Mind the Pothole
Every morning the little bus stopped by the mango tree to pick people up, the children going to school, the mothers going to market and the workers going to their offices. It was a bit of a squash, babies on laps, schoolbags, lunch boxes, briefcases all piled up or pushed under seats, but they all got in somehow.
Yesterday there had been a rain storm
"mind out for the pothole by Johnson's bend" said Tanty Tania
"yes miss" said the bus driver
Off he went, much too fast and BANG they hit the pothole.
"STOP" yelled everyone.
"You bounced my phone out the window" said Akeem as he scrambled out of the bus ran up the road and retrieved his phone out of the pothole.
The next day Tanty Tania said
"Mind the pothole by Johnson's bend"
"yes miss" said the bus driver
Off he went, much too fast and Bang they hit the pothole.
"STOP" yelled everyone
"You bounced my homework out the window" said Vernice as she scrambled out of the bus, ran up the road and rescued her homework from out of the pothole.
The next day Tanty Tania said
"Mind the pothole by Johnson's bend" (only this time she sounded a bit cross)
"yes miss" said the bus driver
Off he went, much too fast and Bang they hit the pothole.
"STOP" yelled everyone
"You bounced my lunch out the window" said Councillor Jackson
as he stomped off the bus walked up the road to fetch his lunch box from out of the pothole.
The next day Tanty Tania said
"mind the pothole OK"
"Yes miss" said the bus driver
Off he went much too fastened BANG they hit the pothole
"STOP" yelled everyone
"You bounced the baby out the window" said Tanty Tania and she was very cross
the baby didn't seam to mind he was playing in the muddy water in the pothole
The next day Tanty Tania didn't say anything
The bus driver went a little bit slower, good job too as because when he went round the corner at Johnson's bend someone had planted a coconut tree in the pothole.