I thought I'd seen the worst in driving habits earlier this week. Unfortunately, I was wrong.

This morning, I was stuck in traffic for about 20 minutes. In that time, I went about 3 miles, all the while remaining in the right lane.

At one point while I was at a standstill, I looked in my rear-view mirror and noticed a car coming up behind me -- in the shoulder to my right. Soon after, two more cars did the same.

I chalked those up to stupidity, but I was not prepared for what would come next: a school bus speeding by, using the shoulder as an express lane.

You see, it's one thing to be stupid when you're the only person in a car. But when you're driving a bus full of kids? Uh-uh. Not good. At all.

I can only hope that the driver had already dropped off his passengers, although I fear he was trying to get them to school as quickly as he could, laws of driving be damned. I didn't notice that the bus got into any accident or was pulled over by a state trooper (who snagged some of the later shoulder users).

Would it have killed the kids to be late? Probably not. But it definitely could have killed them to be on time. I'm sure they made it to school today. Tomorrow, they might not be so lucky.