Posted on 09/30/2022 7:37:08 AM PDT by V K Lee
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I walked 5 miles in the snow to school uphill.......both ways!..................😁
Nah, there’s nobody over 35 here.
Cool cars.
But I don’t see anything horrifying.
In 3rd grade I rode a bike 1.5 miles to school everyday. 😉
Recollection Road is great. I watch just about all of them.
That was a trip down memory lane.
Later.
I tell you what is horrifying.
There are no kids going outside to play. When my kid comes home from school there is nobody her age to play with.
There’s none of this going outside, walking down the street to another kid’s house, ringing the door bell and asking if Johnny or Sally can come out to play.
It just doesn’t work that way anymore. It seems really lonely. It’s even lonely for the adults. I lived in one place for eight years and did not know any neighbors. Nobody ever went outside.
Things just aren’t the same.
We used to ride in the back of pickups too. Buddy of mine had a 4x4 with roll bar so we would stand up while going down the road or 4 wheeling. Used to skid hop too. Snow covered road, grab the back bumper of a car, squat, use your shoes like skis and let it pull you to the other side of town.
I crossed a relatively busy street to get to kindergarten, without anyone around, as we were on a different time schedule than the rest of the school, and the contract of the Amalgamated Crossing Guards (the union of 6th graders who otherwise took care of helping the students cross streets) had a later shift starting time.
That’s sad man - I’m sorry for you and your daughter.
It can be different - our little town and neighborhood are much like those pic’s (believe it or not).
I could go on and on about how special this place that we live is but I feel I might bum you out.
Providence brought us here. I wish the same for you.
TV, Fear Porn, Air Conditioning and Video games...
Flew back one time from being on a business trip in Minnesota. It was July 4.
So I went on a walk through my neighborhood to see if anyone was out shooting fireworks or doing anything. I might as well have been walking through the woods in the Smokey Mountains.
It was quiet, nobody out, nothing.
In other countries on national holidays or at Christmas there is all kinds of stuff going on. Try the Christmas market in Zurich during December. It’s amazing.
We just don’t have anything comparable in large American cities.
And the kids grew up and many of them became “helicopter parents”.
Fear Porn...it’s not like child molesters were invented a year or so ago.
Kids had to deal with them back then. A strange car or person following you, go to a major street. Then walk into a store, a fire station, a library and tell the workers there what is happening.
If you don’t get used to that, you never encounter it because you’re inside all the time you don’t develop that sense of danger and know what to do about it.
I’m a millennial raised in central PA because my NYC parents wanted me to experience a childhood similar to theirs, not in culture but in relative freedom. They had nearby relatives with farms in NJ and upstate NY, where in the 1960’s you could drive at age 10 on your own property if you could reach the pedals. They biked for miles in the countryside, up and down the Jersey Shore, even biked in Manhattan with nobody bothering them and no helmets or knee pads.
So I got a taste of that.
But no beach. Wah!
When I was 15 or 16, I rode in the back of a pickup on Interstate 70 from Mount Airy to Frederick in Maryland (about 15 miles or so).
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