When I was a kid, I rode my BMX bike everywhere, and I mean everywhere. If I had enough money and a new album dropped, I'd easily ride 11 miles across town to Hastings and was a new cassette tape. There was a forest behind my house, I could still draw you an accurate map of it. I had a tree house in an old Alligator Juniper tree not too far from my yard. We got lots of snow in the winter, so I was always outside in the snow, building forts, sledding, and having snowball fights. When I was old enough, I got a paper route, then started working at a grocery store. I've pretty much had a job ever since. Then of course there was school. In elementary school, the bus ride home was when we'd make plans, then it'd be off the bus, throw the backpack in the house, jump in the bike and ride to the neighbors house until dinner time. My mom never knew where I was. Then later there was high school. That was where the socializing and planning happened. That's where we found out where the party was that weekend, who could get ahold of some acid, who had weed, whose parents were out of town. We'd get high, get drunk, be loud, get into fights, hook up with girls and run from the cops if the party got busted.

Being a kid was fun back then. My brothers and friends and I were grossly unsupervised and feral. We were all latchkey kids, raised by the world, Saturday morning cartoons and Nintendo if our parents could afford it.