My mother is from Chicago. We moved to the country when I was about 10. I was going to look at a horse at a friends house outside of the small town we lived in when I was about 14. Someone was going to drop me off. It was maybe a mile or 2 outside of town. She asked me how I was going to get home. I told her that I would just walk home through the waterways. She says to me in all seriousness "But what if you drown".
