Now came a tense period of tracking down the bus— calling the camp, which emailed the bus company, which had to find the driver….
I heard this story from the father of a choshuve yeshivah bochur. All names have been changed.
This past summer, my son Shaya went to Camp Mechaya in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania — quite a distance from our home in Lakewood. At the end of camp, he was supposed to return home on a Lakewood-bound bus. But after Shaya loaded all his belongings onto the bus, he thought he had a minute to use the bathroom. When he got back, he found the bus had left without him — and with all his stuff.
Fortunately, Shaya was able to speak to a counselor nearby, who arranged a ride for him back to Lakewood in a camp van. Then he called us to explain what had happened, and to make sure that I would meet his missed bus to collect his belongings. I managed to make it over to the drop-off point and pick up his luggage.
But when I picked up Shaya later from the van drop-off point, we realized the bus driver had unloaded Shaya’s bags from the luggage hold — but not his tefillin bag and hat box. Shaya had brought those items onto the bus and placed them on the rack above the seat, and the driver missed them.
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