# Children always walk to School. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 28, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037 "2012-03-28T13:17:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/21 "2012-03-28T19:59:15Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > See, people think it’s great that kids walked/ran to and from school, but they were only running home to vegetate in front of the TV. 🙂 Yes, but we only had a 5% vegetation rate because we only had 4 TV stations AND we had to get up to change the channel, fix the mysterious Vert Hold, and/or readjust the rabbit ears. Watching TV was almost as much work as playing kick the can. ---
**Author:** ![Crab\_Rangoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Crab\_Rangoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crab_Rangoon)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/22 "2012-03-28T20:24:56Z")
I had a double reason to run home, to escape the bullies and to get home for Gilligan’s Island. A three hour tour… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/23 "2012-03-28T20:32:56Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > In what 1950’s universe? There’s a long lineup of cars outside of almost every school I see these days. Doesn’t anyone take the bus anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/24 "2012-03-29T06:52:53Z")
Wait, I know this one. It’s a baseball game! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/25 "2012-03-29T18:46:33Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Doesn’t anyone take the bus anymore? Buses are for perverts and child-stealers. ---
**Author:** ![wheresmymind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@wheresmymind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheresmymind)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/26 "2012-03-29T19:08:58Z")
Because school sucks. This from someone who purposefully stayed in school through my late 20’s. I liked learning, and seeing my friends, etc. but as a kid anything that forced me to wake up at 7 am and kept me inside on a nice day was an evil and nefarious plot by grown-ups whose sole goal was to keep me from having fun. Read some Calvin and Hobbes and you’ll begin to understand. ---
**Author:** ![jacobsta811](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jacobsta811/32/2893_2.png) [@jacobsta811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacobsta811)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/27 "2012-03-30T17:34:44Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > excretory distress develops later in the day. (TMI) Tongue in cheek, perhaps, but it was that way for me- the bathroom stalls didn’t have doors at my school, so I always dropped a deuce first thing after coming home. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037/28 "2012-03-30T18:09:00Z")
They want to make sure the block of ice melts before the detectives get there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/children-always-walk-to-school/617037.md?page=1)