For some kids,
out of the woods meant back to where the authority figures they ran to were so they could get other kids in trouble, so much fun to them, or at least they claimed it was, that they had to have popcorn
for show to somebody else), so they use the expression out of the woods a lot, but for others, the woods wasn't such a
bad place to be.
Not everybody would want to
be out of
the woods if they were
choosing between staying in the woods, and leaving the woods.