For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 14, 2022

now if there were funding to help maintain the buses’ conditons or buy new buses.

Panel 3 seems to suggest road maintenance might be a factor.

Judging from the kids’ “shocked” hair in the final panel, the bus ran over some open electrical panel on the road.

At that angle, the bus should have flipped over on its side. A miracle that it didn’t.

That bus looks top-heavy.

Why do you think there are shortage of bus drivers? At least in my area they are really trying to find them. Do you think its A. not enough pay? B. We should reinvent the bus, ie back up cameras, make them easier to drive? School bus’s from what I have observed havn’t really changed that much. Or C. what do you think?

Couldn’t Mike have used his earnings from his summer job to put a down payment on a car??

It’s not the shocks. It’s the roads. …well, I guess it’s both, but really, if you don’t have bumps you don’t need shocks.

That bus looked like it was about to tip over in the third panel.

Our busses were OK. The roads on the other hand … (We were in a very rural school district.)

Not really made for off roading. I was expecting a pothole, not a mound

The wheels on the bus go round and round

Round and round

Round and round

The wheels on the bus go round and round

All the way to school

The wipers on the bus go Swish, swish, swish

Swish, swish, swish

Swish, swish, swish

The wipers on the bus go Swish, swish, swish

All the way to school

The horn on the bus goes Beep, beep, beep

Beep, beep, beep

Beep, beep, beep

The horn on the bus goes Beep, beep, beep

All the way to school

The doors on the bus go open and shut

Open and shut

Open and shut

The doors on the bus go open and shut

All the way to school

The Driver on the bus says "Move on back

Move on back, move on back"

The Driver on the bus says “Move on back”

All the way to school

The kids on the bus go bounce, bounce, bounce,

bounce, bounce, bounce,

bounce, bounce, bounce,

The kids on the bus go bounce, bounce, bounce,

All the way to school

It’s been said that the only shock absorbers in a Model T (I have one) were the passengers.

Did Canada force busing on everyone?

Never had to ride a school bus. Just walked to school which was two blocks from ourhouse.

Looks like a flat tire.

Gordo,future garage owner,will save the day.And the other kids will yell—“You’re fixing it so we can get to school ON TIME???”

It must have passed inspection…

I thought Mike and his friends have cars?

That’s why I always sat way up front, even when I was in the twelfth grade. The ride was smoothest one seat behind the driver.

love his hair and glasses!

Mike is right. Actually they were designed in the 1930s and added regulations added weight and reduced ride-ability. A new design is needed but there is a mountain of outdated regulations in the way.

On Thanksgiving Day, 1969, I traveled with about 50 other HS seniors and two chaperones to Chicago from Nashville, TN on a school bus, with all our luggage piled in the middle where the heater was. We left Nashville at 2 a.m. and it was bitter cold, took almost 16 hours for the trip, no interstate back then. Had a great time and I remember seeing Ken Curtis (Festus on Gunsmoke) speak at a church service at a fancy hotel (not the one we stayed at, it was a dump).

Ah, but I have rode in a school bus from the 50s, back in the 60s.

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I’d like to say that this is the old-fashioned humor that I love. Like sharing jokes over cribbage at the Grange Hall, it allows you to smile – simply.

The bumpiest part to ride was always over the rear wheels and in the back.

Ever notice how Michael looks like Miss Edwards with legs?

Dang speed bumps!

Just watch out for the frost heaves. They were appropriately named and always fun to hit. I still have back issues from one on Cedar Street.