They kept cracking me up!

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I remember during the mid to late 1970's when I was a teenager, we used to hang around with friends in front of out house just talking and telling stories and jokes. Not loudly and no one complained. Twenty years later when my boys were around the same age, we lived in the same county but different area. My two boys and just a couple of friends were standing outside in front of our house while I was fixing dinner, so it was earlier then when my sister and I used to. I looked out the front window and saw a police car outside and they were talking to my boys and friends. I went out and asking the police was there a problem and he asked me were these my kids. I told him, "These two are ,why?" He then said, "You need to take them inside they cannot be standing out here like this." I said" Why? Like what? They are just talking to friends." He then said with a total serious look on his face," Well it looks like a gang" I explained to him about how we did the same thing in the same county and I was told, times had changed. Two or three times a week the boys had baseball practice with their little league teams and usually a game on Saturday. And a boy scout meeting once a week and an even two times a month or so. Some police officers came to our door about two weeks later asking if I had kids and what they do and I told this to them and I was asked on the alternate days they are invited to come to the recreation room in the townhouse community to socialize because it is not good for them to stay inside and watch TV or play video games. I explained to them why I was laughing and they said, "Oh!, well they are welcome."