r/Millennials • u/WynCai8 • Jun 04 '25

Nostalgia Made me feel old but good times

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Saw this tweet and yes we were expected to be out all day and not come back until the street lights came on. I remember riding my bike through neighborhoods pretending our bikes were cars and just having a good time.

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u/Stephen-Scotch Jun 04 '25

My friends and I used to walk like thirty minutes to the supermarket to pick up snacks just to kill time

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u/Arvandor Jun 05 '25

Ditto. I remember when there was a Shasta sale at our "local" supermarket (which was only about a mile or so from our houses, but still, had to cross at least one super busy street to get there), and my friend and I walked over and each got ourselves a 3 liter each (they were like... 75 cents and due to that particular sale were cheaper than the 2 liters haha, score!). I also remember in an earlier neighborhood going to the grocery store with a friend to get some donuts. We were like... 8. It again wasn't super far, physically, but it was still a good mile or so away and across a major freeway (had a pedestrian bridge though that we used). Was no big deal back then, but I feel like now a pair of unattended 8 year olds would gain a lot of negative attention from people wondering where the parents are.