Remember when children spent summers outdoors, riding a big wheel, playing catch and “no bears are out tonight” …? Back in the day, summer time for me was freedom from curriculum cares and scheduled activities. It was hours of solo fun building a three-story hut, rafting on ranch canals, riding ponies, railroading with American Flyer, and reading books.
Back in the day, we had no AI Overview to explain this “colloquial idiom referring to a time in the past, often with a sense of nostalgia or fondness for that period … [without specifying] a particular time frame.” And no Internet. Was I deprived ("suffering a severe lack of cultural benefits")… or what?
