“Ah, I missed you, ” sincerely said a boy who saw me. “Can you believe I am in grade two now?”
I am a school bus driver. The vast majority of the time I spend driving is for high school students, but I also have a small section of elementary kids whom I bring to school each day.
The boy sat down behind me. He did this so he could talk to me as we headed to school. He chatted away about things a seven-year-old is concerned about and then remembered stickers.
At the end of the school year, I gave out stickers to the whole bus. I got these stickers for free from Facebook, and I finally had a reason to hand them out. This seven-year-old boy was remembering how much he liked these stickers and started chanting, “Stickers! Stickers! Stickers!”
I reminded him that I was out of stickers and there were no more to give. I first told him that I was all out of stickers at the end of the year, only a couple of months ago. He is the kid who told me to get a lemonade stand so I could buy him more stickers. I also said that stickers are expensive.
“Well, get a job,” was the response the boy had.
Another boy, who found himself listening in, added, “He has a job and he is doing it right now.” Smart kid.
Unsatisfied with this reply, the boy then told me to get fired and get a different job so I can buy stickers.
I had to laugh.
Kids can be funny, which is why I love driving a bus.
