I Drove School Bus

Chapter Three
Communicating with Your Passengers (and their parents) continued
 As a bus driver, you sometimes find that the failure to communicate does not originate on your end of the conversation, or to be more...

BUS DWIVAH! Chapter Five  
Arbor Day  
For Bill Murray it was Groundhog Day, in the movie of the same name. For Bus Dwivah! it was Arbor Day.  
I never saw it coming, even though it develops that...

Essence of Kid (part two)
 
The introduction to this section of Bus Dwivah, subtitled Essence of Kid, is in Chapter Six. If you care about introductions, feel free to peruse it there.
 
 
Constance Marie, the kissing...

BUS DWIVAH
Chapter One: The First Solo Run...

The Coronation
 
            For nearly a week, I had been trying to recover from the depredations of a combination of pneumonia, strep throat and a sinus infection. I missed...

BUS DWIVAH! Chapter Eight
 
Bus Discipline
 
Yeah, I know. Bus Dwivah, too, would have preferred to just put the kids down and let ‘em graze. They’d be funnier that way. A school bus, however, is presumably...

BUS DWIVAH! Chapter Six
 
Essence of Kid (part one)
 
You can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs and you can’t drive an elementary school bus without hearing some of the most excruciatingly funny lines...

My Savage Darlings
 
                        I don’t know where spring began in your neck of the woods, but...

Monogamy
I once heard a comedienne say, “It’s easy for penguins to mate for life. After all, it’s not like they’re going to meet a better-looking penguin…” The same is true of geese. The average non...

I drove bus for about 2 years and then I decided to become a custodian for the same school district because I would get more hours. Sometimes I get called a bustodian, lol. I went back to it when I was laid off for a year from custodial...

Communicating with Your Passengers (and their parents)
If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then kids are from…another galaxy. They don’t speak or understand English, although they give every appearance of doing...