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The story of:

"The wheels on the bus go round and round. . ."


Yes, yes, we know what this means: the wheels
are spinning as they roll on the road. Moving
on. . .
"The doors on the bus go open and shut, open and shut,
open and shut. The doors on the bus go open and shut,
all through the town."
Here's the first hint of bad things to come. Those doors
are opening and shutting with disturbing frequency.
There are lots of people getting on this bus. Sounds like
it might be crowded.
"The driver on the bus says 'Move on back'. . ."
This corroborates our impressions from the previous line. The
driver only has to tell people to move back when the bus is
crowded -- standing room only -- and there are so many bodies
that they're bulging past the yellow line. It's now clear that this
bus is dangerously overcrowded.
"The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish. . ."
It's raining. So now we have a dangerously overcrowded bus
ambulating in the rain, two extremely distracting factors for
our driver.
"The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep. . ."
This line is key. When have you ever heard a bus driver honking
her horn? The song tells it like it's the most natural thing in the
world, but this virtually never happens. Unless there's a clear
and present danger on the road. Unless, maybe, there's about
to be an accident!
"The babies on the bus go 'wah, wah, wah". . ."
Yeah, babies crying, right? It used to be sort of confusing: why do babies on a bus just automatically cry?
Is that a thing? Well now we know babies on a bus DON'T automatically cry. They're crying because the
bus driver had to suddenly swerve and has lost control of the bus, maybe on a bridge or something, and
they're going over the side. It's obviously a very scary situation that is causing these babies to cry. Babies
don't just cry because they ride a bus. Babies love riding buses! Seriously, one of the only times my baby
DIDN'T cry was when he was riding a bus!
"The mommies on the bus say 'I love you'. . ."
You probably know where I'm going with this one, a little
thing called "last words."
"The wheels on the bus go round and round. . ."
I bet that all this time you thought this was a simple refrain, right? Just going back
to the beginning to wrap it up neatly? Yeah no. Those wheels are still spinning, sure.
They're spinning round and round, but not on the ground this time.
They're spinning in the air.

Cause the bus flipped over and everyone inside died.

THE END

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