Random Friday Morning Thoughts

1. So, I was riding to work one morning and was stopped at a traffic light. Next to me, in the right-hand lane, was a school bus... a regular, yellow, elementary-middle-high school, public school bus. Nothing extraordinary about it at all.

Then I noticed a black grill near the bottom of the bus chassis. On that grill was a blue tag/label. I couldn't quite make out the wording on the label, but there appeared to be a penguin on it. A penguin?

As the light was changing and I started to move I was finally able to get a close enough view of the label and discovered that it was for an air conditioning company. School buses now have air conditioning! What is up with that?!

Now, I didn't walk to school as a child, uphill, both ways, barefooted, in the snow. But I never rode in an air conditioned school bus even though I attended elementary, junior (showing my age) and high school in Florida and rode public school busses throughout most of my primary and secondary education.

No wonder kids today are spoiled.

2. It is an un-nerving experience to see several (what appear to be used) cans of whipping cream by the side of the road. Especially a road with no normal pedestrian traffic.

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