Question of the Day!

Everything we did as kids would land today's parents in hot water with the government. You see, kids and their parents have become too stupid to survive without our kind and well-meaning patrons from the land of the Gods telling us how to live and die.

I rode horses in rivers, climbed water towers, and went camping, hunting, and fishing on rivers and lakes with only my friends while still in middle school. We might not see a parent the whole weekend.

Every kid in my neighborhood had his/ (some her) own 22ga. Rifle. We used them every day or weekend at the least.

Hell, on Fridays, Mom and Dad would want the house to themselves. Dad would dole out cash and the keys to the 67 Chevy van, with its 3-speed on the column, and my brothers and I rode into town to the movie theater. I was 13 and without a driver's license. But then, neither did half the other kids at the movies with us. It was only 12 miles from our house.

My school, Pinecrest, was 1st through 12th (no Kindergarten then) a total of 635 students and a senior class of 62 people, and it was the largest in ten years back then. The Dean of boys knew every male face in the school and many of our father's phone numbers without looking in his Rolodex. (no, Computers or cell phones to keep up with numbers then)

We smoked behind the gym, and everyone who eventually got a driver's license drove a pickup to school. Save for me, I had a 1964 Ford Falcon station wagon, and I was still cool. We cut school opening days of every hunting or fishing season.

Oh, the stories I could or should tell now that Mom and Dad are long gone, wait!!!! The best check on the statutes of limitations before I get too nostalgic.