apriki:

• So i lived the town over from my high school, and had to catch the bus like an hour and a half every day to and from
  
• (a movie. thats a fucking movie, every day, twice a day)
  
• (I WAS TWELVE)
  
• (commuter tragedy)
  
• and because we were all stuck together for so long for like six years, we followed the natural inclination of teenagers to be fucking idiots at every chance
  
• and we formed this group of bus kids
  
• forged by ridiculous travel times
  
• bonded in suffering the ridiculous rule of
  
• our bus driver.
  
• our bus driver was an old, old lady called jeannine
  
• (nickname: the grinch, due to the time we were singing christmas carols and she got annoyed and declared that christmas was canceled.)
  
• (CANCELED.)
  
• (we put up a sign written in texta that said ‘NO CHRISTMAS - SIGNED, THE GRINCH’)
  
• (she did not find it funny)
  
• jeannine had been driving the bus since time immemorial
  
• (and may have of, in fact, been one of the Old Ones)
  
• (never confirmed)
  
• (but i have my suspicions)
  
• Jeannie ran a tight ship.
  
• the tightest ship
  
• jeannine was the generalissimo of bus drivers
  
• she played this talkback radio station over the speaker system
  
• and when we were being too loud or she was jut annoyed with us she would turn it up to deafening levels
  
• and we would all block our ears, and then having gotten our attention she would turn it down and shout at us
  
• when we were REALLY TERRIBLE
  
• (like those two weeks after high school musical premiered and we used to have breaking free singalongs)
  
• (yeah)
  
• (I would have turned the radio up on our asses too)
  
• she would park next to the city graveyard
  
• (always the graveyard?)
  
• (i dont know why)
  
• (mental conditioning?)
  
• (subliminal messgakng?)
  
• and walk/hobble
  
• (she was pretty stooped over)
  
• (basically she was your standard old crone)
  
• (potentially witch)
  
• up and down the aisle tellin us how terrible we were
  
• so anyway, one year jeannine goes on a two week break for surgery
  
• (what surgery? We never found out. Various sources claim knee, hip or shoulder replacement)
  
• (could have been a stay at a lazarus pit)
  
• (stay woke)
  
• and we get a replacement driver.
  
• we called him nickelback because he played a nickelback cd over the speaker,
  
• on repeat
  
• every bus trip
  
• EVERY.
  
• TRIP.
  
• how the hell’d we wind up like this?
  
• so free from the reign of terror that was jeannine, we get a bit wild.
  
• and by ‘wild’ i mean we:
  
• talk above speaking level,
  
• eat our food in the ooen,
  
• someone busts out a guitar anyway here’s wonderwall
  
• its one of these days,
  
• that the Great Apple Fiasco happens.
  

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