I walked 1 mile to school. But that was another era. A time of trust and innocence. Before the liberals destroyed our neighborhood and mutual trust.
Me, too.
Mr. b and his friends would ride their bicycles from dawn to dusk across the entire county when they were kids.
However, 20 years ago, a neighbor got upset because our kids walked down the country subdivision street to grandma’s house.
About 5 years ago, our tween and teenaged great-nephews visited and refused to go outside. They wouldn’t go to the attached garage to see the new kittens. They wouldn’t help Mr. b with the bbq on the back porch. They refused to run an errand for me down to grandma’s house. We told them they could ride bikes to grandma’s house but they didn’t know how to ride. They wouldn’t turn the water on in the fenced garden or help me pick tomatoes for their supper. Outside fun was too scary - RC cars, swimming, archery, fishing, geocaching, etc. They weren’t weren’t allowed in their own fenced in backyard so our fenced yard was a million times more horrifying. Lions and tigers and boogeymen, oh my!