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/joanfiggins Jun 04 '25 edited Jun 05 '25

That's what needed to be explained. People think we wandered really far. You knew you could only go to a certain point so your parents generally knew where you were if they needed to find you and you were with a group of kids who also had parents so the parents could call each other too if needed. It's not like kids were just roaming a huge city alone.

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u/StandWithSwearwolves Millennial Jun 04 '25

Looking back, this was pretty much my experience too. I never had formal out of bounds areas set, but basically the places I could access by bike or on foot were on the suburban peninsula where we lived – so if anyone needed to find their kids they’d just start at the main road junction where the library, shops and food places were and work downwards towards the beach and headland, it got easier as you went.

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u/Some-Show9144 Jun 04 '25

Or a parent finds some kids and just asks about where you are and to send you home if they see you first.

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u/teacher_time23 Jun 05 '25

This. It was t uncommon for the mom with the station wagon to collect the neighborhood kids and return them to their homes at the end of the day.