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I notice it most when the situation is different to my memories. Earlier this week I took a bus at school ending time. Several children — roughly 8-12 years o

• conductr 2y ago
  This is sad to me as the school bus was some of the best memories of my childhood. I don’t even know why particularly, but I think after being in cooped up in school all day we just got to act like fools and joke around on the bus. We even did this thing where we’d run as fast as we could to get the back seats of the bus. Having typed all that I realized my kid is in a bus free school, we parents are responsible for transportation, and he’ll never even experience it at all. I’m sure he won’t miss it. Was more of a sign of the times for my era than a necessity for a good childhood but, if you’re on a bus with dozens of peers and all glued to your phones, it does feel like some missed opportunities
  • Symbiote 2y ago
    > we parents are responsible for transportation, and he’ll never even experience it at all. I’m sure he won’t miss it. Taking a normal city bus home from school was wonderful for me. I think it was the first time I had some independence from my overprotective parents. I could "miss" the bus, which gave me 15 minutes to look round the Warhammer shop (or similar) before the next bus. I could more-or-less spontaneously go to a friend's house and phone my parents from there — they wouldn't be left waiting to pick me up from school.