Right, i'm english. Firstly it takes me 15 minutes to walk one mile and if it takes you much more than that your fat, end of. Second, secondary school goes until your 16 here and the OP is in secondary school so most likly 14 or 15 and since you legaly can't get a job until 16 unless its a paper round or something which averagly pays a max of £15 a week, if that, and as i had to buy my buss pass every month that wouldn't be enough for her to manage. Third it is snowing here, it does up north all year round and the south most of it. Fourth who cares if it's nine miles here or there or whatever, she clearly means one way not round trip, and even if she didn't the grammer and English used isn't what we are supposed to be talkig about. Fifth my school didn't have an option for a free bus pass, not all do, only the good ones, and it certainly didn't have the funds to give me money, it was basicaly tough luck that i lived 15 miles away, except that i could afford my pass, i'd imagine it's the same for her as she wouldn't willingly walk 9 miles in the cold. I rekon it's real, and i rekon it's a bitch to live with. i wouldn't cut class because of what it would do to your grades, but i would definitly complain about your parents, if a slap and shouting sesion doesn't work. They need to sort there F***ing lives out. FYL

wow someone sounds intelligent. ... rawr. :P

On the bright side, just strategically add the word "uphill" and you have a story to tell your grandkids.

Parents are so immature sometimes. Hell, either pay it yourself or take they're car!

cant they split it half half?? hahaha dumbasses

I don't know why you pay £60, my girlfriend lives in Birmingham and hers is like £45 or something like that. Does Coventry not use Travel West Midlands?

My bus pass costs £55 GBP a month for college, so I can totally believe the £60. It's barely in my budget as it is and I have a job too. In Sheffield, where I am, 16-18s have a 40 pence bus pass, but when I started my third year at college, I have to pay for a "full time work/educational" pass. OP, if you are under eighteen, it would be good to look into the travel pass options available to you. If you are in a low income situation, some city councils offer free travel passes to education-goers. OP also needs to contact their forum tutor/head teacher or who ever they can at the school. The parents are being jerks and someone working at the school will most definately be able to help you sort it out financially, or at the very least talk to your parents. As for the metric vs. imperial thing goes - in the UK, we use miles in general as a unit for measuring distance, but for smaller measurments we are taught to use centimetres and metres, grams, kilograms etc. but also to be able to convert these measurments to inches, feet, yards etc. I rarely see the term 'kilometres' used outside of car theory tests. Also, driving age is seventeen, which they are hiring. We do not have drivers ed in school. Driving is not a given and is a very expensive process costing around £20 GBP per hour lesson, so I doubt 'take their car' is an option. Of my adult friends, it's maybe 1 in 4 are drivers. Most people don't bother while still in your teens because insurance can be £1000 GBP plus. I wish these idiots posting retarded comments would be a little more knowledgable before they respond. I thought the '9 miles, both ways' was perfectly acceptable to describe a 18-mile-all-round trip. =/

ydi for using too many ******* periods noob

for all those people yelling at the OP to get a job.. have you tried to get one recently?! It's bloody difficult, and she would only get the minimum wage, which makes trying to make £60 (which is VERY expensive for a bus pass) a month near enough impossible. But, in any case, I think this is either greatly exaggerated or, if the parents argued about this 'today', the the OP doesn't actually have to walk 18 miles round trip, it was just said as a solution in the heat of the moment. I'm sure they wouldn't make her walk 18 miles, because it would take about 12 hours.

It should be legal to shoot anyone who calls people "noob"