[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I honestly can’t remember ever being bored in my life...we had inner lives and lives of imagination that lots of kids don’t seem to have now.

Bingo. We would wile away a whole day with a pile of dirt and our Matchbox cars (except for Tommy who wasn't allowed to get his Matchbox cars dirty - they'll be worth something some day, you know). I know a lady who taught pre-k at a Headstart center for one long, miserable year. Poor, rural kids. She was appalled at the total lack of imagination that the children had. No concept of anything outside of the lives they lived - no dreams, no aspirations, no inner escape mechanism at all. Suspect these are the people screaming at ICE agents today.

[Jamestown1630]

'...(except for Tommy who wasn't allowed to get his Matchbox cars dirty - they'll be worth something some day, you know)."

LOL!