Bag it

(aquillun.space/military-career#about-that-little-bag)

If you want to read about my bag, click above. I'm not sure why I'm using a word that may infer you aren't here to read what I have to write. That's why you're here.

As you may guess with my daughter being in preschool now, I do have to take her to school and pick her up. Kids this age have to be picked up by certain people. And being the only one that drives a car, I'm it.

I really don't mind. And thankfully my job isn't so intense that I can't step away and work remotely. So it works out.

One thing I have noticed, is more of a lack of sense.

Vans as people-haulers have been around a while. And the older ones only had a driver's door on the left side. Presumably, this allowed the right-side door to unload its occupants safely away from traffic when parked on a street. The driver has a mirror to look out and make sure no cars are coming his way.

Modern vans that are used as people-haulers have doors on both sides. This does add convenience, but places the safety sense on the operator.

The operators I see have none of that. I can understand older kids being able to exit or enter on the street side with some review of traffic. But, I'm seeing adults placing children that require car seats on that street side. That also places them near the traffic for an extended amount of time. Thoughtless.

Young kids go on the sidewalk side, not the street side.

This flows into an overall larger question that I'll likely talk about later. I've been trying to get ahold of Aushlin for a while and haven't received a response. I plan to start telling some of his story, but I'm hoping he'd prefer to do that himself.

We'll see. Maybe he's just sleeping. Or decided to visit a different star system. Hard to tell with him.