Hopping on and off the bus everyday, always provided for the best stories, to tell your parents later. These people have some of the strangest, funniest, and scariest memories from their bus rides, to and from school.
There’s A Dog!
“Once while picking up a kid, a dog got on the bus and everyone went nuts and started petting it. The driver eventually shooed it away.”
Cheers!
“In middle school, I had a silver winter jacket that I was very proud of, because it was beautiful and shiny. I had put my jacket on my seat, and then out of nowhere, the kid who sits next to me starts stabbing my jacket, with a red pen. So… I decide I’m going to punch him. He runs to the back of the bus, I beat him up, and the glorious bus driver cheered me on!”
Nickelodeon?
“One day on the ride home in like 3rd grade there was this kid Nick, that lived in my neighborhood. Well he caused a ruckus land the bus driver turned around and pulled back into school. The bus driver yelled and said: ‘Alright Mr. Wiseguy, what’s your name’? Nick responded: ‘Nick’. The bus driver asked: ‘What’s your last name Nick’? Then Nick said: ‘Elodeon’. Everybody laughed… but the bus driver didn’t catch on. The principal came onto the bus and the bus driver said: ‘We have had a lot of fooling around on the bus and it was all started by Nick Elodeon’. We all cried laughing and our principal just shook her head and took Nick off the bus.”
Happy Valentine’s Day?
“Valentine’s day many years ago, grade 7 me does the typical loner routine; Get up, go to school, wait to go home and game. The time finally comes to go home. Well I used to get off like 6 stops early on my bus and cross the road; I saved 30 minutes of riding by walking 5 minutes. This involved crossing the street. Which that day, I decided to go in front of the bus that was parked. Hood up, I didn’t see the car traveling towards me, so I had that going for me. I actually ended up on the hood, then on the ground. Surprisingly, I didn’t get too hurt, but I was a bit sore and very shaken up. So then my mom had to pick me up. Upon arriving, she laughed at me for getting hit by a car. After all that drama, I went home, chilled, and played Halo 2; such was life…”
Bye Phil!
“On the last day before winter break, somebody throws a thing of paper, crumbled into a ball. Then that sparks a new person to throw another and another and another. Within 3 minutes, you could barely see the front of the bus. Literally… EVERYBODY is throwing paper balls and laughing; girls, boys, nerds, band kids, good kids, bad kids, all seniors through freshman. Hilarious and crazy. Phil, the bus driver, rolled down the window and spit a gobstopper at a car. That car proceeded to: cut the bus off in traffic, stop the bus, come on the bus and almost physically attack Phil. Cops came for that one and actually took Phil…”
Fade Away
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“I was in 5th grade. We all boarded the bus after school. The bus starts driving and we were all rowdy. Bus driver screams ‘Shut the F–k up’ several times. He starts yelling louder. We ignore him. Suddenly he slams on brakes. We FLY all around in the bus. He parks it right there, in the lane. He opens the door and walks away. We just watched him fade into the distance. Eventually parents started showing up and we all got rides home. I will never forget that bus ride.”
Book Bag Art?
“When some goth kids wrote ‘Pig B—h’ on the back of my book bag. I walked around middle school that entire day, without knowing. What they didn’t realize is I couldn’t afford a new book bag. So I had to have someone draw a puppy over it…”
Silent Leroy
“In high school we named our bus driver, Leroy. (Before Leroy Jenkins). This ride or die mother f—er would NOT SPEAK. He pulled up in his bus, opened the swing arm, glared at us, waited, and closed the swing arm. He always waited until we were seated, and then he would drive. Not a word, EVER. We got away with a lot of s–t on that bus. What finally broke him, was a fight. Leroy pulled his bus over and got out of his seat. As he is standing in the aisle, Leroy said: ‘That’s enough’. The entire bus went silent. Leroy was THE man. What a LEGEND.”
The Cops!
“One time, in junior high, the police pulled the bus over. I got blamed for throwing a mint at a cop… it hit his shoe… I got a ticket the next day, he pulled the bus over with lights and everything. I had to pay a fine and write an apology letter.”
All Of The Stops
“In year 7 in New Zealand, a bunch of us kept pressing the stop button, even though no one would get off. Just to be little s–t heads and mess with the big burly driver. The bus driver ended up having to stop at every station, for the whole trip, even though most of us got off at the last one. She ended up getting so pissed off after a week of this; She had absolutely reached breaking point. She screamed at us about how the next person to wrongfully press the buzzer, would be thrown off. So naturally as soon as she starts driving again, the buzzer was pushed. She blindly pulled over, yelling incoherently and stormed off the bus. Possibly the funniest thing I’ve ever witnessed.”
Crazy Ross
“The bus driver, when I was in early grade school, was named Ross. My neighborhood was the first stop in the mornings, so we were always the first people on the bus. One day, he picked us up and somehow forgot about all the other stops (there were 10-15 total). He gets like a block away from the school when he realizes there’s only like 8 kids on the bus. He turns around and goes back through every stop, but all the other kids have already gotten rides with their parents because we were over 30 minutes behind schedule, by this point. We ended up being almost an HOUR late to school. As a kid, it was hilarious. As an adult, I think Ross did drugs.”
Silly Kids
“Some 4th grader shoved a little kid’s head into a window because he wouldn’t give him, his Silly Bandz. I still know him to this day and he still acts like he’s in 4th grade, despite being in high school.”
Forever To Get Home
“Kids wouldn’t sit down, so the bus driver drove the bus at 2mph for the entire route. Got home just before 6pm.”
Scaring Children
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“When I was in kindergarten and elementary school, I would go on the floor and slide under people’s seats on the bus and scare them.”
Hold On Tight!
“The driver had a new bus that was a manual. On the way home we were going up a steep hill and the driver tried to make the shift to 2nd. After a good long grind, the bus stopped and it started rolling backwards and someone yelled: ‘WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE’! The bus stopped, the bus driver managed 1st and drove 1/4 mile up the hill in first gear.”
Roger, That!
“In first grade we had an amazing bus driver named Roger, that we called Roget Rabbit. Super awesome, nice guy. One day on the way to school we got pulled over and he got a DUI. Just found the letter they sent to my parents when I was cleaning out the attic.”
Sandwich Fail
“Once a kid threw a PB & J through our bus window into ANOTHER bus at a stop light, and hit their bus driver in the head… it exploded on impact. That bus driver thought someone on her bus threw it lol.”
Chop Chop!
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“When I was about 12 years old and some girl cut part of my hair off while I wasn’t paying attention. She cut off about 5 inches in one big chunk from my ponytail.”
Evacuate!
“My bus caught fire. There was a lot of smoke coming out from underneath, but the driver didn’t believe us and kept driving. The next time the bus slowed down, a kid who had help with the bus evacuation drill, a week earlier, threw opened the door and jumped out. Once the driver stopped, the KID started getting everyone out by himself… until the driver realized we weren’t just being s—ts and started helping. We got a new driver after that.”
Rebellion Strikes
“Naturally kids do stupid s–t on the bus. Well, one ride home there was a kid who felt extra rebellious that day. He decided it’d be a great, hilarious, idea to throw a handful of quarters out the window at the car. Well, he sure as hell did it. The victim ended up following the bus until she could talk to the bus driver. That kid was permanently kicked off the bus. But I must say, as terrible as it would’ve been to be that person, that was funny as f–k.”
Candy!
“My bus driver claimed that he was quitting, even had forms and what not. He was back the next day, as it was an April Fool’s joke. In revenge, the entire neighborhood all congregated into 1 single stop. There was 80 of us all on 1 spot in the sidewalk, when all of a sudden someone yells ‘HIDE’. Everyone but 1 kid hides, and we all jump out right as the bus opens the doors. It was pretty cool and our driver gave us candy on the way back home.”
Bus Bully
“The bus driver made a HUGE deal out of ‘degenerate gambling,’ that we did on the bus in 6th grade. There was this older kid who wasn’t too bright, but sat near us and he decided to start bringing a deck of cards each morning on the bus and we would gamble and play. Eventually I learned that if I purposely lost some of my money in the morning to him, he would bet bigger and I could rake in way more money, just before getting off the bus; Rather than if I tried to win it in the beginning of the day. So this goes on for a few weeks. I guess the kid’s mom caught on that he like wasn’t eating lunch at school or whatever, because I was raking in all his money each week. So hie mom called to complain that her kid was ‘obviously’ being bullied or something. I guess they called him into the office and he just kind of casually mentioned that we played cards on the bus. I guess this then escalated to them giving the bus driver the heads up and told her to just ‘police the matter’ (assuming just tell us to stop and keep an eye on us when she could). She took this as a direct order to call the police. Now, at the time, we didn’t know this – so of course just like the previous afternoon we get on the bus and bust out the cards. That’s when the squad cars showed up…The police were not happy. Our principal was not happy. The kid’s mom wasn’t happy. End result was I got tagged as a ‘bully’ to an 8th grader twice my size and was not allowed to ride the bus after that.”
Police Statements?
“Oh, probably the bus driver constantly being on her cellphone driving, or having Chinese takeout sitting in her lap as she drove. And then there was the time we wrecked into a public transport bus and all the 6th graders on the bus had to sit there for an hour and a half, giving statements to police one by one.”
Jammin’ Out Driver
“My entire first-grade year, our bus driver was a guy about mid-thirties, bald, and thick-set. His name was Grover, and Grover probably got along with kids better than any kindergarten teacher you can think of. Nobody, not even the ‘too cool for school and anything to do with it’ kids, disliked Grover. He taught himself music in his spare time, and often would play the harmonica as he drove the bus. If not that, he’d pick a random kid and tell him/her to choose a radio station. Or he’d lead the bus in a chorus of We Will Rock You, or Third Eye Blind, or anything else that was popular in the mid-90s. That dude just loved music.”
PIZZA!
“One day the bus driver bought everyone pizza. It was such a nice surprise and everyone was thrilled. I’ll also add that this wasn’t in some sort of small town or small bus either; It was in a pretty well populated suburban area and on a bus full of middle schoolers. So he probably dropped like $75+ on pizza for us.”
Don’t Tell Your Parents…
“While I didn’t ride the bus everyday to and from school, I rode it home everyday from about kindergarten to 6th grade One time a substitute bus driver backed into a stop sign and bent the hell out of it. He took one look at it and said ‘Oh f–k, kids don’t tell your parents’. We NEVER saw him again. The stop sign was never repaired and is still bent today.”
Party Bus
“One day it rained and the windows fogged up. This kid brought a Bluetooth speaker and secretly passed out glow sticks to everyone on the bus. As soon as we passed a certain intersection, someone yelled ‘Y’all ready for this!?’ and we blared that Space Jam song and raved out with our glow-sticks reflecting off the windows. Our bus driver got really pissed and pulled over to yell at us.”