Posts Tagged ‘school bus’
Shouldn’t yellow raincoats the only appropriately colored raincoats?
School buses are most often painted yellow because the color attracts attention and is noticed quickly by peripheral vision. In fact, the human eye detects yellow faster than any other color. Scientists describe this as follows: “Lateral peripheral vision for detecting yellows is 1.24 times greater than for red.” For this same reason, raincoats are…
Read MoreMy daughter’s bus stop is completely ridiculous, and I so wish I could be there.
When I was a kid, my siblings and I stood beneath an enormous oak tree at the bottom of the driveway and waited for the bus. Our parents had long since left for work, and a key was tied around my neck so that we could get back inside after school. We were young. I…
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