What is something you did as a kid - that youth today just wouldn’t understand

[djefferis]

Thinking of things we did as kids - that a kid today would completely not understand.

- Prank calls
- Rounding up Coke bottles to return for the deposit
- visiting arcades with quarters
- tying up the phone line with dial up and constantly getting a busy signal trying to connect (wasn’t a kid when the internet became the rage - but certainly remember it).
- class rings/school yearbooks


What else comes to mind ?

 

[Archie]

fucked my teacher and didn't rat her out

 

[maltedhopsfrenzy]

Played outside with friends…..

 

[djefferis]

A few more:

- taping songs off radio
- call in request to a DJ
- ghetto blasters
- eating at McDonald’s was a treat - not a daily thing
- penny/nickel candy
- opening baseball cards and putting on bike spokes or saving your favorite team - not digging for special cards and paying $10 a pack
- going to a diner to eat

 

[djefferis]

Played outside with friends…..

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It’s significantly less - but still happens in poorer areas I believe

 

[JDS]

Played outside with friends…..

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+1. Street football two hand tag with all time QB.

 

[clyde]

Prank calls were great

 

[jjgold]

Jeffrey basically saying you cannot do any of this stuff anymore

 

[djefferis]

Prank calls were great

Calling the local bar where your dad hung out after work always classic

 

[djefferis]

Jeffrey basically saying you cannot do any of this stuff anymore

saying if you told a 12 year old you did this would would look at you like you are completely nuts and ask why - they wouldn’t understand not having a phone with internet and unlimited access to games/music and TikTok

 

[maltedhopsfrenzy]

Calling the local bar where your dad hung out after work always classic

Makes me think of the time we had to call my dad with an emergency, I think my brother knocked his front teeth out or something, and my dad was known at the VFW by his ‘nickname’ “The *****” - and we call, asking for “Mr. ********”, and the already drunk ‘bartender’ is like “WHO?!?!”

And we reluctantly say “The *****” - and we were immediately talking to my dad…..

 

[keithrichard]

Talking to ham radio operators using just my walkie talkies. I knew all the lingo so I usually was convincing.

 

[keithrichard]

Shooting paper clips with rubber bands. Hit a bird in head and fell off a telephone line. Also hit a guy s nose driving by and it went out the other window. I had a good eye but dumb shit.

 

[keithrichard]

Put shit in paper bag,light on fire, then ring doorbell of house.

 

[keithrichard]

My town had like 4 or 5 taxi companies. We would order 3 or 4 cabs to this mean cheap neighbor (did yard work all day she gave us candy bars with ants inside no lie). Cabs would usually arrive honking 1 after another and she'd have to send them away while we watched from our home.

 

[edawg]

Had fight club with those big 16oz boxing gloves.

 

[maltedhopsfrenzy]

Anyone else ever make a classroom “pellet” gun with a BIC pen & an orange peel? If you did, you still remember how to do it…..

 

[keithrichard]

Used to play pickup football games no pads no helmets no uniforms. There was usually some blood and injuries before going home.

 

[keithrichard]

Shooting spit balls from bic pens minus cartridge at teacher's heads while writing on chalkboard was fun.

 

[edawg]

+1. Street football two hand tag with all time QB.

Always started off two hand touch then turned into the most violent games ever