An interesting question there, Maria, thanks for including me in the folks you asked to make a response to it.

From the time I was twelve (12) until I moved out following graduation, my bed time was always 9:30PM, No ifs, ands or buts about it. No sense in getting too enthralled by the Monday Night Football telecast at 9PM, because by the time the team with the opening kick off scored or punted to the other team, it was time to head upstairs to bed grrr.

I thought this would change as I got older, or at the very least during the Summer months void of a school schedule. Nope. Same old rule, lights out by 9:30PM. Wtfudge.

Laying there in the darkness, I was hard pressed to crawl out of my 2nd story window onto the roof, slip down the siding onto the ground below….What was I going to do anyway, hang out in the hen house with cackling hens?, venture over to the barn and swap war stories with Betsy the cow?…out painting the town red, Not!