After driving school bus for 10 years I have shared many fun, sad and interesting stories with friends & family. Many have said that they should make a sitcom out of this topic, like they did with the show "TAXI" from years ago.
You see, no two days are a like. When you deal with parents, other bus drives, teachers, other drivers on the roads....then add 70 students to that!
This blog will cover all the different personalities that I experience every single day. right now it is summer break. People always wonder what school bus drivers do during the summers. The first day of summer break...we CELEBRATE!!!!! it is not that we don't love our jobs for the nine months that we do them during the school year. It is just that you alway look forward to the end...you know like the end of the book, movie or the bottom of chip bag & glass. We are what you call pro-rated...this is when they take the number of the school days and the amount that we get paid per day...then spread it over 12 months. So even if our yellow cheese wagons aren't running around town stopping traffic every 20 yards...we are enjoying our summers like school children!
For myself and a few of my co-worker, we joke about having another child instead there goes another year. since our years are only 9 months long and so is a pregnancy, we like to name every year. This year was the year of Chaos! We had one of our drivers get arrested this year, which really shook up our little family. and that is what we are.... family! We take care of each other when we get hurt, lose a loved one and down on our luck.
We have so many different personalities and age ranges...for instance, I am the second youngest driver in our fleet and I have been here for 10 years. I have seen people come, leave for other adventures and even pass away.
I have watched children, their siblings and parents grow over 10 the years I have been here. many of them don't recognize me outside of the big yellow cheese wagon but once they do I get a ton of hugs, hand shakes and thanks you's ......this is one of the reasons I love my job!
I hope you will enjoy my short blogs about this "Life as a school bus driver"!
