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@much2say - "Smiley," Now THAT is a good fun name for someone who is so correct in their writing. -Gus-

@TiarasOceanView - That was so long ago (the walking) that I remember walking by some really old electric cars along the way - big tall and square boxes they were that could go maybe 20 MPH, No steering wheels. They had some sort of stick things instead. The only problem we had with walking was in the wintertime when the snow got to be deep. -Gus-

@Ceerios Electric cars? Back in the day? I don't ever recall any of those. lol But I do recall the snow being up above my little head lol

@TiarasOceanView - This brings my now empty mind back to those days- the days in the late 1930s and even into the early 1940s. In the 30s everyone was reasonably poor of $$$ and rich in other ways. For example, one of our neighbors was "rich" enough to be the only ones around who had an electric refrigerator so as to be able to give the others ice cubes in the summertime. The rest had "ice boxes" cooled by big slabs of ice brought around by the ice man and his horse-drawn wagon. Then, along came WW-2 and just about all folks did was pitch in and work together. There were only one or two of those old electric cars kicking around, but there they were, still making it down the road, slowly of course, and very quietly. We had an old (1924) Buick automobile - and it was the one on which I learned to drive. I suppose that the thing weighed 6 or 7,000 pounds - had pull-shades on its side windows and a heater vent in the middle of its rear compartment floor. The gear shift was a stick on the floor and was the reverse of gear shifts to follow in later years - first gear on the back right, and so forth. Its steering wheel was so thick and heavy that I find it hard to believe how thick and heavy it was - all of these years since then. ... and the "A" sticker on the windshield that told the world that my family was allowed only a small amount of gasoline fuel each month. There WAS a big war going on, after all.. My own first car was an ugly old 1938 Studebaker sedan. Bought the thing for $200. It mostly worked. Blew it out on the parkway one day and sold it for scrap at an automobile junk yard for 8 bucks. Yet, I was probably lucky. I had been eyeing a "Franklin" sedan before getting the Studebaker. That Franklin was huge- much like an old army war tank like the Sherman or the like. The only thing that saved me from the Franklin was the $400 the dealer wanted for it. Much fun and games (so to speak) back then.. -Gus-

@JudyEv - Ms Judy - The school buses in the USA are fairly standardized as are the rules of the road surrounding the behavior of the vehicular traffic around them when they are on the road, either moving or stopped to admit or to discharge school children passengers. -Gus-

@responsiveme - 50% is better than zero per cent. -Gus-

@Essjayd - It is both ever so and somewhat understandable (depending a lot upon the locale). Recognizing danger along the way to and from school and home is a good thing. We used to have "safe houses" to which a kid could run if threatened - but I do not know if this is a typical thing being done yet in the current time. -Gus-

@Ceerios Here we have the two extremes some are overprotective so their kids never learn to be independent! Unfortunately we also have 12 year olds wandering the streets or riding stolen motorbikes at midnight and the parents don't care!

@Essjayd - It is paradoxical how things are today. -Gus-