When you were a kid what was your school bus driver like?

Our bus driver was on the side of the bullys on the bus. Whatever the bullys wanted to do to someone, the driver would do and laugh about it. She drove like a maniac and wiped out at least a dozen stop signs in the 9 years i had her.

Heavy lead foot. If we got up and moved around when he was driving. He would slam down on the breaks just to see us fly. If they did this today they would take their CDL's away. If our school tax was high back then. If was only for buying new tires & breaks for those buses....LOL

My best friend and I were endearingly close to her!

Well his name was Curly, and he was in his 70's, he was very nice, and let us do pretty much anything, he also believed in, if you do something that you think was wrong, then you have to fill out your own citation slip. which then he would have a copy and you have a copy to give to your parents... Like any kid ever did that.... I really had a cool bus driver, and he never once yelled at us... But when he finally retired at age 82, the next bus driver I got along with, because he was one of my cousins... He didn't have much nerve for the kids though.. (I still don't understand why the school let Curly be a bus driver at that age)

he made otto look like a saint - we called him "Chester the molester" as he had already been arested several time. At that time the union ran the place, not the pta

Luckily I never had to ride the bus :)

Friendly but very strict. He didn't tolerate cutting up or getting out of your seat when the bus was moving. The school had rules we all knew and he enforced them. He was also a preacher and we respected him.

My school was close enough to walk to, I never had to get a bus.

I don't take the bus to school. It got cut by the district due to the economy.

About two twitches from a nervous breakdown. Angry and hostile.

Never rode a school bus, except to away games.

I once was bullied by a very older boy (I was about 8, he was 14 or 15...and I'm a girl)...
While riding the bus, a group of kids took his hat, and was passing it around. It landed on my lap, so I attempted to toss it back. At that moment, the bus wen't around a curve, and the hat went out the window. The bus driver refused to stop, so the boy got out of his seat, walked up to me, and spit in my face. The bus driver did NOTHING.
At school the next day my mom & stepdad took me to school, and spoke to the principal, but I was forever bullied by him. In an effort to make amends, I gave him the money to cover the hat, but to no avail.

That said, I did have one nice driver...
I lived on one side of a very busy street. My bus would pass by my house every day, but my stop was on the other side of the street, thus I'd have to ride another 45 minutes to make it all the way back around to be dropped off on that side.
My driver used to drop me off on the other side of the street, so I could be home way earlier...

Finally, jump to now... my older son rides the bus daily. Last year, the driver was in 5 count them FIVE car accidents (2 were hitting parked cars!!!) how they ever let them drive after the first one, I don't know...

:) Happy Halloween!!

He looked like Fat Freddy out of the old Fabulous Furry Freak Brother comics. Classic.

i went through 4 bus drivers because the people on it were evil. the last guy didnt put up with and whenever someone like threw paper at him he would stop the bus until someone fessed up to it.

bus drivers were the seniors, they were much more laid back than the old timey grumps these days!

I never went to school on a bus :)

Mr. King. He was a retired butcher. His son ran the business and he drove a school bus in his part time. it was the last bus to arrive at the high school. about six of us were in the parking lot every morning for a couple of years. even in the winter. it was an old bus, and we would wait for Mr. King to show up and start the engine and get the heater going. He was always happy and friendly. He would tell us stories about his grand kids.

we had an older short woman who could never get the cluch pedel down quite far enough. her head didn't make it over the top of the stearing wheel too. whenshe came down the road the only way anyone would know that someone was driving the bus was the grinding gears. lol thanks for the giggle i haven't thought about her in 25 years!

I had a car since the first grade!

her name was Mrs. C! She was a very heavy set lady with a frog tattoo on her neck! She was really nice and a bitch at the same time! If she got up from her seat you knew you were in trouble!

stoned

When I was very young, I don't really remember them so I think they must have been nice as I don't remember anyone being mean or grumpy. IN high school, Dick was great! He would let some kids off at the beach if the surf was good but often the kids took advantage of how nice he was. It was a loooong drive home and they would really get on his nerves. Why is it the 'big' almost adult kids that act the most like little kids? lol!

I walked to school

mean. he yelled at the kids on the bus to find a seat and sit down! even if the kid was still looking for a seat. we had a long route and by the time we were all picked up there were 4 kids crammed in each seat.

he made me look forward to getting to school!

She was evil... she hit a guard rail once and blamed it on us kids!!! lol thats too funny!!!

Mrs. Mollins

She was sweet but knew how to yell.

we didn't have a bus driver..we had to walk...it was about 2 miles

I had a very nice bus driver. I was teased on the bus every day and she always stood up for me. When she retired I purposely missed the bus every day because none of the other drivers seemed to care if someone was getting pelted with spitballs.

I was lucky to live about 8 blocks from school, so I never rode the bus.