Things We Did As Kids
"Believe it or not, even though we were raised in Jersey, when we'd go to "call on our friends" to come out and play......we'd stand outside their homes and yell "Yo Carol" or "Yo Johnny"......whatever their name was." (Posted by SeniorCitizen in 3 word sentence thread)
We did that in my neighborhood where I grew up in Cincinnati! 'Cept we said, "Oh Carol". As children we very rarely used the telephone. Of course, we did sneak in the occasional prank call. My dad had us call the zoo on April Fools Day morning to ask for Mr. Bear. I can still see him laughing about that! The zoo people were really kind about it even tho they obviously fielded a million of those calls!
Kids went home for dinner when the church bells chimed 5 or 6 o'clock and had to check in when the street lights went on. We had such fun playing outside in those days. Worst punishment in the world was to be grounded. My mother soon figured out that was just as bad on her as it was us!
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