Missed the Bus/Playing With

Basic Trope: The character misses the bus.

• Straight: Bob misses his bus to school.
• Exaggerated: Bob desperately runs for the bus, but misses it anyways.
• Justified: Bob slept in.
• Inverted: Bob waits for the bus, but gets tired of it and leaves the stop. Cue the bus coming.
• Subverted: Bob runs for the bus, sees it starting to move, but then driver Charly notices bob and stops to let him in.
• Double Subverted: Charly's just mocking Bob and slams the door into his face.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Parodied: ???
• Deconstructed: ???
• Reconstructed: ???
• Averted: The bus doesn't come at all.
• Enforced: "I need a reason for bob to be late. Hey, what about him missing the bus?"
• Lampshaded: "I'll miss the bus. For sure."
• Invoked: Bob doesn't want to go to school and walks deliberately slow, so he'll miss the bus.
• Defied: Bob gets up extra early so that he doesn't miss the bus.
• Discussed: "Why does Bob always miss his bus?" "No idea. Meanwhile he should the time it arrives."
• Conversed: ???

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