Quote Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown View Post
Do you walk to school or take your lunch?
That was a reasonable question in many places in the USA during World War II because almost anything (e.g., gasoline, rubber, steel) used to build, operate, or maintain any kind of wheeled vehicle (even bicycles, tricycles and children's wagons) was rationed in support of the war effort. It took my father fully four months just to find me a bicycle in 1944, and it turned out to be made of parts from four different brands of bikes.

FYI, I walked. It was only three blocks, but it was uphill both ways---there was a ridge in the middle. Dad wouldn't let me ride my bike lest it be stolen while I was in class.

Those who rode carried their lunch so they'd need to make only one round trip per day. Food rationing made a school lunch service too complicated to be practical.

I think it was during the 1960's that the US Senate Postoffice briefly refused to deliver franked mail to New Mexico on the grounds that the Senators' franking privilege applied only to domestic mail.

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