Good God have I ever been having a bad time of it on my bus this week. Wednesday I had a rear tire blow out, for the second time this year. Yesterday I had my fan belt snap TWICE. Now it seems to be a pulley problem, and I will probably be in a spare (ancient and slow) bus for the next 2 weeks, possibly for the rest of the year, the way our mechanic works. And to top it all off, the kids were acting atrocious yesterday too. Specifically 2 little boys who decided they didn't need to show myself and my aid any respect anymore. I ended up taking one of their iPod away, because he decided it would be acceptable to stand up while the bus was moving and scream what ever song it was playing at the top of his lungs. I told him he could have it back when we got to his stop, but noooo, that wasn't good enough for him, even though we were a mere 2 blocks away from his stop. So he carried on and carried on, cussed at me adn my aide, until I finally just told him to come to the bus barn to get it instead. When we got to his stop, he came up and demanded the iPod, and when I wouldn't give it to him, he called me a bitch, and proceeded to flip me off as he went to his house. This child was a 5th grader. A FIFTH GRADER. What the hell is wrong with society today if he can pull that kind of shit on his school bus? I am supposed to write him and his brother up this morning for their actions yesterday, but I expect their mother at this bus stop this morning to demand the ipod back, at which point I will tell her that I do not have it, that she will have to come to the bus barn to get it back, JUST LIKE I SAID TO HER SON. Damn, today is going to be a swell morning.

I wasn't told it when I accepted my route at the beginning of the school year, but my route is apparently the one with the most problems. This bus is the only one with a mash up of regular children and special needs, and I wasn't notified of the special needs children until I came to my boss with a problem concerning one of them.

School is out in less than a month. Lets hope I have the strength to deal with these kids til then.