The Double-Decker Bus

Print: Charlee Silvester (https://society6.com/product/bus-n7d_print#1=45)

My daughter loves double decker buses. So I wrote a story for her.

The Double-Decker Bus

One Saturday afternoon we took the bus to the beach
It quickly filled with people with more waiting on the street
To fit all these people we had to make the bus bigger and better
So we turned the bus into a double-decker!

Now there's two floors and they're all filled up
But here comes more people trying to catch the bus
To fit all these people the bus needs to be bigger and better
So we turned the bus into a double-double-decker!

Now there's four floors and they're all filled up
But here comes more people trying to catch the bus
To fit all these people the bus needs to be bigger and better
So we turned the bus into a double-double-double-decker!

Now there's six floors and they're all filled up
But here comes more people trying to catch the bus
To fit all these people the bus needs to be bigger and better
So we turned the bus into a double-double-double-double-decker!

Now there's eight floors and everybody's on
Everybody is happy and what could possibly go wrong?
Then we drove into a tunnel and the bus was too tall to fit
So how about we turn the bus into a double-decker rocket ship?

How Many Trees Are In Mount Doug Park?

Have you ever wondered
How many trees are in Mount Doug Park?
Young Emily decided to count them
She got her note pad and made a start

She started in the south
And worked her way north
Counting Maples and Cedars
And Douglas Firs of course

She counted ten, then a hundred
To one thousand and one
Then she got overwhelmed
There was so much counting to be done

Then she spotted an Owl
Perched at the top of tree
He was looking back at her
And he asked quizzically:

"Why are you counting them,
Each one separately?
When they all work together
To support you and me?"

Emily shrugged her shoulders
The Owl was right
She was looking so hard at the trees
That she missed the forest in plain sight

She looked around the Park
And realized that the counting was done
The total number of trees in this forest
Is, and always will be, one.

As seen in the Mount Doug Park Newsletter: http://mountdouglaspark.ca/web/Newsletters/2014-Fall.pdf

No Dogs Allowed On The Bus

Gabby had a dog
And the dog's name was 'Gus'
They wanted to go play at the park
So they decided to take the bus

They walked to the bus stop
And waited with the crowd
But when the bus arrived the driver said,
"Sorry, no dogs allowed"

Gabby and Gus were sad
But she had an idea that was stealth
If there were no dogs allowed
Then she would dress up Gus as something else

So she dressed Gus as a cat
She was a masterful deceiver
But the bus driver said sadly,
"No cats allowed either"

Then she tried dressing Gus as a bird
Then a lizard and then a goat
But no matter what she dressed Gus as
The driver always said, "Sorry, no"

But then she had one more idea
So good that it might just work
Gabby dressed up as a dog
And dressed up Gus to look like her

They walked down to the stop
And when the bus finally arrived
The driver just smiled and said to them,
"Well, you got me this time"

So he let them on the bus this once
As long as Gus promised not to bark
And the girl and the dog
Took the bus to play at the park