Maybe you, like me, have heard of children who ride the bus to school. Maybe you, like me, have wondered about how the whole system works. How do kids know when and where to wait for the bus, do they walk to the appointed place alone or with a parent, who gets them on the bus when they leave school, what do you do if the bus doesn’t come…

My best guess would be that the school would contact the bus company who would give you an expected time and place for you to wait for the bus. And then you would go and wait for the bus. However, that bus might not come. In which case you would be standing outside for a long time – in the RAIN – wondering if you are at the wrong place or if you are too early or too late.  And then you would eventually walk home, dragging your devastated 6 year old home and calling a friend to drive her to school because your moving truck is coming today and you need to be there to meet it driving her yourself.

And I bet that after school you might get a phone call from the school principal who is “just checking” to make sure you realize that your offspring is coming home on the bus even though it is the agreed upon start date for bus service. I would also wager a guess that the bus would be approximately 15 minutes late in delivering your deliriously happy daughter into your waiting arms.

Not that it happened to me. I’m just guessing.