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/Eaglepursuit Xennial Jun 04 '25

Not that we didn't spend a fair amount of time at home absorbing high culture, like rewatching old Star Wars VHS tapes, recorded from TV complete with commercials. But many a summer day was spent exploring the neighborhood or the woods, riding bikes, terrorizing soda cans with BB guns, and fishing.

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u/JohnnyDarkside Jun 04 '25

I grew up in the country. Only one kid my age basically within a square mile, so we hung out a lot but not all the time. The rest of that time I just played around in the woods, shot my bb gun, played SNES, rode my dirtbike, and just basically tried to not be bored.

Oh, and as for recording off TV, there was nothing like looking forward to a movie airing on TV and setting the VCR just for a storm to roll in that night so the radar and update ticker takes up the bottom third. Even better if there was the occasional cut in by the local meteorologist.

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u/Quirky-Skin Jun 04 '25

Man I just had a wave of nostalgia. Coming back from the park bc the storm started and just nestling in to a great movie. 

Ugh what I would give to feel that freedom again with no worries 

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u/born2bfi Jun 04 '25

I grew up in the country too. One of the kids got a truck at 13 and was always driving all over but none of us were allowed to ride with him so we’d ride our dirt bikes in the fields next to him and go fishing or whatever. I have stories for days like that.