Bus mating ritual?

[Dreamstalker]

I was walking back from the health care center after updating my insurance info (I was planning to get new glasses but come to find out they don't carry the Transitions lenses, now I have to hope that GlassesMakers takes my insurance); being that my stipend from the state for a transit pass has yet to come through for this month I walked both ways. There's a shopping center near a T stop, and the T stop has stairs to get up to the road.

For some reason, there were two 'short buses' from a local prep school parked at one end of the lot. They weren't moving, but both of them were beeping (the 'look out BIG METAL THING backing up' sound) as a third pulled in, then that one started in the chorus of BEEPs after it parked. I couldn't help thinking about some mecha animals looking for mates

[AmbrosiaWriter]

I'm trying to imagine this and all I can see is the Magic School Bus trying to make friends. "Hey gaiz! What's up!"

[csquared]

How do you tell the girl buses from the boy buses? Never mind... I probably don't want to know.

[Dreamstalker]

I was wondering the same thing... O_o

[dalesys]

Something like: Robot Blues - Incredible String Band

... When I see that #3, I get charge all on my dial
... When I see that #3, woo-ooh, my piston fills with oil

[wolfie]

How do you tell the girl buses from the boy buses? Never mind... I probably don't want to know.

Don't know about buses, but in the early days of tanks (WW1), there were "male" (armed with cannon and machine guns) and "female" (machine guns only) tanks. Ironically, "Mother" (first British tank) was a "male".