At 10 years old, riding BMX everywhere in the summer, meeting friends that did the same, coming home for lunch, back on BMX, head to the beach, come back and get a fishing rod, be out for the afternoon and play soccer somewhere, come back for dinner.

I still have about 10 phone numbers to my friends' houses memorized. You'd call and ask for them, talk to the parents. Or you'd just drop by and hope they were home. Or you'd make plans in school to meet up at X hour at Y place. No one complained about it.