Things you miss about growing up

[shiv]

5 movies for $5 at Movie Gallery

Putting in a dip of Copenhagen and playing NCAA football without a care in the world

Having to work hard for porn (the challenge made the end result so much more satisfying). Blurry TV channels, hoping you avoid a family phone call while you’re on dial up, sniffing out your friends dad’s playboy collection

Burning CDs with Napster/Limewire/Bearshare

Looking through the CDs at Best Buy

No social media or cell phone cameras. I couldn’t imagine how much trouble that would have caused me growing up

Mitsubishi Montero Sports in their prime

 

[shiv]

The early internet. Messaging girls on AOL instant messenger in high school.
Playing Disorderly on Newgrounds.com

Glass Gatorade bottles

Cruising around on the bicycle just looking for some woods where you could find rocks to throw

$1 Double cheeseburgers and at McDonald’s

Penn State football camps

 

[d-tiger45]

$2.50 packs of cigarettes
$5.99 chinese buffet specials

 

[Pete_Cawthon]

Penn State football camps

 

[STMF2X]

Those rubber team edition footballs from the 80’s. The ones you could throw half a mile.

Tackle basketball with a low rim, when anytime you went for a dunk you risked being decleated by a friend, and the parents just didn’t care, called you all idiots.

Going to Blockbuster on a Friday night after eating at Pizza Hut.

How excited my dog got when I put the leash on him so he could walk with me on my paper route everyday.

 

[d-tiger45]

Dude: read 5 books, get a perosnal pan pizza

 

[shiv]

Dude: read 5 books, get a perosnal pan pizza

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Makes me think of the Accelerated Reader program in school.

I used to take the tests for movies I had watched

 

[denn]

Going to get breakfast with my grandfather at the crack of dawn on Saturdays.

 

[Jtrain80]

Oh man. Where to begin...

I would say the lack of technology in the 90's made life more fulfilling.

 

[Rusty Student]

TPing my enemies

 

[weaponoffreedom]

The sound of cassette tapes rewinding

 

[denn]

The early internet. Messaging girls on AOL instant messenger in high school.
Playing Disorderly on Newgrounds.com

Glass Gatorade bottles

Cruising around on the bicycle just looking for some woods where you could find rocks to throw

$1 Double cheeseburgers and at McDonald’s

Penn State football camps

Glass Gatorade bottles is a great one! I miss that too…

Growing up pre internet was a blessing imo. Not that I don’t like the internet, I do, it has just made things like riding your bike, everywhere, that much more meaningful at this point in my life. I can’t imagine how many hours we spent outside finding some sort of trouble to get in to. Definitely miss that

 

[Rusty Student]

Glass Gatorade bottles is a great one! I miss that too…

Growing up pre internet was a blessing imo. Not that I don’t like the internet, I do, it has just made things like riding your bike, everywhere, that much more meaningful at this point in my life. I can’t imagine how many hours we spent outside finding some sort of trouble to get in to. Definitely miss that

Completely agree. I feel sorry for kids when I see them glued to an iPad.

 

[skramer100]

The gum from a pack of Topps cards.

Playing Ghost in the Graveyard until like 2AM and every parent in the neighborhood knew and didn't care their kids were roaming all over the place.

 

[MIZCDB]

Playing little league under the lights and then stopping by DQ on the way home for a cherry dipped cone.

 

[BTAvenger]

Playing neighborhood “baseball” with a whiffleball bat loaded with newspaper and rocks and taped up, a tennis ball, and everyone yelling “car” when someone spotted a vehicle coming up the road.

 

[BTAvenger]

Also getting a new Nerf football and getting it all wet on purpose so it would get hard and you could throw it a country mile.

 

[RollyInRaleigh]

Putting on the uniform and playing ball.

 

[d-tiger45]

things I dont miss: having to get up at 7 am over summer break to fvck with cows and gardens while my friends slept in til 11am or noon

 

[shiv]

The sound of cassette tapes rewinding

 

[Jayhacker]

Driving my Grandma to the liquor store and going in and paying cash for her monthly 5th of old crow. I was 10 years old.

 

[LafesterMacintosh]

Driving my Grandma to the liquor store and going in and paying cash for her monthly 5th of old crow. I was 10 years old.

 

[hmt5000]

Trick question? I never grew up. The cost of my toys just got more expensive.

 

[fschmidt]

A time when people weren't moronic scum.

 

[Goldhedge]

Once you lose your ignorance you can never get it back.

 

[madman71]

Driving my Grandma to the liquor store and going in and paying cash for her monthly 5th of old crow. I was 10 years old.

 

[madman71]

My mom taking me to Sambo's for pancakes.

 

[AmericanViking]

Organized sports

Not really a lot. I regret a lot of my activities and who I was as a teen and into my 20’s

 

[MVTPatriot]

Riding my 10 speed bike everywhere.

Shooting BB gun's all day.

Playing kick the can at dusk.

Spending all day praying the rain to stop so you could play ball. And setting the baselines on fire to dry them out.

Spin the bottle with all the neighborhood kids. The only time you'd call a truce to picking on the girls down the street.

 

[TopHook]

A good rain storm and knowing where the good deep puddles were. I still do it with my truck, but I miss it on the bike.

 

[denn]

A time when people weren't moronic scum.

I agree to a point. They were still there, it just took a a lot longer to figure out who they were because not everything we said was available for public consumption.

 

[BTAvenger]

 

[TopHook]

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That's literally my mom from the kitchen window. We broke the legs to one of her long outdoor tables to make a ramp and all the kids were jumping it. Probably about 5 ft high in the air jump.

 

[racernhra]

Working ground with my buddy in high school back in the 90’s. Plowing is cumbersome so in some fields one of us would occasionally look for a spot to hide the tractor in the trees to see if the other could find us.

Taking a 10 minute swim break every hour to swim in the Crystal-clear sand pit, throw toads in the radiator fan, stick the plow all the way in the ground and dump the clutch to pop wheelies (rental tractor), take off running across the field in just our boots and underwear.

 

[LafesterMacintosh]

, take off running across the field in just our boots and underwear.

 

[champsballs]

calling all my friends in public by their proper name
Fag
Call me immature but I miss miss saying fag in public all the time

 

[champsballs]

The early internet. Messaging girls on AOL instant messenger in high school.
Playing Disorderly on Newgrounds.com

Glass Gatorade bottles

Cruising around on the bicycle just looking for some woods where you could find rocks to throw

$1 Double cheeseburgers and at McDonald’s

Penn State football camps

Duke nuke’m 3d

 

[weaponoffreedom]

calling all my friends in public by their proper name
Fag
Call me immature but I miss miss saying fag in public all the time

I am surprised you dont.

I do.

 

[champsballs]

I am surprised you dont.

I do.

I think my definition of public is much different than yours. You probly don’t even leave your basement you pussy faggot

 

[Rebarcock.]

The early internet. Messaging girls on AOL instant messenger in high school.
Playing Disorderly on Newgrounds.com

Glass Gatorade bottles

Cruising around on the bicycle just looking for some woods where you could find rocks to throw

$1 Double cheeseburgers and at McDonald’s

Penn State football camps