On: The AirPods Effect

[throwaway2037]

    > It takes about an hour to walk the mile or so back from school because he's got to talk to all the old guys and ask how they're doing.

Wow, this really pushes back against the all might HN narrative that the world is now too dangerous to allow this. You have found a real gem of living. My guess: The farmers are probably all too happy to have a young curious lad to talk with a few times a week!

[ErroneousBosh → throwaway2037]

He's too little to walk by himself just now - he's not quite six, and there are a couple of busy roads.

But he'll just kind of wander about in the park and chat to folk, talk for hours to people at the farmer's market, that kind of thing.