To hear my parents tell it,

[Ptah]

[BOSSHOG]

1. They also took the same route Home

[Wonder Why]

3. and, as I told my kids, it was uphill both ways slogging through the snow in the middle of the hottest summer ever.

I finally told them the truth last year because it was on my conscience. One is 47 and the other 50.

[3catwoman3]

2. But they're not...

…barefoot!

[FoxNewsSucks]

4. I once told that to a 14-yo who was very smart and asked how

it could be uphill both ways. I said that it was because of one-way streets, so I had to take a different (also uphill) way home.

[viva la]

7. Show them that MC Escher drawing.

[haele]

13. Actually, I spent 4th grade on in Seattle - lots of hills...

So yeah, I walked "uphill" both ways - home was on one hill, Elementary School and Middle School were both on different hills.
The few times it did ice over or snow, you avoided the main streets...streets were like an ice rink.

[Srkdqltr]

5. Yes, i remember it like that.

Actually i lived in Detroit, the highest hills were freeway overpasses.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

6. LOL!

[LoisB]

8. That can't be right; they are wearing boots.

[rickyhall]

9. I told them my bus was a 4-wheel-drive Suburban to get us to school in the snow in Colorado.

[aggiesal]

10. And going home ...

When I was your age, we had to walk 2 miles to school, in the snow, uphill in both directions.

[Delmette2.0]

11. My aunt told me how they got to school in the winter.

I am sure this would have included my Dad who was a few years younger.

Picture this 1930's, a grain truck probably covered with a tied down tarp to make a roof. Rural gravel roads and benches that are not secured to the floor. In the middle is a small wood stove to keep them warm.

There was never an accident or injury like a burn from the stove. I am still in awe that they managed to pull that off.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. Years ago I saw a female Japanese comedian who said when she complained to her grandmother about walking to school in

the snow her grandmother replied “I walked to school in atom bombs!”