School time

Tales from the Backyard…When I was 4 (almost 5), school had started and I was left at home with no one to play with so told my mom I was going to the neighbors to play with them.  She said that they were at school too, and to stay home.  (Maybe you missed something, I was not 5, yet had on many occasions walked alone to the neighbors to play, it was a 1/2 mile away, try letting someone do that today).  Not to be bossed around by some grown-up, I went anyway.  About ¾ of the way there I thought better of it and began to come back when I see mom coming down the farm road, so I dashed into the woods to hide.  She went to the neighbors and not finding me headed back, furious by now, she spotted me in the woods and what a whipping I got.  On the good side, the next week I was in first grade, she had somehow convinced them I was older than I really was.