Ha! Ha! that’s nothing! During the summer my mom said “Be back by dark.” We ran all over hell and gone...
You had to be back at sundown?
We would be back only to grab some dinner and then played hide and seek around the whole block (these were rural blocks that were 1/2 mile by 1/4 mile square) all night, cutting through the neighbors yards and hiding in their bushes. No one ever called the cops for prowlers either.
And pushed the limits of what dark was!!! Remember pop bottle rockets? Drinking out of the hose? Riding bicycles without helmets???
“Ha! Ha! that’s nothing! During the summer my mom said “Be back by dark.” We ran all over hell and gone...”
We raised our kids and so did our relatives without nieces and nephews during the 60=70’s with benign neglect.