Things that make up and shape our daily lives seem a natural part of it. And while these circumstances might seem to be changing faster nowadays, it is enough to hear about such experiences as “sitting by the radio and waiting for one’s new favorite song to come on, so one could record it on a cassette tape” or “being on the home phone when all of a sudden someone in the house picks up another phone and tells you to ‘get off’” from people who lived them and one might feel time slowing down, as if one has been transported back in time when certain things were and felt different. These people are sharing exactly these kinds of experiences from the recent past by answering one Redditor’s question: “What was a perfectly normal situation for you in the ’80s-’90s that the younger generations just can’t relate to?”
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#1
Parents kicked you out of the house and telling you to be home when the lamp posts came on. They had no clue where we were or what we were doing. My brother and I would play on the train tracks and under a bridge. I think about my kids doing the same and it stresses me tf out.
Edit to add, Saturday morning cartoons. I’m sad for my kiddos to not have the experience of getting up early to not miss cartoons before getting kicked out of the house for the day.
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#2
Calling someone’s house and having to speak with their parent before talking with them.
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#3
That TV just stopped broadcasting late at night.
My kids still can’t comprehend this one
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#4
Going with your parents to Blockbuster to rent a movie and hoping a copy (VHS tape) was still available and not completely rented out.
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#5
Getting a new “TV Guide” each sunday with the newspaper and obsessing over it for hours highlighting what shows/movies you wanted to watch Calling the movie theater to get showtimes Shopping at Sears
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#6
Watching the news to see if your school scrolled across the bottom was cancelled because of inclement weather.
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#7
Having to stop at a gas station and ask for directions and pay attention to what the clerk is saying.
Bonus: waiting to call long distance after 9pm because it was free. Then getting very excited when they dropped it to 7pm.
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#8
Being on a phone call with someone using the home phone when all of sudden someone in the house picks up another phone and tells you to get off
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#9
Writing and receiving letters by post.
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#10
Not having a camera all the time.
PRIVACY
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#11
Going out as a kid from dawn til dusk without your parents being able to contact you or know where you are. Then knowing you have to go home when the street lights come on.
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#12
Dedicating songs on your local radio station.
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#13
Someone calling the landline and disconnecting the internet
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#14
Riding your bike around town with no destination, looking for a pile of your friends bikes so you can hang out.
Having your friends’ phone numbers memorized
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#15
Having to wait or be somewhere you don’t want to be like visiting your mom’s friend’s house or at the bank with NOTHING to distract you but your own mind. My parents never bought me a handheld game nor did she have room in her handbag for my books. So I just had to BE in the moment.
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#16
Going out into the world with no cell, a map in hand, hoping to find the new address you’ve never been to, and then in addition to that, hoping the people you were going to meet up would get there.
If you got there and your friends weren’t there, the most you could do was ask the business to lend you their phone or walk to a pay phone and call your friends house phones to see if they picked up. If they didn’t, you had no way of knowing if they were late, selling you out, or dead.
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#17
This is more 90’s-early 00’s but the ability to just… not be reached sometimes? And that was okay?
It stresses me out that there’s this social pressure to be available at all times, and people get upset with you if you don’t respond to a text fast enough etc. but as a kid we’d call each other on the home phone sometimes and if you didn’t pick up it was just assumed you were busy and nobody was actually UPSET with you over it. Obviously I love being able to keep in contact with friends on a more regular basis, but the constant pressure to be accessible to people 24/7 or you’re some kind of bad friend is too much and it really does a number on my anxiety. I miss being able to call/text/message someone back at my leisure and not have to have a “good enough” explanation ready as to why I was “ignoring” that person.
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#18
Calling collect and saying your message really quickly instead of your name so the other person doesn’t have to accept the call
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#19
Having arguments about factual information and having absolutely no way of determining who is correct.
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#20
Hanging out at the high school after school was out with no supervision. I was floored to learn kids can’t do that now. I spent hours sitting on the floor in some back hallway with friends, not wanting to go home, doing my homework, waiting for my ride to get out of practice.
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#21
Going through catalogues (remember Lillian Vernon?) to find things you like, then filling out the order form, mailing it with a check, and waiting 6 weeks to get your stuff. And during that 6 weeks you have no idea if they even received your order or not!
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#22
I feel like kids today will never know boredom like I experienced when I was a kid. We were poor and didn’t have any videogames, there was no Candy Crush on your phone, no Netflix, if your friends were busy you’d just have to make up your own game or watch one of the 5 videos you actually owned for the 347th time, but even that wasn’t always possible if your parent/s wanted you out of the house for a while. So you’d just walk around hoping to run into some kids you knew.
I also remember my sister and I would watch MTV, wait for our favourite music video to come on, then record it on VHS. We had two tapes full of music videos. I wish I had those tapes now, there were some bangers on it.
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#23
Having to spend hours in the library to look up information you needed. I had to write a 10 page paper on the industrial revolution for school, it took days to find what would take moments now.
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#24
Being out and realizing you’re going to miss the beginning of whatever tv show you wanted to watch.
#25
Convincing your sibling to get up to change the channel
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#26
I grew up in a very rural part of Ontario, Canada. Since there were so few households in the area, it was not profitable for the telephone company to give each home a private line. Instead, our community had a “party line”. Every household was on the same telephone line and you could pick up the phone receiver and hear Betty from down the road having a conversation with her sister. You would have to ask to have the line and you would have to listen for the “click” to know if Betty left or if she was still listening to your conversation. I remember more than once, asking in the middle of my conversation, “Betty can you please leave?” and having her respond “Oops, sorry” and then hang up her phone.
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#27
Calling your bf or gf house and hoping that they pick up instead of their parents.
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#28
There being nothing on television.
I watched the weather network for longer than I should when I was younger because it was better than soaps and sometimes nothing was on.
With streaming services and even YouTube / shorter videos like tic tok you can be watching new content 24/7.
Little overwhelming!
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#29
Standing in line with quarters in hand to play a video game
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#30
Video games had no dlc and you unlocked everything through mere grinding. Good times.
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#31
Wondering who invented the hot dog and being unable to find out
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#32
Not mine but my sister “You have a collect call from *momi’matthemoviespickmeupat5please*, would you like to accept the charges?”
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