On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:36:25 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:
>>> Well, we lived 15 miles from the high school, so your walk would have
>>> taken all day without a bus.
>>>
>>> Cheri
>
>It was a mile and a half walk to my high school. My father used to talk
>about walking miles and miles to school. He had grown up in a house on
>the edge of town and the school was on the other side of town. I guess
>distances seem a lot further when you are young, time moves more slowly
>and you are walking on little legs. I was in that little town a few
>weeks ago. There were three streets that go east-west and four that go
>north-south. You would have to do several laps around town to put in a
>mile. His walk was probably a couple hundred yards.

It was 3 1/2 miles to my HS; Ave. P & E. 2nd St. to Ocean Parkway &
Brighten Beach... yoose can check mapquest. Weather permiting we
sometimes rode bicycles but most times we walked... we were issued
free passes for public transportation but that actually took longer...
there were no big yellow school buses back then, there were small
busses (vans) for handicapped kids. Grade school was about 1/3 mile.
JHS was about 1 mile. Most kids walked, rode bicycles, sometimes
roller skated. Grade school was kindergarten thru 6th... many of the
6th graders did crossing guard duty, I still have my crossing guard
badge. Parents didn't need to watch kids going to school back then,
NYC streets were pretty safe in the '50s, mostly had to be careful not
to step in the horse shit... yes, there were lots of horse drawn carts
back then, one of my chores was to take my wagon up and down the
streets shoveling horse shit for the garden, in winter kids collected
fallen coal, in summer we'd steal chunks of ice while the iceman made
deliveries. We didn't have cell phones, didn't need any stinkin' cell
phones, we had windows! An apple was a red round thing we glommed
from the green grocer. Kids today are truly wusses... soccer mommies
have to drive their spoiled little pussys everywhere... at twelve
years old I walked to the dentist/doctor for my school check-up, went
myself too... Dr. Scoppa's nurse had lovely large breasts.

"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
...
> Cheri wrote:
>>> "Brooklyn1" wrote:
>>>> Janet <uk> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> but no doubt Sheldon was towing the school bus.
>>>>>
>>>>> Janet UK
>>>>
>>>> I never in my life rode in a school bus, I always walked to school,
>>>> high school was almost a three mile walk... in the '50s only the
>>>> pussies and faggots rode the bus... the Avenue P boys didn't ride any
>>>> stinkin' school bus.
>>>
>>> Well, we lived 15 miles from the high school, so your walk would have
>>> taken all day without a bus.
>
> I would have thought nothing of pedaling my ass.

I doubt that you mean bicycle riding, but it was very mountainous and unless
you're Lance Armstrong or someone like that, you would have been hitchiking
and stowing your bike in the back of a pickup. Funny thing is, my brother
was a smart mouth, and was often put off the bus, Mr. Stotler just stopped
the bus in the middle of nowhere and put him off to make his way as best he
could. He often beat the bus there, but can you imagine anyone doing that in
this day and age? LOL

Cheri

On 11/26/2014 10:34 AM, Gary wrote:
>
> My mother used to tell me how she had to walk miles to school in the
> snow, at least uphill one way. But since they couldn't afford boots
> for her, by the time she got to school and got in the heat, her shoes
> were soaking wet. The teacher would make little paper booties for her
> to wear while her shoes dried all day on the heater.
>
> I heard that story for years, but now if I mention it, she denies ever
> telling me that.
>
> hahah BUSTED, Mom!
>
I got the walk to school uphill in the snow routine, too. Uphill,
really? The McDonald (Ohio) elementary school was across the street
from her house. The high school was a block further away. The streets
were *flat*.

Dad lived in the house next door. (Yep, Mom married the boy next door.)
Now, before he moved to McDonald he may well have had to walk further
to school. But hey, Mineral Ridge, OH wasn't a bustling metropolis,
either. The population according to the 2010 census was 3,892. Dad
lived there in the 1930's.

OB Food: Dad's story included carry a hot baked potato to keep his
hands warm; the potato was then eaten cold for lunch with a little
packet of salt that was tucked in his pocket.

> As for me I always rode a bus to school until my senior year in HS.
> That's when we moved to Newport, RI that year and my HS was maybe
> about 1/2 mile from my house. No bus to ride that I ever knew about so
> I would walk each day. I was young, invincible, and never had a
> problem with it but I wonder now how I did on stormy rainy days???
> That should have sucked but I don't remember any problem.
>
> G.
>
I don't recall a little rain bothering me. Or snow, either.

Jill

On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 12:48:13 -0800, "Cheri" >
wrote:

>
>"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
.. .
>> Cheri wrote:
>>>> "Brooklyn1" wrote:
>>>>> Janet <uk> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> but no doubt Sheldon was towing the school bus.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Janet UK
>>>>>
>>>>> I never in my life rode in a school bus, I always walked to school,
>>>>> high school was almost a three mile walk... in the '50s only the
>>>>> pussies and faggots rode the bus... the Avenue P boys didn't ride any
>>>>> stinkin' school bus.
>>>>
>>>> Well, we lived 15 miles from the high school, so your walk would have
>>>> taken all day without a bus.
>>
>> I would have thought nothing of pedaling my ass.
>
>I doubt that you mean bicycle riding, but it was very mountainous.

NYC is not very hilly, I rode my bike everywhere.

On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:49:43 +1100, Bruce > wrote:

>On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:40:33 -0000, Janet > wrote:
>


>>> Yeppers... I've never met a five year old who cooks every day. Come to
>>> think of it, can most five year olds read a measuring cup?
>>
>> Of course. My son made this at nursery school (aged 3), brouht some
>>home to share then taught the recipe (with immense pride) to his
>>brothers and parents. We still make it :-)
>
>Are you saying he wasn't able to do it yet at age 2? Did he catch up
>later in life?


Drifting the thread a bit. . .
Have you seen Master Chef Junior Edition?

Some of the contestants are only 8 and have been cooking for some time
already. They are absolutely amazing and can out cook half the people
here.

It is on Fox, I think Monday night or maybe Tuesday.

In article >,
lid says...
>
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:40:33 -0000, Janet > wrote:
>
> >In article >,
> >says...
> >>
> >> On 11/22/2014 12:11 PM, Gary wrote:
> >> > Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> I've been cooking every day for over 65
> >> >> years and have never measured any ingredient, none...
> >> >
> >> > I'll bet you didn't cook much 65 years ago.
> >> > Maybe a PBJ sandwich when your mom got mad at you.
> >> >
> >> Yeppers... I've never met a five year old who cooks every day. Come to
> >> think of it, can most five year olds read a measuring cup?
> >
> > Of course. My son made this at nursery school (aged 3), brouht some
> >home to share then taught the recipe (with immense pride) to his
> >brothers and parents. We still make it :-)
>
> Are you saying he wasn't able to do it yet at age 2?

He didn't go to nursery school at age 2. He was at home making
jamtarts, pastry snakes and mudpies.

Janet UK

On 11/27/2014 11:48 AM, Janet wrote
> lid says...
>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:40:33 -0000, Janet > wrote:
>>> Of course. My son made this at nursery school (aged 3), brouht some
>>> home to share then taught the recipe (with immense pride) to his
>>> brothers and parents. We still make it :-)
>>
>> Are you saying he wasn't able to do it yet at age 2?
>
> He didn't go to nursery school at age 2. He was at home making
> jamtarts, pastry snakes and mudpies.

Somewhere, I have a photo of my son at age two, standing on a step-stool
happily kneading bread.

In article >,
says...
>
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:49:43 +1100, Bruce > wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:40:33 -0000, Janet > wrote:
> >
>
>
> >>> Yeppers... I've never met a five year old who cooks every day. Come to
> >>> think of it, can most five year olds read a measuring cup?
> >>
> >> Of course. My son made this at nursery school (aged 3), brouht some
> >>home to share then taught the recipe (with immense pride) to his
> >>brothers and parents. We still make it :-)
> >
> >Are you saying he wasn't able to do it yet at age 2? Did he catch up
> >later in life?
>
>
> Drifting the thread a bit. . .
> Have you seen Master Chef Junior Edition?
>
> Some of the contestants are only 8 and have been cooking for some time
> already. They are absolutely amazing and can out cook half the people
> here.

The parallel UK version is called Junior Masterchef. There were 2000
child applicants for the first BBC series.

Janet UK.

"S Viemeister" > wrote in message
...
> On 11/27/2014 11:48 AM, Janet wrote
>> lid says...
>>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:40:33 -0000, Janet > wrote:
>>>> Of course. My son made this at nursery school (aged 3), brouht some
>>>> home to share then taught the recipe (with immense pride) to his
>>>> brothers and parents. We still make it :-)
>>>
>>> Are you saying he wasn't able to do it yet at age 2?
>>
>> He didn't go to nursery school at age 2. He was at home making
>> jamtarts, pastry snakes and mudpies.
>
> Somewhere, I have a photo of my son at age two, standing on a step-stool
> happily kneading bread.

Yes, and I think that most children of parents who love to cook, want to get
in there and copy their parent) Mind did too)

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