making lemonade

Today, the bus driver never came to pick up our kids for their afternoon jobs.  When my favorite student (I didn't say that) Roger heard the news, he threw his hands in the air and said, "Well, what can we do?!"  Then, without much hesitation, he answered his own question: "Wait!  Before the break, the bus didn't come, and we had a Christmas party.  Let's just do that!"