My school bus driver was a full time farmer and a part time school bus driver. Most school bus drivers were small farmers, and a school bus route paid for lots of small farms around here.
He would get up early in the morning and milk his cows before making his morning bus route. After the bus route, he would come home and farm.
In the afternoon, he would make his afternoon bus route, come home and milk his cows again. Depending upon the time of year and daylight he might do more farm work after the afternoon milking. Lots of folks around here raised tobacco on their small farms. Milk and tobacco were the cash crops, and both were labor intensive, especially tobacco.
If it snowed, he would get up an hour or two earlier and put the chains on the bus. Unlike Vigo county, there are lots of hills here in my part of Dearborn county, and they didn't close school for 4" of snow back in the day. I well remember riding the school bus listening to the tire chains clinking in cadence.
My bus driver usually had his farm boots on, often with cow manure from the morning milking. The heater fan in the bus distributed the aroma throughout but non of us thought anything about it.
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