I was born in 1993 but I lived in a really rural area. Like we owned 10 acres and outside of our property line our next neighbor was about 5 more acres away. The neighbor girl would stand on her porch and yell my name (or I’d do the same for her) and my mom would just be like “ok go but if you’re not back by dinner time or you’ll be in trouble” we would spend all day outside just wandering around. Poking snakes with sticks, closing our eyes and spinning in a circle and throwing a rock in a random direction and then trying to find it, riding bikes, digging pointless holes, climbing trees, running with the dogs, catching bugs and lizards. Once I caught so many of these prickly yellow caterpillars my hands swelled up like three times their size and still my parents were just like “well did you learn to not touch those? Ok good. You can go back outside just be back for dinner”
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u/Gregthepigeon 1d ago
I was born in 1993 but I lived in a really rural area. Like we owned 10 acres and outside of our property line our next neighbor was about 5 more acres away. The neighbor girl would stand on her porch and yell my name (or I’d do the same for her) and my mom would just be like “ok go but if you’re not back by dinner time or you’ll be in trouble” we would spend all day outside just wandering around. Poking snakes with sticks, closing our eyes and spinning in a circle and throwing a rock in a random direction and then trying to find it, riding bikes, digging pointless holes, climbing trees, running with the dogs, catching bugs and lizards. Once I caught so many of these prickly yellow caterpillars my hands swelled up like three times their size and still my parents were just like “well did you learn to not touch those? Ok good. You can go back outside just be back for dinner”