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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 4610413" data-attributes="member: 25619">My hometown had no mall, no bowling alley, and no Dairy Queen (in our little part of the world, it's more often Friendly's or Carvel anyhow).  Nowadays, there is a non-chain local place to buy ice cream and hamburgers, but the parking is in a shared lot in back, and nobody hangs out there.I remember basically just hanging around at my neighbors houses, or hiking around in the woods, where you'd see more deer than people, guaranteed.  Activities were pretty much stuff you stayed after school for and took the late bus home -- soccer and singing for me.  If you took the early bus home, I'm not sure what you did.Yes, there are places where there's even less to do than in Coventry.  And it seems that D&D tends to be fairly popular in such places.In the 1990s, some old lady tried to get Magic The Gathering banned in the local school district after school, but the local school board fought her and the NY State courts decided the school was right.  Her logic?  Separation of church and state, because MtG was teaching the religion of Satanism, as were the lessons on studying owl poo to understand what they ate to understand the local ecosystem, and a book called "Spies on the Devil's Belt" in the school library (it was about a local spy ring during the American Revolution, using a historical name for the group).In my day, nobody even though of asking if we could play at school anyhow.The one good thing out of the Satanism case?  The media descended on our town, and asked my mom, who seemed likely to have a dummy opinion, what she thought of the accusations of teaching Satanism at school.  And I quote"In my day, we thought that Satanism was best taught at home."  Needless to say, they didn't put that one on the nightly news.</blockquote>

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