"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg)
08/18/2014 at 18:35 • Filed to: morons, school
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"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg)
08/18/2014 at 18:35 • Filed to: morons, school | 4
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The 15 minutes or so that I spend waiting to pick my brother up from school every day never fail to entertain. Today, for instance, I watched a fully grown woman in a Caravan block another woman from going in front of her (she ought to have let her go) and then stop in the middle of the road and stick herself out the window so she could blow raspberries and thumb her nose at the other woman. I shit you not. Even when that doesn't happen, it's a regular circus of people parking in any way they can think of in order to block traffic save a minute, oblivious people driving the wrong way down the one-way (and thus blocking traffic) and people trying to pass each other on a narrow, two-way road with cars parked on both sides. Yesterday, for instance, a UPS delivery truck nearly backed into me trying to make a corner while navigating around a wrong-way driver. Another woman simply parked her van across the mouth of the exit driveway for the parking lot, trapping all the school buses inside. I get my dash cam next week. I'm not going to be one of those "bad drivers" dash-cammers, but as long as I have it, I can't wait to see what sort of stupidity I catch at pick-up.
One of these would be bloody helpful.
PatBateman
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
08/18/2014 at 18:37 |
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lone_liberal
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
08/18/2014 at 18:41 |
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Can I ask parents a question about this? I will anyway. Why do all kids get picked up these days? My school years were a mixture of walking and the bus depending on where we lived. I don't remember these huge lines of parents massing every afternoon like happens now. What happened?
K-Roll-PorscheTamer
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
08/18/2014 at 18:43 |
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What you actually need is this.
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sm70- why not Duesenberg?
> lone_liberal
08/18/2014 at 18:48 |
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We grew lazy.
Literally. My brother's school is an mile from the house. And on days when I drive from my dad's house to the HS without him, I drive about 1500 feet to school. There are reasons for this. Partly I'm lazy, and partly because I usually have stuff after school. Still, on paper, I'm a horrible offender.
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lone_liberal
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
08/18/2014 at 18:53 |
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Laziness is a reason that I can relate to and understand. I just checked a map and the route I walked from K-3rd grade was about 10 blocks, which I did by mostly by myself or with school friends. Nobody's parents took them to or from school. That would have been weird.
davedave1111
> lone_liberal
08/18/2014 at 19:06 |
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I just can't understand why you'd want to be picked up. When I was that age, after we got let out was the best part of the day. Every now and then someone's parents would be passing, or visiting the school, or something, and we'd get a lift - which was nice sometimes, but it's not like we'd have wanted parental supervision for most of the stuff we got up to.
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lone_liberal
> davedave1111
08/18/2014 at 19:09 |
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Yeah, there would be days when it was raining or really cold that being picked up would have been nice, but those after school hours were the best times for being a kid.
Saf1
> sm70- why not Duesenberg?
08/18/2014 at 19:19 |
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Do it, I'd love to see a compilation of varying levels of aggression! Don't let the Russians have all the dashcam fun!!
Conan
> lone_liberal
08/18/2014 at 19:43 |
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It makes no sense to me at all and I've taught school for years now.