For guilt-ridden boomer parents, sure. Parental paranoia signaled adventure. It was kind of exciting.
Strange things are indeed afoot in the subdivision here.
Red clouds float through grade school classrooms. Oversize spiders powwow with gnomes. He grew up in Gaithersburg in the '70s and '80s. Back then, before every teen had a computer, kids got out of the house to make mischief. They're about the intrigue a young mind constructs around the banal.