Forbidden Donut

Just for fun I took a look at google maps to see how long it'd take me to walk to my old High School from my house. 2 hours and 3 minutes... I'm glad we had buses. Even more so, because we had no sidewalks.




Four day school weeks could be super-awesome or ruin your summer. I think I'd enjoy three day weekends every week though.

Back in highschool, I lived in a suburb out west and had to commute a 35 minute ride to my highschool...they had some strange busing practices in Dade County. My neighbors down the block who attended the same school, had a bus stop and everything, but I didn't...weird.

i had to walk at least half a mile to my bus stop to be on a bus for 45+ minutes to get to my middle school. i tried the google thing too and it wouldn've been an hour and half walk for me.

You guys have nothing on my childhood commute:

Elementary school: I had to walk a whole half mile (10 minutes).
Middle school: It only gets rougher. I had to walk 150 feet (30 seconds?).
High school: I really don't know how I did it. But I somehow managed to walk the quarter mile every week day (4 minutes).

I think that long and perilous commute probably contributed to my only being at school 25% of the time during my senior year.

I can't believe I was never allowed to bus.

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Shenanigans! I know where you live and it's more than a mile away! HAHA! caught you.

neener neener.

I met a bus at the end of my driveway for elementary school. And into a bit of middle school. Moved, and walked 1/5 mi. everyday.

Back in middle school I remember a kid that lived 2 houses down from the school. He took the bus.

hated that kid

I walked 100 feet everyday from my car in the parking lot to the school....

Wow, Phey. You were old enough to drive in elementary school, or did your parents drive you everyday?

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My parents drove me until I was old enough to drive. I never once road the bus to school in the morning. I rode it home on occasion. I lived at least 5 miles from the school though, maybe a little farther then that away.

A good idea depending on the geographic location -- having kids walk to school in sub-zero temps may not be the best idea. I remember waiting at the bus stop for a couple minutes in elementary/middle school was brutal -- I can't imagine walking the distance (my house was 1 mile from elementary and 2 miles from middle). I got rides or drove throughout high school -- much better.

On a different note...



one of the banks I audit/monitor is in Clara City. There's a (not-so) fun fact for you.

I used to walk about a mile and a half to my school when I was in Korea, this was with my friends during our elementary years which was 6-8.

Then in Hawaii I walked to school that was about a 3/4 miles away from my apartment everyday because I was accustomed to walking to school in korea and that was 3,4, 1/2 of 5th grade.

Then I came to NH and realized everyone was fucking lazy.

Being cold isn't bad for kids, or adults. Only infants and the elderly. Unless we're talking sub-zero and then it's just downright dangerous. But with a coat on? You're kids are safe out there for hours. Dangers include: frostbite, hypothermia, and discomfort. Not: the flu, the flu, or the flu.

/pet peeve
//I hate all those danger stories told to kids.

also on the list:
Stranger Danger
Eating off the floor of your kitchen
Swimming after eating

when I was a kid, youngsters, we used to have to walk over 10 miles of hardpacked, frostbitten goddamned cold earth, over the farms and creeks, just to reach the one-room bungalow the selectmen designated as our village school. yessum, those were the days....

At least your walk wasn't uphill both ways.

-dan

Obviously it was down hill both ways, sliding into creeks and steaming cow patties.