Originally Posted by Grandmother23
Originally Posted by cjomomma
When I was a child we lived in Firebaugh Ca. back then it was a small farming community and everyone knew each other. If you were a child and you were seen goofing off or doing something you shouldn't be doing your parents would know about it before you got home. My favorite memory was that every summer there was a snow cone truck that Would drive around each neighbor hood and the snow cones were only a quarter each. There was always a long line of kids waiting for their turn. For a quarter you would get a great big snow cone and it tasted good not like the flavored ice in a cup you have to take out a loan to get these days.
It was the same way here. Got a lecture from the person who saw and then was told "I am gonna tell your momma". So then you caught hell from your mom too. I do this to this day to the neighborhood children. lol It still takes a village to raise a child. Still have the ice cream truck driving through the neighborhood, saw them Tuesday!!!!
Did anyone have a "fog truck" for the mosiqtoes (sp)? We used to run after the truck. God knows what we were "sniffing" then (this was over 40 years ago). Swimming in the ditch when we had a really big rain, as they were really deep on the sides of the road. :mrgreen: :shock: :roll: :?: :-(
I so forgot about swimming in the ditches. We would also go craw dadding and frogging in the ditches. We would disappear for hours and our parents didn't have to worry about us. My Mom always said that when I got hungry I would come home.