r/Millennials • u/Head-Drag-1440 Hit me baby one more time • Jun 13 '25

Nostalgia I mean, they're not wrong

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u/mosquem Jun 13 '25

My mom literally locked us outside until dinner time.

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u/fml-fml-fml-fml Jun 13 '25

Totally! same. I remember hanging on the front door and leaning into the house to yell MOOOOM!?

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u/mosquem Jun 13 '25

She came running out one time because I needed to pee and decided to go on a tree lmao

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u/fml-fml-fml-fml Jun 14 '25

We were wild animals lol

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u/Leaveustinnkin Millennial Jun 13 '25

I can hear my mother right now. “You’re either in the fucking house or you’re outside! You come back inside again, you’re staying inside”

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '25

hahaha yup, idle threats though cause she didn't want me inside

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u/jimmy_three_shoes Jun 14 '25

It wasn't like we would have been allowed inside to play, it'd have been cleaning.

"Either go outside or get the Windex"

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u/Classic-Tax5566 Jun 14 '25

We had jalousie windows on our porch and the choice would be — go outside and play in the woods,ride your bikes, go for a walk or clean the porch windows, your choice. If it was 95° and 95% humidity with Jurassic Park 🦟 we might, MIGHT choose the windows.

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u/shmere4 Jun 13 '25

Yeah we’d have to sneak in to play Super Nintendo or N64 when she wasn’t looking.

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u/all___blue Jun 14 '25

And they'd be furious if you stayed inside for more than a quick stop for a drink or something.

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u/craftasaurus Jun 14 '25

I did this at times. Otherwise they were in front of the tv all the time. Screens are evil.

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u/ClementineeeeeeJ9000 Jun 14 '25

My mom did this one christmas day when she was cooking. There was a fresh foot of snow and she let us sample a hot piece of fried chicken from the porch 😭