> The rule about kids not playing with toys in hallways seems a bit authoritarian but was probably prompted by parents not sufficiently supervising their kids and toys getting left around and stepped/tripped on.
When I was a little kid growing up in Whittier, my neighbor across the hall would come out and scream and threaten us for playing there. He'd yell, "You don't live on this floor!" to my friends. It was winter outside, and dark and snowy, so there was really no other common area we could play in. I remember getting a big slot-car race track for xmas and setting it up in the common laundry room so we could play without getting in trouble.
When I was a little kid growing up in Whittier, my neighbor across the hall would come out and scream and threaten us for playing there. He'd yell, "You don't live on this floor!" to my friends. It was winter outside, and dark and snowy, so there was really no other common area we could play in. I remember getting a big slot-car race track for xmas and setting it up in the common laundry room so we could play without getting in trouble.