These kids today...
So, I’m fully willing to admit that possibly my parents were negligent
assholes. I don’t think they were, but I mean I’m pretty biased. So I
totally don’t want to disregard that as a possibility, though I find
it a very remote one. But on my drive in to work every day I pass through a fairly
residential type of area. And on my journey I pass a decent number of
school bus stops. Now, when I was a wee lad, what you would typically
see is a small cluster of children on a street corner, standing around
looking miserable, maybe some horseplay, probably shivering if it was
cold, and that’s it. Which is still what you see, except with one
small addition: a bunch of parents hovering nearby, either on foot or
more often in their cars right near the bus stop.
know this mainly because it’s been the subject of satire on the
Simpsons a couple times (which is how I gain knowledge about
everything, really). But I mean, I don’t understand this bus stop
thing at all. If you have the time to sit there in your car and wait
for the bus with your kid, what the fuck? Can’t you just drive them
in? It can’t be that far, and I find it hard to imagine that there’s
some environmental reason because school buses probably get around 40
rods to the hogshead. So there seems very little reason for it. And
hell, we were all fine when I was a kid, and this was the 80s, when
everyone was under the influence of crack cocaine and bad television
like Family Ties. It just puzzles me is all. Nobody’s going to steal your fucking kid
from the bus stop. Your child is ugly and poorly behaved. And you’re
just teaching them to be afraid of the world. Get over yourself.
