[GH85Carrera]

I totally understand I grew up in a completely different era, the "Leave it to Beaver" generation. I walked to school (barefoot) in first grade. My brother is two and half years older walked with me. In my memory it was a mile or more. I looked it up on Google Earth and it was just 4 blocks of residential neighborhood in Pearl City, HI.

In third grade I rode my bike to school in San Marcos, TX. No bike locks, just park the bike in the bike rack. It was about 1/2 a mile. In 4th grade I walked to school the 4 blocks in Montgomery, AL.

When we lived on bases the Air Force provided an un-air-conditioned bus ride to school. They delivered me to school an hour before school started, so we had to just wait on school to open.

I don't remember dad ever driving us to school. Mom did a for part of one year, only because she was a substitute teacher and filled in when the regular teacher had a day of sick or personal time. It was a real shock to walk into one class and see my mom behind the teacher's desk on day.

I either walked, rode my bike, or rode the bus for my school days. Finally as a senior I was allowed to drive my tire burning 1960 VW bug with 36 HP to school. As I was not a cool kid with a muscle car I had to park in the corner of the lot with the other foreign cars.

I never did get to attend an air conditioned school. It was often 100+ degree in class. Sweat would drip from my nose onto test papers. Midwest City, OK was a HOT school in the summer. So was San Marcos, TX and Montgomery, AL.

Back to reality of 2023.