I'm so old I Remember when:

[Buckeye Amy]

I'm mostly hearing.... sigma, emotional damage and only in Ohio.

Hey! I resemble that comment!

 

[The Moonshiner]

Hey! I resemble that comment!

All of it?

 

[Buckeye Amy]

All of it?

No the last part!

 

[The Moonshiner]

No the last part!

Hey I was just clarifying so no one got the wrong impression.
You may be sigma though.

 

[Buckeye Amy]

Hey I was just clarifying so no one got the wrong impression.
You may be sigma though.

If by sigma you mean "someone who is cool, popular, and
independent, and who prefers to work on their own projects" then yes.

 

[jxp]

In my day there was no issue with Free Range kids. They would have had to arrest all the parents in the neighborhood.

I remember seeing this video. My jaw about hit the floor.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I was a free range kid. In Denver, no less. My 10-yo twin brother and I used to take two or three busses halfway across town to the swimming pool and spend most of the day there. And we couldn't swim! The bus cost a quarter and we got free transfers. We'd come home, eat lunch, hop on our bikes and cruise around the neighbiehood with the guys till dinnertime, then back out to do it some more, or play hide and seek, till we could see the stars.

Sigh. Those were the days!

 

[AGeese]

Thinking of all the moms who used to send their kids to the store to buy milk and bread (or later on cigarettes, but we can leave that one off) imagine how full the jails would be.

 

[AntiqueB]

I used to walk down to the corner store every Sunday to buy the newspaper for my parents. And then wander with the dog down abandoned train tracks, around a creek, and over to an old golf course. I must have walked a couple of miles away. My mom thought the dog was plenty of protection.

 

[RoyalChick]

Last I checked METV was an antenna channel here and played two episodes of MASH every evening except Saturday

METV is where I catch MASH