Conductor: Sir, this seat is only for disabled people.
Me, an intellectual: shows this picture I drive this.
Conductor: Sorry to have bothered you, sir.
Lucky I’ve not encountered him, the urge to talk to him like a 5 year old would be too great.
“What a big truck you have! And it’s so high up! I bet you have to do a big jump to get up there. And look, it says “WAR” on the front, that’s fun! Did you put that on yourself, or did you ask a man do it for you?”
I mean, he just turned his Ram logo upside down…
How does one like that get a kid? Like, what woman is into a guy like that, and how does it biologically work with insemination when you have a tiny micro penis like that? I bet the kid is from the milkman or something.
I hear scientists have made it so two xy people can make a baby now and mpreg is gonna be real.
Hey! I have a tiny dick and a tiny car. Do I get a prize?
There’s nothing wrong with having a small penis. There are great ways to compensate, by learning other skills in the bedroom to pleasure your partners. Buying a massive truck isn’t the right way to pleasure a partner, it’s only to show how sad and insecure you are like your other testosterone junky micropenis Chad friends with their mega trucks.
So when you say you have a small car, I’d say you’re doing just fine.
G.I Joe type whip
Kids who never grew up, but in a bad way
That car is also very likely to make a kid never grow up in yet another way.
I love the sunglasses and hat on an overcast day look too. Such manly.
Phototropic glasses exist. I have them, and also often look like a douche getting in a store or car 😁
My eyes are overly sensitive so I wear my shades at some ridiculous conditions.
Uv rays don’t care about clouds
Hey… I’m so glad that guys kid is NOT homeschooled…
Idk I bet that kid has easy access to guns maybe they should stay home
His compensator is compensating
The fact that school pickup lines exist is wild.
Sometimes, the parents forget to pick up the kids so the teachers get to decide if they leave a child all alone with no help or if the teacher works unpaid over time
Greatest country in the world…
No. Bullshit. When I got cut loose from 70s-80s elementary I was on my fucking own. We could walk, ride, skate, whatever. We did not require a fucking adult to care for us. Bell rings? GTFO! BYE!
Idk maybe teachers these days care idk
oh, they definitely don’t care about the kids. They care about getting arrested or sued.
Oh yea dude, people doing thankless low paying jobs that require the same education as jobs that pay much better are sooooo greedy and not at all passionate.
I got screwed at every step of my education. The passion gets ground out of them without them realizing.
It’s always money.
When I first moved to the town I live in now, I was impressed by the all new schools. However I eventually realized they replaced a bunch of older neighborhood schools with a smaller number of bigger schools. They saved money by providing a worse educational experience and making walking less likely.
We walked to my kids elementary school but the town saved money by not plowing the sidewalks in winter, nor forcing residents to. Our walk would require walking on a major street - until my ex went full Karen and made them plow
When my kids got to middle school, we were in “walking” distance so there was no bus. However that was a full mile including crossing a six lane road whose light was always broken, and they didn’t spring for a crossing guard . We ended up choosing a private school in a different town, so there were no buses nor walkability
Regional school districts are now common. More kids goto schools that are not even in their towns
How do you envision kids being picked up after school? Free for all?
Edit: yes I’m doubling down, the people in the replies are idiots.
Obviously walking, biking, or taking the bus is better. Let’s assume that covers 95% of children 95% of the time.
Now what?
I was asking what to do WITH CARS that are picking up kids REGARDLESS OF THE FACT THAT ANOTHER KID MIGHT TKAE THE BUS
In my childhood in Germany kids didn’t need to be picked up or dropped off, we either walked or took public transit (not dedicated school buses either). As far as I can tell that’s still the case where I live. It’s a very different urban design that facilitates it, and it results in more human lives in my opinion.
We had in elementary school this thing called “the line”. End of school day kids would gather at different recognizable points on the playground (“the basketball hoop” or such). Every point had a teacher and/or parent waiting. Then they made all kids hold hands two by two and started walking… Every line went to different corners in the neighbourhood, dropping kids off at home and even seeing they get in / someone is home… I’m pretty sure over 85% of all kids got home every day with this incredibly innovative technology… of volunteer parents. Kids that couldn’t get dropped of at home for some reason (no one home or so) continued back to school where they could play for 1 or 2 more hours until they got picked up… Didn’t realise I lived in a fairy tale land until internet times.
Especially kindergarten/elementary school should just be in the neighbourhood itself unless it’s a really really really tiny town (in which case the innovation would be called: BUS).
America’s choking to death on cars
We envision them taking a bus, walking, or biking home. Not them each getting picked up individually by their parents
When a world without cars is inconceivable, it becomes a presumed condition of the question that the answer must involve cars.
I live in the UK and walk my children to school every day. There is still a line for school pickup/drop-off because not everyone is so lucky.
This isn’t even an American phenomenon.
Some amount of people will be driving cars to pickup and drop-off every day, even if it’s minimized and even if it’s not always the same people.
So it stands to reason they should do it in some kind of orderly fashion as dictated by the school for the safety of, get this, THE CHILDREN ARRIVING BY FOOT, BIKE OR BUS
Meanwhile we have busses that don’t always go anywhere close to everyone’s houses (or if they do, they may take multiple hours to get there after dropping off a hundred other kids), almost non-existent sidewalks in most suburbs, dumbasses who don’t watch for people on bikes, and a court system that’s regularly faulted the person on the bike for getting hit.
Greatest country!
Also, at least where I live, you have to have prior permission to ride the bus. Your parent is going to be late picking you up? Guess you’re waiting outside cause they didn’t pre sign the permission slip!
Ok that’s lovely. And the ones who are being picked up individually by their parents? They don’t wait in a line?
Why would they, there’s like five of them…
I’m sure you can imagine how if there were more then 5 that could become a problem right?
I suppose you are also capable of imagining schools other than your own?
Well in my country if a parent comes picking up their kids by car they have to park their car and walk to the school to pick their kids up. Waiting in your idling car in front of the school while taking up the lane is not allowed.
Yeah that’s why places that routinely have some car pick up come up with ways to manage it, like having dedicated pickup lanes to move parents and children through quickly safely and efficiently.
And just like that you turn even more area around a school into child-unsafe asphalt wasteland, facilitate the private car pick-up further and thus encourage even more people to do the less good way of how to get kids to school. Sometimes fixing a “problem” only creates more, bigger problems. This is one of those times.
All of England seems to manage it fine
I envision walkable communities
Yes that would be lovely, until then though? We don’t bother having queues or rules because Reddit doesn’t think anyone should have a car?
Yes that would be lovely, until then though?
“You’re not allowed to criticize the status quo unless your solution can be done instantaneously”
because Reddit doesn’t think anyone should have a car?
This is a strawman argument
It’s not a criticism of people participating in a shitty system and have little say in the matter. It’s a criticism of a system that forces people to make shitty decisions.
I’m American and just commented:
When I got cut loose from 70s-80s elementary I was on my fucking own. We could walk, ride, skate, whatever. We did not require a fucking adult to care for us. Bell rings? GTFO! BYE!
When my step-son was in elementary, 20-years ago, anything outside of a bus or parent’s car was a non-starter. Fucking pathetic.
Ever heard of a thing called a school bus
Yes, that doesn’t look like a school bus to me though. I assume if he tried to use the school bus lane they’d manage to catch him.
Get rid of this car oriented school design and make walking and biking viable again. Also school buses
Because other countries exist?
I used to walk to school, later bike to school, went to school in a bus etc.
Only times I got picked up/dropped off was when I was sick or had issues with other modes of transport
What country are you assuming I’m assuming exactly? Wasn’t aware there was only one country with both schools and cars
Just commenting to support and remind you upvote/downvote counts are not representative of correctness.
I’m british and although it’s easy easy to believe we all walk and get thr bus, the TRUTH is 6% of our schoolchildren have fully complete end to end transport paid by the state (yes taxis) - this is usually due to negligence of the parents.
There is a real requirement for kids to be picked up by cars and removing that option will only hurt the education of the innocent child.
People on this site are very quick to binary extremism and would immediately struggle if given power of choice over others in real world scenarios.
I feel like I saw this truck on long island. Same truck?
I’m close enough that it’s possible!
What’s amusing is I wanted to get a photo of it but couldn’t and here it is.
There’s a guy with 3 DUIs.
I briefly contracted at SHAP (the plant that builds the 1500) and you’d have to be drunk to buy one of these piles of shit
Saw this description of kid rock and it seems like it applies here too. He’s got tattoos of his kids but not custody.
Kid Rock makes music for people that know the age of consent in every state.
This month.
Small penis alert
But he’s got YUUGGGEEEE balls! You can see them in the back hanging from the trailer hitch.
Gender-affirming care.
Scared of the outside world so it needs a scary face, sitting in a nice comfy air-conditioned cab on big pillowy tyres, lots of lights because the dark is scary. How is this more manly than a bicycle?
Where I am at there’s triple digit hear warnings, so there is a logic to this. On the other I have used my bicycle to pick up my daughter under such conditions so it is possible, but then she rightfully complains about the heat.
Oh HEAT. I went through that whole thing thinking hearing and that the ambient noise levels were above 100dB…
Huh? What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing!
Say it again!
There’s got to be a better way.
Picking up some groceries
Good god, y’all
Um, money duhhh. Just sell to both sides and instigate.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a dash
Some semi-matte olive paint and that mofo could have a Warthog.
