It's true! I was rarely home and always hated when it got dark as we couldn't see the baseball.
The only real worry was running into the bully here and there.
Nowadays, I carry a .357 in my belt!
Yes! And remember what a major bummer it was when it rained either on a summer vacation day or even worse on a Saturday or Sunday during the school year? We used to hate that. We'd rely on the Monopoly game or something similar for those days. If it rained all day, we'd often go build some type of fort outside by the afternoon and hang out in it.