“Were you ever told to “keep it down to a dull roar”?”
I’ve heard that saying but no we were never told that as kids. Just told to go outside and play. That way we could scream, shout and let loose all the wound up energy. When I was a child there were very few fat kids. The ones that were were ones that were sick in some way and they could not help it.
I was told to “go play in traffic... the heavier the traffic the better” (the folks were kidding of course... I think, but now come to think of it, they did “forget” to,check if I was in the car before taking off from the gas station and awful lot- but thankfully I had a good sense of direction and found my way back home again... and come to think of it, the family did up and leave the home in the middle of the night, qieittly so as not to awaken me- we were always moving, but they never told me where, so it took me awhile to track them down)