Punching At Thin Air!
I too first met Carla in the seventh grade. She befriended me because I was new and most everyone else had grown up together. But she had that smile on her face that looking back was ALWAYs there even if she was sad. I have a few stories but I DARE not tell them. This I will tell. She invited all of us to meet at her house early one morning just so her mom would drive us to school. Well her mom was getting dressed for work when we got there and when she ran from the back of the house to the kitchen she was yelling out to Carla to hurry and get in the car were late. When her mom reached the kitchen door she stopped still and looked at all us seven in all, she said whee the...where did all of them come from and why are they here... Carla said I told them you would give them a ride to school. She said well how did they all get here, and in unisome we said we road the school bus here. Carla's mom just started shaking her head, and screamed GET IN THE CAR ALLOF YOU....NOW...I have to get to WORK.... as everybody was running her mom looked back over her shoulder and said we will talk about this later. Carla looked back over her shoulder at us, the line of people following her and started laughing....
The next week. Carla became a school bus driver (I don't know why that happened) But all the kids on the bus were loud and fighting and she was screaming back at them to sit down and shut up... One kept mouthing off at her so she said she was gonna kick their butt....They dared her so she said ok...kspt driving down the highway and giving them the evil eye in the mirror. so the mouthy one kept mouthing off untill suddenly Carla pulled the bus off the road and backed it up. We were all confused about what she was doing... She turned off the engine and told The mouthy one to come on she was gonna kick her butt but not on the bus... Carla yellled out to her I know Karate and this scared the girl who was four times Carla's size. I was prepared to help her but I didn't have to .Carla and the other girl were throwing punches and kicks that never landed anywhere because they were half fighting and half running from each other. Carla because the other girl was so BIG, and the other girl because Carla told her she knew KARATE. I was sitting in the drivers seat laughing so hard with tears running down my face...They got back on the bus and called it a draw. I said we better get this bus out of these peoples driveway before they call somebody... and she looked up at me laughing and said thats my house, and my driveway..... I will never forget that scene...