"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." – Sylvia Plath
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?
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?
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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?
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