Normally I reserve Wednesdays for whining about something fairly trivial in life. Today, I’m taking this opportunity to post an update to a previous whine about the group of “lazy” parents that would drive their SUVs to the edge of our housing community in order to pick up their kids from the school bus. Call it an “anti-whine”, if you will. As I returned home from getting lunch today, I spotted…

Not-So-Lazy Parents Walking Their Kids Home

I was pleasantly surprised to only find one SUV parked just outside the community gate today. Other than that one “lazy” parent, I happy to see several parents walking their children from the bus stop to their homes.

Did my previous post about the absurdity of driving an SUV 100 feet down the road to pick up kids from a school bus have an effect on them? Highly unlikely. So why the change of routine? Why did I see parents today walking with their kids instead of driving them?

Today is a very nice day. It’s not hot, but not cold. No clouds in the sky. There’s even a slightly cool breeze. Could that be it? Maybe.

Or is it the economy? Perhaps these parents realized that wasting gas by starting their cars, driving down the street, idling, and then turning around and driving back home wasn’t worth it. But I doubt it.

My guess is that I simply saw a different group of parents. Today is Wednesday and that means some schools let out early at 2 p.m. I returned home from getting lunch at around 2:20p.m., so I likely saw the latter half of kids being taken home. It’s entirely possible that the gossip-filled SUV-idling group already came and left. I can’t say for sure.

But either way, since the last post had so many comments (some not so happy with me), I figured it would be a good idea to update the situation on here and say that not ALL parents in my neighborhood are “lazy.” Just a few.