In going with the nostalgic theme this week, I wanted to highlight Luke Brian’s song, “We Rode In Trucks.” I think it is a pretty darn accurate look back at being raised in the country. The line from the song “It wasn’t that long ago, it’s a part of my soul” really resonated with me. The song was full of references that rang true. Some of my favorite lines of the song regarded bus riding.
There’s a lot about life you can learn on a bus,
How to lie, how to fight, how to kiss, how to cuss.
The closer we sat to the back, the smarter we got.
Those bus riding lines made me crack up. Most everyone from the country spent a lot of time on the school bus. The younger kids sit in the front. The older kids sit in back. One of my friends in elementary school was the last stop and spent almost two hours on her bus. I bet she got a bus PhD. I lived in a really rural area where the K – 12 all attended one school. Kids from 5 to 17 all rode the same bus. You can imagine the schooling the little ones got from the teenagers. My bus driver had the clever idea to punish older kids that acted up by making elementary kids their seat-mates. That created some real accelerated learning for some.
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Lyrics Link – “We Rode In Trucks”
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