14: Small Town Curfew
New drivers in small-town America are often the first to be subjected to a curfew. Reddit user ZR2TEN told the story. “The small city I grew up in had a noon curfew for kids under 18. I was 16 or so riding bikes at night with friends when we realized it was getting close to midnight. We couldn’t remember whether the curfew was at midnight or 12:30, so we found a cop in a shopping center parking lot & tried to ask him.
“He told us that we should know already & then ignored us, so we decided to at least start making our way back to someone’s house. Right at midnight, we looked back & saw that cop driving towards us. We ducked into a neighborhood & pretended like one of the houses was ours. He looked at us but didn’t stop. After the coast was clear, we cut through neighborhoods & the woods to get home.”