Saturday, October 13, 2012

All Aboard!!

A few times during the summer months, my mom had sent my sister and I to visit our aunts in Indianapolis, Indiana. This happened before my mom married my step dad, I was about 7 years old. The Greyhound bus had a bus stop in my hometown. We would get on the bus there and ride it to Indianapolis, Indiana. Our aunts would pick us up at the bus station upon arrival. Along the way the bus would stop for lunch and a bathroom break. Once when we walked back outside to board our bus, there was 3 Greyhound buses parked, nose to end. My sister starts to get on the wrong bus. I had seen something about our bus that told me that the bus my sister was getting on wasn't the right bus. I yelled and told her it was the wrong bus. My sister being the stubborn person she is wouldn't listen to me. She dragged me on to the wrong bus. I being the stubborn person I am planted my feet and started pulling her off the bus, screaming the whole time that it was the wrong bus!! She just wouldn't believe me and kept pulling me back. Finally I yelled if you don't believe me then ask the bus driver. Did I tell you how stubborn my sister is?? She wouldn't ask, but me being oh so stubborn myself did ask. I yelled hey is this bus going to Indianapolis, Indiana? The bus driver said no it's not. Finally my sister gets it into her head that we are on the wrong bus and we get off and run to the bus that I kept telling her was ours...Of course this time she asked the bus driver if it was going to Indianapolis, Indiana and he said yes. We got on the bus in the nick of time...of course it was years before I let my sister live this one down!!

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  1. Didn't each bus have a destination plate on the front? I wonder where you would have ended up if you had stayed on the wrong bus?

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    1. That may have been what I had seen that made me so sure we were on the wrong bus, not sure..I think the driver had said the other bus was going to Kansas.

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  2. Nice story. It would have been a fine kettle of fish if you had ended up in Kansas.

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    1. Yes we have laughed about it for years but at the time i was scared to death knowing we were on the wrong bus!!

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  3. Great story :) it can be a tug of war with sisters. It's great you can laugh about it now.

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