We said, "Because if you don't give us two drivers by Monday morning, we're going to shut your bus company down." Oh, he was a boastful kind. He said, "No Negroes want to stop riding my bus."

I've been a pharmacist for 40 years now, and Monday morning I didn't want to come to work because I knew what would await me. Basically, we've got a travesty on our hands.

That's where their office was, at the time, and talked with the manager about hiring two black drivers. He said he didn't have any openings.

The procedure that's outlined in our transportation manual is that bus drivers may drop off students, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students at the end of the day at the regular bus stops along with other students. They are not required to stay and wait for parents or guardians before dropping off their students.

A Monday morning quarterback

You're out again? You're supposed to be our bus driver and now both of our bus drivers (Yao and Tracy McGrady ) are underneath where you keep the luggage. Giving us no help. Look at this, there's sweat on me and there's none on you. You're lying in the bed, taking it easy for six months. I had a cracked rib, and I was back in three weeks.