A man named Doug, from Oregon, U.
S was confused when his wife asked him what was on his bucket list. The 60-year-old had no answer and he kept thinking about it. After a few months, he finally realized what he wanted.
Doug told his wife, Amy, he wants a bus so he can drop each of his 10 grandchildren to school every day before coming home and going to work. The couple started working on it and made the Grandfather Express, a small yellow school bus with the name on the side.
After spending months on tracking down one that worked for them they found the bus, which is pre-decorated with magnets of letters and numbers on the ceiling. The added the signage and seatbelts to all the seats.
All of his grandchildren live within 20 minutes of his house and the school is another two to three miles from there. Doug picks each of them from home. Drop them to school, go back home and swap the bus for a car so he can drive to work.
Posting on Facebook, Amy wrote: ”So there we were, enjoying a nice dinner out to celebrate Doug’s 59th birthday last June. Just for fun conversation, I say, “Well, you’re officially going to be old next year, anything you need to check off your bucket list? Anything you need to do in your last year before 60?”
”He was totally bamfoozled. If you know Doug at all, you know that he’s always outward focused – other people’s needs, desires, best good – service to all, always.
What did HE want? What was on HIS bucket list. He was floored. Actually a little disturbed. He couldn’t even comprehend the question. ‘Fast forward a bit, and he’s STILL thinking about that question from his birthday dinner! Who knew he could take it so seriously? Then he turns to me one day and says, ‘I want a bus.
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”Excuse me, what?! ‘ want a bus so I can go around every morning, pick up all the grandkids, and drive them to school before I go to work.
Just a small bus. We’d sing songs, talk, and it would be something unforgettable they did with their grandfather. If money were no object, I’d want a bus.” ‘Anything in the world. Money is no object. And the most this good man can think to ask for is an little, old bus so he can give his grandkids the memory of a lifetime.
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”If that’s the man’s entire, big-dreams bucket list, surely there had to be a way…. ‘Cousins’ Christmas Party was today and for their last Advent gift before our family “Christmas” morning, they got a bus. The Grandfather Express in now in service. I love this man.”
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