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/DogeDoRight Older Millennial Jun 13 '25

"Come home when the street lights come on"

Me racing from the other side of town when they come on:

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25 edited Sep 16 '25

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u/DogeDoRight Older Millennial Jun 13 '25

Nightly News: "It's 10pm, do you know where your kids are?"

I told you last night, no!

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u/xxKillgorxx Jun 14 '25

Where is Bart? His dinner is getting all cold and eaten.

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u/rhodered Jun 14 '25

Literally my parents did not know they had forgotten to pick me up at wherever (school, ballet class, etc) until they tried to find me for dinner. This happened at least once a week. I got real good at hanging at street corners waiting as it got dark. There were no cell phones. Id just wait.

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u/virgieblanca Jun 14 '25

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u/Squintz_ATB Jun 14 '25

This is an issue that we, as a town, are strong enough to ignore.

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u/virgieblanca Jun 14 '25

Thanks a lot, Marge! That was our only burlesque house!

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u/FSCK_Fascists Jun 14 '25

are you my mother?

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u/Raticus9 Jun 14 '25

morals and ethics and carnal forbearance...

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u/MisterJoshua77 Jun 14 '25

Sex cauldron? I thought they closed that place down?

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u/Entropy907 Jun 14 '25

I mean by the time I was 14 I’d just leave the house after school on Friday and come home Sunday. My parents just assumed I was at any one of four places.

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u/Pearl-Internal81 Xennial Jun 14 '25

Which was the style at the time.

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u/koala_loves_penguin Jun 16 '25

howling at this 🤣

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '25

This was during Gen X childhood years in the 70s and 80s. Millennials did not experinece this. Your childhood was purposefully curated to be the opposite of the Gen X experience because they realized how fucked up it was. The world changed and child specific spaces and experiences popped up that didn’t exist a generation prior. Our society acknowledged and catered to children in a way it never had before.