The alarm rings. It is six o’clock. Ravindar gets up earily. It is the start of another day ferrying school kids to and from school.
At six-thirty, after a hurried bath, Ravindar starts his old 22-seater bus and moves off. He goes along a regular route picking up children to send to various schools. By seven, all the regular children, except one who is ill, are on the bus. Ravindar drives carefully through the busy roads.
He stops at four different schools, dropping off some children at each. He plans his drive carefully so as to reach the last school by seven-thirty. Otherwise, some children will be late for school and he gets the blame.
At seven-thirty two, his bus is empty and the roads are magically less congested. Most of the children are in the classrooms. Ravindar stops by at a stall to have his breakfast.
Come eleven-thirty, he picks up other school children for the afternoon session. By twelve-thirty he has sent all the children to the schools safely.
At one o’clock he collects his first batch of children from a school. Then he proceeds to three other schools to collect the others. After collecting the children he sends them home.
Ravindar has lunch at home and takes a nap. At three o’clock he cleans up the bus.
At six in the evening, Ravindar goes on his last round of collecting the children from the schools. He safely sends them home by seven thirty. Then Ravindar goes home, takes a bath, and has dinner and watches television for a while before retiring to bed. Thus ends yet another day in the life of a bus driver.
wearily very tired
drop off to take someone or something to a particular place, usually by car, as you travel to a different place
nap a short sleep
