By: Brenda Wilkerson
Every day, twice a day, the hour route on our school bus takes a brief visit through a major highway intersection. Most days, we sit for at least three minutes waiting for our ‘green.’ That is when my designated counter buddy grabs that ‘counter clicker thingy’ and begins pushing that silver button for each wiggly brother and sister with plenty of time to safely return to his seat before we get our chance to go.
This particular day, a large dump truck pulled up almost nose-to-nose beside us. I heard a giggly commotion and glanced into that big mirror above my head. There they were, arms flailing as they made the ‘honk-your-horn’ motion over and over and over.
Behind my mirrored glasses, I looked to my left to catch the eyes of a cautious truck driver torn between indulging his young audience or possibly scaring the snot out of their poor driver. In a single moment, we both turned into school kids as I gave him a smirk and a nod. His eyes grew wide and then lit up like Christmas lights as he reached up for that infamous horn-honking pulley with his left hand. HONK! HONK! Our hollow metal bus reverberated with the equivalent happy noise level of the cheers at a college football stadium — for six long and exhilarating seconds. Ahhh, so many days made in an instant by 7:05 a.m.
May you all find those six seconds that make your day today! And don’t forget to relax and try to have a little fun every day.
By: Brenda Wilkerson
