You are absolutely FUMMIN about your kiddiewinks having to walk alongside a dangerous road to get their school bus to the point that you are on the phone to the local press about it.

“Could you meet us by the A59 so we can take a few photographs? You know, with the kiddies right by the edge of the road with a lorry flying past?”

“Yeah, no problem.”

York Press: Dad is FUMMIN that his kiddiewinks will have to walk alongside a busy road to get their schoolbus, illustrated through the medium of them walking alongside a busy road

We hope that Tall Kid won’t be wearing those crocs on his first day, because he’ll be sent home, and it’s a long, hard (and possibly deadly) walk back along the A59 to get there.

It’s all summed up in the comments:

“What a load of softies we have become. When I was their age I was down pit digging coal out with me bare hands seven days a week.”

Bloody LUXURY.

And of course, there’s ALWAYS the one person who’s had it worse:

“They are in a lot better/safer situation than when my kids had to walk to their primary school – over a railway bridge on a 60mph road with no footpath”

And it’s only August and we’ve got a whole month of school bus complaints to come, along with our legendary archive of Wrong Uniform Home You Go tales of woe.

Colchester Daily Gazette: Parents worried about change to school bus timetable

I believe this is an attempt at being “up in arms”, and frankly we’re not terribly convinced that they mean it.