The bus driver's story about the bride and the box

Well, it was so surprising. There was somebody there with the camera, and they won't have it just taken. They stood for a minute, and then they went. Well, we thought that was kind of cute, and then they all got in, and these Minanites, or whatever they were called, and they were in the back part of them, the bus, and some went up on the upper deck.

So I stayed right close to the front. I think I had the first seat, and across the aisle was the driver, bus driver. Because the whole front, these new buses, they had all glass, you know, and I could see everything, and that's what I love to do is watch the scenery and watch what's going on, see.

And right back of me, there was about four or five college girls and that many college boys. The girls were on one side right back of me, and the boys were back of the driver. They were as close to me as the next seat, you know.

And they were talking and giggling, you know, together and everything. And we started from the depot as soon as we were all settled, and they all abroad, and we went. Well, we got out, it was a drizzly nest.

night and must have been close to 1 o 'clock you know and he went seems like the main street or something anyhow there wasn't too much traffic on the road or on the street and we've seen buildings and shops and you know and different manufacturing advertisement of garages and all this and that and everybody was kind of quietish you know and all of a sudden the bus driver says he says I I've got to wake you's all up, he said.

He meant us around him, you know, because he said, I'm afraid that you'll have to try and keep me wake up, wake two with your little chatter. Otherwise, I might fall asleep and let it over. Because everybody giggled.

Then he says, I'll tell you a good one. He said, you know what happened to me last week? He says, now when we get out of Chicago, about a few miles, there is a, a, a, of place where I stopped for gas and donut and coffee.

And I had a box to deliver there to a attendant that always takes it once a week. And he was an artificial insemination manager, and he is the one that goes to these different high -class Holstein farms and inoculates the cows, so they have calves and everything has so.

He was telling this to us, mind you. And I guess to this year thing, he said last week, and there was a cute pink -looking little bride that was going to take the box, see. And he says, I didn't know what got into me.

He says, I start laughing. And he says, I got to give this to the man. He's the one that manages this. Oh, I'll take it in the house for my husband. We were just married. We just come from our honeymoon two weeks ago, and he's going to manage this business, whatever it is.

She didn't know yet. Well, then she looked at the box, and it says there's something carnation, such and such an arms being, carnation this, incarnation, forth, and all that. It was the tree of their ancestors of this herb bowl that furnished the salmon in the box, see?

And she wanted him, oh, he sat down and he was having his coffee and donuts. She said right next to him, she was kind of lonely, and she wanted an explanation. She says, I never know what kind of a business he is in, but she says, I would like to know what is all this about, see?

well he says I tried my best to explain to her without her knowing what it is really all about she says I just have to know so then he told her and she still couldn't understand well he told her such a roundabout way that she and so he says I still think you better go and ask your husband see oh no she says I want to know it from you because he never wants to talk about this.

So he finally, he told her, says, well, it's all the little baby calves in that box. And he sees to it that each Holstein cow gets the baby. And then nine months later, they're born. And all these carnation arms be so forth and so forth, that's the, that that different papas and grandpas and so forth and so forth of the bull that have the little babies in the box she says I just don't believe you she says I think you're just a little fibber says there can be too many baby calves in that little box it was about 12 by 12 inches I guess well

he says I still think you better go and ask your husband about this so he finished his clothing and got in the bus well the good girls, back of me, the four or five of them, they whispered and giggled, and they didn't understand either, you know?

And, of course, the boys know all about it, so the boys told the girls to come and exchange seats, they'll tell it to them. So there was some whispering going on, and the giggles and everything, you know. And he leaned across the alley, you know, across the path there, and he says, I thought that'll wake him up.

They'll be awake for a while, thinking this all this thing over, see. Well, we was going on this street. We had started drizzling again, and he said, now I'll have to think of another story, otherwise I'll fall asleep in this kind of a weather.