Comment by foobarian

7 months ago

> "GTFO and come back at dinner"

Right, this is what I am wondering, is the reason people were comfortable doing this the fact that there was a weekly touchpoint with the community? The church visits might be stifled but if they establish a relationship with that large group of people then that might enable more free roaming at other times.

No. They did it because they were alcoholics and didn't really give a shit what we got in to as long as we didn't bring the cops home with us.

  • Ha! Probably more than fair for a lot of folks. It also was not uncommon for this to be when parents were cleaning the house. Doing that with a kid around is unreasonably difficult.