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This is a cryptic story!
A family on the way to visit the grandparents' house took a ride on a bus.
Just as the bus was driving around the foot of a mountain, the child started throwing a tantrum, saying, "Mummy, I'm hungry."
So even though they still had a long way to go, they got off at the next bus stop and went into a restaurant nearby.
They had just finished their meal when they saw a breaking news on TV that said that the bus they had just gotten off got crushed by a rock slide and every passenger on it was thought to be dead.
As soon as the wife saw the news, she uttered, "we should never have gotten off the bus..."
Hearing this the husband at first got angry, but soon he said, "oh, I see," realizing what she meant.
This is a cryptic story!
A family on the way to visit the grandparents' house took a ride on a bus.
Just as the bus was driving around the foot of a mountain, the child started throwing a tantrum, saying, "Mummy, I'm hungry."
So even though they still had a long way to go, they got off at the next bus stop and went into a restaurant nearby.
They had just finished their meal when they saw a breaking news on TV that said that the bus they had just gotten off got crushed by a rock slide and every passenger on it was thought to be dead.
As soon as the wife saw the news, she uttered, "we should never have gotten off the bus..."
Hearing this the husband at first got angry, but soon he said, "oh, I see," realizing what she meant.
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the husband realize, the bus will safe from the rock slide if they don't got off from the bus.
i don't think it's because they wanted to die right..?
hmm.
I think it was because they decided to get off the bus, the bus stopped and was hit by the rock slide.
Just a theory though
This one stumped me. I had to cheat (read the comments first) to figure out the answer. And I think Rezz Meteora and Caroline Cain got it right.
However, I do think that the probability that the family ended up dead with the other passengers was high if they didn't get off the bus.
But yeah, I finally realized what they meant. Lol.
...But, I think they shouldn't have said that. Who knows if the bus also stopped in that bus stop if they didn't get off of the bus? There might be people wanting to hop in to the bus on that bus stop, too.
Probably, possibly, maybe, likely, or definitely.
I can not be certain that them getting off the bus at the bus stop would have averted a disaster however. After all, buses stop at bus stops whether someone gets off or not and it's hard to believe that the time it would take them to get off would be enough for the bus to avoid the disaster.
I believe what the mother had said it partially out of shock and the father most likely got angry due to assuming she had meant they should have died originally, then he realizes that she meant something else. This makes me believe that suicide is not the intent.
I'm going to propose a theory base on one thing. How could there have been news coverage of such a thing in the time it took them to finish a meal? Even with breaking news it seems quick.
Also I'm not sure of this, but how many restaurants would establish themselves next to a mountain? I feel they would build by the mountain rather than up against it or in the middle of a path around it.
Did they really avoid the disaster by getting off of the bus?
I believe they in fact died in the rock slide and when they got off the bus it was heading somewhere entirely different than the grandparents home. Somewhere that they needed to stay on the bus to reach.
just simply our conclusion....
So the mom thought better died than ashaming themselves for the family cannot simply pay the restaurant bills.
And for the Japanese peoples shame is more dreadful than death.
Only the parents got off to eat, kid was throwing a tantrum so they ditched it, kid got crushed in rock side.
This is my first time read ur story, and its confused me, i dont know its a riddle, after read about all the coment.
Lemme continue read ur another story. XD
It did bug me quite a lot, because judging from the situation, they were travelling across a rural area of sorts, and I don't think that a rock slide would be noticed and reported that quickly.
I guess that they just ditched their ride for Higan. What the husband may have realized later, is that their own corpses/belongings were being screened on the accident site.
1. BAD HUBBY) The father got angry because he was hoping to kill his wife and child by creating a landslide. He probably wanted to get the insurance money from them but after his wife called, his plan failed.
2. GOOD HUBBY) The bus could've avoided the danger if the mother and the child didn't get off the bus. The husband is angry because he was worried. When humans get paranoid, our emotions get muddled up - angry, nervous, jittery etc.
Some of my friends believe if a baby or child can know and/or see mystics thing, so their child throw a tantrum so they are safe right now.
I'm sorry if this is such a random comments. And then, I'm sorry if my english is a big fail.
But I just want to say thank you everyone for your comments.
I REALLY enjoy reading those different theories you put forward.
theory 1- the child has the ability to know of the future. when the child saw the outcome , I'm assuming that since the child did not want the parents to die, the child made an excuse that he/she was hungry and faked a tantrum to force the parents to make a stop at the closest restaurant. so in the end, while the parents believed that it was their fault the people on the bus died, their child actually saved them from an accident that was going to take place either way.
theory 2: the parents thought that since the kid was so hungry and they didn't want the kid to make a scene, the parents probably let him/her on the bus with a promise that they'll bring him/her lunch. however, when the parents saw that the bus had crashed in a rockslide, the mom felt guilty that she had just let her child get killed and she wasn't there to protect her only child. now she has two things to worry about: how to explain to the grandparents that the child is dead and live with the guilt and sadness of losing her child.
aaaannnnndddd thats all! maybe I'm overthinking it, but thats what i think.
This is the 6th time I've read your story and I came up with this theory.
The family is some kind of monsters, and when the child said it's hungry, the parents hopped off the bus to go to the restaurant nearby to "eat". Yes, I'm pretty sure that they ate the people in the restaurant, and that requires a long period of time since you have to kill the victims and y'know, that's why they were able to receive the news, which didn't get reported immediate and surely took a long time to be on the news, as some of you had said above.
What the husband realised was : If they haven't gotten off the bus, there would be much more meals for the family
Ive watched, which, incidentally, were usually set in the mountains.