This is why our children are FAT!

Hmm, it's been awhile since I've been on a blog-rant. Must be time for one!!!!

So, I'm driving to work today. It's Wednesday, so I didn't have my kids this morning, which means I frequently sleep in a bit, and I did again today. So, to be fair, I was leaving my house later than I do ordinarily.

More background: It's a beautiful, BEAUTIFUL morning -- it was high 50's when I woke up, and clear and sunny.

I leave my house, and pull out onto the main street that my neighborhood is off of, heading east. As I come close to the neighborhood just next to me, a car pulls out in front of me. I was a little close for them to be pulling out (and they knew it, because they ran the stop sign to get in front of me), but OK.

But then they drive slow. Like 5 miles below the speed limit slow (and, yes, I mean the school zone speed limit!).

And THEN they turn into the middle school parking lot. Which is, oh, 50 FEET from the neighborhood!!! Oh, and there's a walking path from the neighborhood to the school!


Here's a map showing exactly how far they went (may need to zoom out to get the full effect):


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So, in summary, on an absolutely beautiful morning, when it's not cold, raining, snowing, dark-of-nighting, this parent decided that they needed to DRIVE their kid the tenth of a mile or so from their house to school. And go slow to boot.

And we wonder why there's a childhood obesity problem!
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