• slothrop @lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    True story. I took a city bus to the library, by myself, when I was 6 years old. This trip included a transfer.
    Still here 63 years later …

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      Still here 63 years later

      wow jesus christ 63 years!! You should go ask the library assistant, they will prob help you. Your family are probably worried sick!

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      I was recently talking ro someone about the gokd ole days.

      When i was a kid, my friend and i would take a bus from Canada to the US to go hang out at the hockey arena to get autographs on our hockey cards.

      We took a bus.

      Went through customs. (All we needed back then was a birth certificate.)

      Walked through a notoriously bad area to get to the arena.

      Hung out for hours.

      And returned home safely.

      We were 10.

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        We used to cross the border between Quebec and the US to go jump off of a bridge and a set of cliffs over a river on the US side. We would go as a group of five or 10 kids on bmx’s and 10-speed bikes. Border guards never even talk to us. They would just wave us through as we came in. And most of the time they were all smiles.

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      60 here. Parents used to send my brother and alone on the subway to go to the museum. I was 5 and he was 9.