The Wonderful Life of a School Bus Driver

YAY! I have a JOB! A paying JOB!

I have begun an illustrious new career as a school bus driver. And ALREADY I am very, very experienced.

In my first seven days of driving, I have experienced 2 bus breakdowns (after the first one they said that only happens rarely. My bus broke down again the next day), a kid throwing up on my bus (twice. In 20 minutes. Worst of all, it was my kid), and 2 accidents.

In the first accident, I scraped bumpers with another bus backing up in the bus yard. (My fault) In the second accident, I (heroically, I might add) avoided a collision with a car who was WAY over the center and collided with a basketball hoop, which was hanging out into the street.

No damage, no one was hurt, I was not cited. But did you know that anytime a bus touches ANYTHING, everybody gets called? The fire department, the police department, the school principal, the terminal manager, the district manager, the safety manager, the Dalai Llama....

It was not a good week.

BUT, at the end of it, there was a paycheck.

I can't wait to go back to teaching. I think I am going to up my "go back to teaching timeline by a year or two.