Post by @only_ohm@mas.to

2026-09-21 17:07 UTC

@markstos@urbanists.social Trying to cast my mind back to being 8 years old, and I don't recall actually being *disallowed* to walk anywhere, but I cannot imagine having had either the time or the inclination, at 8 years old, to go for a 6-mile walk.

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@only_ohm@mas.to 2026-09-21 17:14

@markstos@urbanists.social In that context, I do wonder whether great-grandpa George in 1919 was really *allowed* to walk 6 miles to go fishing, or whether it would be more accurate to say, e.g., that he *had* to walk 6 miles to go fishing because his family were starving due to the inadequacy of post-WW1 war widows' pensions (and perhaps also because landowners closer to his home were jealously hoarding angling rights on their land).

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@markstos@urbanists.social 2026-09-21 17:49

@only_ohm@mas.to I remember probably around age 10, walking 2 miles one way down a general store that sold candy drinks. I had no conception of "2 miles", only I knew how to get the store and believed I could probably walk there and back by dinner time. I don't remember if we got permission or just like promised to be back by dinner. No phones, GPS tracking or water bottles.

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