Or, "Be home *before* the street lights come on." Thinking back, I remember others picking apart the exact words their parents used in order to avoid having to head back home early. They would time it so they could stay out as late as possible and get back home *when* the street lights came on instead of being home *before*they came on so that they would *technically* not be late. That 'spirit of the law' versus 'letter of the law' child-like thinking to technically get away with things is actually very jewish. Or rather, jewish thinking is very much like the mentality of a child; a genetically and mentally diseased, deviant, subversive, satan-spawned child. We could stay out riding bikes, playing games, doing random things or even nothing at all until just before dark and it was perfectly safe because there weren't any niggers around to destroy the peace and harmony of kids enjoying being kids. I think early to mid-90s was when that was fully destroyed, to where none of us even picked apart the word usage and were sure to get back long before it got late enough for the street lights to come on...because niggers.