Back during my years in Elementary school, I was forced to use the bus due to my parents going to work around 5:00 (Which is early in the morning, way too early for them to drive me to school.).
When my sister got her driver's liscense, I traveled by car, which I found to be a more better way to travel to school. Nowadays, I travel by bus due to gas prices and my sister moving to college. And lately, I find the bus to be rather amusing; especially compared to how gloomy it was back when I was little.