Protecting the Free-Range Kid

[Montegriffo]

What's the big whoop? I started riding the public transit to and from school on my own, when I was younger than that, nobody ever bothered be, and there were plenty of adults around ayways if they ever did.

There was only one 9 year old kid in my neighborhood that ever got kidnapped and murdered, Sharon Morningstar Keenan, but she was taken from the little park right accross the street from her house, in broad daylight at 4 in the afternoon.

In NYC?

I walked around on my own as a kid in NYC, when NYC was supposedly dangerous, never had a problem, heck, I stood and watched a mugging as it went down, but the muggers paid me no mind, because they knew I didn't have any money, the muggers were after the nicely dressed parading up and down the promanade, not the little urchins playing in the streets.

More sob stories,poor Smitty didn't even have a pair of sneakers worth pinching. At least you had the love of mummy and daddy.

[Smitty-48]

In NYC?

I walked around on my own as a kid in NYC, when NYC was supposedly dangerous, never had a problem, heck, I stood and watched a mugging as it went down, but the muggers paid me no mind, because they knew I didn't have any money, the muggers were after the nicely dressed parading up and down the promanade, not the little urchins playing in the streets.

More sob stories,poor Smitty didn't even have a pair of sneakers worth pinching.

Didn't actually, just a beat up old pair of Adidas, it was the seventies, man, my parents weren't consumerists, I rolled like they did then, filthy long haired hippie, and as such, was well below the radar of the muggers looking for a score.

[Montegriffo]

Only tough streets I ever walked were the army barracks in Düsseldorf as a kid. Learnt how to fight, steal and play marbles for money as a result of mixing with the army brats.
We seem to have lived each other's childhoods. My father with a military name and background and your father a hippy with a civilian name.

[Smitty-48]

Caernarvon Barracks, yeah, I know the place.

[Xenophon]

Only tough streets I ever walked were the army barracks in Düsseldorf as a kid. Learnt how to fight, steal and play marbles for money as a result of mixing with the army brats.
We seem to have lived each other's childhoods.

Caernavon Barracks, yeah, I know the place.

I want to see the film version of Smitty and Monte's lives as young street toughs, each saluting a portrait of Her Majesty before night-night.

When I was a kid, I lived out in the middle of no-where surrounded by cow pastures. We lived on a quarter if an acre, so there wasn't much real estate I was allowed to be on. My parents always told me to not talk to people I don't know, and that seemed to do the trick.

This one time, though, I was playing on the fence trying to feed grass to a bull, with my new puppy behind me. This old beat up truck pulled up beside me and two random rednecks started talking to. I ran back to the house in a panic, and they drove away. I wasn't clear as to their intentions, but I wasn't going to stay and find out. That was in 1997 I believe.

[Smitty-48]

Only tough streets I ever walked were the army barracks in Düsseldorf as a kid. Learnt how to fight, steal and play marbles for money as a result of mixing with the army brats.
We seem to have lived each other's childhoods.

Caernavon Barracks, yeah, I know the place.

I want to see the film version of Smitty and Monte's lives as young street toughs, each saluting a portrait of Her Majesty before night-night.

Never saluted nothing when I was a young street tough in the seventies, maaan, didn't take the blood oath to the Commander-in-Chief, until I was 17.

[Fife]

Afro Smits wasn't no joke, kids.

:goteam: :drunk:



http://themindunleashed.com/2015/02/10- ... today.html

[MilSpecs]

That's funny - I rarely walked a tough street alone. I just sat on the stoop and kept watch out of the corner of my eye for roaches.

[Speaker to Animals]

Afro Smits wasn't no joke, kids.

:goteam: :drunk:



http://themindunleashed.com/2015/02/10- ... today.html

In the 2016 version, the cop would have choked him out around 1:10.

[Okeefenokee]

It happens with physical activity as well. I had a younger mom snip at me because I was letting my daughter climb and she was afraid her sons would try to climb too. In a playground on equipment meant for physical activity.

How polite did you manage to be when you told her to sod off?

I told her I understood her concern that her sons would try to imitate my little girl, and by the way I didn't recognize her - was she new to the area or does she work near here? - And then told her to enjoy our beautiful little town. She'd come at the perfect time; not so many tourists during the week at dinnertime.

That is how women tell each other to fuck off.