I’m going out with a girl after work and we’re gonna play in the park.
(It’s my wife and I’ll be riding my bike while she tries to get used to inline skates again. We’re in our 30s.)
But for real I miss being able to just… Enjoy a playground. Go throw rocks at the creek with friends. Have sword battles with sticks we found while walking by the trees.
But if I do that, people call the cops because some old guy is clearly confused and wandering around…
An adult man wandering around a playground with no kids of his own, they can find some reasons to do something at a certain point.
I still get weird looks sporadically taking my daughter to the park.
I’ve had the cops called on me for taking my niece and nephew to the park a few blocks away from their house.
Nobody came to ask why I was there or which ones were mine.
Just two cops sneaking up behind me, grabbing my shoulders, hands on their guns demanding to know if I’m there with kids or I just like to fuck them.
My niece ended up calling her mother on their emergency phone and she sprinted down.
Never got an apology from anyone except my sister, who had nothing to apologize for.
I’ve had more amicable, but still very much confrontational encounters with people assuming I’m there for nefarious purposes.
I tend to avoid parks unless I’m with someone because of that.
Nighttime skateboarding down at the street light was good times with the friends…
@blibla@slrpnk.net Please try to keep memes here to those somewhat related to solarpunk. After the ‘western democracy’ post, we/I are considering screening out content that doesn’t fit. It doesn’t have to be a great fit - just somehow geared towards solar punk
Used to play disc golf with the guys after work years back. Good times
This actually surprised me, i haven’t met my school friends for a long time, met 2 of them when i was on my field job. We talk about how things were back then and how fun playing Source CS, Halflife, Warcraft 3 LAN. I asked if they wanted to play it again on the weekend and it surprised me that 7 out of 10 people who i used to hang out can do it that day.
Why the heck is this in solarpunk memes
