Posted on 11/09/2025 9:52:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv
”I went to school with some of the Lemma kids, big family”
What a coincidence! I went school with Vern Equinox!
He could only attend classes during the Spring semester.
“You probably had to walk three miles to school through pouring rain and deep snow, too.”
And I passed the corpses of the Indians my grandfather had to fight on his way to school.
Actually, I did walk about a mile to school for kindergarten (started a few months shy of age 5) - then we moved to another area and the school was only 1/4 mile away...then came the suburbs and the first school (5th and 6th grade) was a walkable mile away and after that it was busses.
I was considered a walker (not eligible for the bus). In kindergarten the nice teacher told us she wanted all the walkers to see her before we left for the day, some school policy BS, I have no idea what it was.
But I wasn’t a walker, I rode in a car, so I just left. I’m just lucky my mother bought that explanation. She only found out because my teacher was our neighbor and called her. 😇
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