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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2021-12-18 03:59 pm

[ SECRET POST #5461 ]


⌈ Secret Post #5461 ⌋

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Re: What's on your mind?

(Anonymous) 2021-12-19 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Where I grew up if we found a yard full of bikes, it meant we'd found the yard of whoever was nicking them. I remember that "we never used to lock our doors thing", which was true, because if we did then whoever was busting in would just break it down and then you were out a door as well as anything you were foolish enough to leave lying around. People were honest back then, they say, but it is easy to be honest when nobody has nothing worth nicking. I don't miss those days, not one fucking bit, and I'd be grateful if people would stop trying to bring them back.

And the everyone came home on their own before dark too, because if you stayed out after dark then it was a cert you'd get mugged. If you were lucky, a mugging was all it was too. My grandad said they used to call the area he grew up in Noah's Ark, because if you didn't travel in pairs then you didn't travel at all.
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Re: What's on your mind?

[personal profile] pantswarrior 2021-12-19 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
*nods* There is also a big difference on where one grew up too. My dad's family grew up in a little town that he observes "now has a population of 500 if you count the new trailer park nearby and also the cows". So sure they had an idyllic sort of life where everyone knew everyone else and no one had to worry too much if you didn't know where your kid was at dinnertime.

But as you note, that is not the universal experience, and I think that's what really pisses me off about these memes. The idea that "the way things were for me" is always viable and the best way for everyone to live their life.