My brother and I were considered to be Irish twins although this was not true. In order to be true Irish twins, you must be less than a year apart, my brother and I are 11 months apart I was two months premature which does not fit the definition.But I digress.
I could generally talk my brother into anything at that time. This was the case on this sunny day. We were about three and five years old, my mother’s parents, our grandparents, had moved about 2 miles away. My brother and I were outside playing, and I decided that it would be a good idea to take a walk to see my grandparents. The problems here were;
We were kind of young to be walking 2 miles by ourselves.
We were supposed to be outside playing. So that someone might be upset when they couldn’t find us.
So the two of us made our way from our safe neighborhood on the hill to see our grandparents. This journey took us to Route122/140, which at that time was known as the Cape Road as this was the way to go to Cape Cod on Route 140 or Rhode Island on Route 122. Unknown to us, at this time, we were discovered to be missing and my mother was frantic. She contacted a neighbor across the street who had a car, the search began. Not finding us where we were supposed to be, the search widened. We were found walking on the side of the road about a half mile away from where we should have been. Needless to say, we were chastised for taking the trek. This is just one of many times that we were chastised for doing something with good intentions that were not shared by the adults.
THE HUMAN CHAIN
When younger children are left to their own means, they become creative. This was the case one day when, left to their own means some of these 4 and 5-year-old children decided that it would be great to stop traffic the one road that led into the neighborhood. So here were five children stopping all traffic trying to enter the area using the only road in or out. The group was comprised of three girls and two boys. Ironically, the father of the three girls was a State Trooper. Here we were delinquent at a young age. This is just an example of one of many incidents that would occur over the years.
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