When the cats away, the mice will play.
Two kids riding their bikes to an empty lot? It never ends well.
Every kid has a bug period, I like to say, and I just got so fascinated and I had that experience, that wonderful life of being able to go out on my own without really any supervision at all. I just lucked out that way. I was trusted as a kid.
Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.
I don't have a boss or PR person, so I'm accountable to no one.
And he does this without ever having taken a lesson.
We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all.
We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.
My mom worked late, and I was at home a lot by myself. It was good for my imagination - and bad for it, too.
I was a latchkey kid, from 4 or 5 years old.
I was never restricted. I was never told what to do.
I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.
No doubt there are dangers involved in letting children go online unsupervised.
I don't want anybody guarding me. I want to be free; I want to be left alone... I would like to go out there and have no one know me, but at the same time, it would bother me, y'know.
By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.
We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
I can't be left unsupervised.
I was a latchkey kid.
And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home, take my time, kick the can. We were on our own schedule after school, so that was cool.
The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
