OLD bus!
NOT a good start to the week.
I am always getting to the bus barn just in time to do what I need to do and get rolling. The time gets tighter the closer it gets to SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER… lol, just 10 ½ days now.
OK, so I am using a spare bus, my parking brake cable broke last week in bus # 90, my bus… and since bus 92 ( the spare) has just the one key, I always leave it at the barn on the key board. Always. I get there this morning, no key. WTF? I KNOW I hung it up on Friday. I know I did. Sometimes bus keys of the same year will work… I tried every key close to the same year and model. Nope. I called the base and told them there is no key for my bus. I took another bus (#95) that doesn’t have High school kids.
All through this route I am thinking back. I know I hung that key up. I really, really know I did! I get the route done on time but beating feet. I have to return this bus to the driver of route 95. Before I get there I recall being parked back much farther in that parking slot. I never park close to the front because I want to leave room for the big buses to swing in. We back into our slots.
Fine… I give the bus back to the other driver and walk over to my bus. The top part of the tires are wet. That means this bus was indeed MOVED this morning. The driver of another Special Needs bus like mine is walking towards me. I ask him, “Did you move this bus?” His was parked behind me on Friday. He leaves later than most of the larger buses so he can get around me. Usually. He says, “Yes.” “Where is the key?” “I just hung it back up.”
Ohmygod. This dipshit TOOK the key with him after he moved it. See? I KNEW I hung it up on Friday!!! I said to him, “That is the only key for 92 here, did you know that?” “Oh.. I thought you had one.” Oh wait, this is 92... Your bus is 90. Oh dear.” OH DEAR????? I grabbed his sleeve and said, “Leave the key IN the bus if you ever feel the need to move my bus again. ANY BUS I AM DRIVING… OK?” Then walked to get the key because I was going to be late if I didn’t get going . I don’t have a layover between high school and Elem. Not enough time. Lucky for me 2 students didn’t need to be picked up.
So it all worked. Stupid driver. People trust their children’s lives to that dumbass.
I am always getting to the bus barn just in time to do what I need to do and get rolling. The time gets tighter the closer it gets to SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER… lol, just 10 ½ days now.
OK, so I am using a spare bus, my parking brake cable broke last week in bus # 90, my bus… and since bus 92 ( the spare) has just the one key, I always leave it at the barn on the key board. Always. I get there this morning, no key. WTF? I KNOW I hung it up on Friday. I know I did. Sometimes bus keys of the same year will work… I tried every key close to the same year and model. Nope. I called the base and told them there is no key for my bus. I took another bus (#95) that doesn’t have High school kids.
All through this route I am thinking back. I know I hung that key up. I really, really know I did! I get the route done on time but beating feet. I have to return this bus to the driver of route 95. Before I get there I recall being parked back much farther in that parking slot. I never park close to the front because I want to leave room for the big buses to swing in. We back into our slots.
Fine… I give the bus back to the other driver and walk over to my bus. The top part of the tires are wet. That means this bus was indeed MOVED this morning. The driver of another Special Needs bus like mine is walking towards me. I ask him, “Did you move this bus?” His was parked behind me on Friday. He leaves later than most of the larger buses so he can get around me. Usually. He says, “Yes.” “Where is the key?” “I just hung it back up.”
Ohmygod. This dipshit TOOK the key with him after he moved it. See? I KNEW I hung it up on Friday!!! I said to him, “That is the only key for 92 here, did you know that?” “Oh.. I thought you had one.” Oh wait, this is 92... Your bus is 90. Oh dear.” OH DEAR????? I grabbed his sleeve and said, “Leave the key IN the bus if you ever feel the need to move my bus again. ANY BUS I AM DRIVING… OK?” Then walked to get the key because I was going to be late if I didn’t get going . I don’t have a layover between high school and Elem. Not enough time. Lucky for me 2 students didn’t need to be picked up.
So it all worked. Stupid driver. People trust their children’s lives to that dumbass.