What I remember most from “A BUS OF MY OWN” is when Jim Lehrer is telling the story about when he was a child playing on a pinball machine. Jim’s dad and a friend went to go get something to drink so his dad gave him a coin to go play on the pinball machine. He goes to play on it but as soon as he starts it he regrets it because he has to go the bathroom. He never won a game before, but then he won for the first time ever! He kept playing and playing and playing until he won so much games that he peed in his pants! He did not want to go to the bathroom that he thought that if he left the machine somebody would come by, see all the games won, start playing, and then not believe Jim if he told him if it was his games that were won. He won more and more games until he saw his dad come in that he got so scared that he ran for the bathroom as fast as he could. His dad went into the bathroom and told Jim to come out cause it was time to go but if he did not want to talk that was fine. His dad was still talking when Jim rushes out and runs some blocks away. I remember that story because in my opinion it is the most funny story in the book. If you have kids tell them to read this story or read “A BUS OF MY OWN.”
Month: September 2021
From the book A BUS OF MY OWN written by Jim Lehrer, Lehrer did a lot of bad things like smoke, eat unhealthy, and getting angry. One morning he woke up and wasn’t feeling well. that was a heart attack. Thankfully he survived or this book wouldn’t be written and that heart attack also changed his life. I will give a list of things that Lehrer changed about his life in this paper.
Fritos, cheese Whiz, chili, pepperoni pizza, Milky Ways, Butterfinger chips, peanut butter (chunky); hamburgers with fries, tuna-salad sandwiches with fries, bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwiches with fries, fried chicken with fries, barbecue ribs, beef and/or sausage with fries; Dr. Peppers, chocolate chip ice cream, butter brickle ice cream, real potato chips, cottage-fried potatoes; scrambled egg with melted cheese, green peppers and onions; chocolate milk shakes, corn dogs, chilly dogs; biscuits with butter, waffles with hot maple syrup and butter, pancakes with hot maple syrup and butter; salt, fudge, black coffee, and pastrami sandwiches with mayonnaise are a list of bad foods that he ate before his heart attack. After his heart attack he started eating foods like carrots and celery sticks with nonfat yogurt dip, melba toast, vegetarian baked beans, cute little tips of raspberry’s and strawberries and blueberry’s, apples great glasses of orange juice, decaf coffee, water cornbread, green beans, peas, peas!, spinach casserole, caffeine-free diet soda pop, unbuttered and unsalted popcorn, toasted pita bread, oatmeal, oatmeal! Over half of all of these foods I listed are good, but not all healthy.
The main reason for his heart attack I think was that He smoked a lot. Instead of throwing away the butts of cigarettes he kept them in a shoebox to get a whiff out them later. He was so dedicated to smoking that he smoked his pipe in the ambulance to the hospital! After his heart attack on his list of things he would or wouldn’t do was smoke.
He also wrote down in his book that he would work out. He worked out in the hospital work out room every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. In his list he wrote down that he would take a nap every and never get angry again. He also made a list of bus signs that he would go after. They are Overland Greyhound, Bowen Motor Coaches, Southeastern Stages, American Bus lines, and Dixie-Sunshine Trailways. Charlie Berman and Harry Smith were two kind people in the hospital that helped Lehrer. After his heart attack he was a completely good and changed man. My brother Owen Pitts wrote a paper like this last year in 2020 when Lehrer died. I hope you liked this paper.
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One event that changed my life and is still changing my life is corona virus AKA covid19, that came from China. It started in 2020. Halfway through the month of March our whole State of Illinois shut down accept for hospitals, pharmcies, and grocery stores. I couldn’t go to church, Awana, Trail Life, the park, the mall, the library, the zoo, or restaurants. It was a terrible summer. We also did school all summer. For 2 months we had to watch school on the computer. When stores did finally open up again, you could only get inside by wearing a mask, which are not comfortable. In September we finally got to go back to Awana and Trail Life. A few months later my grandparents got covid, but they were totally fine. Our household never got it though. I don’t think people should be reacting this badly. The flu is much worse than covid. Some people aren’t even scared of it. The government makes people scared of it so they will get more power.
During covid my uncle Alex moved away to Virginia to be a police officer because he couldn’t be one in Illinois. My dad’s uncle Tarek helped him get accepted into the police Academy in Virginia. I felt really sad and I wanted him to come back immediately. It was lonely without him and even more because he came to my house a lot. We talked on the phone a lot with him but it wasn’t the same. He visited us during Christmas though. While in Virginia he met Rachel and they are now engaged. We got to go to Virginia in March for his graduation from Police Academy. We could not attend the actual graduation in person because of covid, but we were able to watch in online at Alex’s apartment. We all, my family, my grandparents, aunt Erin, her kids (my cousins), Alex and Rachel, went to Mount Vernon. We caught a lizard while we were there and my sister, Liberty, accidently pulled off its tail! Alex and Rachel got to come visit us this summer for the 4th of July. We went to a park to see fireworks and while we were waiting we went to the playground. My little cousin Addy who was 3, pooped in her pants and went down a slide. Poop got all over the slide. Because it was dark, we didn’t know that it had happened and so we went down the same slide and got poop all over us. It was disgusting! We also visited Grant’s Farm and Raging Rivers. We had a really fun visit! I still miss him, but I’m glad that he met Rachel and is now getting married this November!
This summer, 2021, my parents decided to start looking for a new house. We found a new house that was 3 times as big as our old house and it was right near our land, The Shire! We spent all summer packing boxes and fixing up our old house. People finally wanted to buy our house. So Owen and I helped move a third of the heavy stuff when it came time to move into our new house. I love our new house but I miss our old one.