PROMPT: Ridiculous

Daily writing prompt
What’s something you used to believe as a kid that seems ridiculous now?

That adults knew stuff and were free to do as they pleased.

PROMPT: Grown Up

When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?

The first time I went drove to another state and stayed in a hotel on my own (late teens, obviously after getting a driver’s license — but a year or more before graduating high school.)

Roosters of Youth [Haiku]

when I was a child,
roosters aggressively charged;
 now: they flee, clucking.