More crazy nanny state stuff

Dan has been away at "Advanced" music camp all week.  This was held at Alex Park up on the Sunshine Coast.

I was dispatched to collect him from the bus.

The buses dropped the kids at Centenary High School.  Talk about an unergonomic arrangement.  First, as you can see, there was not much room for people and so everyone clogged up the space between the buses and the fence on the right.  No one could move and in the middle of all this the bus drivers were trying to get bags out from under the bus.  A very slow operation because they could not get the bags away from the bus because they were hemmed in by people.  Then once some lucky kid had gotten their bag they would stand their with their bag waiting for their other bag thus exacerbating the problem.

So in this safety conscious world, the only way to walk around the buses was on the road to the left of the bus as we see it in the photo.  And just to the left of the road is a fence that separates the buses from the car park.  This of course prevents one from taking ones child and bags directly to the car.  So eventually the bus drivers managed to get all the bags out of the bus and it seemed that they managed to make it back to their drivers seats at the about the same time as the kids appeared to reunite themselves with their bags.

So simultaneously, everyone - people and buses decided to walk or drive down the driveway.  The buses so they could escape to the main road and the people so they could get to their cars parked tantalisingly close on the other side of that bizarre fence.  I mused that it would only take one kid to trip or be pushed and they would be under a wheel.  Squashed flat.  Yet had the fence not been there, the parents and kids would have only been in the same vicinity of the bus for a moment before they were off and out of the way.  Bizarre.