I'm currently in Luxembourg, and one of my coworkers (who lives in France) was talking about how in the week before school started, he took his kids (6 and 8, I think) and practiced riding the bus to school because this year they were both going to have to take the public bus by themselves every morning.

Cue me blinking for a moment while I tried to process that. (I'm from Houston which fails at public transportation and grew up in rural Michigan where it was nonexistent)