What this was 2003 you got called a removed for being a fucking nerd. There were tons of outlets resources and people there to help but a 14-18 year old could be at school the at a friends or hanging around town till 9 10pm go home to sleeping parents and avoid any adult interaction at their will. This wasnt house hold specific it was how much and how swiftly the goal posts have moved for wjat is parenting and what is helicopter parenting. Fuck there were entire summers swarms of kids basically lived at rec centers with no staff but outside courts and inside gymnasium. There was always one life guard but thats it. Fights broke out cops were called and everyone was told to go home but was back later that day. We could carry fuckin engine blocks accross the train tressle hundreds of feet above the water way and fucking launch them over the side. Hundreds of pounds of steel and oil carried in turns of 4 adolescent boys thousands of yards from the roadway, accross tressle hundreds of feet high with missing rr ties here and there you can fall to your death thru and we watched that fucking thing fly faster than anything ive ever s3en in my life slaming into the shale creek bed with so much force it sounded and felt like fucking explosion of several pounds of dynamite leaving what looked like a massive bloody stain across the water surfac3 cuz noone thought to drain the oil out first. Istantly for even as fucking dumb and pieces of shit we were at that age we all instantly felt bad for not even thinking about the oil in it but hey live and learn. We only thru shit that broke after that off the tressle that we could clean up from the shore and kayaks after that.

Edit: got me thinking back on tressle memories and thats not even the craziest. We used to have competitions to see who could climb accross the mettal joists underneath the tracks hanging like jungle gym out over the cliff side and there was always rocks being thrown from the onlookers trying to pelt the ones climbing with a hundreds of feet drop below them. We are talking the age group that was raised on cky videos before jackass went mainstream. We cut down trees with self milled semi auto rifles modified to fire automatic using 100 round drums. Someone made an automatic fucking 12 ga that noonne could drain it’s drum fed magazine it had for it. Wasnt 100rd tho i wanna say it was 50rd. We got the cops called cuz the house we partied at was about a quarter mile from the high way and the cops got calls from people driving on the highway that they kept seeing cars launched into the air over the treeline. What it was you see was we got our first skidsteer and one of our buddies had a beater car they bought for like $500 so we were using the skidsteer to to pick it up and flip it into the air as high as we could while the dude was paased out drunk in the basement.

I’ve use the dry erase marker over permanent marker “trick” many times.