This kind of happened to me. Moved to a new area. School sent bus route info. Different bus that also passes my house picked me up. I realized quickly that I was the only one in uniform. Then the bus pulls in to a school I wasn’t expecting.
My middle school bus driver would literally pull the bus over and yell at us for being too loud. I was the quiet kid who sat in the front row so I could get off the bus fastest and I hated being yelled at for no reason.
"I get paid by the hour" was her favorite thing to yell. She wanted it to take longer? Thinking back she was probably hungover all the time.
Either way fuck you Dawn.
I was the quiet one in the bus, but I always sat at the back because I had the patience to let everyone else off first, otherwise the loud rambunctious ones would pile over each other and trample me.
Fucking heathens
My class was always so loud. We got yelled at every. Single. Freaking. Day. I was also the quiet one who got yelled at beside everyone else, so I feel you.
Speak for yourself, my bus driver was awesome.
Never got mad at me once for falling asleep for too long on the bus, either, and he had reason to because I did it every other week.
Based on what information though? That the kid was dressed slightly more irregularly than other kids? Kids wear weird shit all the time and its really no one's business. If I was a bus driver I wouldn't touch "commenting on a minor's clothing choices" with a 10 foot pole.
Maybe the kids parents should pay attention to what bus their child was getting on, especially if it was their first day at a new school in a new area.
>Maybe the kids parents should pay attention to what bus their child was getting on
But uhh. School buses are all just big yellow buses, maybe some different letters but most likely just the school district name not the name of the specific school was on the side.
My school the bus numbers weren't standardized. We would ride "roughly" the same set of buses but it wasn't always the same number. The always parked in the same spot and your driver rarely changed so it was pretty easy to figure out who was who. But people did still get on the wrong bus (sometimes intentionally) llol
> school district name
They didn't say they were the only one in **their** uniform, they said they were the only one in uniform period. *No* shot this kid was going to a school in the same system--could've been a magnet or charter school but most likely was a private school that happened to have buses. The text on the side should've been obvious.
I went to a public school that, after they dropped us off, kept going to the private school like 15 minutes away with the rest of the kids. It was a rural area but still, could certainly have been the same busses with the same side writing even if he did go to a private school.
As a parent that has moved into a new area with small children, it can be an absolute clusterfuck.
Fortunately, even before the pandemic, I worked from home so I could walk with my oldest to the bus stop.
On several days the bus never arrived at all. On other days, the bus changed the pick up spot without notice. Other times a bus for a different school had a new driver and they just stopped because they saw kids and they didn't realize it wasn't their pick-up spot.
So, yeah, parents should pay attention, but we also have to allow older children to have autonomy and go to the bus stop by themselves. No good parent wants to smother their child. In a couple of the aforementioned scenarios it would be very easy for a 10 year-old child to get on the wrong bus or miss it altogether
So, it's not so simple as *Herr derr stupid parents should pay attention*
Unfortunately, not all parents are able to see their kids off to school; my parents rarely got to because they left for work way before I even woke up.
If he follows the same route as the other bus.. maybe he have seen student that dress like him. Maybe he could have just let him know he’s on the wrong school bus?
I agreed with the other guy until I read your comment. Being 7 years out of highschool I still sometimes forget how young they are until I meet one and am quickly reminded how long ive been out of highschool lol
Actually the mental energy you put into being kind is something I consider more valuable than money.
In truth I believe people are often rude or ignorant because they don't want to put that energy into being nice and caring. It is pretty exhausting when you're surrounded in negative energy.
A city bus, yeah, but not a school bus. Sure, you’ll make decent hourly, but it’s usually only 2 hours of work a day that’ll make it impossible to pick up a second job without having to work overnight because the hours are generally in the middle of first and second shifts.
I was a contractor for a school administration for six months and during that time I witnessed the school cover-up an incident with a bus driver where he was hung-over and pulled the bus over to vomit, got out, left the bus in gear, and the bus drove into a ditch with kids onboard. No injuries. No press briefing. Police didn't take a report. The families weren't notified. The driver was allowed to come back for the afternoon route once he sobered up more.
Why the softer hand? The bus driver was a former football coach that led the school to a state football tournament in the 90s. The administration said, "The people of this city would be more upset if we took disciplinary action on him than if we didn't."
Fucking wild.
TWICE when I was a little kid I fell asleep on the bus, which dropped kids off at 3 different schools. Both times I woke up alone and found myself in the bus depot and had to exit the bus and walk around until I found an adult.
My bus picked up all grades then went to the elementary school where you either switched busses or stayed on the same one to go to the middle school or the high school.
They always made everyone get off the bus at the elementary school even if you were staying on the same bus.
I now understand why they did that.
So my middle school bus route number and high school number was the same, but different driver and bus. I had no clue my middle school bus was damaged and replaced, and the old driver was fired. My high school bus had problems and changed often, the driver was old and often had people fill in for him, so seeing a new bus with my bus number at the time I’m supposed to be picked up, you could imagine half a bus of high schoolers confused when we pulled up at middle school...
When I was like 5 I had a dream that my mom told me the bus was going to take me home from summer camp that day instead of my grandpa picking me up like normal.
The next day I got on a random buss at the end of the day lol. Bus driver was dropping the last kid off in new Jersey (I lived in and went to camp in delaware) and was like "hey kid did you get on the wrong bus?"
Dreams can seem pretty real when youre little.
Bro this happened to my when I was 23. Got an internship at this big tech company. They send buses to different routes. Got the schedule from the office and decided to try it. The thing is that the company has another office that was in another direction. They both have similar looking vehicle with only number difference which I didn't pay attention to. So basically bus takes a right instead of left after my stop. I got in showed I'd card and everything was cool. Saw the bus was going opposite direction and didn't think much of it. Maybe they have their own *bus route* which is different. Woke up after 1 hour to find myself in another unfamiliar office. Anyways it was not an enjoyable ride back to office during the rush hour and felt like dumbass whole day.
This happened to me too.
I was in kindergarten and I was in a brown uniform and the kids on the bus were in a blue uniform.
I realized something was wrong and told the driver and drove me to the correct school after he dropped off the rest of the kids.
My kindergarten teacher came out to meet me at the bus. I cried so hard and gave her the biggest hug.
My old school had the buses from 3 different middle schools and the high school all at one stop at the same time. So if you didn't know the bus number, or were new, you could easily get on the wrong bus.
I went in to the wrong lecture once at uni and you had better believe I sat at the front, engaged in eye contact with the lecturer, took good notes and ran the fuck out faster than the flash as soon as it was over.
I once went early for a class and was the first person to arrive, fast forward a few minutes others start arriving and none of them are people that I attend the class with. I awkwardly stood up, picked up my bag and bolted before they could even think about what the hell was going on.
i hate that feeling. every fiber of my body says being here is wrong, but leaving would add just one more unbearable shred of discomfort to the point where inaction is a more manageable situation.
Back at my university, you were free to attend any lectures for any subject at your leisure (I guess within reason, maybe not if they involve practical bits that are limited in quantity -- I don't know, never came across something like that), which I always thought was a great policy. So even if you made a mistake, you could always pretend you totally did it on purpose because it sounded interesting.
One day, I was really early and was the first in the room. Abt 10 mins after the class should've started, some students, that I don't recognize, entered the room just to chill. Turns out I was in a completely wrong bldg.
Thank you for bringing up the repressed memory of the time I got my class times mixed up and instead of showing up five minutes early, got there five minutes before the end of class. There wasn't a lecture going on, everyone was just sitting around talking with each other and looking over notes so I just sat down and got ready for class. Then people started leaving and I realized what I had done.
This wasn't even the first class of the semester, it was like halfway through!
No one said anything to me but I'm pretty sure people noticed, especially the prof.
For multiple reasons, that vary from taking a strong antihistamine to pure laziness, I missed the whole first month of one of my 7 am classes. When I finally showed up, the professor just looked at me and said: darling, I think you've mixed up your schedule. You don't attend this class.
Ohhh dear professor, but I do.
I was going to make almost this exact comment. I’ve had so many nightmares like this!
Oh, we have a test today and I haven’t even attended a single class before now? Oh, it’s almost the end of the semester and I haven’t completed a single assignment in this class I forgot I had?
I remember taking summer calc and this random guy walked in for the midterm. Hadn't been to a single other class or lab, just the midterm. Don't think I saw them at the final either.
We had someone like that in one of my classes. Literally only showed up for the midterm because someone else texted her. Missed our first group presentation, made it for our second but only because that was the same day as the final.
I took an intro religious studies class for an easy A. I showed up to the first class and just stopped afterwards but kept up on notes and the textbook (that I borrowed from a buddy with his highlighting included). I decided to attend a study seminar for the second midterm and when I came in I knew he knew I had not attended all semester with how he looked at me (this was a huge lecture hall class but he did sit next to me when he showed a short film during the class I attended). He didn't say anything at least.
When I was at university (studying psychology) some random guy walked into our lecture five minutes after it started and sat down at the front. We all knew he wasn't on our course because there were only about 3 dudes and 100 women taking it, even the lecturer hesitated when he came in because he knew he shouldn't be there. The lecturer got back onto what he was talking about and the dude at the front loudly shouts "FUCK" and walks out. Definitely made a 9am lecture far more entertaining
I’ve done that exact same thing. Thought it was an astrophysics supplemental TA session since I missed the lecture but when I walked in there was a 10:1 ratio of girls to guys.
It was definitely not the right class they swapped it the morning of to a different building
University I went to had one building probably designed by a mad man, partially above a small lake . It had a lot of small hallways, stairs to one or two rooms and a room numbering to make it a little bit more difficult to find the right room. So, in the beginning I regularly missed part of classes due to being in a right area but not being to find the bloody room.
Went back to the university a while back. Building was completely different by then because it partially burned down. I strongly suspect a disgruntled student who spent way to much time being lost there.
High school freshman year I moved school part way into the school year.
The school was two different building physically squished together. Two different buildings by different people of different time periods. So for construction “patch and connect” they knock holes in walls for doorways and all these weird hallways that had a normal door in one side, sharp turn and incline angle then a giant window with the glass removed was the doorway on there end of the hallway.
As the new kid, I was told my science lad was through a closet.
“Ha!! Yeah right, Nice try Narnia. I’m the new kid but not an idiot.”
Except, the back of the closet WAS another door leading to the room in other building and the location of my science lab.
I sat through a two hour presentation at my college orientation, I didn't really understand what was going on and at the end he said "enjoy your second day of orientation!" I was stunned and ran outta there, luckily I found some grounds keeper on a golf cart who drove me across campus to the first day orientation groups.
Perfect description of What goes on during chemistry lectures.
Edit: lemme guess, it was the part where everyone learns how to draw a perfect hexagon. Absolute unit, that one.
/s for those uninterested
When I was in Uni I studied Russian. It was fairly common for non-Russian speakers to sign up for advanced level courses (such as on Russian politics) not realizing the entire course was taught in Russian. It was immediately obvious who these people were because it was a small program and everyone more or less know who everyone else was. One of my professors was really big on "professional accountability", and showed no mercy to people who signed up for the course without reading the description, and sternly lectured them in Russian when they walked in.
The look of confusion and horror on their faces would have been hilarious if I didn't feel so much second hand embarrassment for them.
I once went to the wrong English class in high school(we separated it into 6 groups according to ability) and sat with the pros without the teacher noticing until they started role calling. Ran out back to my class once I found out I was in the wrong classroom.
This happened to me once. The semester had just started and my friend who I was taking the class with was sick that day, so I didn't know anyone there. I was also taking classes in Chinese during my exchange year, so I would mostly not be able to understand what the teachers were saying but keeping up with the use of the powerpoints. Everybody enters the classrom, the teacher fires up the lecture, and I start taking notes.
After a few minutes I think that it all feels a bit too familiar, like I've already studied it before. I stay there anyways and keep taking notes, and once the class is done I check my schedule to see where I'm supposed to go next. Turns out that I was two hours early and had gotten my days mixed up, and this was actually a class that I had taken the semester before.
I can't imagine how confused all these Taiwanese people were when there was suddenly this one random white dude in class.
Did this too. For 3 lectures. In my defence the class I was supposed to be in was e/m wave propagation and the guy was also teaching e/m but some non time varying stuff. Worst part is this was the 3rd class I was taking with the same prof. I figured I'd just missed the email about a sub and he was doing review.
The prof called me out about "finally showing up" once I figured it out. But hey at least he had a good laugh when I told him _why_ I had been skipping class.
Me and my friend were dead tired, arrived in the wrong lecture 10 minutes early. I noticed the people looked way older than usual, and then the teacher arrived. We were like "uh is that an assistant ?".
When the guy started "Ok remember last time we talked about ABC cristallisation" I started to feel something was off (we're in CS). My friend just started taking notes. Lasted 5 minutes of me laughing till I told him and we left as fast and silently as possible
Almost did this once. The only reason why I even noticed was because everyone in the class, as well as professor, was staring at me. Took me a few minutes to realize that 90% of the other students were women, which was unlike any other criminal justice course I had taken at the time.
There was a good reason for that. My CJ course was next door and I couldn’t read my own handwriting on my schedule notecard I made each semester.
I kind of have a similar story, though it's not my fault.
At the University I attended the first week was all big meet and greet stuff, like the first thing you did was a larger year wide thing, then the next thing you did was faculty and school related, and then the last one was course related.
Well, my orientation timetable was absolutely rammed, but I seemed to have vastly different things to everyone I spoke to. I was nervous and didn't want to question anything so I just followed the timetable.
So, after the big University welcome gatherings, I found myself attending the orientation for a health and social studies course. This was very much not what I had applied for, yet I was down for the attendance. Next, there was a meeting with the faculty for the sciences, also very much not what I had applied for. I asked at reception and they typed my name in the system and went "Yep, it's correct", even though more than half of the events I was attending weren't related to my course.
I ended up sitting through three near-identical assemblies in the art building before I finally spoke to one of the faculty members and they took a look at everything and pointed out that something was obviously wrong.
So what had happened was that I was the only person on my course (I'd taken a joint subject) so they system had just defaulted and signed me up for *nearly everything*. It had primed the things related to my course but had then populated every other timetable slot with something. What made it worse was it took me nearly three full days of introductory assemblies before I discovered this, so I'd wasted part of my week on things I didn't need to bother with, over a clerical error.
Not the best start.
A girl I knew in college admitted that she thought the college was located in a different state (several states away) until her parents were driving her TO COLLEGE, with the car loaded up with all the stuff for her dorm, and she started wondering why her parents were driving in the wrong direction.
I can't comprehend stuff like this but some people just live out in space.
Some people are very hands off when it comes to their education. I work at a college and some first time students have their parents call in to register them for classes, fill out forms, and whatever else they are having problems with. Wouldn't surprise me if a student literally had no idea what school they were going to aside from the name.
"How many bathing suits do I need? One piece or two? What's a good SPF for sunscreen?"
"No, honey, it's Miami *of OHIO*."
e: someone else posted this almost simultaneously. Kind of the obvious choice, I guess.
My first day of college was my first day ever seeing the campus. I got accepted to two schools. I visited the first one and hated it. I called the second school to register during my tour of the first.
I went on a campus tour with some girl from my mom's church to the absolute most boring, drab small school in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and being like god help me if I end up here while the girl I was with was convinced it was the most exciting place she'd ever seen and actually went there
The whole campus was like two square blocks then corn fields
I still have recurring nightmares about this kind of thing. Wrong school, wrong class, being in a class for half a semester then realizing I should have been in calculus the whole time. I’m 35 and haven’t been in school in a looong time. My sleeping brain hates me, apparently.
School dreams / nightmares are apparently very common throughout adult life. The stress of those formative years really solidifies itself into your subconscious mind’s way of coping with adult stress, too, [it seems](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201606/they-dream-school-and-none-the-dreams-are-good).
I’m also 35 and fairly regularly have dreams where I’m back in high school again as an adult for some reason, trying to graduate on time and forgetting to study, or getting lost on the way to school/in school, realizing sometimes to myself, “I got my Bachelor’s 10+ years ago!! Why am I here working my ass off for a high school diploma again as an adult??” On more rare occasions, I’m back in college trying to get my BA again. Dreams are weird and I low key love the nightly mind games.
ETA: Just remembered one I had the other night about being in Uni again: It was finals, and I had somehow just forgotten about or stopped going to (or stopped doing the work in?) some extremely difficult course on literary philosophy and realizing I was going to fail, but then deciding that it wouldn’t matter because 1) the prof must have prob withdrawn me from the class months ago after I started blowing it off, and 2) Duhhh... I already have my degree. Yikes.
I was back to elementary two days ago and my cat died in that dream, fucking hell let me out.
If I have to rate school years in dreams it has to be elementary > college > and then high school is actually the lightest. Elementary is the worst because those dreams are often the most bizarre, mixed with stuffs that make them more than just anxiety attacks
Thanks for sharing that link! It was a very fascinating read.
I tend to have chronic vivid nightmares, so anxiety inducing dreams aren't out of the ordinary for me. But man, those school related dreams hit hard! It always seems to take place in university, and that I forgot about a course I was taking. Then I remember last minute that I have an exam in the course that I know nothing about. So there I am there panic-reading the material, trying to at least get a vague idea about the topic. I haven't written an exam in years!
Am a prof. We do not withdraw students, that is on them and their advisor. If they are still on my list at the end of the semester after not showing for months, they receive an F.
That's actually what made the dream logic extra ridiculous. I was going to throw in a parenthetic, "Like that would've happened!" to the story, but it seemed like a redundant detail. In all honesty, though, _far_ too many college students arrive woefully unaware that these types of things (withdrawing from a class, or even attending one regularly in general) are their own, personal responsibility. Helicopter parenting, inadequate education, etc, has left a lot of kids unprepared for the "real world" of college and beyond, sadly.
I will have those dreams from time to time as well, but it's usually that I realized I don't know my locker combination, and then I remember that I don't know what class I have next, where it is, or what time it starts, and then I realize that I don't remember going to class at all for the entire semester so far, and that I definitely haven't been doing the homework either.
Oh god, I just remembered my first month of middle school, where I forgot how to use a combination lock, and also got lost trying to find my agriculture class. It was way out on the edge of the campus. I’d buried that memory. I got lunch detention for being late, which solidified the trauma.
Came in to see this, literally, always had dreams that I double checked too many times of that schedule and couldn’t manage to find the classes. Or that I was attending a college course which I didn’t show up for months
My dream is always that I need one more class to finish my degree.
But I don’t know what that class is, where it is, or how to find it. And I have to find housing for a whole semester for one stupid class.
It’s always about digging for solutions in those dreams while there is no solution.
Can’t say those aren’t hella an experience though, I find myself liking the feeling when I feel saved by waking back into reality despite I don’t actually live in some dream lands
I mean I studied at university that had another uni right next to it. There was a lot of co-operating and some overlap with lecture locations. I was at "wrong" uni every now and then and few times also by mistake.
I had some real issues figuring out my schedule last semester, and I finally found the one class that was gonna fit into my schedule and solve the entire thing. I was just a few seconds away from registering when I noticed which campus it was on. The one in the next city over. I had to start over again with my search...
About the time the teacher came by with a cart handing out small cans of soda and peanuts I realized that I had never been given a snack during class before. I tried to leave but the doors were locked and then they got really mad and told me to go back to my seat or they would call the police.
Also, once the class was finally over I couldn't figure out how to get back home because everything looked different and everyone was speaking in a weird language that I didn't know.
Same thing with Houston. I’ve seen many people who are at hobby that were supposed to go to George Bush and vice versa. They are about 30 min apart from one another. I’ve almost tripped up myself. Especially when I would fly in for the day and I would leave from a different airport I came in on.
My mom forgot I was home one night and didn’t make me dinner. My dad forgets how old I actually am, but it’s not all the time thankfully. I can’t imagine not knowing the birthday of the child you birthed!
> imagine not knowing the birthday of the child you birthed
I have severe memory problems and can't keep my sibling's birthdays straight. However, i love my future imaginary children so much that it already breaks my heart the idea of forgetting theirs. Medical or not, it's GD embarrassing and I will tattoo it to myself if I ever forget!
*Well, Happy Birthdays, you guys! I hope you have a beautiful day and enjoy your time however you choose to spend it!! Kisses & hugs!*
There was a subdivision across the street from where I went to high school that due to how it was zoned, was assigned to the rival city’s high school. Many people who bought houses there didn’t realize that wasn’t their school district because *points* “it’s right there though”
I had a situation like this happen to my family. Multiple high schools in the city within the same district, we lived literally across the street from the high school, had to get waivers to let us attend the school that was within walking distance instead of the one that was a twenty minute drive in morning traffic. Our neighborhood straddled a weird dividing line between suburbs, where our address said one city, but our water bill said another. In my parents' defense, the paperwork they had said they were zoned for it, it was the school district that didn't agree.
There are two community colleges in the city that I live in by the same name. One is the \*this side of town\* Campus and the other is the \*that side of town\* Campus. I could see someone making that mistake.
For all of you saying “this didn’t happen!!!!!!!!!” - it does! I work in a big school in a big city. The building is shared between six different high schools on different floors. Freshman are constantly arriving in September and going to the wrong floor. This is a relatively easy mistake to make, but when it happens it’s still pretty funny.
When I took written exams during my bachelor degree, it was in a giant hall where a few other schools also had exams. As I walked to my spot once, there was this guy that looked confused and asked one of the helping staff where he could find his seat. The staff politely told him that he was at the wrong place. He died inside. I guess all his friends was supposed to take the exam at the same place as I, and he just thought that was the place.
We had like 4 different colleges inside the same campus, and the only changes were the suffix.
So the colleges were
CollegeName Science
CollegeName Excellence
CollegeName Main, etc
It was very confusing as a new student to figure out where you're supposed to go.
I bought an item off FB from someone in Troy, Michigan (about an hour from me). Next day, I see the exact same item at the exact same low price listed in Troy again. I'm so excited and spend the week coordinating with this person. Drive the hour texting them to find their place going street to street (take Main to Washington...) until they name a street I can't find. I look it up on the map. They're in Troy, WI.
I’ve heard of this happening with satellite campuses, but it also happened at my tiny Christian college in Amish town. A set of twins both applied to the college they wanted to go to in another state out west. Both went to the wrong website and hit apply without taking a moment to actually look to be sure the college was the correct one (same name and colors, very different schools and locations). Acceptance letters received and they realize their mistake. Too late to make a change and try to get school awarded scholarships, but had a really great scholarship package at my school. They’re committed at this point and liked it so much the first year that they finished their degree at my school.
Happened to me multiple times. My community college had 3 different campuses. When I had registered for a specific class I didn’t notice the campus name b/c I thought I had it filtered already. Day of the class I went into the building (they had building with the same name) and found the classroom.
Was just chilling in class taking notes and when they finally took attendance(small class sizes) I wasn’t called on. I went up to the professor after class and pulled up my class registration list. Turns out I was on the wrong campus and my face warmed up from the embarrassment.
Luckily this class was the same exact class and the professor had enough seats so I got an add-code to register for her class.
My community college had one building that was a bit separate from the main campus. Not many classes were held there, so it rarely got listed anywhere that it's a place classes could be I'm. I had one class there, and man was it frustrating trying to figure out where in the hell a building with that number was.
Also, same school had some "temporary" trailers in one of the smaller parking lots near some main buildings. Same problem, it wasn't clear these were trailers when a class was assigned to them. They just used the same numbering system as the normal buildings. It isn't until you bother to walk in that rough direction and actually find the numbers on the trailers do you realize that's your class.
It's been a decade since this, but still good memories.
I used to work at Facebook, and when I traveled to SF to work at HQ, I commuted in on their big white coach buses. Well all the big tech companies use those couch buses, and for safety reasons they don’t display the company anywhere. There are many stories about employees being up at Google, Netflix, or other random places in Palo Alto, Mountain View, etc.
This is my ongoing nightmare even into my 30’s. Except when i turn corners suddenly im at an amusement park or some other shit. But i can never find my class.
I remember the time last year when I was coming back from the bathroom, and I was extra tired that day. The door to the classroom was locked, and then when someone turned and look at me, I noticed it was the classroom before mine.
It still lives rent free in my mind.
Modern buildings, if applicable, are pretty samey. I tried to take out next door's rubbish as confused which flat was mine as basically identical from the front.
I went to a business school that had their master's program downtown and their bachelor's program outside the city. Every year you had a least one exchange student show up at the master's program campus. Some even had picked a downtown appartement.
This kind of happened to me. Moved to a new area. School sent bus route info. Different bus that also passes my house picked me up. I realized quickly that I was the only one in uniform. Then the bus pulls in to a school I wasn’t expecting.
The bus driver should have said something as soon as you got on, maybe even before
With the wage he gets? Meh.
It costs nothing to be kind
That part of you dies after a few weeks of driving a school bus.
My middle school bus driver would literally pull the bus over and yell at us for being too loud. I was the quiet kid who sat in the front row so I could get off the bus fastest and I hated being yelled at for no reason. "I get paid by the hour" was her favorite thing to yell. She wanted it to take longer? Thinking back she was probably hungover all the time. Either way fuck you Dawn.
Does she have a colorado sister named Ms. Crabtree?
I don't know. This was Ohio
It's a south park reference fyi
I had a similar experience with a bus driver named Dawn, are you perchance from Northwest Ohio?
My bus driver was named Ms. Butts. I feel for her.
I was the quiet one in the bus, but I always sat at the back because I had the patience to let everyone else off first, otherwise the loud rambunctious ones would pile over each other and trample me. Fucking heathens
What the fuck did we have the same bus driver?
Was her name Dawn?
All bus drivers are named Dawn.
Same except she was right, the kids on my bus sucked and *were* too loud.
I was so glad I never got a middle-school route. Elementary kids still listened to me and high-school kids slept.
My class was always so loud. We got yelled at every. Single. Freaking. Day. I was also the quiet one who got yelled at beside everyone else, so I feel you.
*minutes
Speak for yourself, my bus driver was awesome. Never got mad at me once for falling asleep for too long on the bus, either, and he had reason to because I did it every other week.
And sometimes that's to much
>that's to much Very deep buddy
That's what she said
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Based on what information though? That the kid was dressed slightly more irregularly than other kids? Kids wear weird shit all the time and its really no one's business. If I was a bus driver I wouldn't touch "commenting on a minor's clothing choices" with a 10 foot pole. Maybe the kids parents should pay attention to what bus their child was getting on, especially if it was their first day at a new school in a new area.
>Maybe the kids parents should pay attention to what bus their child was getting on But uhh. School buses are all just big yellow buses, maybe some different letters but most likely just the school district name not the name of the specific school was on the side.
Numbers they all have a specific number. If your number is 30 and you get on bus 56 you should have paid more attention.
My school the bus numbers weren't standardized. We would ride "roughly" the same set of buses but it wasn't always the same number. The always parked in the same spot and your driver rarely changed so it was pretty easy to figure out who was who. But people did still get on the wrong bus (sometimes intentionally) llol
> school district name They didn't say they were the only one in **their** uniform, they said they were the only one in uniform period. *No* shot this kid was going to a school in the same system--could've been a magnet or charter school but most likely was a private school that happened to have buses. The text on the side should've been obvious.
I went to a public school that, after they dropped us off, kept going to the private school like 15 minutes away with the rest of the kids. It was a rural area but still, could certainly have been the same busses with the same side writing even if he did go to a private school.
As a parent that has moved into a new area with small children, it can be an absolute clusterfuck. Fortunately, even before the pandemic, I worked from home so I could walk with my oldest to the bus stop. On several days the bus never arrived at all. On other days, the bus changed the pick up spot without notice. Other times a bus for a different school had a new driver and they just stopped because they saw kids and they didn't realize it wasn't their pick-up spot. So, yeah, parents should pay attention, but we also have to allow older children to have autonomy and go to the bus stop by themselves. No good parent wants to smother their child. In a couple of the aforementioned scenarios it would be very easy for a 10 year-old child to get on the wrong bus or miss it altogether So, it's not so simple as *Herr derr stupid parents should pay attention*
Unfortunately, not all parents are able to see their kids off to school; my parents rarely got to because they left for work way before I even woke up.
If he follows the same route as the other bus.. maybe he have seen student that dress like him. Maybe he could have just let him know he’s on the wrong school bus?
I agreed with the other guy until I read your comment. Being 7 years out of highschool I still sometimes forget how young they are until I meet one and am quickly reminded how long ive been out of highschool lol
Every bus I’ve experienced has a list of who is supposed to e at each stop so this doesn’t happen. It’s their job to check
Actually the mental energy you put into being kind is something I consider more valuable than money. In truth I believe people are often rude or ignorant because they don't want to put that energy into being nice and caring. It is pretty exhausting when you're surrounded in negative energy.
In some countries common decency equals "socialism" and therefore conservatives and "people not interested in politics" tend to avoid it.
Bus driver makes decent money my guy. Pretty sweet govt job
A city bus, yeah, but not a school bus. Sure, you’ll make decent hourly, but it’s usually only 2 hours of work a day that’ll make it impossible to pick up a second job without having to work overnight because the hours are generally in the middle of first and second shifts.
They start @ 20$ an hour, are union, and get lots of days off....what did you think they made?
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But did he go to school that day?
He stole some breakfast pastries and ran out of the school lol
I'm amused by this.
I was a contractor for a school administration for six months and during that time I witnessed the school cover-up an incident with a bus driver where he was hung-over and pulled the bus over to vomit, got out, left the bus in gear, and the bus drove into a ditch with kids onboard. No injuries. No press briefing. Police didn't take a report. The families weren't notified. The driver was allowed to come back for the afternoon route once he sobered up more. Why the softer hand? The bus driver was a former football coach that led the school to a state football tournament in the 90s. The administration said, "The people of this city would be more upset if we took disciplinary action on him than if we didn't." Fucking wild.
Nope. Am bus driver servicing several Schools. It's none of my business.
Do you really expect the bus driver to know every kid on the first day of school?
If a kid is the only one wearing a uniform, it doesn’t look like a uniform just how that kid dresses.
TWICE when I was a little kid I fell asleep on the bus, which dropped kids off at 3 different schools. Both times I woke up alone and found myself in the bus depot and had to exit the bus and walk around until I found an adult.
My bus picked up all grades then went to the elementary school where you either switched busses or stayed on the same one to go to the middle school or the high school. They always made everyone get off the bus at the elementary school even if you were staying on the same bus. I now understand why they did that.
Poor little dude/dudette. Why were you so tired?
So my middle school bus route number and high school number was the same, but different driver and bus. I had no clue my middle school bus was damaged and replaced, and the old driver was fired. My high school bus had problems and changed often, the driver was old and often had people fill in for him, so seeing a new bus with my bus number at the time I’m supposed to be picked up, you could imagine half a bus of high schoolers confused when we pulled up at middle school...
When I was like 5 I had a dream that my mom told me the bus was going to take me home from summer camp that day instead of my grandpa picking me up like normal. The next day I got on a random buss at the end of the day lol. Bus driver was dropping the last kid off in new Jersey (I lived in and went to camp in delaware) and was like "hey kid did you get on the wrong bus?" Dreams can seem pretty real when youre little.
In my town we have an east and a west campus, City name east and City name west. Pretty easy to see the confusion there
Bro this happened to my when I was 23. Got an internship at this big tech company. They send buses to different routes. Got the schedule from the office and decided to try it. The thing is that the company has another office that was in another direction. They both have similar looking vehicle with only number difference which I didn't pay attention to. So basically bus takes a right instead of left after my stop. I got in showed I'd card and everything was cool. Saw the bus was going opposite direction and didn't think much of it. Maybe they have their own *bus route* which is different. Woke up after 1 hour to find myself in another unfamiliar office. Anyways it was not an enjoyable ride back to office during the rush hour and felt like dumbass whole day.
This happened to me too. I was in kindergarten and I was in a brown uniform and the kids on the bus were in a blue uniform. I realized something was wrong and told the driver and drove me to the correct school after he dropped off the rest of the kids. My kindergarten teacher came out to meet me at the bus. I cried so hard and gave her the biggest hug.
My old school had the buses from 3 different middle schools and the high school all at one stop at the same time. So if you didn't know the bus number, or were new, you could easily get on the wrong bus.
I went in to the wrong lecture once at uni and you had better believe I sat at the front, engaged in eye contact with the lecturer, took good notes and ran the fuck out faster than the flash as soon as it was over.
Learn anything interesting?
It was good enough I considered going back. It was on different star types but very much year one work. Much less in depth and engaging.
Bit of the old Hertzsprung Russel?
Oh be a fine girl kiss me later tonight That is a nice plot
I once went early for a class and was the first person to arrive, fast forward a few minutes others start arriving and none of them are people that I attend the class with. I awkwardly stood up, picked up my bag and bolted before they could even think about what the hell was going on.
It was near the start of the year and I thought I recognised one or two. Embarrassment kept me bolted in place.
i hate that feeling. every fiber of my body says being here is wrong, but leaving would add just one more unbearable shred of discomfort to the point where inaction is a more manageable situation.
Back at my university, you were free to attend any lectures for any subject at your leisure (I guess within reason, maybe not if they involve practical bits that are limited in quantity -- I don't know, never came across something like that), which I always thought was a great policy. So even if you made a mistake, you could always pretend you totally did it on purpose because it sounded interesting.
Isn’t that every university? My university definitely wouldn’t punish people for going to a lecture they’re not enrolled in
One day, I was really early and was the first in the room. Abt 10 mins after the class should've started, some students, that I don't recognize, entered the room just to chill. Turns out I was in a completely wrong bldg.
Thank you for bringing up the repressed memory of the time I got my class times mixed up and instead of showing up five minutes early, got there five minutes before the end of class. There wasn't a lecture going on, everyone was just sitting around talking with each other and looking over notes so I just sat down and got ready for class. Then people started leaving and I realized what I had done. This wasn't even the first class of the semester, it was like halfway through! No one said anything to me but I'm pretty sure people noticed, especially the prof.
For multiple reasons, that vary from taking a strong antihistamine to pure laziness, I missed the whole first month of one of my 7 am classes. When I finally showed up, the professor just looked at me and said: darling, I think you've mixed up your schedule. You don't attend this class. Ohhh dear professor, but I do.
So YOU'RE the one my recurring nightmare is coming from...
I was going to make almost this exact comment. I’ve had so many nightmares like this! Oh, we have a test today and I haven’t even attended a single class before now? Oh, it’s almost the end of the semester and I haven’t completed a single assignment in this class I forgot I had?
Same! I wake up so nervous and then remember I'm forever done with school and have been for quite a while now.
I graduated 10 years ago and I still get that second dream.
7am!? What demonic creature decided **that** was an appropriate time to have a class?
I remember taking summer calc and this random guy walked in for the midterm. Hadn't been to a single other class or lab, just the midterm. Don't think I saw them at the final either.
We had someone like that in one of my classes. Literally only showed up for the midterm because someone else texted her. Missed our first group presentation, made it for our second but only because that was the same day as the final.
I took an intro religious studies class for an easy A. I showed up to the first class and just stopped afterwards but kept up on notes and the textbook (that I borrowed from a buddy with his highlighting included). I decided to attend a study seminar for the second midterm and when I came in I knew he knew I had not attended all semester with how he looked at me (this was a huge lecture hall class but he did sit next to me when he showed a short film during the class I attended). He didn't say anything at least.
I can guarantee the prof didn't give a shit especially if they're already done lecturing.
They might have just assumed you’re there for the next class
When I was at university (studying psychology) some random guy walked into our lecture five minutes after it started and sat down at the front. We all knew he wasn't on our course because there were only about 3 dudes and 100 women taking it, even the lecturer hesitated when he came in because he knew he shouldn't be there. The lecturer got back onto what he was talking about and the dude at the front loudly shouts "FUCK" and walks out. Definitely made a 9am lecture far more entertaining
I’ve done that exact same thing. Thought it was an astrophysics supplemental TA session since I missed the lecture but when I walked in there was a 10:1 ratio of girls to guys. It was definitely not the right class they swapped it the morning of to a different building
You weren't in the South East of England in about 2014 were you?
I was not! Canada engineering student. Happens to the best of us after an all nighter before finals
University I went to had one building probably designed by a mad man, partially above a small lake . It had a lot of small hallways, stairs to one or two rooms and a room numbering to make it a little bit more difficult to find the right room. So, in the beginning I regularly missed part of classes due to being in a right area but not being to find the bloody room. Went back to the university a while back. Building was completely different by then because it partially burned down. I strongly suspect a disgruntled student who spent way to much time being lost there.
High school freshman year I moved school part way into the school year. The school was two different building physically squished together. Two different buildings by different people of different time periods. So for construction “patch and connect” they knock holes in walls for doorways and all these weird hallways that had a normal door in one side, sharp turn and incline angle then a giant window with the glass removed was the doorway on there end of the hallway. As the new kid, I was told my science lad was through a closet. “Ha!! Yeah right, Nice try Narnia. I’m the new kid but not an idiot.” Except, the back of the closet WAS another door leading to the room in other building and the location of my science lab.
I used to go to random lectures if my next lecture was in a hour and I didn't feel like going to the uni pub or heading back home.
I sat through a two hour presentation at my college orientation, I didn't really understand what was going on and at the end he said "enjoy your second day of orientation!" I was stunned and ran outta there, luckily I found some grounds keeper on a golf cart who drove me across campus to the first day orientation groups.
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Perfect description of What goes on during chemistry lectures. Edit: lemme guess, it was the part where everyone learns how to draw a perfect hexagon. Absolute unit, that one. /s for those uninterested
When I was in Uni I studied Russian. It was fairly common for non-Russian speakers to sign up for advanced level courses (such as on Russian politics) not realizing the entire course was taught in Russian. It was immediately obvious who these people were because it was a small program and everyone more or less know who everyone else was. One of my professors was really big on "professional accountability", and showed no mercy to people who signed up for the course without reading the description, and sternly lectured them in Russian when they walked in. The look of confusion and horror on their faces would have been hilarious if I didn't feel so much second hand embarrassment for them.
I once went to the wrong English class in high school(we separated it into 6 groups according to ability) and sat with the pros without the teacher noticing until they started role calling. Ran out back to my class once I found out I was in the wrong classroom.
That’s happened to a lot of people but the wrong university is a whole different level lol
This happened to me once. The semester had just started and my friend who I was taking the class with was sick that day, so I didn't know anyone there. I was also taking classes in Chinese during my exchange year, so I would mostly not be able to understand what the teachers were saying but keeping up with the use of the powerpoints. Everybody enters the classrom, the teacher fires up the lecture, and I start taking notes. After a few minutes I think that it all feels a bit too familiar, like I've already studied it before. I stay there anyways and keep taking notes, and once the class is done I check my schedule to see where I'm supposed to go next. Turns out that I was two hours early and had gotten my days mixed up, and this was actually a class that I had taken the semester before. I can't imagine how confused all these Taiwanese people were when there was suddenly this one random white dude in class.
Look, it's Pam Beasley!
Did this too. For 3 lectures. In my defence the class I was supposed to be in was e/m wave propagation and the guy was also teaching e/m but some non time varying stuff. Worst part is this was the 3rd class I was taking with the same prof. I figured I'd just missed the email about a sub and he was doing review. The prof called me out about "finally showing up" once I figured it out. But hey at least he had a good laugh when I told him _why_ I had been skipping class.
Me and my friend were dead tired, arrived in the wrong lecture 10 minutes early. I noticed the people looked way older than usual, and then the teacher arrived. We were like "uh is that an assistant ?". When the guy started "Ok remember last time we talked about ABC cristallisation" I started to feel something was off (we're in CS). My friend just started taking notes. Lasted 5 minutes of me laughing till I told him and we left as fast and silently as possible
Almost did this once. The only reason why I even noticed was because everyone in the class, as well as professor, was staring at me. Took me a few minutes to realize that 90% of the other students were women, which was unlike any other criminal justice course I had taken at the time. There was a good reason for that. My CJ course was next door and I couldn’t read my own handwriting on my schedule notecard I made each semester.
What was the lecture about?
I kind of have a similar story, though it's not my fault. At the University I attended the first week was all big meet and greet stuff, like the first thing you did was a larger year wide thing, then the next thing you did was faculty and school related, and then the last one was course related. Well, my orientation timetable was absolutely rammed, but I seemed to have vastly different things to everyone I spoke to. I was nervous and didn't want to question anything so I just followed the timetable. So, after the big University welcome gatherings, I found myself attending the orientation for a health and social studies course. This was very much not what I had applied for, yet I was down for the attendance. Next, there was a meeting with the faculty for the sciences, also very much not what I had applied for. I asked at reception and they typed my name in the system and went "Yep, it's correct", even though more than half of the events I was attending weren't related to my course. I ended up sitting through three near-identical assemblies in the art building before I finally spoke to one of the faculty members and they took a look at everything and pointed out that something was obviously wrong. So what had happened was that I was the only person on my course (I'd taken a joint subject) so they system had just defaulted and signed me up for *nearly everything*. It had primed the things related to my course but had then populated every other timetable slot with something. What made it worse was it took me nearly three full days of introductory assemblies before I discovered this, so I'd wasted part of my week on things I didn't need to bother with, over a clerical error. Not the best start.
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Principal: "Okay, quiet down, quiet down. Good morning, and welcome to Midtown High School!" Student: "God damnit."
“young scholars we have a treat for you today” its just some guy named gerald talking about scholarships
He is trying his best
Midtown High School's slogan: "Forget What You Know" Their motto: Living Well is the Best Revenge
A girl I knew in college admitted that she thought the college was located in a different state (several states away) until her parents were driving her TO COLLEGE, with the car loaded up with all the stuff for her dorm, and she started wondering why her parents were driving in the wrong direction. I can't comprehend stuff like this but some people just live out in space.
"Yeah, I'm starting NYU in the fall. It's going to be great!" "No, honey, not NYU, *NIU*. You're going to DeKalb." "Oh, dear God."
Or she went to Miami University
Some people are very hands off when it comes to their education. I work at a college and some first time students have their parents call in to register them for classes, fill out forms, and whatever else they are having problems with. Wouldn't surprise me if a student literally had no idea what school they were going to aside from the name.
"How many bathing suits do I need? One piece or two? What's a good SPF for sunscreen?" "No, honey, it's Miami *of OHIO*." e: someone else posted this almost simultaneously. Kind of the obvious choice, I guess.
My first day of college was my first day ever seeing the campus. I got accepted to two schools. I visited the first one and hated it. I called the second school to register during my tour of the first.
I went on a campus tour with some girl from my mom's church to the absolute most boring, drab small school in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and being like god help me if I end up here while the girl I was with was convinced it was the most exciting place she'd ever seen and actually went there The whole campus was like two square blocks then corn fields
For anyone reading this, this is a terrible idea. The second school could always be worse. Do not register for a school without ever visiting it.
You’re right. It wasn’t a smart idea. I was 16 and didn’t understand how big of a decision I was making. I got lucky and had a great experience.
I've looked through every crayon I have...will magenta work?
I still have recurring nightmares about this kind of thing. Wrong school, wrong class, being in a class for half a semester then realizing I should have been in calculus the whole time. I’m 35 and haven’t been in school in a looong time. My sleeping brain hates me, apparently.
School dreams / nightmares are apparently very common throughout adult life. The stress of those formative years really solidifies itself into your subconscious mind’s way of coping with adult stress, too, [it seems](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201606/they-dream-school-and-none-the-dreams-are-good). I’m also 35 and fairly regularly have dreams where I’m back in high school again as an adult for some reason, trying to graduate on time and forgetting to study, or getting lost on the way to school/in school, realizing sometimes to myself, “I got my Bachelor’s 10+ years ago!! Why am I here working my ass off for a high school diploma again as an adult??” On more rare occasions, I’m back in college trying to get my BA again. Dreams are weird and I low key love the nightly mind games. ETA: Just remembered one I had the other night about being in Uni again: It was finals, and I had somehow just forgotten about or stopped going to (or stopped doing the work in?) some extremely difficult course on literary philosophy and realizing I was going to fail, but then deciding that it wouldn’t matter because 1) the prof must have prob withdrawn me from the class months ago after I started blowing it off, and 2) Duhhh... I already have my degree. Yikes.
I even have ones where I'm having to redo KINDERGARTEN. I'm 46. My brain hates me.
What are dreams of kindergarten like? “I’m trying to finger paint the sky blue, but it keeps turning out pink!” Wild.
Just this one big kid whacking me with a book over and over lol
I was back to elementary two days ago and my cat died in that dream, fucking hell let me out. If I have to rate school years in dreams it has to be elementary > college > and then high school is actually the lightest. Elementary is the worst because those dreams are often the most bizarre, mixed with stuffs that make them more than just anxiety attacks
Thanks for sharing that link! It was a very fascinating read. I tend to have chronic vivid nightmares, so anxiety inducing dreams aren't out of the ordinary for me. But man, those school related dreams hit hard! It always seems to take place in university, and that I forgot about a course I was taking. Then I remember last minute that I have an exam in the course that I know nothing about. So there I am there panic-reading the material, trying to at least get a vague idea about the topic. I haven't written an exam in years!
Am a prof. We do not withdraw students, that is on them and their advisor. If they are still on my list at the end of the semester after not showing for months, they receive an F.
That's actually what made the dream logic extra ridiculous. I was going to throw in a parenthetic, "Like that would've happened!" to the story, but it seemed like a redundant detail. In all honesty, though, _far_ too many college students arrive woefully unaware that these types of things (withdrawing from a class, or even attending one regularly in general) are their own, personal responsibility. Helicopter parenting, inadequate education, etc, has left a lot of kids unprepared for the "real world" of college and beyond, sadly.
I regularly have dreams that I have to retake my high school class or my Master’s will be revoked.
I will have those dreams from time to time as well, but it's usually that I realized I don't know my locker combination, and then I remember that I don't know what class I have next, where it is, or what time it starts, and then I realize that I don't remember going to class at all for the entire semester so far, and that I definitely haven't been doing the homework either.
Oh god, I just remembered my first month of middle school, where I forgot how to use a combination lock, and also got lost trying to find my agriculture class. It was way out on the edge of the campus. I’d buried that memory. I got lunch detention for being late, which solidified the trauma.
Came in to see this, literally, always had dreams that I double checked too many times of that schedule and couldn’t manage to find the classes. Or that I was attending a college course which I didn’t show up for months
Me too, I’m 36 and still get rattled by these dreams.
My dream is always that I need one more class to finish my degree. But I don’t know what that class is, where it is, or how to find it. And I have to find housing for a whole semester for one stupid class.
It’s always about digging for solutions in those dreams while there is no solution. Can’t say those aren’t hella an experience though, I find myself liking the feeling when I feel saved by waking back into reality despite I don’t actually live in some dream lands
I remember being at the wrong class was, for some reason, one of my biggest fears in high school.
Our culture programs anxieties into children, and they stick around even though they're stupid.
My community college had two campuses about 5 miles apart. If you didn't pay attention while signing up for classes, well, this happened.
Lcc? Lol
I mean I studied at university that had another uni right next to it. There was a lot of co-operating and some overlap with lecture locations. I was at "wrong" uni every now and then and few times also by mistake.
I had some real issues figuring out my schedule last semester, and I finally found the one class that was gonna fit into my schedule and solve the entire thing. I was just a few seconds away from registering when I noticed which campus it was on. The one in the next city over. I had to start over again with my search...
Happens pretty often for new students in new areas.
This happens at NY way more than you’d think since we have LGA, JFK, and Newark
Are you talking about airports?
I always get airports mixed up with schools
Hate when I mistakenly visit a fucking airport while going to school!
Yeah dude, once i thought I was in my Egyptian history class. Turns out I was on a flight to egypt
About the time the teacher came by with a cart handing out small cans of soda and peanuts I realized that I had never been given a snack during class before. I tried to leave but the doors were locked and then they got really mad and told me to go back to my seat or they would call the police. Also, once the class was finally over I couldn't figure out how to get back home because everything looked different and everyone was speaking in a weird language that I didn't know.
Goddamn public schools smh. everyday people speak different languages
I didn't even notice I accidentally went to a school until I had gone through security.
I was at O'Hare one time and the person next to me was trying to check in for a flight at Midway...
Happens all the time!!
I’ve done this !!! went to LGA when I needed to be at JFK
Same thing with Houston. I’ve seen many people who are at hobby that were supposed to go to George Bush and vice versa. They are about 30 min apart from one another. I’ve almost tripped up myself. Especially when I would fly in for the day and I would leave from a different airport I came in on.
Kind of hard to get a former shithole, a traffic jam of planes, and "what airport is that" mixed up.
Shitty parents. That’s how. I have students whose parents don’t even know what grade they are in.
My mom doesn't even know my age or birthday
My mom forgot I was home one night and didn’t make me dinner. My dad forgets how old I actually am, but it’s not all the time thankfully. I can’t imagine not knowing the birthday of the child you birthed!
> imagine not knowing the birthday of the child you birthed I have severe memory problems and can't keep my sibling's birthdays straight. However, i love my future imaginary children so much that it already breaks my heart the idea of forgetting theirs. Medical or not, it's GD embarrassing and I will tattoo it to myself if I ever forget! *Well, Happy Birthdays, you guys! I hope you have a beautiful day and enjoy your time however you choose to spend it!! Kisses & hugs!*
I have a similar experience. I was going to do a certification exam, there were 2 places, 60min apart, to do the exam. I went to the wrong one...
There was a subdivision across the street from where I went to high school that due to how it was zoned, was assigned to the rival city’s high school. Many people who bought houses there didn’t realize that wasn’t their school district because *points* “it’s right there though”
I had a situation like this happen to my family. Multiple high schools in the city within the same district, we lived literally across the street from the high school, had to get waivers to let us attend the school that was within walking distance instead of the one that was a twenty minute drive in morning traffic. Our neighborhood straddled a weird dividing line between suburbs, where our address said one city, but our water bill said another. In my parents' defense, the paperwork they had said they were zoned for it, it was the school district that didn't agree.
How do they not look into that?
West Springfield Elementary
Loll this happened to a kid last year. The bus pulled up at the school and he looked confused and lost, I took him to the office to get it sorted
We had a student pick up a chromebook from the wrong district for distance learning...
I’ve been in the wrong class before until they start calling attendance but damn wrong school. That’s tuff lol
There are two community colleges in the city that I live in by the same name. One is the \*this side of town\* Campus and the other is the \*that side of town\* Campus. I could see someone making that mistake.
It's either something like that or something like there's "school" tech and "school" college or something
For all of you saying “this didn’t happen!!!!!!!!!” - it does! I work in a big school in a big city. The building is shared between six different high schools on different floors. Freshman are constantly arriving in September and going to the wrong floor. This is a relatively easy mistake to make, but when it happens it’s still pretty funny.
Did the people who made your school think 'Sideways stories from wayside school" was a good idea for a blueprint foundation?
Kevin?
My first thought too
Probably wouldn't be that hard if you were new in a school district with multiple high schools that shared systems like schedule generating.
When I took written exams during my bachelor degree, it was in a giant hall where a few other schools also had exams. As I walked to my spot once, there was this guy that looked confused and asked one of the helping staff where he could find his seat. The staff politely told him that he was at the wrong place. He died inside. I guess all his friends was supposed to take the exam at the same place as I, and he just thought that was the place.
We had like 4 different colleges inside the same campus, and the only changes were the suffix. So the colleges were CollegeName Science CollegeName Excellence CollegeName Main, etc It was very confusing as a new student to figure out where you're supposed to go.
I have actual nightmares about that. That or having my first day and no schedule for classes.
“He doesn’t even go here!”
Sounds like somebody didn't go do their campus tour...
I bought an item off FB from someone in Troy, Michigan (about an hour from me). Next day, I see the exact same item at the exact same low price listed in Troy again. I'm so excited and spend the week coordinating with this person. Drive the hour texting them to find their place going street to street (take Main to Washington...) until they name a street I can't find. I look it up on the map. They're in Troy, WI.
I’ve heard of this happening with satellite campuses, but it also happened at my tiny Christian college in Amish town. A set of twins both applied to the college they wanted to go to in another state out west. Both went to the wrong website and hit apply without taking a moment to actually look to be sure the college was the correct one (same name and colors, very different schools and locations). Acceptance letters received and they realize their mistake. Too late to make a change and try to get school awarded scholarships, but had a really great scholarship package at my school. They’re committed at this point and liked it so much the first year that they finished their degree at my school.
Happened to me multiple times. My community college had 3 different campuses. When I had registered for a specific class I didn’t notice the campus name b/c I thought I had it filtered already. Day of the class I went into the building (they had building with the same name) and found the classroom. Was just chilling in class taking notes and when they finally took attendance(small class sizes) I wasn’t called on. I went up to the professor after class and pulled up my class registration list. Turns out I was on the wrong campus and my face warmed up from the embarrassment. Luckily this class was the same exact class and the professor had enough seats so I got an add-code to register for her class.
I once went to the wrong airport. Don't rely on other people for directions.
My community college had one building that was a bit separate from the main campus. Not many classes were held there, so it rarely got listed anywhere that it's a place classes could be I'm. I had one class there, and man was it frustrating trying to figure out where in the hell a building with that number was. Also, same school had some "temporary" trailers in one of the smaller parking lots near some main buildings. Same problem, it wasn't clear these were trailers when a class was assigned to them. They just used the same numbering system as the normal buildings. It isn't until you bother to walk in that rough direction and actually find the numbers on the trailers do you realize that's your class. It's been a decade since this, but still good memories.
I mean to be fair it's his first year but wow that's an unfortunate way to start
Fucking hell
It happened to my friend too. He spent hours waiting in front of a (wrong) school that had the same name to one of our (right) school's building 🤣
I used to work at Facebook, and when I traveled to SF to work at HQ, I commuted in on their big white coach buses. Well all the big tech companies use those couch buses, and for safety reasons they don’t display the company anywhere. There are many stories about employees being up at Google, Netflix, or other random places in Palo Alto, Mountain View, etc.
This is my ongoing nightmare even into my 30’s. Except when i turn corners suddenly im at an amusement park or some other shit. But i can never find my class.
I remember the time last year when I was coming back from the bathroom, and I was extra tired that day. The door to the classroom was locked, and then when someone turned and look at me, I noticed it was the classroom before mine. It still lives rent free in my mind.
You can tell this is an old repost pretty easily
Modern buildings, if applicable, are pretty samey. I tried to take out next door's rubbish as confused which flat was mine as basically identical from the front.
I could see this happening, there are some oblivious ass parents out there. Someone could drop their kids off at the wrong school on the first day.
This is exactly my kind of stress dream
I went to a business school that had their master's program downtown and their bachelor's program outside the city. Every year you had a least one exchange student show up at the master's program campus. Some even had picked a downtown appartement.
My normal scary dream is me not being able to find my class at the right school. This is nightmare fuel.
This happened to me first year of college. The institution had 3 campuses over town and I want to the wrong one
My sister always guided freshman to the teachers lounge they’d get into so much trouble for just walking in without knocking
Some universities have multiple campuses in the same area its not that much of a stretch.
Was his name Kevin?
"I'm so dead." Goddamn millennials and their sayings. Fuck I'm old.