Road hog

Earlier in the year one of my second graders clearly demonstrated that second graders can be entertaining, even to the bus drivers on the school bus. They frequently entertain each other, which is why they often end up creating disrupting behavior on the bus. But this time the bus driver was the recipient of the entertainment. Johnny, who was sitting up front on the bus, exclaimed, “Here comes my mother, driving down the middle of the road as usual.” Sure enough a car was approaching from the other direction and was wobbling over the center line. Assuming his mother was on her way to work, I asked, “Johnny, what does your mother do?” His stoic reply effectively set me up as the straight man. He said, “She is a road hog.” Johnny spent the remainder of the trip to school wondering why what he said was so funny to his bus driver.