My memories of the bus are pretty mellow. My youngest memories are of being super rambunctious bouncing around the seats screaming the GI Joe theme song with my best friend at the time. Luckily my bus rides were either 10 minutes or 15 minutes for elementary and high school.

My kid is at the beginning of the morning route and the begining-ish of the afternoon route. In the morning he would have to be on the bus by 7:00 or 7:10 to be to school by 8:00, a half mile away...