Are modern family cars bigger?

[Bobby Dazzler]

Lol......I went to school on my own on my first day of primary school. 4 miles on a bus out in the sticks when I was 4 years and 8 months old. Both my parents worked so could not even take me to the bus stop.....but it was only 50 yards down the road....which was in a tiny village where everyone knees me with next to no traffic....but even so. No other kids my age in the village so I knew no one on that bus. Never bothered me at the time. My 14 years old son did not believe me when I first told him. Even my wife was amazed....but she is a towny so is a bit different there.
Kids today?....don't know they're born!

Was this a school bus or a public bus? Either way that’s truly remarkable.

My wife and kids laugh out loud at me when I tell them that I started work when I was 11 years old, worked full time hours (more than 40 hours per week) by the time I was 14 years old), that I would happily take myself off to all four corners of the country on a 75p “day tripper” when I was 12 years old, and went to nightclubs several times every week wen I was 13 years old.

But you have shown me and them that I was positively mollycoddled and on a tight leash in comparison

 

[ALFAitalia]

It was 1971....very different times. I never saw anyone dropped to school by car back then. Bus, bike or walk!
Public bus....but this was a bus in the sticks where everyone had to have a car to get about it worked on the local farms...so most of the time it was just the kids collected from the local villages on the bus!....it was free if you lived more than three miles from the school.....they still work on the same principle now and the school provide my 14 year son with a free bus pass.....that he's never used! Either my wife or I drop him off on the way to work or it's his push bike.

Just for clarity I lived in one tiny village in the downs (32 houses, about 100 people), the school was in another slightly bigger village and the school only had three classes and about 75 kids. Not like leaving me to the masses on a packed bus in some heaving metropolis!