Sexism and Lonliness on the Bus
March 2nd, 2011 by NeverKnown
I dread catching the bus to school. I’m am sick of seeing that fat, black lady’s face, covered in makeup, twisted into an arrogant smile, with large dark sunglasses hiding her eyes.
She watches our every move. “Don’t sit there,” she says to one girl. “Move to the back.”
But let me start at the beginning.
She was a new bus driver, and an annoying one at that. We could deal with her radical arrivals: She would come at 8:50 one day and 8:15 the next. Not to mention her fast driving on the turns and over the bumps. But it was okay. She gradually improved.
But then she …