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Post by kellybelly77 on Apr 7, 2016 14:07:21 GMT
So at dinner my 11yo was telling me a story that happened on the bus. Apparently her friend's 8 year old brother made a bet with some other kid on the bus that he could touch the dangly thing in the back of his throat. DD said everyone told him not to do it but he really wanted the $1! So he tried. And promptly threw up his breakfast all over the bus seat and floor.
DD said kids started screaming, pulling their shirts up over their faces, pulling their backpacks up off the floor, jumping out of seats, just general chaos! The bus driver pulled over into a parking lot and tried his best to clean it up with the paper towels he had on board but I guess some slid under the seats and touched the shoe or belonging of the girl in front of him and she started freaking out.
Anyway, the driver couldn't get it all and they were going to be late for school so he just laid some paper towels over the rest and finished the drive to school.
I have 3 kids and I have cleaned up a lot of puke, but I don't know if I could handle some random boys breakfast puke, and then have to ride with it to drop the kids off at school and then ride with it all the way back to the bus barn. Eww! And I just read an article on our schools facebook page about the shortage of bus drivers in our district! It makes me thankful for my mostly uneventful desk job! |
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Post by johnnysmom on Apr 7, 2016 14:13:16 GMT
When I read your title I was totally thinking I couldn't be a bus driver because of puke! I've cleaned up my fair share of puke between my kids and when I worked at a daycare many moons ago. But bus puke is a whole 'nother level of grossness. Though I'm surprised the bus driver doesn't have that absorb-sprinkle-stuff on board.
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Post by freebird on Apr 7, 2016 14:15:17 GMT
LOL!
Sidebar: I can touch the dangly bit in the back of my throat without barfing. My gag reflex isn't very strong.
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Post by kellybelly77 on Apr 7, 2016 14:17:11 GMT
When I read your title I was totally thinking I couldn't be a bus driver because of puke! I've cleaned up my fair share of puke between my kids and when I worked at a daycare many moons ago. But bus puke is a whole 'nother level of grossness. Though I'm surprised the bus driver doesn't have that absorb-sprinkle-stuff on board. That's what I asked, if they had any of that absorbent stuff. She said she didn't know but that he was using a roll of paper towels to clean it up. I bet they get some now!! This is not even the first puking on a bus story I have heard from my girls over the last couple years!
And about 3 years ago, during a Christmas choir concert at the school one of the kids puked on the stage. Talk about mass pandemonium of the 100+ kids who were up there with him!
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Post by auntkelly on Apr 7, 2016 14:20:32 GMT
That poor bus driver. I hope the parents of the kid that threw up give him a nice end of the school year present.
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Post by johnnysmom on Apr 7, 2016 14:20:32 GMT
And about 3 years ago, during a Christmas choir concert at the school one of the kids puked on the stage. Talk about mass pandemonium of the 100+ kids who were up there with him! Ah, yes, the child-size equivalent to yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater  |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 7, 2016 14:25:14 GMT
I wouldn't want to be the bus driver of the littler ones who sometimes pee their pants on the bus ride home because they didn't go at school. Our neighbor's kid did that a few times!
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Post by Drew on Apr 7, 2016 14:27:57 GMT
LOL! Sidebar: I can touch the dangly bit in the back of my throat without barfing. My gag reflex isn't very strong. Lucky Mr. Freebird. |
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Post by Linda on Apr 7, 2016 14:28:15 GMT
my youngest had school anxiety a couple of years ago which manifested itself as random puking - we ran out of parent-excused absences and the school nurse told us that we should just send her to school and if she got sick, then she would be sent home and it wouldn't count against us as truant (side note- I really really really hate our truancy policies - we've lived here 8 years and one or more of my kids have been 'truant' every year)
So she puked on the bus and in the classroom and in the nurse's office fairly often all year. I really felt badly for the bus driver and the custodian but my choices were limited - I could send her to school (and she was always fine once she puked); I could pay $85 (and have DH miss work) to have the doctor write an excuse note every single time she puked; or I could plead my case in truancy court with the risk of fines or jail time.
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Post by kellybelly77 on Apr 7, 2016 14:37:44 GMT
LOL! Sidebar: I can touch the dangly bit in the back of my throat without barfing. My gag reflex isn't very strong. Lucky Mr. Freebird. Freebird could have won a $1 on the bus the other day!! |
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Post by freebird on Apr 7, 2016 15:04:08 GMT
LOL! Sidebar: I can touch the dangly bit in the back of my throat without barfing. My gag reflex isn't very strong. Lucky Mr. Freebird. *eyebrow wag* |
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