The kid under the bus goes round and round

As some of you likely know (more so if you are parents but I do know many teenagers do read this website) it is half-term for a lot of places in this country and I only figured that out when I was sitting on a public bus and it was … relaxing and quiet (as quiet as an old bus can go anyway) and it got me thinking of something I wanted to write about ages ago.

If you are as unlucky as me you might live in a place that has very little public transport at all and if this is the case you will know what I am on about, if not then imagine living in a place where if you wanted to go somewhere without your transport you have to rely on public transport that only exists to transport children to school (even if the council claims otherwise, they would cancel it in a heartbeat if they could). As you might be able to imagine these buses would have to pick up a lot of people as to be anywhere worthwhile running they would need to pick a lot of people up. So now imagine a bus full of people and now imagine the same amount of children all having to fit on one bus where they are not enough room.

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