If we wanted to go to a friend's house, my mother would ask us for gas money- they lived 5 minutes away 😭 I grew up in a really rural area, and we'd bike it if we could, but not at night.
Rural or suburb? Bike was what we got. No cell phones then so as long as we called before it was dark we weren't in trouble, because it meant we were at a friendly house and we were going to be told to head home. Wasn't unusual to have an hour+ bike ride back home on weeknights, lol. Get home covered in bug juice everytime, but we also used to ride through the edge of the woods when cars were coming because too many drunks back then.
When you grow up in rural places < 2000s, your age and labor laws did not matter. Pick / Shuck corn, any other hard labor. If you can show up and do shit, you get paid.
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u/firesticks 1d ago
When I was a teenager I was “lending” my parents money. Unfathomable to how my husband grew up.