I do admit that I drag my feet to work on Monday mornings, but I never thought I was taking my life into my own hands until today when I almost got flattened by a school bus. You see, I walk along a one-way street -- eastward in the morning and westward at night. Twice a day, I am faced with the difficult task of crossing the intersection where two one-way streets come head-to-head as cars from both lines of traffic make their way south.

I'm as experienced at crossing the street as I am at working on Mondays. I enter the intersection with great care and by now know that Mondays are eventually followed by a Friday, But what happened this morning upset the order of things. As I was cautiously entering the dreaded intersection, a big -- what I always thought of as friendly -- yellow school bus charged at me.

The bus did stop when the driver saw me waving a threatening fist but left me a little shocked. It has shaken all of life's truths -- school buses are not necessarily friendly and, if you're not careful making your way to work on Monday, Friday may never come. Of course, there's only one solution to this problem: forget about coming to work on Mondays.

Josée