What happens if the bus drivers don’t wave to each other when they pass?
Posted by Slippery_Williams@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 59 comments
Curious if there is ever drama or resentment going on back at the bus station but I’ve never seen it happen
Mother_Lemon8399@reddit
Death of the Universe, we must be careful
TheDaemonette@reddit
Have you ever seen ‘Cabin in the Woods’?
Slippery_Williams@reddit (OP)
Aye, what are you implying?
TheDaemonette@reddit
Presuming that is a ‘no’, I’d suggest watching it because that’s what happens if they don’t wave to each other.
Slippery_Williams@reddit (OP)
Aye meaning affirmative
Original_Trick7742@reddit
I asked a bus driver this once in the pub and his face fell, he went silent, and he just shook his head.
Slippery_Williams@reddit (OP)
Honestly it’s probably one of those ‘oh boy you are the first person to ask me this’ moments for then
Original_Trick7742@reddit
Everyone else knew not to ask, but I was young and foolish.
Over-Language2599@reddit
Talking about the varkous pubs in a village with one driver, he said oh, one of the other drivers lives there and goes to the pub, I said which one, he said Paul...
dimap443@reddit
Their arses fall off
QuietBloke90@reddit
Straight to bus jail. No exceptions.
ChamomilePeppermint@reddit
Does anyone else experience disproportionate levels of joy at seeing bus drivers wave to each other, or is it just me? I love it lol.
highrouleur@reddit
I'm an engineer at a garage. When I walk to the shops and I'm in company overalls I'll wave at our buses and normally get a wave back. It gets quite worrying when I'm in civvies because I often can't see the driver's face through the windscreen until quite late. And I wave if it's not a driver I know because I'll just be standing on the street looking like a wavy twat. But then it could be a driver I know, and I don't wanna blank them
Slippery_Williams@reddit (OP)
Your life sounds stressful
highrouleur@reddit
It's alright I avoid main bus routes
Mr-Incy@reddit
Reality folds them into a private loop where they are forever driving toward each other, eyes locked, neither able to blink nor look away. Their buses never quite meet, frozen at the brink, while the world screams past them at impossible speed, tyres roaring, engines howling louder and louder with no peak, no release. Time doesn’t pass, it just stretches the moment thinner and thinner, trapping them in the almost of passing… for eternity.
Flowerofthesouth88@reddit
It's that sounds like a good title for a children’s book! 🤣
Any-Tomato-2915@reddit
Car tyres get popped
bradpitt3@reddit
It throws the matrix out of balance and both buses disappear.
ChallengePleasant750@reddit
I was thinking a black hole appears and swallows the buses but this works too!
RotaryDesign@reddit
That explains why sometimes bus doesn't arrive when I am waiting for it
olivinebean@reddit
Shinyandsmooth8@reddit
I’m a blue light driver. If I miss any of the other emergency services I feel bad all day
Tachanka-Mayne@reddit
I fly aeroplanes for a living, sometimes when we pass other aircraft at night we exchange a little flash of the landing lights, which always sparks joy
Slippery_Williams@reddit (OP)
Genuinely went ‘aww’ when I read that
Dazzer1831@reddit
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!
nemmalur@reddit
One of the buses spontaneously explodes.
SunnyShineKitty88@reddit
The one probably ends up driving the morning school bus full of noisy school kids 🤣
Grouchy_Spare1850@reddit
it's the all clear no problems to report. that's why they wave at each other. back in the 80's if there was a problem, the driver that did not get the wave could call the depot to report the incident.
the_tartanunicorn@reddit
same as if the driving instructors don’t wave to each other…
Forgetful8nine@reddit
I used to wave at most other instructors. If they repeatedly ignored my wave, I didn't bother waving back.
Most did wave back - unless they were busy talking to a student. There were a few times I didn't wave back because I was focused on something serious.
Some instructors waved back with great enthusiasm and honestly, I loved it!
Sadly, I failed my P3 and am currently driving a white van for a living. I am trying my best to not be a white-van-man-wanker and drive as one should.
releasethekaren@reddit
Bus explodes
Round_Hope3962@reddit
The simple answer is that quantum mechanics stops working. Bus drivers waving at each other is the basis of all physics in the universe
cmVkZGl0MjAyNQ@reddit
In December 2019, two bus drivers in Wuhan, China didn’t wave to each other. The rest, as they say, is history.
snakeoildriller@reddit
Fisticuffs back at the depot. Could get messy.
AceOfSpades532@reddit
The world will end
loveswimmingpools@reddit
Does anyone remember when people with the same makes of car waved to each other? No? Just me then🤣
markusparkus75@reddit
It’s like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters. Of course, that’s just a rumour. Nobody has ever seen bus drivers not wave at each other. Some say they are too terrified to ever even try not waving.
OneSufficientFace@reddit
They spontaneously combust
Quality_Cabbage@reddit
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/passengers-desperate-to-know-backstory-of-bus-drivers-who-didnt-wave-to-each-other-20170814133989
LordSolstice@reddit
A meteorite hits the bus and it explodes in a ball of flames.
Dolphin_Spotter@reddit
A black hole is created and the earth is sucked in
TheLittleChikk@reddit
They do an Agni Kai.
K0monazmuk@reddit
They fight in the canteen at the end of the day.
Organic_Reporter@reddit
Canteen? They'd be lucky.
FlatTyres@reddit
The next time they drive past each other, they joust each other with the pole-end of a temporary bus stop sign.
Either_Custard_7438@reddit
James Corden gets to present Strictly Come Dancing….. forever
LuLutink1@reddit
😜
HorrorAccomplished78@reddit
They don’t get invited to their fifth kids first Eid party.
HenryHoover13@reddit
They get sent to work for TFL
Shoddy_Pilot_2737@reddit
They're not waving at the driver. If you don't wave at the bus it doesn't work when you drive it next 🤣
SnooDonuts6494@reddit
Nobody knows. It's never happened.
ThatNiceDrShipman@reddit
They have to get Cheers Drive tattooed on their face
MaxximumB@reddit
Something quantum. I know it doesn't end well for us
FornyHucker22@reddit
Instant turd in the other drivers mug at the bus driver depot staff room.
badgerandcheese@reddit
Results in a huge bus up at the depot.
Eukonidor_Of_Arisia@reddit
Then they must compete in the ring of death back at the depot. It is an act of grave disrespect among the bus people.
imokaytho@reddit
The bus tips over
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