The Bus Baby

You know how every now and then your brain just goes crazy and starts losing sight of all reality and all of a sudden anything is possible? If you don't know what that is like, I will do my best to describe my experience to you so you get the feeling. Ok, the other day I was driving my bus and I had this crazy idea. "What if I found a baby on the bus?" People leave stuff on the bus all the time, gloves, hats, ski poles and the like. But what if somebody just got caught up and left a baby?!? I'd have to take it in and raise it as my own and give him some awful name like Bubba and explain to him how he was found on a bus and I'm too young to be a father of a bus baby! After worrying about this for an hour or so, my fear was somewhat realized when an odd looking couple got on the bus with what you ask, a baby. A little one. Still in arms and tiny and I knew, if I was ever going to accidentally become a father it was in this moment. So from the moment these two and their baby got on the bus I was watching them. I wasn't gonna let them sneak off without that child! Luckily for me (and the child) when they got off the bus the baby went with them. I breathed a sigh of relief and went on my way. Of course I realize now that if someone left a baby on the bus that I wouldn't have to raise it, I could give it to the police, or something and it wouldn't be up to me. But for a moment there I really thought I would have to keep it like some weird roll of the dice of fate and bam! Dad. Luckily I dodged that bullet for another day, but I still get a little suspicious any time someone gets on the bus with a baby now...