So this afternoon my dad is telling me how when he was about 17 years old, he and 2 of his buddies were just driving down the main street in Cumberland, BC about midnight or 1 am. He said the middle of the road had several feet of snow piled up. They were just drinking beer and driving around, no one cared and no one was even around. As much as we are all against that sort of thing nowadays (and I myself would have been mortified to hear of my kids doing anything like that), it was somehow ok then.