Who is in charge of this Bus?

Most of you know that I'm a bus driver. That being said I must vent.

It is conference week in my district which means elementary and middle school gets out of school 2 hours early all week. I do not have a regular route, I'm what they call a retainer driver, I drive for those regular drivers who are out. I drive everyday but different routes. So I'm doing a route Tuesday afternoon and in the area I'm in it is not customary for the parents to be out at the bus stop to retrieve their kids(yes that is right elementary kids getting off the bus with no adult in site, crazy right?) So I let this brother and sister off at their stop they are kindergarten and 2nd grade, I finish the rest of the neighborhood. On the way out I see them running up the street away from their house with their book bags still on, the rest of the kids on the bus are screaming oh their mom is not home (again). I stop the bus and ask them is your mom home? At first I was thinking maybe the mom forgot about the early release this week. They say no but we are suppose to go to the neighbors house when she is not here.(the neighbor eight houses up) I ask them if they have a note on file at the school that states this, so that I could call on the two-way radio to the school to confirm. No we do not have a note, I then ask does your normal bus driver let you do this? answer is no. I then say, get back on the bus,I will take you back to school. I'm not leaving you both here alone. I then finish the route, we are pulling into the school about 15 minutes later when out of nowhere here comes mom flying into the school and pulls in front of my bus and she is mad at me. It seems that I made the wrong decision in caring for the safety of her children and even though I'm not their regular driver, I should have listened to her 5 and 7 year old children and let them go where she told them if she was not at home on time. I apologized but then said to her, now put yourself in my shoes would you have left them? She said yes I would have listened to the children.

Well Thank God you are not a bus driver.

If I listen to children all day and did what they instructed, they would be driving the bus and stopping at every McDonald's we past and all getting off the bus at the cool kids house for the afternoon.

Sorry for the long post just needed to get that off my chest.

By the way, checked with regular driver today. This mom is always late and several times has been mad that children were left alone when the neighbor was not at home, which is where they are to go when she is late.

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As you can see to the left I have started reading Twilight.
I know I'm behind, but actually I bought it for my niece for Christmas so she could read it first to see if it was scary, because I'm a big chicken and do not like to read something scary. So,she read it,loved it, and approved it can now be read my her aunt who by the way is a sissy about scary stuff.

Amanda

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Brrrrrrrr

It is cold here in Georgia, and when then temperature gets to be 25 and under that means a cold start for the bus drivers. Yeah can't wait, that means you have to be on your bus 30 minutes earlier. So if you are up at 5:45 a.m. and you are wondering what Amanda's doing ? I'm on my bus to make sure it cranks and that it is warm for the lovely children.

By the way a cold start is in place until next Tuesday.

Which means I need to go to bed

Good Night

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Home Alone

Yes you read that right. I'm all alone, what to do with myself besides the 6 loads of laundry that need to be done. Cole went back to school today but Cobb does not go back till Tuesday, I took Carson to daycare when I went to move my bus back to my parking location. I know some may think that is bad that I took him back while I'm off today. But hey every day that school is out I keep Carson home from daycare and he has been home for 2 weeks and was up at 5 a.m. ready to go to school. I think he is tired of me and his brother. What will he do when my Mom retires and he does not go to Daycare at all next year????

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Happy 2009

Cole having a little sparkling apple cider at midnight

Carson doing the same can you believe he was still up

The Georgia Tech cake Mark and the boys decorated

The Bowl meal which was a lot better than the game

what you can't see is the spaghetti.

Just getting over Tech getting killed on New Year's Eve, did not enjoy that but here are a few pics from that night anyway.

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