Jo said:
The bad was I gave a bit too much. Takers naturally take advantage of Givers.
I hated the competition it became. I'm not sure everyone saw the individual bus kid. In some cases, they were pawns to feed the bus captain's ego.
I agree. The biggest bus routes that I ever worked on we're the ones I started in California, not Hammond. I worked some long hard hours to get them going but once I did I enlisted worker's. It wasn't long before the route became very large. We would meet every Saturday morning at 9 for a brief meeting and we would go out visiting until noon. Then we would meet for lunch and go home. No one had to visit more than two or two and a half hours every Saturday. I told my workers that if they could not make it on a Saturday just to let me know so one of the other workers or myself could cover for them. No one felt pressure because we all put in the same amount of work and God blessed. We only had one bus but we had a high day of 129 on that bus. My workers thoroughly enjoyed themselves and made some great relationships with the young people on the bus. The workers were of different strata of economic situations.. One worked for a local newspaper another was a truck driver another was a an engineer, another a service writer. We also had lady workers who helped on the bus on Sunday. One lady was a woman that we had seen come to Christ who was from Trinidad Tobago. That was the greatest route I ever had the privilege to Captain.
