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You have to feel sorry for the 15-year-old son of Vienna's Jenifer Joy Madden, who got outed by his mom in an op-ed in Sunday's Washington Post for having only just now learned how to ride a bus.

We couched it as another test of their mettle. After all, if these 15-year-olds could swing at objects flying 90 miles an hour and get whacked by titanium lacrosse sticks, they could walk to a bus stop and ride a few miles across town.

The story of Madden's teenage son's first public bus ride home from school comes off sounding like a joke to those of us who live inside the District (one commenter on the Post's web site, who noted that they were "sure the kid was about 10, not 15!", neatly summed up my initial reaction), but we suppose sometimes we forget how different life is out in Fairfax County. And hey, if Madden's article inspires a few other suburban families to rethink their car-centric lifestyles just a little bit, then that's certainly a good thing.

One of the biggest crime problems in the Metro system has long been thefts from autos parked in the lots at the end of the different rail lines. Thieves know that Metro's large, outer parking lots are filled with cars whose owners won't return until the end of the day, so they prowl them like kids in a candy store.