| Posted by beano on September 20, 2021 | |
Just have to say the Rio Grande Zephyr held out to the end. Tips my hat to them. Continental Trailways always brings back a memory. As a young lad I was going to Vale and the bus made a meal stop in Unity an after something to eat from my lunch mom had packed in Seattle I got off the bus and wandered in the little joint. Well I run into another kid with a box, a shoe box. So next thing you know were best friends an he showed me what he had inside. Several, five little frogs with some grass and pieces of twigs. I was amazed as I lived in just about downtown an Chinatown. Well I bought them for 50 ct. I was gonna show them to my cousins. Well I got back on the Continental before most everybody and had to look inside an I dropped the box on the seat next to me and OH - OH - IT ROLLED TO THE FLOOR. I tried to rally up the frogs and re- box them but only captured two. Three were awol absent without leave. Well anyway everybody's back aboard bus driver shifting gears double clutching for the terrain and so an all of a sudden a lady in the back starts screaming like crazy. The bus driver has a big job on that two lane narrow potholed road and then another person hollers and all heck is breaking loose. The bus pulls over, 'everybody off' says the driver and the driver inspects the bus starting at the back and he tells everybody he chased the culprits off the bus. I had not far to go and was sitting up front. I was talking to him while he drove an he told me he had shoed two little frogs off the bus an was kind of smirking as we spoke as I could see his face in the mirror. As I got off the bus with my shoebox with tiny holes in it he looked at me grinned and bid me adieu. One frog was still on the Continental Trailways AWOL. I'm glad it was summertime. Thanks James.
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