A doctor and a bus driver in love

A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bustrip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?

One for each day he was gone :P That's my best guess ;)

too easy lol 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away' to keep the doc away from her

You got it an apple a day keeps the doctor away... to easy i'll do another.

A common English Word

There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?

nope i got it wrong just editing so i dun look like a fool! :P

Does this work?

Startling
Starting
Staring
String
Sting
Sing
Sin
In
I

You got it.

There were another few, I think. I once formulated a list, I can't remember if it was of 9 letter words though. Could have been 7 or something. Stuff like this:

A I
At It
Rat Sit
Rate Site
Crate Spite
Crater Sprite
Craters Sprites