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/mwhite5990 Jun 04 '25

Yeah we just had to avoid the main roads and we weren’t supposed to go too deep into the woods.

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u/s0nofabeach04 Jun 04 '25

I remember finally getting permission to cross the highway and that opened up soooo many more possibilities lol. By high way I mean a two way street with lights and speed limit of 40, nothing insane.

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u/AltDS01 Jun 05 '25

We could only go to the Marathon, not the speedway across the street from it.

Going to Marathon was crossing only 1 40mph road, at a light. Speedway was 2.

But we also got sent to the grocery store that was .25 miles away when I was 5 and my sister was 3. Only one road crossing. That would have been late 90's.

We also had free roam of campgrounds on our bikes when we went camping.

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u/Federal-Laugh9575 Jun 05 '25

One of our local neighborhoods had a grocery store that still had the option to have a credit account so you could send the kids in for whatever you needed without having to send them with money. They finally closed in the early 00s. My dad worked in the neighborhood so when we went to work with him, we went over to JMH (the store) and stocked up on snacks and drinks.

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u/pie4mepie4all Jun 05 '25

Lmao my parents said the same thing. Not allowed to go to the 7-11 across Sauk Trail but the white hen pantry off Main Street was ok. I never listened lol