The Green Pill on The School Bus

November 6th, 2009 at 12:26 pm . Posted in General .

I wish I had a cool school bus driver like my Dad back in the old days.

This morning when I left for work it was almost 7:08AM and I knew that meant my Dad was going to be coming any minute down the street in his school bus. Every time I see him and recognize his bus number it’s too late to wave at him.

This morning I saw a bus coming down the street. I rolled down my window and hysterically waved then realized it wasn’t #82. A second bus comes down as I’m going up the street and I’m determined that this is my dad’s bus so I wave again out the window and it’s NOT #82!! At this point, I’m feeling really stupid and like somebody who gets really excited over school buses. Jeez! 

So then I see another bus coming and I’m thinking, “OK..this has to be him seriously!” and wave again. And it wasn’t him. . . Now I’m gonna be the crazy woman that all the school bus drivers are going to be talking about at the bus yard! It’s okay with me if my Dad wants to pretend he doesn’t know who this crazy woman is. I don’t blame him.

Remember all those drills we had on the bus? How to exit the bus calmly and ask the bus driver all the silly questions we had. My dad’s friend, who is also a bus driver, had the best answers to some of the questions.

Kid: “What happens if the bus rolls over and starts on fire?”
Bus Driver: “Well, the first most important thing you need to do is get the bus driver out of the bus!!”

Kid: “What happens if a nuclear bomb hits us?!”
Bus Driver: “Then I want you to all look under your seat and there will be a green pill. Take it!”

I admire the bus drivers & teachers for having to come up with the best answers to these cute kids’ questions!

Got any fun or interesting bus stories to share?

There are 6 comments to this post.
Kathleen said... Nov 6, 2009 @ 3:37 pm

My husband witnessed a kid he knew throw a Master lock out of a bus window toward a different bus driving by. It went out his window, through the tiny slot of the other bus’ driver window, and hit the bus driver in the head. First of all, what an amazing throw. Second of all, that kid got in some serious trouble!

steph anne said... Nov 6, 2009 @ 3:44 pm

Wow, I agree what an amazing throw! I hope the bus driver is okay though?

My dad just told me that a kid got in trouble on another bus & the bus driver reported him. Apparently the kid was so angry at the bus driver and made up a story about the driver texting while driving. He convinced his parents real good that they called the news and turned it into a big mess!

Alycia said... Nov 6, 2009 @ 10:46 pm

Not really! I hated my school bus – evil driver, evil school teacher in charge of buses, lots of suspensions !

What I want to know though is, where was your dad this morning? Why didn’t he drive down your street?!

steph anne said... Nov 6, 2009 @ 10:53 pm

I hated my school bus too, but I think if I had a cool bus driver then I wouldn’t be scarred for life like this, haha.

He did go down my street – just probably came earlier or was running late. Usually he’s on the clock. There’s always next week and I’m seriously keeping my arm inside this time.

J said... Nov 7, 2009 @ 10:43 pm

I really don’t because all of my bus drivers were douchebags. One time though, we got to have a water fight on the bus on the last day of school and our bus driver took us for ice cream. That was pretty awesome.

Otherwise, sucktastic. I did meet one of my friends on the bus. She’s moved away now but we still keep in touch!

E.P. said... Nov 10, 2009 @ 3:32 pm

I love that bus driver’s answers! I love when people answer questions like that with ridiculous things. Love it.

I rode the bus when I was a kid, but unfortunately, I don’t have any good stories other than getting really, really sick because I got bad motion sickness as a kid. … Yeah…

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