Pretty much sums up the majority of us here....
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totally agree.. pretty much sums up my childhood with the exception of no attempted kidnapping. :-)
Need to add carried a pocket knife daily after dad gave it to you at 6 years old, carried a pack of matches regularly before age ten and learned hitch hiking as basic transportation at age 13. My sister was kidnapped hitchiking and escaped by faking asthma attack. She later testified at the trial of the two time murderer who she escaped.
One of the biggest personal "awakenings" I've had realized recently is the dystopian pocket knife rules in schools. Pocket knives were vilified, even through high school. We were taught that if our friends brought one in, they were dangerous and we needed to report them.
And, as a kid, you just accept that. Now, years later, carrying a pocket knife every day and not thinking twice about it, I look back and realize how insane that is.
Children should be taught knife safety and should be carrying knives.
I got caught carving my initials on a table in science class while in High School. I caught hell for the carving part, but I didn't hear a word about having a knife.
We used to play mumbly peg in middle school during recess. And the "yard duty" teacher would often be the referee.
As it should be.