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In reply to the discussion: Thank you Midnight Rider for the suggestion. As a kid, were you a "free range kid" out of the house and doing whatever [View all]Dorothy V
(391 posts)much limited to our cul-de-sac. One place out in the desert there was noplace to go unless I wanted to count tumbleweeds and avoid rattlers. Another place I was forbidden to cross the highway - US395, and was not tempted to break that rule: the town had a speed limit but cars ran down that road like there was no such thing as speed limits, and the town didn't have a PD to enforce anything (the town relied on the County Sheriff and his deputies, and it being the largest county in the US I expect they were spread too thin to pay all that much attention to speeders). Otherwise, I was pretty much all over the place, limited only by how long it would take me to get back home for meals.
Our boys were free range too, but nowadays, if I had my grandkids, no way in hell!
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