Think back to when you were 8 years old
Think back to when you were 8 years old, or thereabouts.....
How did you call on your friends to come out and play on a Saturday morning?
All of our grandchildren today have "play dates" and are invited back and forth to each other's homes...........as were our own children. Our home was always open to our kids' friends. However, ours also played outdoors as back in the 1970's and 1980's it was still perceived as "safe" to play outdoors and in the woods, etc.
But, at the expense of sounding like Rocky Balboa in Philadelphia......I still recall in New Jersey.........standing in front of a friend's home (all of our friends did the same thing and if one didn't answer you went on to the next house)........and yelling "YO CAROL" or "YO BARBARA".....
Have no clue what that YO meant.......but that's what we did.
WE NEVER RANG THE DOORBELL..........as we got older we did go inside our closest friends homes and they came into ours.........but still have the memories of "calling" for our friends on a Saturday morning or during summer school vacation when days were endless............
Must be a city thing..........
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