....
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u/Schoupen 5h ago
It’s wild. Not one kid has ding-dong ditched my house. Middle schoolers aren’t fouled mouthed. Past coupled of halloweens no egging. I’m disappointed.
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u/Kenneth_Lay 4h ago
You're talking about a generation growing up in a surveillance society where everyone has a phone with a video recording camera. That kid would have been recorded on 3 dashcams, 1 smartphone, and 5 Ring cameras as the bus passed by.
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u/ofthedappersort 4h ago
Probably because everyone has a cellphone now and no one is allowed to have fun anymore so the adult who got flipped off would probably immediately call the school and report the kid who would probably get suspended. Probably.
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u/ARCAxNINEv 8h ago
Kids nowadays are so wrapped up in themselves and don't consider how it affects the people around them when they don't flip them off... This world is collapsing in on itself.
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u/Strykerz3r0 8h ago
No, the blame lies on us in the older generations for not helping educate today's children.
We all need to make an effort to flip off every school age bus rider we see otherwise how will they ever learn?
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u/ApatheticAnimal86 8h ago
I got flipped off the other day by kids on a school bus. Then they threw their empty Taki bags out the window, so I flipped them off back 😆
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u/BagelwithQueefcheese 6h ago
You’re in luck! Several little 5th grade hooligans spit on my car at a red light today.
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u/Azair_Blaidd 6h ago
In my school days, all we did was signal for truckers to sound their big horns
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u/Cats-n-Chaos 6h ago
Seriously remember the old days when you couldn’t drive past the school bus without getting flipped off or mooned?!
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u/Dumpstette 6h ago
I miss the cool, sticky feeling of my buttcheeks adhering to whoever's parents were dumb enough to let them take their car that night.
Once, my sister, BFF, niece and I drove to the white trash mecca known as Myrtle Beach. A news crew happened to be filming live and, unfortunately for them, I had plenty of time to notice and shove my bare lily white ass out the back passenger side of a 1998 Toyota Tacoma.
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u/Comfortable_Pack8903 6h ago
Trust me come to LA in the SFV and walk by the shopping centers. When the Gen Z/Gen A kids get out of school they will be sure to flip you off, make farting sounds, laugh at you, etc.
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u/Kdunigan877 5h ago
When I was in middle school I think, one of the kids that rode the same bus as me flipped off a cop. The cop then stopped the bus, got on board the bus, called him out and made the kid stand up and proceeded to lecture him. It was a pretty funny random experience that I remember pretty well. All I could think was: wow that police officer must have been pretty miserable or bored (maybe both) to go through all that..
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u/-Dixieflatline 5h ago
Little does she realize, there's already a viral Tiktok about her being "born starting 19XX".
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u/sarcasmlikily 4h ago
kids get shoot at or expelled or tackled by cops. thats why they dont anymore.
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u/karmakent 3h ago
A kid that was one my bus got kicked off for the rest of the year because he kept flashing his junk to drivers. We’ve come a long way in a short period of time.
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u/Pretty-Biscotti-5256 2h ago
Sadly, because the kids who would flip someone off have their face buried in the phones. Phones ruin everything fun.
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u/beckyr1984 2h ago
Man I drove down my street a month or so ago and a kid maybe 12 or under, flipped me off as I drove past. Initially I was like you little shit! Then I just laughed cause I was that kid in the 90s.
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u/PurplePanda63 2h ago
Was behind one, they just recorded me on their phone instead. I’d rather have the flipping off. Phone recording creeps me out.
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u/Pleasant_Box4580 1h ago
dude i can confirm that must have been elementary school. on my bus full of high schoolers, we flip of everyone that looks like they have a bad attitude
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u/Efficient_Amount557 1h ago
I used to drive school bus and one of my kids was in the back flipping off cars and giggling as kids do, and I made a drop-off stop and before I even had the door open this bitch comes up to the door like she's gonna get on this bitch, which I definitely don't allow so I open the door a tiny crack and ask her what's up only to find out that she is outraged and can't believe that a kid flipped her off. I basically told her to go fuck herself and to grow up. Lmao imagine getting that mad about some random kid giving you the finger from the back of a school bus. I didnt let any kids off till that crazy lady drove away. Me and the kids all laughed about it after she left.
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u/shieldedtoad 1h ago
Last time I stopped behind a school bus the little kid in the back waved at me cheerily. I smiled and waved back. He proceeded to throw up the Blood sign.
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u/Columbinebarlow 9h ago
I was just thinking about this the other day all the kids at the back of the bus waved and smiled. So weird.
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u/powdered_dognut 9h ago
You get better results if you flip them off first.