I’m surprised the kids didn’t all have seatbelts on, unless New Mexico is one of the few states that still doesn’t require them. I drove as school bus for eight years and was the biggest pain-in-the-ass seatbelt Nazi imaginable. I used to wonder why I bothered until one day in a quit residential neighborhood, a giant beverage delivery truck ran a stop sign doing about thirty-five miles per hour. It hit us square in the center and threw us across the street but the tree we landed against kept us from flipping over. Only injury was a little five year old girl with a concussion. Ironically, I had just stopped the bus about twenty seconds before for a spot check to make sure everyone was belted in tightly. All the parents were raving about my safety consciousness, the Board of Education gave me a special commendation letter and I was a hero for the month. It never occurred to me until several years after the fact, that if I hadn’t taken the time to stop and check, we would have been through the intersection before the errant delivery truck had arrived at that spot…