How i made my bus driver stop yelling at me for being late
[Quick disclaimer: sorry if this sometimes get confusing or my grammar is bad or too much commas, i'm not the best at explaining stuff like this but... im trying my best ok 🥲]
This is not really an extreme "traumatize them back" story but its still one.
So back when i was about 14-15 y/o i had to go to school with a bus because none of my parents could drive me home due to work, The Bus driver was like a middle-aged kinda strict lady that so many times arrives early to pick us up in the morning but late to pick us up from school, but now to the real story.
So i at that time took my time in the morning because i dont think so many people have that much energy at 6 in the morning, so many times i arrived late to the bus cause she would arrive when i was halfway through breakfast, so as expected she would kinda get annoyed about me arriving late and normally she would say something like:
"[Me]… c'mon, you're late again, i don't have that much time to wait for you all morning, hurry up next time or else i'll drive off".
I knew i had to hurry up but sometimes i really did not have energy and she arrived early af like she owed someone money, and naturally i got sick of the whole threat and she had enough of me arriving late, but as i said earlier: After second semester started, In the evening when school ended, we (the ppl who also were in the bus) had to stand there waiting for her to arrive and she would take wayyy longer then we arrived late, and sometimes the weather was crazy so we had to stand there in the rain waiting for her.
So one day i was having a bad morning and naturally i was late due to low energy again, she got annoyed and yelled at me... but i was so done that morning that from the back of the bus i yelled something like: "Oh! You get mad at me even tho when YOU arrive 30 minutes late when we are standing there in the cyclone like homeless people nobody tells you jackshit!".
Probably expected at this point but yes, she got mad... and i got in some trouble of course.
She talked to my mom in the evening when we arrived home but then i told her what happend in reality (because my mom just interrogated me because lady bus driver just told her to check up on me due to bad behaviour), but my mom only called the bus driver and just said something like "hey, i know you got annoyed by my son's attitude but please only talk to me when he's actually behaving bad, Not when he made you get an emotional crisis" and then hang up...
the bus driver never got annoyed at anyone being late again tho she still arrived late in the evening.