The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for February 06, 2022

Uphill…both ways! :-)

When I was in high school the superintendent only live about a block from his office and if he could get to work then we had school. Where I live now all it takes is the possibility of snow and they cancel school.

Brutus is right!! Ah, the good old days!!

/SHMIRK/

He was watching the Weather Report at 8:30.

The kids do a lot of walking now days. From home to the car. from school to the car.

There may never be another snow day again with classes online.

But he still got lost on the way! (He never could stop following that Family Circus kid!)

A couple of inches? That’s not even a dusting around here.

That wasn’t Brutus point – Kids are soft today. Mushy peas.

Dad also failed to mention that as a young born loser, he’d get lost crossing the street on his way to school.

my elementary school was down the hill from our house, but to get home after school i had to trudge back uphill for at least two minutes…

Ever wonder how the school bus driver gets to the bus in a snow storm…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_hjxfBhWzA

Hey! Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

wonder how close everyone else is to the school for the snow not to cancel school… wait, how can the snow cancel anything? it’s just snow! it might make things harder, but it can’t cancel stuff unless they mean they’re plans.

One of my favorite weird al yankovic songs is: when I was your age.we had to walk buck naked through 40 miles of snow! LOL

…and it was up hill both ways.

On the way to and from school, I had to cross a large cow pasture with a creek running through it. Occasionally, I had to contend with a bull that didn’t appreciate my presence…

Hey Bru, in that last panel you got that laid back smug look for Sunday. Enjoy

But the street was I-71!

To people in the mid Western states like Illinois and the Dakotas, a couple of inches is like a day at the beach.

Lucky guys, both of them. We didn’t school busses. We had to walk or ride our bikes, though no more than about a mile or so. Lot of times in the rain, but never in the snow…..

Poor daddy, he could never skip school. And when he was sick, his friends and teachers came to check on him at recess haha

Every since the mid-point of the pandemic, when people figured things out, a lot of kids did webcam classes. I would venture a guess that because of the introduction of that option, “snow days,” will be a thing of the past. We just had a mild snowstorm of about 16 inches, and I don’t believe classes were canceled, just moved on-line.

Why, when I was boy, we had to walk two blocks to the bus stop whether it was raining warm rain or not. :)

Does anyone else remember standing in below zero weather in a mini skirt and a short jacket waiting up to 30 minutes for the school bus to show up? My mom insisted I go early, and I did, because if I missed the bus, I had to walk 3 miles to school because she wouldn’t drive me.

When I was in the military I went back to my aunt’s house on leave and drove the distance from the high school to where she used to live. It really was about 6 miles. And while there was a city bus I could take, I usual beat it to the school. Fortunately it didn’t snow that much, but rained almost daily.

You got snow, why we don’t know what the hell it is!

but it was uphill and into the wind both ways

grew up in RI, from 5th grade through 8th grade, you had to walk to school, and i googled it – it was 1.6 miles one way

Busted, Brutus. Never tell a story like that when the person who knows the truth—and will not hesitate to tell it—is standing right behind you!

From 4th grade to 6th I walked a mile to the other end of the borough to school and then back again in the afternoon. I managed to hook a ride in a neighbor’s car when she picked up her two boys, once, because it was raining hard.

I could actually walk both ways uphill in the snow, depending on my route.

Today I got ready to go to the hospital for dog therapy work and my garage door was frozen to the concrete. I tried to loosen it with a screwdriver, sliding it underneath, but it was too deep. I dug around, found a very, very old tire iron, and took care of it. I hope the condo association will cover the repairs to my garage door. We pay for snow removal. The ice was almost an inch thick at the top of my driveway, and it should have melted downward. I made it to the hospital and oddly spoke with a new daddy (baby born this morning!) whose dad used to own a garage door company. He said I did everything correctly to get out, including not burning out my garage door opener. Any time spring wants to start, I am ready.

Brutus, I have little sympathy for you. I not only had to cross the street – I had to walk to all the way to the other end of the block!

When I was in kindergarten, I did get all bundled up and walk to school in a blizzard. There had not been any closing announcement on the radio, and I wanted to go to school. After I left Mom must have called school and alerted them that I was coming. Mrs. Phillips, the principal, and my teacher, Miss Wiff, were waiting for me at the door, and informed me that school had been cancelled. Shortly after Mom arrived, and we walked back home together.

In the first few years of school, living across the street can be dangerous, if it’s a major road. I had that problem in elementary school. I was allowed to walk to school, unsupervised, when I really shouldn’t have been. I never got hurt, though. I was on a side street, first house, so I didn’t live on the major road, but close. Since I lived close, the school bus would not pick me up.