Originally Posted by
Grist_To_The_Mill
That's very true.
My father never drove and used the bus to get to work. One snowy day in the 1970s the snow stopped the buses but dear old dad needed to get to work for start of the 6am shift. They were paid piecework rates so missing work hit an already tight budget. He had a severe cold at the time but walked (trudged) the 5 mile journey to work, did his shift and walked back home. That's when he caught pneumonia and was hospitalised for a week.
He's on a cloud now looking down thinking "you nesh prats" or something similar