My son is okay. Whether or not we can get him to get back on a school bus or not remains to be seen.
File this under "S" for Shit I don't need...
UPDATE: Talked with the boy. He's fine, if a little shaken up. Also talked to my neighbor, who is not only the mother of a girl in my son's class, but the wife of a firefighter (and hence privy to all the latest
Seems that the bus simply slid off the pavement and onto the soft (slushy) shoulder. It was, in my son's exact words, "a little tilted". This wouldn't have been so bad except that this wasn't their normal bus - that one broke down halfway home and they had ALREADY waited half an hour for the replacement bus.
So, basically, when the bus slid off the road, they were already 30+ minutes late, in an unfamiliar bus, with an unfamiliar bus driver.
And, worst of all, he left his gloves on one of the busses. He's not sure which...
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7 comments:
I hear ya, bro. Glad he's ok.
Happened to me four years ago. Well, my son was the one on the bus, but still.
I was home that day, sitting on the front porch, and was wondering why there were helicopters buzzing the area. Some lady stops her car and asks me "Why is so-and-so road closed off?"
I was outside specifically to shoot the bus driver a dirty look for running late, but my attitude changed when I heard that. So-and-so road was on the bus route.
Sure as hell, the bus was off in a ditch, laying sorta on it's side. Newbie driver.
Bottom line was, it was harder on me to let my kid get back on that bus than it was for him. didn't phase him at all.
He was just tickled that I dropped him off and picked him up for the rest of that week.
HOLY SHIT!
I'm glad all's well.
Geeez...
tweaker
uh-oh...but he IS okay, right? Phew! Poor little guy. Scary.
Heh, that happened to me... waaaayyyy back in the mists of time.
I was in 3rd grade and we lived in Maryland. There had been an ice storm the night before - but this was back in the day of "pull up your boot straps and get a move on!"
We got stuck on a hill bus slid to the slushy side and stuck. We had to wait quite a time for the new bus. This bus was totally full - 3 kids per seat and some standing (yeah we did that back then too - wonder how we survived!).
Not only that, but we never knew our bus drivers. I don't remember any of them at all. They drove the bus, we rode. If we got out of line - the bus driver told the principal of the school who took care of it.
I was totally pissed off that (unlike the bus monitors - 3 sixth grade boys) I didn't get to get off the bus and go sliding on the ice like they were doing while waiting for the replacement bus.
Eventually we got to school. I never thought too much about it. Never got scared. It was just an excellent way to miss part of the school day. heh.
this happens at least 1 time a year in our parts Jay. the worst was when jess' bus in 5th grade skidded off the road trying to go up a hill off center street on the boxford line. jess said it was so cool! but she was 10. and that stuff is either terrifying and life disrupting or SO COOOL!!!!!!
glad the wee one is alright. sucks for the bus drivers too. i'm sure he/she felt awful.
and we live on Salem street and they started sanding/salting 10 hours before the storm even started. i think they shot their wad (or 90% of it) on this first storm of the season. we'll hear them crying in February.
Thanks everyone. I did post an update to this post as well as a second one from today. In a nutshell, he shrugged it off and didn't look back.
I figure, statistically, that we're clear - neither Mrs. G. nor myself were ever involved in a school bus accident when we were in school, so the likelihood of either of our kids getting in two bus related accidents (in such a small town) is pretty freakin minor...
amusings_bnl,
Yeah, they've got to justify ANOTHER Prop 2½ override this year somehow...
(rolling eyes)
(ass puckers)
This is what I get for not surfing blogs for a whole week...
(bows to guardian angel)
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