Ajimbo wrote :

I've never been on a public school bus.  The buses from my school had plush seats and a restroom in the back.
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And now you spend your days digging pits and battling gila monsters

Well, I'm certainly not going to let the guy who mows my lawn do it.  That guy butchered my roses!

I hated riding the school bus.  I rode it all the way through my Elementary school days.  I did have one great school bus driver from 2nd grade up to 4th grade name Bruce.  Then my morning bus driver 5th grade she was cool.  Kindergarten was fun on the bus since was in the afternoon class I got to ride in the little yellow bus to school  Our bus driver if we got to school early would let us play side and seek till they needed us in the school building.  Other then that, it sucked most of the time because of some of the kids who were on the bus always liked to pick on me.

Riding the bus was usually pretty boring for me although I still remember back in 7th grade hearing about how some kid stole one of those little burners from science class and accidentally set fire to one of the seats. I was absent that day though so I didn't get to see it. I don't remember what kind of punishment he got for it but after that they gave everybody assigned seats. I stopped riding the bus around 8th grade. From then on our mother drove me and my bro, after school me and my bro usually walked home.