Thinking about elementary school

[pinboy3niner]

2. I don't remember much about elementary school

It was around the corner from my church, but it was a public school.

I do remember being chastised by a favorite teacher when I threw the bat while playing baseball--and I never threw the bat again.

And I remember the busdriver coming down on me. It was when the kids on the bus were raucous and rowdy, and I joined in, shouting something--just when all the other kids had gone silent. The driver instructed me to report to my teacher, and I did. And 2 years later, in my school yearbook, my teacher memorialized what I told her in her inscription: "Be better on the bus."