On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:35:42 -0400, "J. Clarke"
> wrote:

>On 4/27/2010 8:42 PM, Jinx Minx wrote:
>> "Terry Pulliam > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:53:32 -0600, >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Where do you live? Not many places are still safe to turn kids loose.
>>>>
>>>> Do you read the newspaper? It was very safe in my children's day.
>>>> Not today. There are too many people out there searching for kids
>>>> to molest and feeling entitled to do so.
>>>
>>> The neighborhood where we moved last month is practically a throwback
>>> to when I was growing up. The kids play outside - a lot of street
>>> hockey and basketball in driveways seems to be the predominate outdoor
>>> activity. And even the DH was surprised at how friendly the neighbors
>>> are. He's lived in SoCal for 40 years and says this is the first time
>>> neighbors have come around to introduce themselves - even brought
>>> houseplants and cookies. Heck, I almost keeled over when I realized
>>> that the music I was hearing came from an *ice cream truck*!!! Hadn't
>>> seen an ice cream truck in *years*
>>>
>>> Heck, I seem to be married to the scariest thing on the block: a
>>> lawyer!
>>>
>>> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>>
>> Call me weird, but I'm afraid of ice cream trucks! We didn't have them in
>> my bucolic neighborhood growing up and all the ones that circle around where
>> I am now are half dilapidated and driven by creepy looking old men.
>
>Weird. My female cousin put herself through college driving a Good
>Humor truck.

Oh dear. Was she injured?
Jeßus
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