Didn’t mention riding in the bed of a pickup truck. Did that often when the family car was on the fritz. Being one of 6 siblings there was not room in the cab for all 8 of us.
They didn’t mention kids getting locked inside refrigerators back when they had mechanical (instead of magnetic) catches on them.
We never went home when the street lights came on. We lived 3 miles from the nearest burg. No street lights.
Also, never followed any DDT sprayers. We lived with the damn bugs. Flies so thick the cows’ tails never stopped moving.
Rode the bus to school, but you still had to wait at the end of the long lane in the cold or rain until it got there. Sometimes earlier than scheduled, sometimes later. The neighbor girls freezing in their short short skirts because they refused to wear pants like boys!
Lol,@ the street lights. We didn’t know what street lights were practically. The moon was our only source of light for finding our way out of the woods to get back home by.
I do remember them spraying though, but it didn’t seem to do much good. Deer flies and horse flies were a constant bane- mosquitos and black flies and midges too. Nowadays they carry west nile and zika too, and where I live now, they haven’t sprayed in years, and the mosquitos have been really really bad. It used to,be a tourist town, but folks have been staying away because they are so bad now- we just wait till early fall and touhg it out till then- the tourists though have been driven from the area