A Bit About Me

Ok this is the 3rd time every time I save this the words disappear. Now watch when I post this the other two will come up with it LOL!!!
Ok here goes My Name is Deborah J. Walsh. I was born in a small town in Connecticut. I grew up here also. When I was 18 I married a young man in the Navy and I traveled all over the US. We had one child an son Whom I am very proud of. We stayed together for 8 years then I got a divorce, a few years later I returned home I guess I am what they say a true Connecticut Swamp Yankee...LOL!!! I now have settled in a small town in northeastern CT., about 5 minutes from UCONN. I drive a school bus for the Town of Mansfield. I am quite happy with my life now. I will tell you though if you ever want a career as a child psychologist then you sould spend a year as a school bus driver. As children grow up and move on with their lives their personalities go through several phases there is the innocent timeless quality of childhood that is the sign of children in elementry school. The idea is that you have to constantly remind them of the things that they are supposed to do because the wonder of life is always got them motivated and they forget the rules that are made there to keep them safe. Everything they see is a wonder to them. Though some are more active and noisier than others they are all pretty much in that WOW look at that stage and at that moment everything just leaves their heads but what they are looking at or thinking about. So in essence you are constantly reminding them of what they are supposed to do. That isn't a real big deal cause you realize that they are just little ones and their brains are absorbing more at this stage than it will for the rest of their lives so you just keep telling them to sit down get out of the aisle and inside voices please. No biggie!!!

But then you have the middle school kids and here you have the hardest part of your day. These are now no longer children with the wide eyed wonder of everything in life these are no becoming real people. Now I have more trouble with this age boys because it is the time in their lives when they are beginning to realize that they are becoming men. So they are always in a pissing contest with you about who actually runs the bus run you or them. Some are worse than others and this is the time in a childs life when they are the cruelest. Now girls they just want to talk constantly and loudly and their main topic of conversation is BOYS!!! They could careless who is in charge as long as you don't disturb their very important conversation about who is the hottest guy in school or in the movies or on TV or anywhere for that matter or what music they are listening to these days my worse problem with the girls is the LOUDNESS with which they can't get their voices up to. With the boys it is pick on this guy and push this guy around and we must do it in front of all our friends because it makes me look like a man.

Then you have the high school kids who are not into the getting up early thing I have often wondered why it is that the older you are the earlier they send you to school...LOL, you would think it would be ther other way around...LOL. I have wondered that since I was in high school myself. So anyway most of the time I spend with them they are quiet because they are either half asleep on the bus or napping before school starts ans they could care less who is sitting near them or around them. They are pretty well behaved and quiet and I hdon't have to speak to them at all. But there is a difference with my afternoon high schoolers they are now wide awake and most of them are in the 9th grade so they are barely out of middle school them selves and almost all boys. So they are obnoxious and discusting they think it is a really great and cool thing to fart and stink up the bus, and nice little things like that. They are loud and rude and have no patience for anyone different than them. Again they are still finding their way into manhood I guess. I hope for all our sakes they begin to realize soon that what they are doing isn't manhood at all...although I have met some men in my lifetime who aren't anymore mature than the 9th graders on my afternoon run. So maybe some men don't ever grow up they have the Peter Pan syndrome Wow well for today this is all I will tell you more about myself as I go along.
I hope you all enjoy this. I hope I have thrown in some humor to help read this without boring you to death.