That old bus  2
By Mark Garamendi (1)

The bus the old yellow blue bird bus those were the days.  After they brought the bus to the Spanish Fork LZ we had to fix the motor Richard our PM bought  a new engine for it. Rabbit our mechanic started working on it I remember that they painted the motor all different colors it was cool. After the Spanish fork line we moved to Bear River Service area to start a new line. Most of the crew was living in Heber city  so the bus traveled from Heber to Bear River Service every day and back. One day traveling back to Heber after work the bus was around the soap stone camp ground  area when  a car came up behind the bus a couple of the crew decided to have some fun they had some eggs and they stated to pelt this car with eggs well the car back off and that was it NOT. The next day Richard the PM had a visitor at the LZ it was the person that was egged AKA  off duty Utah Highway Patrolmen he was pissed after talking with Richard and finding out who through the eggs  Richard told the 2 crew members that they were Fired and to get there gear .The Officer was happy with the ending so he left Richard told the 2 crew members that they was fired today and would be rehired tomorrow morning see Richard thought it was funny as hell and he did not like the law anyway.
 Another time on the same job someone found an old buck deer skull spike on one side and a 2 point on the other well we decided to wire tie this skull to the grill off the bus some time after that the bus was on its way home to Heber when they hit  a cow freaked everyone out  but they kept driving later they checked out the front end of the bus and the grill had a small bow in the grill but nothing to serious but the deer skull was gone . I have always wonder if anyone found that dead cow with that skull imbedded in its side.
 The last trip for that bus on this job the crew decided to go to Heber Via Evanston  WY. We stopped in at the Whirl Inn totally load that bus with beer Old English malt  liquor  Whiskey you name it it was on the bus . Well we left Evanston  headed  for Heber Brad was our designated driver kind off he was only drinking foster lagers well Brad finished his foster and said watch this guys keep in mind he is driving the bus he take the can turns it side ways and slams it into his forehead it only had a small dent in the can so he tried again this time it collapsed and so did Brad we had to grab the wheel of the bus brad was half way out well he recovered and regained control and drove us to  the rest stop just east of the mouth of echo canyon  we all need to take a leak. Ok this is the drill crew we did care what anyone thought about us we all stood on the passenger side of the bus  and did our business well in the middle of all this someone jumped in the bus and pulled it forward so here is 20 guys standing  in a line taking a leek on the lawn of the rest stop  Ok now it gets interesting Brad was our driver when he seen the bus moving forward he took off running for the bus jumped on the hood and kicked in the drivers window shattering the wind shield. Ok we still had 50 or 60 miles to drive home but we managed and later we told Richard that we hit an owl on the way home he never did believe us  I don’t know why.