A young man asked me to take him home after practice one day. We wound the roads down and around Salem Valley over to Paint Rock back down to McMinn County finally reaching our destination. Having grown up in the Midway community I knew the roads pretty well and knew there was a much shorter route that we could have taken to reach our destination. I asked the young man, who had only lived in the area for a short time, if he realized that we could have cut about 15 miles from our trip by going another way to which he promptly replied, “But Coach, that’s the way the bus goes.”
Story submitted by Coach Stan Branson