Teeny Bopper Trip
Curt AldrichThe white-haired man with ruddy cheeks and a full mustache watched the little girls from Pleasant Valley Grammar School board the bus. Their short skirts lifted as they stepped up, exposing firm, slender thighs.
The man who was supposed to drive the bus, 22-year-old Rick Markum, watched the fifth grade teacher, blonde and ponytailed Janice Wilson. Though she was about his age and unmarried, she studiously avoided looking at him.
Also going on the 3,000-mile roundtrip was Edna Sawyer, the sixth grade teacher, and she exhibited no such reserve. A divorcee who had just turned 30, she stared at the handsome young man with obvious interest.
The parents, who had come to the school on the first Saturday of summer vacation to see their little darlings off, looked only at them as they got onto the bus. One mother called a last minute reminder to “listen to Uncle Jim and do everything he tells you!”
“Mind your teachers, too!” one of the daddies said.
“Shit,” Edna remarked under her breath to Janice, “I’ll be glad when we get this fucking show on the road!”
The young blonde frowned. She didn’t know how she was going to put up with dirty-talking Edna for the entire two weeks. If the school board had known how immoral Edna was, they wouldn’t have chosen her as one of the chaperones for the children, Janice thought. But on the other hand, maybe she was making out with a board member. Janice wouldn’t have put anything past her.