Bus

My son is taking the bus home from school this Summer, which is a new experience for both of us. (I'd been picking him up from an after school program.) Yesterday, I had to run a quick errand before he got home, and I thought I had just enough time to get there and back — maybe. But I got caught in slow traffic on the way home where the road was being repaired, and suddenly, my margin of error had become somewhere between thin and nonexistent.

At the end, I was racing through the streets in my neighborhood! After no small effort, I caught up with the bus a mere ten seconds away from the house. I had to actually pull over behind it, and get out and run up the street to meet my son just as he got off.

All this on only his third day of taking the bus home.

Has this ever happened to you?