Originally Posted by
rachel120
Outrageous. When I was 10 I had a paper route so I was on my own riding about a 3 mile route all over town, every day except Sunday. Not to mention that I also walked to school and back (a little over 1/2 mile one way) every day unless the weather was bad. Of course it was 1981 and we lived in a small town, but have your kids do that now and CPS will try to take them away from you.
And that's not even including how, on some weekends, I would walk about a mile down the railroad tracks to an old stone railroad bridge and walk around in the woods along the creek. I think we knew that the trains didn't run on the weekends but we had enough common sense to get off the tracks if we heard a train.