Kids can be brutally honest. As a school bus driver, I’ve been traversing the same route for over a month. This daily routine has allowed me to form a connection with the kids, getting to know them on a personal level. One of the children,…
“Was the sky blue?” asked a seven-year-old boy. He was curious and seeking an honest answer to a problem he had discovered. We had been talking about how different my childhood was from his. He was amazed to learn that I was once a child,…
One of the biggest perks of being a school bus driver is the time off. It is the most significant selling point for me to remain in this job – we love our vacations. Victoria Day weekend had come, and we decided to spend it…
Charlene and I will be celebrating a wedding anniversary this week, but I have almost begun to wonder if our marriage will survive that long. I am a school bus driver. My job is to get the kids back and forth from school safely and…
I am a spare bus driver. I fill in for other drivers who cannot do their run for whatever reason. It sometimes means I have no idea where I am going on any given day. In one week, I did seven different routes. This week…
I am a spare bus driver, so it can often be a rare event for me to have the same route for several days in a row. On this particular route, things started to get interesting. The most enjoyable times as a bus driver are…
