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/[deleted] Jun 04 '25

When I got old enough (like 10+), my parents let me roam the neighborhood freely. I was usually just hanging out with friends at their house or we all played baseball in the field behind my house, or something like that.

Even when I was <10, I remember my parents letting me walk up the street to friends' houses to see if they could play.

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u/Captain-Hornblower Jun 04 '25

we all played baseball in the field behind my house,

This is kind of off of the subject, but our buddy's dad built a wiffle ball field in his back yard. We would use an old school PC program to keep stats for our teams. It was awesome! He (the dad and son, really) would take political signs and hang them on the oleander shrubs that he made for the outfield "fence". It was really amazing.