Two questions guaranteed to get my dander up...

[sarahmichelef]

1. When someone learns that we live in the city school district, they ask, "But what are you going to do about SCHOOL????"  Yes, the school district is uneven - it's a city school district.  It also has an excellent gifted & talented elementary school program (as well as a Spanish immersion program at the same school) and a high school that is consistently ranked in the top 100 public high schools in the nation (#50 last year).  Yeah, there are a lot of "poverty schools" (using the pre-K teachers euphemism) too, but you would think from talking to people that any child enrolled in the Buffalo public schools is going to be shooting heroin by the end of kindergarten.
2. When someone learns that we take public transit every day, they ask, "But what are you going to do in WINTER????"  Um, put on a coat?  Put snow pants on the kid?  What, do they think that the trains stop running as soon as there's snow on the ground?  Or that we are incapable of wearing boots and warm clothes?
   

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[nenie.livejournal.com]

yup

sounds like santa fe...phil ochs's loveable liberals.

[stefka.livejournal.com]

People are just that dumb. They ask, "What do you do at those medieval things?" We say, "We dance, we eat, we drink, we shoot, we fight, we sing, we have court, we have campfires, we tell stories, we play games."

They ask, "But what do you do when it rains?" We say, "We dance, we eat, we drink, we shoot, we fight, we sing, we have court, we have campfires, we tell stories, we play games ... and we get wet!"

They blink repeatedly. It just doesn't occur to them that we can still be having fun while wet. So it doesn't occur to them that you can put on a coat and just keep rockin'.

[marajade648.livejournal.com]

I'm totally a suburban weenie who doesn't like public transport, but cold isn't the problem (late and slow and crowded). We're actually more likely to take the traon all the way when it snows so we don't have to drive in it.

[cranky-dragon.livejournal.com]

I bet they'd die if they saw upper elementary kids in Toronto. ON THE SUBWAY. WITHOUT PARENTS.