When I was growing up, my mom was entirely quite strict.
It’s funny to guess of now, because he has become seriously cool in his older age.
However, back after that I weren’t allowed to do much of anything. Of course, we had curfews, expectations for our grades, plus quarterly chores that we had to perform without receiving anything in return. We had to work proper tasks by the age of 15, we were responsible for ourselves plus our belongings, plus we were particularly not allowed to partake in anything risky. My mom was obsessed with keeping us from drinking plus smoking, which only made us do it more; Generally, I got away with both activities. But there was one time that I was caught smoking red-handed. We’re at my aunt’s house plus I snuck away to the spare room for a quick smoke. I didn’t realize, in his house the Heating plus A/C system was set up differently than our central heating, cooling, plus ventilation was at home. While we had one central air return for the entire house located centrally near the thermostat, my aunt had to separate air returns located in every room. The air handling return was generally on the opposite wall from the air vents, so that there was a steady flow of air in plus out of the room when his heating or cooling system ran. Having no idea that there was an air return, I lit up plus loved my smoke. About 10 seconds later, my mom came running into the room plus caught me resting in the window, with one air vent restrained plus the other wide open. At least we can joke about my lack of Heating plus A/C comprehension plus disobedience now that I am an adult.