Do you remember walking home from school in the dark? / myLot

Walnut Creek, California

December 2, 2023 6:30pm CST

The shortest day of the year is approaching It is December 21st or so. I remember walking home from school (and after-school activities) in the dark. But I also remember (from younger days) having to go to bed in Summer at 7 or 8 PM when it was still light out. Do you have similar memories? The shortest day of the year approacheth. At least here in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (106429)

• Marion, Ohio

3 Dec

We always rode a bus

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218930)

• Walnut Creek, California

3 Dec

Heh. I only rode a bus to baseball games and field trips.

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (51027)

• Canada

3 Dec

When I was in grade school, we were let out at 3:25 and took the school bus across town to a school on the city's edge. There there were other students who got off of our bus, the wait time there was usually about 20 minutes. At 4pm we were on our way home. It was a long 12 mile drive to get to our stop. We usually got home about 4:30, unless the weather was poor, and then it was later. it was dark soon after we got home. In the summer I had to go to bed early, when it was still light out, when my brothers got old enough to help my Dad out on the farm, they were able to stay up later, but not me. I swear I never stayed up until dark until I started babysitting when I was 12.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218930)

• Walnut Creek, California

3 Dec

Glad you escaped captivity at 12!

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Stacey

@xstitcher (32495)

• Petaluma, California

4 Dec

I don't recall ever walking (or riding my bike) home from school in the dark.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218930)

• Walnut Creek, California

4 Dec

Heck, it's 6:30 PM and I'm thinking of going to bed. With no parents hounding me.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471459)

• Switzerland

3 Dec

During several months I walked back from school in he dark in Milan. I cannot remember I ever went to sleep at 7 or 9 pm during summer.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471459)

• Switzerland

3 Dec

@TheHorse We used to go to sleep at 9:30 when we were young. We could stay up until 10 pm during the summer vacations.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218930)

• Walnut Creek, California

3 Dec

@LadyDuck No wonder you turned out to be such a wild woman.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218930)

• Walnut Creek, California

3 Dec

Heh. I remember complaining that it was still light out.

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Loretta

@noni1959 (10095)

• United States

3 Dec

I remember a few times getting home as it was getting dark. We'd have after school sports, band practice or something. It was only three blocks and a street over but when the rumors of the zodiac killer were all over the school, we ran like the dickens and made it in five minutes. Didn't know I could run that fast.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218930)

• Walnut Creek, California

3 Dec

Heh. We had "mean kids" on the streets in Chicago, but nobody ever got killed on the way home from school.

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Loretta

@noni1959 (10095)

• United States

5 Dec

@TheHorse We didn't that I can remember.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218930)

• Walnut Creek, California

5 Dec

@noni1959 I'd remember!

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99405)

• Atlanta, Georgia

3 Dec

I don’t recall walking in the dark but close to sunset

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218930)

• Walnut Creek, California

3 Dec

Maybe I am exaggerating in my memory.

BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (47344)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

3 Dec

The only times I walked home from school in the dark was when I went to a dance. It was still light at 4 pm in Elora.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218930)

• Walnut Creek, California

3 Dec

I remember it getting dark at about 4:30 in Chicago.

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Tina Dalasinski

@Tina30219 (81948)

• Onaway, Michigan

3 Dec

I never walked home from school I always took the bus home. As for school activities never done any after school activities.

Judy Story

@jstory07 (139759)

• Roseburg, Oregon

3 Dec

I always rode a bus until I got old enough to buy a car.

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The Horse

@TheHorse (218930)

• Walnut Creek, California

3 Dec

I didn't have a car until I was in college.

RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (79932)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

3 Dec

I always managed to get home at dusk. It was when I went to university that I would come home in the dark during winter, I really hate this I mean here it is just 6 PM and it is pitch black outside,