The Cemetery Bus Stop

I like to drive by the bus stop at the cemetery when I'm in town. I bet that it is a nice stop because there are plenty of trees to wait under and there is a lot of room for people to spread out and wait, before everyone has to pile onto the bus. I do have a few questions though...

Is it embarrassing if you make it to the funeral but miss the graveside service because the bus had to stop at Albertson's and the library before it dropped you off at the cemetery? Maybe you thought that everyone at the funeral would be taking the bus to the cemetery. The bus must hold like fifty people after all... Does it weird out the other passengers on the bus if fifty people all dressed in church clothes load onto the bus and ride it to the cemetery? Do you ever get mistaken for a flash mob? That's what I would think was happening if I were the bus driver.

I think that it would be hard to load a casket onto the bus regardless of how close it dropped you off to the actual graveside. Trying to get the casket around that first corner at the top of the stairs must be a nightmare; especially if someone is sitting in that front seat. How do you ever make that turn with all of the pall bearers? You're probably better off strapping the casket to the front of the bus but then, where are people supposed to put their bikes? I'm sure the casket hogs the whole front rack...

What about grave robbers? Is the bus driver trained to recognize when people are legally hauling bodies out of the cemetery onto the bus and when people are stealing the bodies? I think the best indicator that someone is loading a stolen body onto the bus is the hump-back. If a guy with a hump-back gets onto the bus at the cemetery stop with a big burlap sack and sits all the way at the back, I would call my manager.