8.22.2006

the phrase i'm hearing a lot this morning

people who will "throw you under the bus" ...

i know what that means, but i wonder: why a bus? why not a car? or a truck? or off a bridge? what about a bus makes it the ideal thing to throw someone under?

1 comment:

strangeluck said...

When people think about a "bus", they almost always think about a school bus. Therefore, the phrase "throw you under the bus" has a much more dramatic flare because our mind tends to visualize getting run over by a giant yellow school bus filled with screaming kids. That seems like a much more horrific way to die than being quickly crushed by some other moving vehicle. I mean how depressing/annoying would it be if the last sound you heard before you expired was the sound of screaming children?