My mom told me this story.
My mom is the second oldest...When she was a baby, my aunt was 2 or 3. She wanted to go outside and play. So my grandma hooked a leash to the clothesline and let my aunt out to play in the yard. It was a side yard, so it ran from the front to the back of th house.
Instead of playing, my aunt sat in the grass and barked at cars and people going by.