I remember in 1950s when I was maybe 6-7 I was in downtown DC shopping with my mother (we lived near St. Elizabeth’s at the time) and I was acting an ass and my mother said, “okay, stay here and see how you like it” (or something like that). She then proceeded on off to the car and drove off.
Turned out it was just around the block and she pulled up beside me and I got in....
Different times... much, much safer there then. We talked about it 50 years or so later and she told me today she wouldn’t even dare do that. We laughed quite a bit about it.
Mom left each one off us kids outside the stores in our pram when she went in to shop...
It was a practice then all mothers did it...
Can you imagine now ???
In the 60’s my folks moved 7 times, and it tookme more than. Week each time to find them. J/k. Yrp we kids used to live outdoors back in the day-cant do that today in most areas sadly.
My dad was a carpenter, and told a story about doing a job there and getting into a very pleasant conversation with a guy he assumed was staff, but found out later was one of the inmates.