I remember walking up hill both ways !!
Now these kids get chauffered ( I don't give a goddamn if I spelled it right ) up to the school's door . I tell ya I think it's disgusting !!
And these kids have fresh mouths . You need to stick a bar of soap in it .
2006-08-24 11:26:21 · 41 answers · asked by phuckyiew 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Only in winter
2006-08-29 22:07:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're absolutely right Grandma Phuckyiew.
They should make the kids push the parents car through the snow to get them to work and then walk to school....with bare feet. And have only a dry lump of cold poison to nibble before going out on the streets to sell matches after school.
It builds character don't ya know!
2006-09-01 10:09:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to walk in the snow in -40 degrees celcius often with the windchill. It's a prairie thing, and the schools are NEVER shut down, even in blizzards.
I think it was a pretty even walk thought. Poor you, uphill both ways.
That's why kids are fatter. It's sad too because they think being lazy is a good thing. Or some do, not all!
2006-09-01 01:09:18 · answer #3 · answered by KeM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree with you to a certain point, and i can remember when i had to either walk to school or get on a public transportation bus because i lived in a walk to school zone. the walk was 2 miles one way ! todays kids are pampered & as you say fresh mouthed. some kids have both parents working & dont have the time to spend with their kids to show them the love & respect they deserve. the kids feed off their peers & dont have parent control, thereby makeing them foul & abuseive to others. they go where they want after school , do what they want till their parents get home from work. they are called latchkey kids. its letting someone or something else do their babysitting. thats why kids are out of control. not all, but most of them should go thru what we as kids had to do to get to school> bet their attitude would change in a hurry!
2006-09-01 01:29:01 · answer #4 · answered by rje46805 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the life of me I cannot remember seeing more then one or two over-weight kids in any of the schools I attended. We either walked or rode a bike to school and home. I only knew one kid in High School that had a car and if you wanted to ride in it you had to help him push it to get it started. Today, you go by a high school and parking lot is jammed full of cars and the streets around the school are over-loaded with kids cars too. Then you've got the BIG Orange buses who pick kids up in front of their homes and transport them back and forth. Plus... take a look at those kids. Three forths of them are so over-weight that they waddle like a duck when they walk.
2006-08-31 03:00:55 · answer #5 · answered by AL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Children are pampered these days too much. I used to walk to school and play outdoor games during weekends or leisure. But these days computers have become the friends and learning to be socially good has become a tough lesson.
Playing in the snow is usually fun. It can be done only during childhood when throwing snow balls on each other if fun,,,falling down and rolling is fun,,, getting cold is fun...
2006-08-24 11:36:05 · answer #6 · answered by srikri 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I did. If anyone lived in Minnesota, you got used to snow. And, being the Duluth is built on a hill for the most part, we did have some hills to walk up in the snow.
2006-08-24 11:31:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Walked to the bus stop about half a mile in a rural place, past a house that had a bunch of mean and illegal dogs. That was till she somehow decided it would be good to leave and some new people whose last name mattered moved in and yelled at the school board for us to have a school bus so they wouldn't have to walk with their kids to make sure we weren't like teaching them our religion or something. :-)
I enjoyed my walk though and missed it, sleet and all. People are LAZY now.
2006-08-24 11:34:47 · answer #8 · answered by *babydoll* 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh the old days of walking to school...hahaha. I was lucky though my school was just across the field...but that meant walking through the field in the snow!!..yikes, so when it really snowed, my socks were wet and my feet were frozen by the time I got to school, then when if finally thawed out..it was time to go back home..through the field....
2006-08-31 05:58:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
12 years I walked to school. When I went to college I took the bus so I was still walking on both ends of that trip.
2006-08-31 10:58:27 · answer #10 · answered by Norman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I walked to school then back home for lunch and then back to school again after lunch then back home again at the end of the day and I went up TWO hills to get to my house. And I was a girl and we weren't allowed to wear pants to school. I froze my butt off.
2006-08-24 11:29:39 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋