#1-09: I rode a bus, but can't remember anything memorable except dodging
giant tumbleweeds walking from the stop
and freezing waiting for the bus in winter. Thank goodness they let you wear
long pants under your dress until you got to school!
2-09: The bus
would not come all the way to our house. The dirt road from the highway was too
great a risk of sinking in mud or getting buried in snowdrifts. So our family of
eight children hiked half a mile each morning to the highway and stood in the
cold waiting for the bus. Phillips built a small shed for the children to stand
in to keep out of the wind. I remember clearly that it was hours before dawn,
that it snowed at least six days every week, and the wind blew 293 mph. In the
afternoons, the bus dropped us off at the same shed. The walk home was twice as
far and the journey was uphill both ways. I especially remember the 14 textbooks
carried each way and the baritone band instrument hauled home for nightly
practice. Graduation meant lots of different things to different people, but I
remember it as the end of the bus rides.
3-09: When I was in the first grade, I told my teacher Mrs. Lister that I was
going over to my dad's office after school. However I went out to the bus so
I could play. In the first grade if you rode the bus, then you had to stay
until the last period when everybody was dismissed from class. As you would
guess, Mrs. Lister came out and caught me hiding on the bus. Naturally I
received some penalty which I do not recall. That was the last time I was
able to leave early to go play outside.
1-10: 1980 - I remember one bus
trip...football....basketball or track....can't seem to remember....anyway we
were all quiet on the bus...Coach Dixon in the front seat ...looked out the
window turned around and calmly said to the couple of people behind him (BJP
being one of them since Coach Dixon liked to keep him close)...."Hey....look
at the Antelope".....Well....that is when Bobby Joe....whose mouth was and
still is of legendary status in regards to how much it got him into
trouble......Bobby stood up....turned around and in that voice that only Bobby
could do SHOUTED...."HEY EVERYBODY.....LOOK AT THE ANTELOPE!!!!"..... everyone
looked up....startled out of our travel mode....about the time to see Coach
Dixon's clip board bouncing off the back of Bobby Joe's head....."Dammit,
Bobby Joe......if I wanted the whole bus to know I would have told them
myself".....The bus immediately erupted in laughter....Poor Joe Joe.....I saw
the section on JIK........BJP could also have his own section.....I can not
count the number of times I witnessed him getting "racked".....amazing
