mornings on our street

[dwenius]

Yesterday morning, 7AM. Nina and Calvin are outside in the cool morning fog, zooming up and down the sidewalk on bikes (training wheels for Calvin). Both are barefoot. Both hooting and hollering. As usual, they are the only ones of the 12 kids who live on this street who actually PLAY OUTSIDE. and I am severely reminded, once again, of the chorus to John Prine's _Spanish Pipedream_.

Comments

[megasus4.livejournal.com]

To be fair, 7am seems pretty early for major bike action.

Some kids play outside at the house behind us, but our street only has 5 houses and I think Keira's the only one younger than a teenager.

[dwenius.livejournal.com]

Sure, but the situation is the same in the afternoon and evening. We never see these other kids, or if we do, the parents are absolutely hovering.

[stori-lundi.livejournal.com]

The outside world is SCARY!!! They could fall down and get hurt or kidnapped or someone could sell them drugs or show them porn or they could run away and never been seen again or harassed by aliens or...or...or...

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

...or worst of all... they might feel scared.

[canetoad.livejournal.com]

Actually, it was more like 8:00. But as Dwenius says, they're always the only kids out and about.