[Fledermaus]

It wasn't stupid. Regardless of what the bus driver did, after school those boys would have been gone back and tried to find the alligator. They are boys.

I talked to my mom last night and we got into a discussion about kids today (like her grandkids and my neices and nephews) and she, a far left liberal, admitted you can't stop boys.

She said that by today's standards we three boys of hers would have been taken away to foster homes. Most of the time from my age of 7-15 she had no idea where I was or what I was doing. We played in an old barn (I got seriously cut sliding down a rusty tin roof), explored forest, river bottoms, caves and water drainage tunnels in Calif. and climbed cliffs and got ticks and chiggers in the fields of Ark!

What fun!

[mean lunch lady]

"What fun!" indeed, not all the fun was had by boys, we girls stood on the train tracks to see who could stay the longest before the train came. (I didn't say it was smart, just fun.) Maybe it was the long, hot summers that cooked our brains.