Re: An unusual sight

Canopus wrote:
> 
> Kenneth Brody on 04/05/2006 wrote:
> 
> >>It's over £5 per gallon in many parts of the UK now and it doesn't work.
> >>Still the same amount of school-run-mums driving their kids a few hundred
> >>yards to school.
> >
> >ObMovieReference:
> >
> >     "The Gods Must Be Crazy"
> >
> >     One of the opening scenes is a woman driving her car to the end of
> >     the driveway to pick up the mail from the mailbox there, and then
> >     back up the driveway into the garage.
> 
> LOL...I haven't seen it that bad, but, I drive a school bus and the chaos
> outside schools with people picking up their kids, many of them not
> seeming able to drive or park, is amazing.  On quite a few occasions I've
> driven behind someone from the school pick-up only to see them turn into a
> cul de sac 100 yards from the school.  Most don't even seem to drive far
> enough to even warm up their engine giving rise to even more pollution
> from cold catalytic converters and a far greater wastage of fuel.

I drive my kids to school some days.  (It's about 3/4 of a mile from our
house, and they usually take the bus.)  I've noticed that one of the buses
actually picks up some kids from the house at the bottom of the school's
driveway.

When I was in junior high school (called "middle school" in some places --
grades 7 and 8), we didn't qualify for the bus, as we lived about 1-1/2
miles from the school, which was "too close" for bus service.

And, no, I didn't have to walk through the snow, up-hill, both ways.  :-)

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