“The Right Stuff”

If by chance you have been thinking about trying your hand at the adventure that we call bus driving, here is a short quiz.

1.       The most requested item from the bus driver in the morning is a pencil. These pencils are used for:

a.       To write a letter to their teacher thanking them for the time and knowledge they have received.

b.      To write a letter to their bus driver thanking him for not running off and leaving them though they have been late to the bus four of the last five days.

c.       To finish the homework that they told their parents that they didn’t have. Having finished homework will choose to write on the seat or poke the student next to them.

2.       Bus driver would prefer to be paid:

a.       Salary

b.      By the mile

c.       By the number of times they say, “Turn around and set down”.

3.       The chance that the student that is the biggest discipline problem will not ride:

a.       Good, because the parent is working with them on the proper behavior that should be demonstrated on the school bus.

b.      Fair, because the parent has decided to drive their child to school spending some quality time building that ever so important parent child bond.

c.       The same chance you will have that someone will volunteer to help you clean the bus after someone has thrown up.

4.       The parent most likely to call the school to complain:

a.       The parent that stands and watches her children board the bus each morning and waves.

b.      The parent that gave you a nice Christmas card.

c.       The parent that has come out to the bus a number of times in a ratty old house coat that you wish they would pull closed and you on many occasions have come by their house more than once to see if they have finally come out and have gone by their house more than one time in the afternoon trying to drop their children off because no one is home.

5.       A task besides driving that a bus driver may be called on to preform:

a.       Fashion police informing students to, zip up, pull up, and button up.

b.      Counsel, intervene in arguments, wipe tears and noses, tie bows and shoes, replace hair barrettes, find lost items and help with homework.

c.       All the above and somethings you haven’t even thought of.

If you were able to pass this test then you are too smart to be a bus driver. If you failed you are either not that bright or very gullible and in that case do we have an exciting carrier for you.