RE: The day the music died: SAD 75 imposes radio silence on buses

["Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>]

> Ya know....back in my day we didn't have radios in the
> buses....and when I
> wasn't walking uphill both ways in a Snowstorm to school...I
> was subjected
> to the horrors of a 1950s-1960s bus WITHOUT Radio! Where's
> the ACLU when you
> need them!
>
> Paul Hopfgarten

Radio?  How about HEAT?  And we didn't have fancy PADDING on the back of
the seats. NO! Instead, we had those rusty pipe-frames with those
partially unscrewed philips head screws, right there at forehead level.
And no automatic transmissions on the buses.  That means that you were
jerked from here to the emergency door when the driver clutched to the
next gear.  And talk about gas fumes? etc....   Seriously, I agree, NO
RADIO. No one can agree on what to listen to in a CAR, no less than a bus
of whining, runny nosed rugrats.  Kids should just be happy that they have
padding on the seats, and that the next generation will, possibly, have
seatbelts, but I wouldn't bet on it.  Hey, how about a CD of running
water....  <flush> oh, never mind.

Bill O'Neill