You cant see on the video exactly what was going on but apparently as she was backing up she was swerving back and forth, hopped a curb, took out a mail box, then finally put the ass end of the bus in a small ditch.
I am really amazed at how well these kids handled the situation.
In fact, if this bus lady had been smart, she would have jumped up once things got out of hand and said "Congratulations! You have all passed the school's secret crisis management scenario course! Gold stars all around!"
Unfortunately, she'd have forgotten to stop the bus while making this speech, and the whole thing ends like a Toonces the Driving Cat sketch.
I can't be the only one who thinks the kids handled it poorly until the very end.
now granted the driver was drunk, but even a sober driver will have trouble backing up a bus with three people standing in your line of sight to the back windows the entire time.
Bus drivers do not use the back window when they are backing up. They use the giant side views. You can tell she was not trying to use the back window to back up because she never said anything about them blocking her view. With the way she was yelling "we are OK" over and over its clear she was getting annoyed at the kids telling her she was fucking up and would have said something the split second 1 of them blocked her view.
Sometimes when I watch videos like this I can't help but wonder what the drunk person was thinking at the exact second when they realized they fucked up so bad that there wasn't any way of getting out of it. I don't have sympathy for this lady, she could have murdered all those kids. But I don't envy her the moment the awful realization of what she had done crept into her gin-soaked brain. I guess I just find life-changing bad decisions fascinating.
"We are OK" is the drunk bus driver's equivalent to the drunk "I'm not drunk. I'm fine. I'm not drunk I'm fine. Im not drunk I said I said Im fine. Im said not fine, drunk"