Saturday, July 10, 1999

Bus on a Rainy Interstate

I met up with Christensen (army goof from Papa John's) at Deno's gas station in Virgina (the one in Weyers Cave) and it was night time out. I told him that I needed him to follow me for some reason, and so we each got in our cars and he followed me down interstate towards Verona. I then wound up back in Weyers Cave, and I somehow knew that he had left his car along side of the road somewhere along interstate.

The next thing I knew was that I was at Fort Defiance High School, and I was leaving for the day, but I knew that there was a group of us that was going to need a bus that night, so I went through the office and found the 'bus clipboard' and took the set of keys that was on it. Then the next thing I knew was that Mike (manager from Papa John's) was driving the bus and we were heading down interstate in the same direction as Christensen and I had, and we even passed his car where he had left it.

I was sitting 3 or 4 seats back on the right side of the bus, and Rebecca (a girl from my school bus ride several years older than me) was in the seat across from me. We were talking about something (which I can't remember) and then I looked ahead of me at the road and I saw that it was raining. I then also realized that I was driving the bus, and that the people in front of me were blocking my view of the road.

I shouted something about the people in front of me needing to move their big heads, (especially this big bald guy 2 seats up) and so they did, but it was already too late, and the bus had started to pull off the road. I tried to correct it, and the bus spun around a couple of times and took out several of the orange cones that was on the side of the road. Finally the bus came to a rest facing the correct direction, and I asked to see if everyone was okay. Thankfully they all were and so Mike took over driving the bus again.

I then started to look around to see if the guy with the big bald head was okay since he had gotten in my way, but he was nowhere to be found. I looked in the back with everyone else, and he wasn't back there, either. I came to the conclusion that when the bus spun around, that he had either been thrown out, run over, or that he had just decided to leave at that point. Mike took us along interstate and we got off at several exits that led to other interstates, and finally we pulled off at some restaurant place that had a lot of people in line.

As we were pulling in, somehow the subject of my not signing out the bus came up, and he was kinda upset at me about it. I told him that I figured that everything would be okay. We all ended up getting off the bus and going and standing in this long line, and when I got into line, I realized that our entire group had butted in line ahead of this long line of elderly people, but no one had seemed to have noticed (from our group or the elderly group) We were waiting around under this wooden canopy that lead from one building to another, and there were several buildings around, but most of them were like big storage sheds. The main building was huge.

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