Dave Smith wrote:
> On 27/10/2011 7:31 PM, Goomba wrote:
>
>> Eating early like 5 or 6 pm was never considered desirable in my family.
>> My husband on the other hand had to adapt to a later dinner hour once we
>> married. His mother worked in a factory and they ate early.
>
> It was around our house. I had three brothers and we had lots of evening
> activities, homework, baseball, hockey, scouts etc. My father was in a
> service club that had regular meetings and activities and he was
> involved with the local air cadet squadron. He liked to get home from
> work, have dinner, a power nap and then he was busy for the rest of the
> evening.

When we were young, after school activities such as sports, scouts or
CCD all took place in the afternoon hours soon after school. It was
pretty rare to have events after dinner. Perhaps that kind of life went
the way of the do-do birds?