FLASHBACK FRIDAY - School Bus Bullies

Flashback Friday:

Billy Newtner's Bus Rides

By Anthony Buccino

"... "BUS NINE RULES!" The older kids shouted. Other kids looked out windows. Girls studied and checked their homework papers. Tough guys with big hands, hard knuckles and big mouths to match, ruled bus nine. They yelled in our fresh faces, "N-O! FUTT NO!"

Many of us seventh graders were hopelessly intimidated by those rough ninth graders and their eighth grade sycophants who ruled our free bus.

At the bus stop in winter, they lit cigarettes and said they needed to smoke to keep warm. They ruled the back of the bus.

When we were lucky, we got to sit in front next to a friend, or near the window with a girl on the aisle.

The bullies ripped down advertisements from slots over the seats. When they got off the bus, as girls were climbing off, the boys ripped ad signs from the curb side of the bus.

"Where's your weak spot?" They shouted at the toughest of seventh grade boys.

"Where's your weak spot?" He bravely called back across a sea of seated girls.

Sneering in his face, "Be in the gym, seventh period, I'll show you my weak spot!"
And they laughed. ..."

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Ten Minutes After You're Gone - A video

By popular demand, here is the slide show accompanying the original poem Ten Minutes After You're Gone by Anthony Buccino

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SISTER DRESSED ME FUNNY - Tales about - of all things - a naked statue and the school tie, Italian American family roots and that dress his sister made him wear.

RAMBLING ROUND Inside and Outsdide at the Same Time - Essays written from the heart and the hearth about family, life and growing up in north Jersey.

VOICES ON THE BUS - Working class verse and tales, musings and random observations about commuting in Northern New Jersey.

ONE MORNING IN JERSEY CITY - Poems written along the Hudson River Walkway, Grundy Pier, the Goldman Sachs can of Coke, and the Colgate clock in Jersey City, N.J.

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UNCLE TONOOSE HAS A SECRET - his alter ego is a mild-mannered business news editor named Anthony Buccino who has written several books, including what sometimes passes for humor and on other interesting topics. He'd like to write more new books but needs your encouragement ... so buy a book or two, for you and your friends. That'll ensure these snarky posts continue to amuse and enlighten you.

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