If you want to help the environment (oh, and fight childhood obesity at the same time), wouldn't it be a good idea to have your child walk to and ride the bus to school instead of driving them in your hulking SUV, which you then leave idling outside of my house with the other 20 SUVs that have decided to clog up my street on the first day of school while you walk your child to the school's door.
It is probably a false correlation, but the children I've seen getting off the bus are much thinner than the children I've seen getting out of SUVs.
And of course everyone wants the prime spot to double park, so now there is a cacophony of honking and parents shouting at each other. Good lessons for the children!
I think I need to start leaving for work earlier so I don't have to witness this spectacle everyday.
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Thanks for all the Steely Dan love! I've been listening to it in my office now too.
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I am the last person to want to defend SUV drivers -- but I'm apparently going to do it anyway. It's possible, it *may* be, that the school district won't bus children until they live a certain distance from the school, and the limit of said distance may be too far to ask children to walk, either due to time constraints or safety issues.
(This only applies, of course, if you're talking about school buses and not public transportation. And it doesn't explain the people who live 5 blocks away. Or the actual SUVs.)
Posted by Cordelia | September 4, 2008 8:54 PM
Posted on September 4, 2008 20:54