Parental Transport, Inc.
Today is September 7th. Today is the first day of classes at the universities in Spain. From being the last to begin work, university students have become the first. Strange, unexplicable tweakings of the education system. But, today being the first day means that yesterday was also the first Sunday of a long school year of transport. Most students attend university locally. In Galicia there are three universities, in A Coruña, Santiago, and Vigo, and an extension campus of the University of Santiago in Lugo. Almost all the Galician students who attend college can go home on the weekends. Most do. A lot of them are within driving distance of their campus. Which means parents become Sunday cab drivers. It's not just making various trips with a full car to set up the dorm room or the (more common) student apartment. Though those trips do make for marathon drives sometimes in late August and early July. It's that the students generally go home on the Friday evening buses or...