Post #33

Omg...even more craziness at school! lol. Well, let me just say, the people who run the bus system here are a bit...clueless I think is the word I'm looking for. First of all, we only have two sub drivers for the whole school system, and many of our regular drivers call in "sick" quite frequently. So, half the time we have about 5 drivers absent and we aren't able to get any sub drivers since they've already taken jobs at other schools. So, lots of buses end up having to double up and take another group of kids home. Luckily, there are hardly any people who ride my bus, so whenever we have to double up it's still not very crowded. However, last year at my middle school my bus unfortunately was not very small, and I have some not-so-fond memories of being packed like a sardine on some bus with about 80 people on it. One time a kid even had to sit in the aisle because all of the seats were taken (not to mention we had 3 people to every seat). Ugh. I just felt like getting that off my chest. Stupid bus people. lol. But anyway, back to what happened today. Well, my regular bus driver is actually pretty committed to her job and doesn't not show up just for the heck of it. But, now she has to get major surgery and is going to be gone for 3 weeks! It'll almost be the end of school by the time she comes back. But anyway, they organized it so that one bus will pick us up every morning, and then a different one will take us home in the afternoon. Well, unfortunately, this morning was the first day that my driver was gone and the other bus was supposed to pick us up, and apparently the driver of that bus, Mr. Trotti, forgot that he was supposed to come get us, and this became very apparent when I was still standing at the bus stop at 8:00 (school starts at 8:15). But finally, at about 8:05 or so, this other bus pulled into my neighborhood and got me. The lady driving (who happens to be Mr. Trotti's wife- she's a sub driver) said that he forgot to come get us. By that time, everyone on my bus had given up and gotten a ride to school except for me and one guy. So it was just the two of us, and when we finally got to school, Mr. Wilson (the assistant principal) was giving Mr. Trotti quite a lecture. We were really late, but luckily Mr. Wilson gave us late bus passes. So it was 8:30 at this point. I went down to health, which is my first class, only to find that my class wasn't there. I figured they must have either gone to the library or the AV room. I went up to the office to double check, and they said that the health classes were in the AV room (we go there once a week to listen to a presentation by the police officer). So, I ended up being even later! I finally did get down to the AV room, and that was quite embarrassing having to walk in there in front of about 50 or 60 people (both health classes meet in there). I quickly found my friend Shaun and sat down. We couldn't say anything since the officer was talking, but I held up my late bus pass and we both just rolled our eyes. We both have been victims of the idiotic bus system before. Well, actually everyone probably has. lol. But, hopefully Mr. Trotti has everything figured out now and will come to pick us up tomorrow!