Spilled to Perfection
Lazy Bastards
I went to my brother’s home this morning, to sweep his driveway. My brother is serving his second tour of duty in Iraq, and my mom and I try to make his home look “lived in” while he’s overseas. We rake the yard, sweep the driveway, feed his dog, etc.
Well, as I’m sweeping the driveway this morning, the school buses were picking up kids in his neighborhood to take to school. But what I noticed was that this one bus driver stopped in front of several homes, some just two doors down from each other, and blew the horn for the kids to come out to board the bus.
Say what? You mean to tell me that the kids are not standing on the corner to catch the bus anymore? I remember when I was a kid, we had to walk a block or two in the rain, sleet or snow to catch the bus. Hell, we were like the mailman, we walked, whether we wanted to or not. Sometimes our parents dropped us off at the bus stop, but that’s neither here nor there.
I say it all the time, and I’m saying it again right now. What kind of punk ass kids are we raising that your child can’t walk a block, not even a damn block most times, to catch the bus? This is a public school bus, not a taxi cab. The bus driver should not be pulling up to your driveway and honking the horn every damn day for your child to take his or her time to board.
If you live in a rural area, then you get a pass. Otherwise, get your lazy ass kids up and make them walk to the bus stop. This adds to the reason why childhood obesity is so rampant in the USA. If the child can’t walk to the bus stop, then how do you expect them to get any exercise? And don’t get me started on the public school system eliminating PE in some schools. Lazy bastards!
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about 1 year ago
Dang lazy kids…I had to walk almost a mile lol
about 1 year ago
I remember we had to walk to catch the bus. And if the bus driver saw you being all slow, she would leave you! My how times have changed.
about 1 year ago
LadyLee, our bus driver burned rubber, leaving you in the dust if you were late, which caused you to either stayed home that day and miss school or arrive late by some other means of transportation.
about 1 year ago
agreed they need to walk.
about 1 year ago
Girl that’s pathetic. The bus drivers in MY neck of the woods, would’ve left them. The only kids that get a pass where I live, are handicap children, and the little Kindergarteners.
about 1 year ago
Tiki, the mentally and physically challenged kids in my area have a special bus that come to pick them up in their driveways. That’s totally different. But these able-bodied kids, they need to get up off their asses and walk to the bus stop!
about 1 year ago
OUCH!!! I am so blessed to have come up in the 70’s. We had music, chess clubs, math clubs, PE. It’s amazing…I lived in a poor area but we had a library and I would walk there, read, imagine. Now our youth have computers with information at their finger tips and do not utilize it. I can’t say this about all youth and generations that are in their 20’s, but it’s sad.
Children today do not have to use their imagination…everything is handed to them and it makes them lazy.
about 1 year ago
maybe it’s a safety concern.
kidnappings do occur at bus stops. so unless the parent can wait with them, i think it’s preferable for them to wait in the house.
about 1 year ago
Summer, that may be the case if there were no other kids at the bus stop as well. But when there are clearly a group of kids waiting for the bus within your eyesight, and your child is sitting in the house waiting for a horn to blow, then something is wrong with this picture.
about 1 year ago
I might have to agree with summer on this. There are so many fat ass kids now that its unbelievable! But, I remember in the 80s some little boy disappered while he was waiting for the school bus and from then on out, I was driven to and from school and school was literally three blocks from my house! People don’t trust anymore.
about 1 year ago
Just other night, our local news reported that a school system in the area wanted to change their bus service routes. Instead of walking .5 miles to school, the district wanted to the kids to walk 1 mile. Sounds fine to me. There were hundreds of parents protesting. WTH? 1 measily mile walk. Lazy!
about 1 year ago
kids these days are super lazy. we walked up a gigatic hill to get to my bus stop. kids are pampered these days.
and btw , i probably won’t be making the game. i had no idea they were playing.
about 1 year ago
I can’t say a whole lot here. I had a driver take me to and from elementary school until I came to the US and then I took the bus or walked for the most part from middle to high school.
about 1 year ago
LayZeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
about 1 year ago
Most kids can do the bus stop thing (I had to walk almost half a mile until I went away to school), but I can see school districts making other provisions for security reasons (Two young girls were kidnapped from their bus stop and later found murdered in the city across the river from me) and kids with special needs.
about 1 year ago
yeah… lazy. I had to walk a mile to my bustop in high school… and there were two hills along the way, so it was uphill both ways… Literally. I lasted at that school from September til December of my freshman year before I snapped and whooped 3 azzes on my last day and made my mother transfer me to another school… lol
about 1 year ago
By no means am I defending the kids but we were raised in a different age and time! Heck if I had some kids I would rather them be called lazy then get snatched trying to walk to a bus stop! Just my opinion!