After this school year, and many days of taking either the school shuttle or local bus, I've learned a few things:
Firstly, the bus/shuttle will always be late if I am right on time or early. I will always find myself waiting at the bus stop for an unrealistic amount of time.
Secondly, if I am running late, the bus will suddenly be on time or ahead of schedule. This is actually more true for the shuttle than the bus itself. This is particularly impressive, considering the shuttle has a live feed which is suppose to tell people the most accurate time of its arrival from that moment. This system, funny enough, is often not working at all.
Thirdly, there is a strange situation that always occurs at that moment when I'm running late. Whether to the bus or the shuttle, there is a pathway that gives me a clear view of my stop. I usually walk this path swiftly, and it feels that the time from the point I can see the stop to actually arriving at the stop is about a minute. This is how it feels in almost every situation.
One thing changes this: The bus's arrival. If I see the bus has already arrived, I will run. Suddenly, everything becomes as within a nightmare, and my running seems to make me slower. With each step, the path appears to grow longer, and the bus grows more distant. My running seems futile.
The conclusion of the event changes depending on to which automobile I am running: The shuttle or the bus. If I am running to the shuttle when this happens, it will undoubtedly leave without me, no matter how close I am finally to reaching my destination. If it is the bus, though, the driver has mercy and will wait.
This, and the fact that the bus was closer to my home and I grew lazy, is the reason I started taking the bus more.
