Round 2 Part 2 FlabbergastingFlashficSmackdown

I can see the eyes roll already, but yes, the good old days really were the good old days. 

Kids did things together. Adventures, street games, table games, the fascination of radio serials, comic books, yo-yos, dony whackers, pea shooters, Christmas tree forts, snowball and acorn fights. Scratches and scabby knees from climbing trees. Go-carts from orange crates, roller skates. Hitching ride on the milk and bread wagons or the ice truck, and all unsupervised.

Be home in time for dinner, and afterwards when the street lights came on.

Cant' help it; it's just the generation ship of a magical time.

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Note: Tried to use the expression in the vernacular of today's generation.  ;P)