Can I come out and play?

Lololololol Dawn, this certainly had me laughing I bet she was not amused, I don't think I would have been able to keep a straight Face to be honest if I had been your Babysitter, I would have tried but failed, Did you get in a lot of trouble for that lolololol I can just imagine the Scene lol

When I was about 10 they tarmaced the sidewalk (or pavement as we call them) outside our house. My younger sister and I went out and played in the new wet tarmac and got ourselves in a real mess. My mother was less than impressed and having scrubbed us, sent us to bed with sore bottoms. Shortly afterwards we were hurriedly evacuated as there had been a boiler blow back and our kitchen was on fire. We were sent to the house opposite. We saw the fire truck drive straight past the end of our road and, feeling mad at our parents squealed "Good. Let's hope the house burns down". Unfortunately, or fortunately it didn't and they got there in time. Lovely children weren't we?

Nope, get back in your box! My Parents never put locks on the outside of my bedroom door, but they DID tie a steak around my neck so the neighbourhood dog would play with me. Good times they were, good times!

wow-that's really dangerous. but,that is how things were back in the day. we never snuck out from the second floor-ours is too high to even consider it. we had one or two nailed shut but mainly cause he was too lazy to fix the window lol

ROFLMAO @ 'especially me' I thought of the fire aspect before I got to the end Were there no type of inspections by the local housing people? They inspect homes regularly here to see that everything is safe in the csae of fire.

It was different then. My dad was raised where the kids walked miles to school and no one really worried about other evil people. My sisters lived in a world where a few kids went MIA and were often thought of as run a ways. I lived in a world where at 5 a little boy in flordia had his head cut off after being taken from a walmart. Before that nobody really worried as much as they do now. My kids live in a world where kids where a girl was taken out of her bed during a slumber party. Kids now days have so much to have to worry about..... Good thing your dad's biggest worry was a sneak who walked back in the front door. LOL My sisters would have wait till five minutes before the parents got home and snuck back in. Then they would tell the parents how evil the sitter was. They weren't the good kid I was. I even walked on water a few times.... right after it rained. The puddles were a lot deeper then they looked.

I thought of something else when you said he nailed the windows shut. Evidently you didn't live in the sub-tropics! Or if you did, you must have had air conditioning. My windows are wide open all year round, unless of course the rain is coming in. I'm sure a lock would never stop you.

Are we related? My son was about 10....he got grounded to his room which was upstairs.....well he was up there about 15 minutes when the neighbor called to tell me he was repelling out the window via an extention cord....those orange ones.....he tied it to his bed and was going down the back of the house.....I can relate to how the babysitter felt.....I was not happy!

Wasn't it just awesome? Those days..? I can only imagine. Must have been such fun memories for you..I totally cherish my notorious days..young and reckless' oh that we were, eh? :p

oh dawn I was sitting here all morose and thinking how my shoulder'hurt and I was having a pity party then I read can'i 'come out to play? oh my g.what must that babysitter thought? On a more somber note what on earth were your parents thinking? What if the house really had caught on fire,however would you kids have got out? I am not putting your pArents down but just thjinking safety wise.Probably they thought they 'were being good parents.parents used to be so much more'strict'than they are now but that cannot be all bad.hehe

Hi dawnald, I bet the babysitter laughed her head off when you were not around, you must have been such a funny child, I would have laughed, anyone would run off to a friednd house but you didn't, you are so funny and hope your kids have the same sense of humour making people, love your family. Tamara

so, says she looking at you anxiously, do you mean that you were always like this?

When I was young, my parents always need to go to work, and nobody can take care of me, they did the same thing as your parents did to you. They lockede the door, and let me play with myself in the house. Children always want to go out play with their friends, same to me. Because my apartment is fourth floor, so I can't go out from the window. Only sometimes my parents forgot their keys at home, I throwed it to my friends, and let them open the door, so I can go out and play with them. Happy mylot!

Hahahahha u remind me of my mom too, she used to send me to sleep every afternoon for a nap when i was a kid. And naughty me, i used to pretend i was sleeping and then when she fell asleep i slowly crawled out to bed and jumped out the window and played with my friends outside and i always got good bullocking and i was always stranded at home but that never stopped me of jumping out the window. Looking back i find it very funny...

You know, by today's standards that would be child abuse. I can imagine you being that ornery, though. My dad would have just let me know that he was worse when he was a kid than I could ever dream of being and so I needed to straighten up. Mom would threaten to put me in a juvenile detention center and I would have believed her, because mom did not lie, and she did not threaten either, she PROMISED. I am glad there was no fire. I would have missed out on a cool friend. I bet if their was a fire you would have smashed something through the window, though and gotten out.

I sure can, I could get out of almost everywhere and did, I hated to be locked away. To this day I don't know how much my parents knew about my wanderings. Of course it was 60 years ago and we live in a small town where I'm sure everybody knew exactly where I was. The most likely ratted me out too. No one is still alive that I could ask, so I can now make up any story I want. Old age does have some perks.

Nowadays the school syallbus or workload of students is so much , they don't get time playing. If i fix a time table at least 2-3 hours in evening a child should come out and play . it gives body the required , physical exercise. a student mind is sharpened . he can concertrate more , if he spends around 2 hours playing his favourite game. Because , sports are a source of recreation , it stimulazises body. Once you have vibrant energy , you can study more . So therefore a couple of hours of sports or games is must..