Until.... We all got in the buses to go home and not two minutes later we are stopped at a stop light. Well, my kids had just gotten done going through an exhibit where they got to see a lung from someone who was a smoker; a big, black lung. (This will all make sense in a minute) As we are stopped at this stop light, the bus is next to the library and there are two men that my kids seem to be fasinated with.. One, a man who was playing guitar and the other is a gangster looking fellow who is smoking a cigarette. Oh, the kids on my bus decided that they would tell the man with the cigarette, through the bus window (that wasn't open by the way) that he "sucked" for smoking among other wonderful names like mother F**...you know the rest and one of the girls says she has a gun... Hello!?! Are you stupid!?! Well, the man doesn't hear anything and only see's a busload of 8th graders talking to him and looking like they are challenging him. The man doesnt like what he sees.. The man crosses two lanes of traffic and walks up to the side of the bus. Chaperones, other students and myself think that the man has a gun and is honestly going to shoot us all or do something! I was literally scared to death but was the only one to speak up when things got to this point.
Luckily, the light turned green and we left two seconds after this happened but I was LIVID!!! Mad that first of all, I was the only one who had done or said anything up to that point and that all day during the field trip, I felt as if I was the only one who was really trying to keep kids in line. I gave everyone on that bus a mouthfull and had the girls who were the ones talkin smack sit by me. I asked them how they would feel had everyone or anyone for that matter been shot or killed because of their actions just then? Of course, they see that they did something really imature and dumb but whats done is done and consequences must follow...
Oh... I don't think I'll volenteer to go on another field trip again... Today was a very bad day. I honestly wanted to just cry when I got back to school. I didnt but those girls are in so much trouble. Its sad to me that they are that (to put it bluntly) stupid.... Ahh!! Tomorrow better be a freakin awesome day to make up for today! I had to get this off my chest...
