Doing the happy dance

[PFactorDave]

Today was the first day of school for my kids.   

[Qrsu]

Thought you were going to say that you won the lottery but this is great news too. 

[F22RaptorDude]

School started for me a week ago 

[CAP1]

Today was the first day of school for my kids.   

 bear in mind, this is coming from a non-parent........

 i friggin HATE when kids are in school. their parents insist on driving them, when they're only 1/4 mile away. the bus stops here for one kid, drives about 300 yards, and stops for another kid. there's extra traffic, thanks to the kids that are old enough to drive to school....and they do so poorly. there's cops at every corner, giving ya the stink eye, 'cause(in my case) my vehicle is loud. kids step right out in front of ya, when you're almost impossibly close to the crosswalk.
 it takes me nearly double the time to get to work once school starts.

[F22RaptorDude]

bear in mind, this is coming from a non-parent........

 i friggin HATE when kids are in school. their parents insist on driving them, when they're only 1/4 mile away. the bus stops here for one kid, drives about 300 yards, and stops for another kid. there's extra traffic, thanks to the kids that are old enough to drive to school....and they do so poorly. there's cops at every corner, giving ya the stink eye, 'cause(in my case) my vehicle is loud. kids step right out in front of ya, when you're almost impossibly close to the crosswalk.
 it takes me nearly double the time to get to work once school starts.

I walk to school because I live about 1 and a half miles from my school

[TonyJoey]

I walk to school because I live about 1 and a half miles from my school

Uphill? Both ways? AND in the snow? What a trooper! 

[F22RaptorDude]

Uphill? Both ways? AND in the snow? What a trooper! 

I hate riding the bus, and I have walking in snow just sayin. I get home almost an hour earlier than my bus does.

[Babalonian]

Today was the first day of school for my kids.   

LAUSD started school this monday and is aparently letting kids out earlier though, the first time they've ever signifigantly changed the school schedule that I can remember. 

Personaly, this being So Cal, starting school in August just seems so Un-American to me.

[Delirium]

i friggin HATE when kids are in school. their parents insist on driving them, when they're only 1/4 mile away. the bus stops here for one kid, drives about 300 yards, and stops for another kid.

Worse yet, at my daughter's school the parents all gather at the bus stop the first day of school and drink coffee and chat. After the kids get picked up by the bus (which takes forever, because the parents are taking photos), the parents all drive to the school and watch the kids get off the bus for more photos.

You'd really hate it here, Cap.

[Babalonian]

bear in mind, this is coming from a non-parent........

 i friggin HATE when kids are in school. their parents insist on driving them, when they're only 1/4 mile away. the bus stops here for one kid, drives about 300 yards, and stops for another kid. there's extra traffic, thanks to the kids that are old enough to drive to school....and they do so poorly. there's cops at every corner, giving ya the stink eye, 'cause(in my case) my vehicle is loud. kids step right out in front of ya, when you're almost impossibly close to the crosswalk.
 it takes me nearly double the time to get to work once school starts.

Cap, there are longer spanning runways in this world than the distance between my office and UCLA.  Mind you, with the Los Angeles Federal Building, a chunk of Wilshire Boulevard, and Westwood between us.  To top it off, we all jam on the same freeway and get funneled through the same (Sepulveda) pass (the half-majority that travels northbound to get home.  And the entire pass is currently undergoing construction for freeway widening).  

Tell me about it.  There are only two good times to be on the freeway through the Sepulveda pass when UCLA is in session, between 9pm and 6am and on Jewish holidays.  The worst is the first two weeks of school, topped by the last two weeks of finals (and you KNOW when it's finals week).

[Dichotomy]

After 13 years of doing the school supply dread and the back to school clothes thing I'm loving it this year.  In fact Squid and I are getting a HUGE kick out of watching the walking dead man look on the faces of the parents and kids doing their back to school shopping... muahahahahahahaha

[CAP1]

Worse yet, at my daughter's school the parents all gather at the bus stop the first day of school and drink coffee and chat. After the kids get picked up by the bus (which takes forever, because the parents are taking photos), the parents all drive to the school and watch the kids get off the bus for more photos.

You'd really hate it here, Cap.

i should clarify.....i have no issues with parents being sure their kids are safe. but i mean.....c'mon.......i don't know anyone my age that didn't walk to school from about 4th grade on, if it was in decent walking distance.
 in my case, ythe grade school i went to is exactly 1 mile as one had to drive.....slightly less walking, due to short cuts. the highschool was about 2 miles.
 since all of our parents had taught us silly stuff, like looking before crossing a street, wait till it's clear, if in doubt, wait, etc.......well....we all survived.
 it seems that today, everyone thinks their kids are too good to walk. or even to walk 300 yards and stand with another kid waiting for the bus, rather than make it stop twice.

 you're right.....i'd blow a head gasket waiting for mom to take pictures of precious, whilst her cadillac escalade idles in the middle of the road. 

 sorry if i'm sounding miserable.......but as always, i tend to say(or in this case type) what i think, when i think it.....and i'm generally pretty straightforward. some people like me for it.....most hate me for it. 

[CAP1]

After 13 years of doing the school supply dread and the back to school clothes thing I'm loving it this year.  In fact Squid and I are getting a HUGE kick out of watching the walking dead man look on the faces of the parents and kids doing their back to school shopping... muahahahahahahaha

 

know what i wore to school? jean, tee shirt, and boots. i had a lot of variety. sometimes i'd roll the sleeves up. sometimes, i'd tuck in my teeshirt. sometimes, i'd get bold, and uncuff my jeans, and untuck my shirt. when i was feeling spiffy, i'd polish my boots.

 yea.....those were the days.........

[tmetal]

I sorta had to do both. We lived almost 14 miles from the schools so i rode the bus to and from, but the bus stop was a half mile away from the house. Up hill in the mornings and down hill in the afternoons. It wasn't too far of a walk, but it was one I had to make rain, shine, or worse.

[CAP1]

I sorta had to do both. We lived almost 14 miles from the schools so i rode the bus to and from, but the bus stop was a half mile away from the house. Up hill in the mornings and down hill in the afternoons. It wasn't too far of a walk, but it was one I had to make rain, shine, or worse.

most times in the rain, grand mom would take us, or grand pop would try to get out of work early(he worked on pennsylvania railroad), and take us. in snow, we still walked most of the time.

 back then(i'm talking in the 70's) it didn't seem like such a big deal. we were outside, so who cared? it could've been worse.....we could've been home schooled, and stuck in that dam house all day............