If you rode a school bus, what did you do?

Gossip and flirt with boys.

Usually just sat there and talked with a friend or two. Other days, we learned all kind of new names for different body parts or "acts" that the older kids were talking about. Oh, and then there was the kid that used to turn his eyelids inside out and gross everyone out.

Homework

I rode the bus with kids from kindergarten all the way up to high school. As a younger kid, we were always trying to figure out what the high schoolers were doing or talking about. Like WHY would a balloon have a funny little tip on the end of it and why did the high schoolers think it was hilarious that we were batting it around?! Or the time we were stopped for an extensive amount of time because one of the high schoolers, threw the back seat out the window.

I didn't mind the bus too much until we moved when I was 15 1/2. The bus I had to ride then was SO full of kids and they were mean. I was NEVER so happy to get my license and be able to drive to school!!!

Read. I always had my nose in a book and, on more occasions than I care to remember, I missed getting off at my house (lived out in the country) and had to ask the driver to stop down the road and then walk back home. And then, of course, I heard about it the next morning when I got on the bus.

I just tried to be as invisible as possible so I wouldn't get picked on, lol. The kids on the buses weren't very nice. Lots and lots of cliques and 'mean girls' (and this was back in the 70s).

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Talked, read a book, sometimes did a little homework but not too often. It was a pretty boring 30 minute ride. Rode all the through high school. I found out a few years ago that one of my bus drivers had a crush on me! I was a senior at the time and he was about 23 or so. I never knew!

Uhhhhhhhh. I stared out the window, talking and singing to myself, and hoping none of the bullies would notice that I was there, because if they did, there was no telling what they might do to me. I really hated the bus.

Slept.

I read. Sometimes talked to friends, but mostly read.

We weren't on the bus that long to do much of anything other than talk

I only rode the bus from kindergarten through 2nd grade. We lived on a dirt road that the bus wasn't allowed to go on. All the kids who lived up the holler had to come to the end of the road (we called it the hard road because it was asphalt) and wait for the bus there. There were probably about 10 of us. The older boys always looked out for me, and if anyone on the bus tried to push me around, those boys would take care of it. I was like everyone's little sister, and they wouldn't tolerate anyone messing with me. This was back in the 70's.

I don't really remember having time to do anything since the bus ride was 10 minutes at most.

Tried not to get motion sick. Motion sickness, diesel fumes, and twisting curving mountain roads are a terrible combination. I was so happy when we finally moved somewhere close enough to walk to school.