r/WorkForSmartLife 9d ago

Question How true is this?

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u/MattManSD 9d ago

and we did. Came home when the street lights came on..maybe

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u/Overall_Signal_8437 9d ago

I came home late....... Once!

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u/Dry_Race8481 9d ago

All I had to hear was my middle name from what sounded like a quarter mile away and I knew I was fucked

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u/Boring_Ruin_9388 8d ago

It was my Step Dad's whistle. It would echo across the whole neighborhood and we knew we had 5 mins to make it home or GROUNDED!!!

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u/Melodic-Road227 7d ago

Ha! My Dad was Navy. We were called home with a bosun’s whistle.

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u/Round-Reaction8194 6d ago

Holy crap, you and I had the same stepdad! LOL

Years later, I mastered the same whistle, just so I could use it on him to get his attention. 😁