Pluggers by Rick McKee for February 27, 2015

For 1st thru 6th grade, I did have to walk a mile between home and school and that included going home for lunch(at my school if you didn’t ride the school bus you had to leave school for the hour lunch break. Sometimes, I could catch a ride with one of my neighbors who happened to be a teacher at the same school. Long haul for a six yr old for lunch—mile out and mile back! ! ! ! !

And it was uphill. Both ways.

Carrying your baby sister.

No we carried our lunches with us, so we didn’t have to go home!

2 miles in the rain and snow. now we get 2 ins of snow and school is either delayed 2 hours or cancelled

it may have been 3/4 mile, but winter in Fargo ND made it seem like 5 miles

I love the look on the grandkid’s face. He is obviously not buying Grandpa’s story.

Sounds familiar, except ours was distance. A block away from me, the kids rode the bus. [This was 4th-6th grade.] .But I can’t really complain the other 10 ½ years (including nursery school and kindergarten) I lived no more than 2 blocks from the school – including being able to cut through the block. I never rode a school bus to school.

Been there… done that!

It was a mile then, and a mile now, but I never had to walk it in the snow because at the first sign of it, school was cancelled. Because of its circuitous route, I could get home before my bus-riding sister did.

Uphill both ways.

“And everywhere there were fairies….. they’d push you and pull you and make sure you never got to school.”

And my mother, as a child in snowy Oklahoma Depression days and waiting for the school bus, left a layer of her tongue on a mailbox. Her brothers had dared her to lick the mailbox.