Crazy little Neighbor

Well after reading Us and Them realized there are some freaky people in this world... why? because simply put the story is about a little kid who spies on his eccentric neighbors ,yet apparently what the kid does is completely normal, everyday like a t.v. show. Now you can just put that off as childish antics but come on when I was in third grade I couldn't be outside after dark little less spy on my neighbors just because they did not have a tv. Did the kid's parents never once wondered where there child was at hell if that was me my mom be yelling all around the neighborhood with belt hand just waiting to put to use on my spying ass. Well anyways the story progresses and the kid starts talking about how he finds them intresting and mysterious because they don't have elmer fudd lunchboxes and how they probably didn't understand the pop culture refrences in everyday life, which if he would have asked would have known is not true because there points in my life where I grew up without tv and right now as I sit here and write this I do not watch conventional tv but when people make a joke or imitate a tv character I know exactly what they are talking about. I know it seems like I didn't like the story but honestly what I am trying to say is that author's message is clear and I know everything points to "yes I was a weird little kid and probably still am" the real message is that even though the tomkeys didn't have what the rest of society deemed neccesary they did have something that is more important than television and that was the ability to have meaningful conversation with one another. I know this because the little boy was surprised that they actually talked at the dinner table that they would do things as a family, and when he tried to start a conversation at the end of the story he got a good ole "shhh" and he realized that the tomkeys had it everything especially his candy. No, I'm not gonna talk about this kid weird greedy self that instead of giving candy he instead opted for eating it all at once, so yea I'm not gonna go there because honestly I do not know the message behind that part of the story and I really don't want too