They're all short busses now

I remember getting up and having to walk a quarter mile to the bus stop. Then bitching and complaining the whole ride that we stopped every 5 seconds to let a car go by. Then I had to repeat the same trip in reverse on the way home, diving out of the bus when it got close to my stop. Today however I was fortunate enough to follow a bus home. Wow things have changed since I was in school. I guess the new procedure is to stop at every single house on the route whether or not there is a kid to get off there. The twenty of us used to pile out at the community stop and then had to hoof it the rest of the way home. Rain, snow, locusts, and hurricane, we walked. We also had about 3 seconds to get off the bus before the doors slammed shut. Now the bus stops, the kids get off, and the bus sits there until the kid gets inside, takes off his coat and sits down for a snack. Or mommy picks the kid up in her Lexus and must have a little five minute chat with the driver before it can move the thirty feet to the next stop. I remember bolting off that bus as it was the most exciting thing I'd been looking forward to all day. Now the kids stop and wait for the driver to motion them across the street like Vanna showing them the puzzle. Also, the minimum cars that must be traveling behind the bus for it to pull over is evidently around 1000. I must have been the 15th car in line today and I couldn't see how many were behind me it was so long. So I guess this might be some kind of contributing factor into the fat kids of America club. Lets treat them all like the short bus kids. And if you don't know what the short bus is, that's probably because you were riding on it.