“Yeah, but we were all outside playing burning off all those Frosted Flakes and Sugar Smacks back then. Now they go from the kitchen table to the couch ~ if they’re not already eating on the couch to save energy!”
Exactly! I can’t ever remember being home in the summer except for sleeping. We’d ride our bikes everywhere, build treehouses and forts, play a pickup game of baseball in sandlots or wherever we could find a place. Those were the days.
When my sister and I were teenagers in Maine we got grounded for taking a bike ride on a back road full of twists and turns and hills and trees that we wanted to explore. We ended up a couple of towns over too exhausted to make it back home and had to call ask for a ride home! lolol
“Exactly! I can’t ever remember being home in the summer except for sleeping. We’d ride our bikes everywhere, build treehouses and forts, play a pickup game of baseball in sandlots or wherever we could find a place. Those were the days.”
We must have grown up together in the same town or era at least.
Exactly is right. And school let out for summer on about Memorial Day and didn’t start again until after Labor Day. School was about like prison.
As soon as it was light and you had breakfast, bang, out the door into the “woods” or down to the “creek” or on your bike. We liked to ride our bikes in the rain through muddy fields, etc. We didn’t have TV until I was about 12. It was a blessing.
I was skinny as a stick until I got married the second time around age 40 and started eating that damned Hagen Dazs.
Do they still have recess or PE everyday?