Roy Klumb is trying to "settle" with the officer right now (if you know what I mean). Says there's no need to make a big deal out of all this; says it can all be taken care of "quietly."
Marcus is now pushing his way to the front of the bus, yelling something about how HE'll "take care of the cop." Shelby, Larry, Lisa, Roy, and EVERYbody are yellin', "Don't DO it, Marcus!!!"
The cop is gone now; Roy "introduced him to some presidents," and that took care of that. Roy is driving now while Shelby uses the restroom at the back of the bus . . . .
Hey -- wait a minute! A "cheerleader" went in there too! Doesn't she know that somebody's already in there! What the heck?!?!
Sorry for the long delay. We pulled off for a "rest stop" at a famous restaurant chain. We had a really good meal of eggs, sausage, and pancakes (apparently a specialty of this place). At the restaurant who did we run into but Commissioner Crofts!!!! He said he'd been reading accounts of the trip on this board (apparently he's really "plugged in"); I did my best to look in the other direction so nobody would realize who's been sending the accounts.
Well, to make a long story short, Crofts took the keys away from Shelby and announced that HE would be driving us all back to Hattiesburg. He took the gun away from "Toy" and told Roy to shut up and sit down. (Roy didn't take too kindly to that.) The ladies hid their pom-poms under the tables; Shelby just sat there and scowled. Crofts started saying somethin' 'bout how there'd be no more of these shanigans while HE was in the driver's seat and that we'd all better be on our best behavior from now on. (That guy with the "AKL" on his jacket leaned over and said to me, "That's what *I've* been thinkin' this whole time, but I didn't want to cause a ruckus.) Some lady named Virginia was noddin' her approval the whole time Crofts was talkin'. (Roy kept stickin' his tongue out at her when she wasn't lookin'.)
It sure has been some trip! We're back on the bus now and Shelby is sittin' right behind me. He keeps mutterin' somethin' how he ain't gonna take this lyin' down, but looks to me like he's just sittin' there, trying to keep under Croft's radar, who keeps lookin' back here in the rear-view mirror. I think everybody's a little bit scared of him.
quote: Originally posted by: Go Greyhound "I'm reasonably sure you're just kidding or trying to get some dander's up, but nonetheless I feel compelled to say something: if I were on the IHL and such a chartered bus arrived for the meeting, I would feel insulted. Even if nothing else had gotten through to me about USM's plight, I would know when that bus arrived that things at USM were way out of hand."
I have not received confirmation of the bus trip...........however in the clairon ledger this morning it noted Sen Jack Gordon(chairman of house budget committee) presented shelby the proclamation/citation to a standing ovation.
shelby has a well oiled machine. in the meantime we are all doing our best to educate students and hopefully contribute to future of mississippi
then you see crap like this and it makes you wonder