Once on the highway a kid made a lil heart at me with his hands from a bus window and I flipped him off and he and his friends lost their minds. It was hilarious.
I flipped off the toll gate attendant once in 4th grade when we were coming back from some event. Another kid on the bus narc’ed on me and I got detention. Would do again.
PS: I still flip off the automated toll readers. Fuck the system.
They were all looking at their phones.
so was the person driving
and me, now
All school buses these days have black out windows, like the one in the OP. Wild shit happened before the tint, like kids getting into literal fist fights when two buses stopped side by side at a red light.
And kids in the back of the bus were always the wild rebels, “mooning” the cars behind them was not uncommon in the old days.
Right? I remember thinking “Why did Rosa Parks want to sit at the front? The back of the bus is where all the cool people are!”
Because she was not allowed to. I mean yeah haha cool kids in the back 'n everything, but throwing in Rosa Parks is a little tasteless.
I don’t know if you know this but kids start out dumb and insensitive until they are taught.
You are very sensitive. A good quality but can be hard.
I had that exact thought in school
That sucks
Why would they even bother to flip you off? That just doesn’t make sense
Because fuck em lmao
Gen x and millennials know they were absolute terrors as children. We don’t want to deal with that shit so we’re raising our kids to be better than we were.
If we were it was only because we were abused and neglected by our boomer parents.
IDK about this. Today’s extreme focus on helicopter parenting seems to view “having room to play” as CPS-worthy neglect. Shouldn’t there be a middle ground?
I think I spent most of my non-school times at home lol.
I was born in 2002
When I was in China, we mostly just stayed locked at home because parents are at work all the time (beside going to school)
When we move to the US, I was put in afterschool programs when I suffered what amounted to psychological torture (I mean I was basically in a foreign country and didn’t even get time to “recharge my social battery”), and I never had the eslf esteem to really make friends with English-only kids for those the first few years of my life here.
So that inertia just stayed… I just got used to not “going outaide” it just been how my life is…
I mean sometimes I did outside… but I’ve almost always been acompanies by parents
Not surprisintly never had much real friends, never made any deeper connections beyong just talking in school…
Immigrant parenra really just either have no time or is terrified of CPS…
So yea I have fear of the outside world basically…
A lot depends on where outside was too.
I grew up partly in a city/burb then we moved to the woods.
I actually played outside in the burbs because it had ode walls to ride bikes on and more kids near by. But playing out in the woods was more time outside, except in hunting city and after dark.
Yea maternal grandma is just like “this is just how it is these days, if you let your kids go outside, they’ll get kidnapped” (talking about China)
I recently discovered a YouTuber channel called THE DADBOD VETERAN, and he explains very well the neglect of GenX from their parents. Just left to our own device.
Passed the sportsball team bus and no hams were pressed
I know why: because the bus was empty. Education isn’t in favor nowadays.
How in the world did you have energy as a kid to flip off anyone? I barely had energy to walk to the bus.
Were you malnourished?
That doesn’t make any sense. You have more energy as a kid than any other time in your life by a massive margin.
