Busses And Wet Willies

If you haven't seen my facebook status yet, you'll know I'm somewhat proud of finally completing all tasks required to obtain a limited commercial drivers license for driving a school bus. It was an ordeal because of the special pains lined up for school bus drivers including paperwork, class, approvals, medical exam and test. Overall I think it took four months to complete thanks to my schedule and lots of confusion. The only purpose for the new license was to allow me to gas up the school's buses as needed.

The final test, just like any other license, is behind the wheel. I had practiced plenty on the road (with a CDL driver present) and on a training course, but the vehicle inspection points were detailed and plenty. I had a very nice tester who really wanted me to pass. By the time we got on the road, we were chatting up a storm. I'm not sure either of us was paying attention to the test halfway through.

It was thoroughly amusing that the 15ft stop test at a railroad crossing was interrupted by a train.

I'm not the only one who learned something that day. Jason here found out that if you teach a kid how to wet-willie, you will regret it. About 5 times.