I got passed by a school bus this morning.

Let me put that in context...

I was going 25mph about 150 yards from a red light. Plenty of time for me to stop. I'm in a school zone so I'm doing the speed limit. (It's a pretty good run down hill. I'm not strong enough to do 25 consistently in the flats)

The approach to this light has 1 thing lane with no shoulder/sidewalk/dirt path/ect. It's a wall of trees a foot from the lane and people usually make right turns on red so I don't wan't to be to the far right. I have to ride right in the lane at this intersection. There is no safe option for being off to the side.

A school bus, with kids on board, goes around me on the left by crossing far over the center line into the left side of the road. Passes me, then slams on the brakes at the light. But right after the light the lane opens into a 25 foot wide lane where I jump over to the far right and cars and buses can easily pass with ease and ample clearance. All the bus had to do was wait for the light then pass me safely on the other side of the intersection.

And it's a pretty blind left turn. So a car on the cross street making a right onto the road I was on could have lawfully entered that lane and immediately been in the path of a school bus on the wrong side of the road doing 30 mph.

School bus.

With kids on board.

In the district where my kids go to school and ride the bus.

This wasn't my kids' bus with them on board or I'd have chased the bus to it's next stop and had immediate words with the driver.

But I was pretty cheesed off at that kind of aggressive driving in a bus that risked my life and put a bus full of kids into possible oncoming traffic, all to get ahead of me at a red light and save 5 seconds it might take to pass me after the light.

Oh, but do I work for a company that manages the employee benefits for this school system? As a matter of fact I do! Meaning I have personal relationships with the entire human resources staff of the school district as well as a working relationship with the bus depot manager for when I need to send benefit enrollers out there....NEXT WEEK. What a handy coincidence!