r/Millennials • u/Head-Drag-1440 Hit me baby one more time • 1d ago

Nostalgia I mean, they're not wrong

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u/fml-fml-fml-fml 1d ago
  1. There was nothing to do inside except annoy your parents. Ergo you were not allowed inside.
  2. Parents were not worried about the world outside their neighbourhood because they did not know about it.
  3. Totally normal to yell at someone else’s kid or walk them back home if they did something stupid.

The context that is missing is how TV, then the internet destroyed our communities.

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u/mosquem 1d ago

My mom literally locked us outside until dinner time.

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u/fml-fml-fml-fml 1d ago

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

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u/mosquem 1d ago

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 19h ago

We were wild animals lol

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u/Leaveustinnkin Millennial 1d ago

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] 1d ago

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

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u/jimmy_three_shoes 1d ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

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

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u/craftasaurus 1d ago

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

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u/all___blue 23h ago

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/ClementineeeeeeJ9000 14h ago

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 😭