Another Hidden Benefit of Walking to School
This was painful to hear and see.
What a pretty fender. Hope it doesn’t get crushed by another parent.
We try to walk to school every day. The benefits are easy to list:
- Exercise: for me, kids, and the dog
- Dog: walking the dog every morning for a good hour (we take the park route home)
- Buffer: the 20 minutes server as an important buffer for the kids (for me too?) between being half asleep and being in class
- Familiarity: in the neighborhood, with the neighbors
- Non-multi-tasking: there’s nothing to do but walk, talk, look, listen.
- Fresh air
But today brought a crumpling of metal noise that was painful to hear, then anticipate, then actually see. A dad backed up while a mom was making a sharp left into a tiny side street and his back bumper tore through the metal of most of the left side of her cute little orange car. Ouch, ooh, pain.
If you’re not in a car, it’s much harder to be in a car accident.
As we walked by, of course I didn’t say anything, but I was more than happy that we were walking to school.
