Or you could walk...

Every day when I walk home from school, there are, on average, 5 cars parked around the little circle-type thing in front of my house. No, someone does not have daily parties...no, there is no home business in one of my neighbours' houses...and no, people on my street do not have an abnormally large number of cars. These are parents, come to pick up their kids from school. The elementary school is about a 2 minute walk from my house through a little path-type thing, so then kids walk 2 minutes to their parents awaiting cars and get a 30 second (at most) drive home. You see...the boundaries for the school are all within walking distance, hence the reason we don't have buses. And it's condensed, it's a subdivision for goodness sakes. And it really isn't that far to the farthest point of the boundary, maybe a 10 minute walk? 15? ...Really, when you think about it, it's not that far. Not only is my street busy, but, holy cow, you should see the street actually in front of the school. It's pretty much impossible to drive by there at 3pm on a weekday, that's just how busy it is. Give me a freaking break. Ok, I suppose I can cut some slack for some people who live the furthest away, maybe it is a far walk, or if your child is really young and you don't feel safe letting them walk home alone. But I know there is at least one family who lives a little way down from my house on the main street, and every single freaking day, the mom is out there in her huge-ass tank of an SUV, idling in her car, waiting for her 12 year old and 14 year old kids. Ok. so let's just think about how much gas she's wasting idling, first of all. Not only wasting gas, but polluting our air, and not only idling, but actually driving to and from her house to school in the morning and after school. And those kids can WALK they're plenty old enough. Most people are similarly not THAT far away. And let me tell you, it was NEVER like this when I went to school there, 4 years ago, so why has it started to get worse? HELLO PEOPLE. You're polluting our air NEEDLESSLY every day just so you can pick up your lazy kids from school. THEY CAN WALK. A little exercise never hurt anyone.