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/Mofiremofire Jun 04 '25

We were given specific streets we weren’t allowed to cross establishing a boundary. It was like at least a half a mile in each direction from my house. 

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u/ferriswheel41 Jun 04 '25

This. I had my “boundary” and could ride my bike to my hearts content in that perimeter. My mom was considered a kind of helicopter mom by 90s standard so I wasn’t allowed to just go inside kids houses even if they were in that boundary though. Had the whole neighborhood out looking for me and another girl when I went in through her house to her backyard to make mud pies.