Father makes bullying son run to school

[mikeyw64]

This kid only lives a mile from school and catches the bus? Geez, he should be walking every day


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbm6URH5bQo

[Conrad]

I don't get it. It seems that kids can't be expected to walk anywhere anymore.

I live in a small town of under 600 people. The town has a kindergarten through 8th grade school. When my sons attended school there they walked or rode their bikes as we live about 4 blocks from the school. A few years ago the town insisted that we all needed sidewalks so that the kids can walk to school safely. Ok, I'll buy that, I guess. Not like there's that much traffic but whatever. So they received a partial grant from the state for the sidewalks. BUT, nearly all the kids in town ride the school bus!!! Even kids that live two blocks from the school ride the damn bus. WTF?   

[Nosmo]

When I was in school, I walked 20 miles, uphill both ways, in the snow, at night, with no shoes, carrying 45 pounds of books, and on the way I had to kill and skin a squirrel or opossum for my lunch each day, then do 16 hours of chores every evening before finishing my homework, milking the cows and herding the cattle.

But we didn't seem to have quite so many child molesters and serial killers back then as now.  Except for Ted Bundy, he lived around here and killed one of my high school classmates.

But you're right, kids expect to be driven everywhere, nobody walks anymore, and I never even see kids on bicycles.  We rode our bikes all over the place.  But we didn't have to surf the phone and text every two minutes back then, either.

Times change.

[Conrad]

When I was in school, I walked 20 miles, uphill both ways, in the snow, at night, with no shoes, carrying 45 pounds of books, and on the way I had to kill and skin a squirrel or opossum for my lunch each day, then do 16 hours of chores every evening before finishing my homework, milking the cows and herding the cattle.

But we didn't seem to have quite so many child molesters and serial killers back then as now.  Except for Ted Bundy, he lived around here and killed one of my high school classmates.

But you're right, kids expect to be driven everywhere, nobody walks anymore, and I never even see kids on bicycles.  We rode our bikes all over the place.  But we didn't have to surf the phone and text every two minutes back then, either.

Times change.

Dang! You mean to tell me that you couldn't fashion some shoes out of all those animals skins while on the way to school?   

[O.C.]

School.....what's school   

[FTB530]

When I was in school, I walked 20 miles, uphill both ways, in the snow, at night, with no shoes, carrying 45 pounds of books, and on the way I had to kill and skin a squirrel or opossum for my lunch each day, then do 16 hours of chores every evening before finishing my homework, milking the cows and herding the cattle.

But we didn't seem to have quite so many child molesters and serial killers back then as now.  Except for Ted Bundy, he lived around here and killed one of my high school classmates.

But you're right, kids expect to be driven everywhere, nobody walks anymore, and I never even see kids on bicycles.  We rode our bikes all over the place.  But we didn't have to surf the phone and text every two minutes back then, either.

Times change.

I don’t know what you consider as “ back then” but 45 years ago two of my class mate/friends were kidnapped and murdered, I think it has been bad forever ,you just didn’t hear about it as much because of social media, I read a book called California Snatch Racket , that book is based on cases only in California , theses crimes are nothing new!

[maxtog]

I don’t know what you consider as “ back then” but 45 years ago two of my class mate/friends were kidnapped and murdered, I think it has been bad forever ,you just didn’t hear about it as much because of social media, I read a book called California Snatch Racket , that book is based on cases only in California , theses crimes are nothing new!

That is certainly a factor, especially in the last few decades.  The media is so starved for sensationalistic, emotive, and polarizing content to capture the views of people with increasingly smaller attention spans, they scour everything.

[B.D.F.]

Yeah, kids used to be tougher, smarter, etc., etc. when we were kids.

But I bet most of us on this forum, myself at the head of the pack, would be reduced to a snively, whinny mess if we broke the remote (any one of them!) to our TV's. Just like Mary Jane Tinklepants.....  So do not fool yourself(s), it is not just the kids getting softer IMO.

Of course I am still tough and could easily walk a mile..... as long as someone gave me a ride most of the way.... to the doorstep. But I could easily get out of the car all by myself with very, very little help.   

Brian

This kid only lives a mile from school and catches the bus? Geez, he should be walking every day


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbm6URH5bQo

[Conrad]

Yeah, kids used to be tougher, smarter, etc., etc. when we were kids.

But I bet most of us on this forum, myself at the head of the pack, would be reduced to a snively, whinny mess if we broke the remote (any one of them!) to our TV's. Just like Mary Jane Tinklepants.....  So do not fool yourself(s), it is not just the kids getting softer IMO.

Of course I am still tough and could easily walk a mile..... as long as someone gave me a ride most of the way.... to the doorstep. But I could easily get out of the car all by myself with very, very little help.   

Brian

I'll be that if you had enough of an incentive that you'd easily be able to walk a mile. Like say for TV remote batteries or the like. 

[mikeyw64]

I'll be that if you had enough of an incentive that you'd easily be able to walk a mile. Like say for TV remote batteries or the like.

I normally walk about 1 -1.5 miles twice a day pretty much 7 days a week

[FTB530]

When I was in school, I walked 20 miles, uphill both ways, in the snow, at night, with no shoes, carrying 45 pounds of books, and on the way I had to kill and skin a squirrel or opossum for my lunch each day, then do 16 hours of chores every evening before finishing my homework, milking the cows and herding the cattle.

But we didn't seem to have quite so many child molesters and serial killers back then as now.  Except for Ted Bundy, he lived around here and killed one of my high school classmates.

But you're right, kids expect to be driven everywhere, nobody walks anymore, and I never even see kids on bicycles.  We rode our bikes all over the place.  But we didn't have to surf the phone and text every two minutes back then, either.

Times change.

When I read your first paragraph I thought you might be my dad lol, but I know better, heard that story for years until I was old enough to figure it out!

[B.D.F.]

I would never do that. I would walk to the phone, call my wife and see if she could 'swing by' and pick up some batteries. Should that fail, I would dial 911 and simply report the emergency that I truly had and expect some first responders to bring me some immediately. If that failed, I could report a fire, then ask the firemen / rescue personnel if they had any batteries with them and hey, I think the odds are pretty good that they would.

Another option would be to call the local Chinese restaurant that delivers: I would order Wonton soup, a PuPu platter for two, some Lo Mein and finally, some AAA batteries. So I could eat while watching TV from the comfort of my couch, then sit back and feel my butt grow. Life is good in America.

Brian

I'll be that if you had enough of an incentive that you'd easily be able to walk a mile. Like say for TV remote batteries or the like.