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This first post is June 5, 2008.

Random thoughts while waiting behind a school bus flashing red: There are seven automobiles behind me and four ahead of me, all of us waiting while some child, who is late, runs down her driveway to catch the bus.

Am I insane to think there ought to be a way to set up a bus route to pick up the children on their way to school without causing adults to wait, without inconveniencing commuters, workers, parents?

What do we teach children when they see they can make adults wait? Why bother to grow up and be responsible and have to wait on a child who dilly dallies over breakfast?

And, if you notice, school crossing guards are just as guilty as bus drivers. They make cars and drivers wait while they allow one child to cross.... The children never seem to have to wait. They arrive at the corner, the crossing guard snaps to attention, stopping all traffic and escorts one child (if there's only one there) across the street.