Latch key kid. Parents have no time and kids are focused on finding things out for ourselves. It's a generation thing, everyone did it because we had to survive.
Boys born into the Internet age, early ones, that is. A little diff from the kids of today today.
When mom cooked, we eat good! Like with all kids, mom is the best chef. Like my childhood, whenever I make the effort to cook, the boys are happy to be home, chilling and relaxing. To this day, my mom is still the BEST COOK EVER for the rest of my life. For real.
Never learned to cook because my mom, not her fault as with everyone who grew up in that era, did not have the time nor patience to patiently teach me. I paid no attention either, honestly. Most of the time, latchkey kids were never home, anyway. The most exciting thing I did after school was peeling off the last page the book I last read and dove in. Dad worked. Mom cooked. We eat and indulge and we repeat that the next day, next week, next month.
That was it back then.
But then, Covid19 happened and we paid the price every single day. Not just us, but the world was confused. We walk into popular areas and we could hear crickets and plentiful of parking spots...which was not normal.
We downloaded required apps but the moment we made a move, we had to report ourselves. I was worried because the regulation dictates that there could only be 2 people in 1 car at point in time on the road. But there was always the 3 of us. How are we going to get simple grocery whenever we keep exceeding the people-limit when we want to get out?
It was effing difficult but we're still kinda standing around for now. All of us are. Man, that was a bit strange, wasn't it? LOL,I remember standing in front a line of police and officers checking our apps, thinking to myself "What did I do? Why is this like this? We're fine. Done do something stupid, OK?"
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