Drive a Hard Bargain

Me and some of the loads decided we would go down to the sea side as it was a nice day. Now I told you before we live a long way from the sea and we usually have to go in the car but the two legs were a bit busy doing the sort of things that two legs like to do so we said we would go on the bus.

Now our local bus goes right down to the sea front and it is a nice big double decker bus and I like to run up the stairs and get a front seat so I can see where we are going. The drivers know us and are quite friendly and let us ride along without paying a fare so all is good in the world.

We were waiting for the bus - about six of us - when this little short bus came along. I think it must have lost it's top somewhere but I recognised the driver and he smiled as we all scurried on board. We are always good on the journey because they have said they would throw us off if we misbehaved and we don't want to be left way out in the country where we have to walk for miles to get home.

We got to the terminus and we all got off and the driver said we would need to be back in 2 hours for the return ride. Now I don't have a watch nor do any of the lads so we were a bit stumped by that. Anyway we went along the promenade and found some candy floss left by one of the stalls and we shared that. then we found some chips and best of all someone had left a whole ice cream cone for us so we ate well and wandered back to the bus.

"Nothing much to do lads?" asked the driver "There's half an hour to go before I set off again."

I looked at the lads and we all agreed we would rather sit on the bus than chance how long half an hour might be,

"Hey big fellow!" the driver said to me "Come up here and see what it's like to drive this"

I got up onto his lap and reached out for the wheel just as he let the hand brake off and we rolled forward slightly. I was so scared because I have never driven anything that big.. Luckily he had his foot on the brake and stopped the bus but not before he had taken a picture of me looking silly.

Still it was a nice day out.