Curious Kid Now Works With His Former Bus Driver
This is a cute story of a bus driver who used to take lots of questions from a curious 5th grader…and now they are colleagues!!
Sam Mencimer was in 5th grade when he took a Washington D.C. Metro bus and would ask the driver, Joy Kenley, a lot of questions about it. Every day, she would patiently answer each one for the 10-year-old. Now it’s 10 years later and Sam WORKS for Metro and wondered if Joy still works there. She does, and they reconnected!
Sam Mencimer was a curious fifth-grader on Joy Kenley’s 54 Metrobus. More than a decade later, he’s a Metro engineer.https://t.co/OeRGaYn36b
— Washingtonian (@washingtonian) November 12, 2025
For nearly two years, as the seasons changed and Sam graduated from elementary to middle school, the two fostered a friendship, one bus stop at a time.