"Miche" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>
>> "Miche" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > In article >,
>> > "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> >
>> >> "Leonard Blaisdell" > wrote in message
>> >> ...
>> >> > In article >,
>> >> > "Giusi" > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> What do you think they did before TV? I'll bet if you talk to
>> >> >> someone
>> >> >> over
>> >> >> 60 they'll tell you they did all the same games other kids did.
>> >> >> Kids
>> >> >> don't
>> >> >> care about gloomy, grownups care.
>> >> >
>> >> > A couple of weeks ago, I took my granddaughters past a gas station.
>> >> > I
>> >> > told them that it was a trampoline park in 1962 when I was fifteen.
>> >> > I
>> >> > explained that lawsuits and insurance premiums killed all of the
>> >> > trampoline parks off.
>> >> > Today, in our local rag, I see that trampoline parks are making a
>> >> > comeback. I suspect they won't be here for very long.
>> >> > I miss the old days when local issues didn't become national laws.
>> >> > I'm
>> >> > amazed that kids can still ski without inciting a bad parenting rap.
>> >>
>> >> I think skiing is too dangerous and I wouldn't allow my daughter to do
>> >> it.
>> >> Thankfully she sees it as dangerous too.
>> >
>> > Goddamn. Do you hold her hand crossing the street too?
>>
>> She doesn't cross streets.
>
> She's going to have to leave your block sometime.

And most likely she will be driving. The last time I remember crossing a
street was like...back in May when we went to another city for a dance show.
It is just not something we have to do much of here. Most places have
parking lots. That one did too but it was across the street.