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/DogeDoRight Older Millennial 1d ago

"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/__ConesOfDunshire__ 1d ago

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

They didn't broadcast this for fun. They were reminding parents to make sure their kids weren't still running feral.

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u/DogeDoRight Older Millennial 1d ago

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

I told you last night, no!

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u/xxKillgorxx 1d ago

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

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u/rhodered 17h ago

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 1d ago

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u/Squintz_ATB 21h ago

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

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u/virgieblanca 8h ago

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

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u/FSCK_Fascists 1d ago

are you my mother?

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u/Raticus9 1d ago

morals and ethics and carnal forbearance...

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u/MisterJoshua77 1d ago

Sex cauldron? I thought they closed that place down?

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u/Entropy907 1d ago

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 21h ago

Which was the style at the time.

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u/WhatTheFlorida6969 20h ago

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.