Been there done that

[Missedone]

I hated the call to wash up for supper (dinner) but I knew that I had better run to the back door! We lived outside playing sports or games we would invent.

[BILL LO]

Yup

[rednecktech]

Mom used to get a little upset when didn’t hear her holler to come in for supper, we’d be busy shooting are BB guns back in the woods.

Mine would get a lot upset. You better not miss supper . I was usually over on the other street where my friends lived. Summertime, you come home, eat, go back as long as you're in at dark. Many times I would eat supper at my house, then eat at my buddy's house.

[188Musky]

Every kid needs, needs, to be able to see the horizon for at least at least 4 hours a day.

Are you a kid?

[250bassFL]

[Dave75]

Very true

[pavi69]

My friends had a waterfront house on Lake Conroe. Their kid spent everyday inside playing video games. He graduated from the University of Alabama, is a successful engineer and is marrying a hot lawyer.
Different times

[MYRX]

100 percent true! And in the summer the bottoms of my feet had to be scrubbed to get the grass stains off.

[clayshooter]

I was always in trouble for not coming back on time.! I would sneak off to fish in the Ohio River and usually got in big trouble for going by myself.!

[bbqpitboss]

Yep

[rjvana37]

Ah the good old days. Most kids today are Couch potatoes with their stupid cell phones. Thanksgiving last year I told my niece She hadn't changed a bit she why is that? I said the last time I saw you; you were doing the same thing texting with your friends.

[I.P. Freely]

In my 50’s still playing outside in the dirt with friends from Highschool.

[unknown angler]

Yeah, we were allowed to have pocket knives, sling shots, and BB guns. But if you did something stupid with them you got your ass tanned.

[DaveBrabec]

Mom used to drop us off at the creek on way to work. Pick us up on way home.

[Cape Fear]

My mom's golden rule was that I had to be home by the time the street lights came on. I pressed that rule to the limit many of times.

[borderbasser]

Yep... it's a different world now in so many ways

[Sylvanboat]

That’s the way it was for us. My Dad bought an old farm bell that he put up on a pole outside the house. When we were supposed to come home, he or Mom would ring that bell that could be heard all over the neighborhood.

My mom used a cowbell.

[Lil Mo]

My mom's golden rule was that I had to be home by the time the street lights came on. I pressed that rule to the limit many of times.

Yep. That was the rule at our house as well. Summertime was so awesome back then. If I wasn’t cutting grass are doing other chores, I was fishing with my brother, playing ball at the nearby empty lot, or just piddling in the yard or shed.

[XRD]

That's how it was for me

[WVBullet]

That’s a big absolutely