My parents walked to school in below zero temperatures and it was uphill both ways. My kids now have similar experiences they can share with their kids. The sun was shining today, how deceiving that was. I can actually explain my insanity on this one.
#1: I hate driving in the car. It probably goes back to my 15th year, the first day I had my learner's permit, driving on a farm road and crashing right into the side of a horse trailer, spooking the horse and causing $2k worth of damage. It was less than a block from where I started from. As the cop was issuing a ticket for an "unsafe left turn", my mother was arguing that me even driving a car was unsafe. My disdain for driving is possibly related to the fact that I am a bad driver.
#2: I am fanatic about wasting certain resources (paper towels, heat, gas). I feel like I am wasting gas if I don't have at least two stops on every trip out of my driveway.
#3: I read an article on the causes of childhood obesity a while back and the author cited a substantial decrease in kids that walk to school as a contributing factor of the national crisis. I pledge to the magazine then and there that I would not be responsible for my children getting obese just because I drove them to school.
When I got home I checked the weather, the wind chill was -2. I did promise that I would bring the car to pick them up. We headed to the grocery store after school, just so it was a two stop trip.
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I am with you on not driving more than absolutely necessary. We even had a discussion about whether or not we could just sell the car and go without. Unfortunately, we had to decide to keep the car.
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