Grammar School Days

[PAUL161]

This reminds me of when I was in grammar school and had to walk about two miles to and from school! Didn't think anything about it then as it was a normal wintertime event!

 

[bobhustead]

Yeah, that snow paved trudge to and from school, uphill both ways, was tough according to my mother.
Bob

 

[mikephillips]

There can be plusses to going to school in the snow. Many years ago at about age 15 the school bus I tool went off the road making a turn on a country road, fortunately right in front of a house. There were about 6-7 of us on the bus and the homeowner said he'd take us in his car to school. Not enough seats for everyone and so I ended up on the backseat with a girl a couple years older, in cheerleader costume, on my lap for the 15 minutes or so drive in the snow in. At that age, it was the center of conversation with my buddies since she normally didn't even know I existed...

 

[JPSmit]

Yeah, that snow paved trudge to and from school, uphill both ways, was tough according to my mother.
Bob

And not only that, when I was that age the snow was all the way up to my waist. Now it only ever comes to my knees.

 

[Basil]

This reminds me of when I was in grammar school and had to walk about two miles to and from school! Didn't think anything about it then as it was a normal wintertime event!

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I can remember thinking that when I was a kid, I had to walk miles in the snow to get to school. I went back to my hometown as an adult to visit relatives and realized that the school was about two blocks from the house. Sure seemed like miles when I was a little kid.

 

[John Turney]

I can remember thinking that when I was a kid, I had to walk miles in the snow to get to school. I went back to my hometown as an adult to visit relatives and realized that the school was about two blocks from the house. Sure seemed like miles when I was a little kid.

Of course it was further, you were smaller.

 

[mikephillips]

Before we moved out into the country I'd walk 6-7 blocks to school as a 2nd grader. Not many would let their little ones walk that far unescorted anymore...

 

[AngliaGT]

I looked out my window this afternoon & saw a small suv blocking our driveway,
with it's driving lights on.I thought that was rude that they blocked our driveway,when
there's plenty more places to park on both sides of the road.
Turns out that it was a parent picking up his teenage son who walked up from the
high school that's about a block away.He then backed into our driveway (he was parked-
on the wrong side of the street),turned around,& headed up the street,which is about 1-1/2 blocks long.
I wondered "Why not just have the kid walk all the way home?"

 

[John Turney]

“Walking 10 miles in the frigid fighting off bears and coyotes.”

 

[AngliaGT]

This could be part of a Monty Python skit.