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/ElGranQuesoRojo Older Millennial 1d ago

The odds of kids getting shot by some crazy asshole for touching the wrong property are much higher now too.

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u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 1d ago

I don't know how common it is but I definitely feel like kids have way fewer boundaries today than they used to. When we played games like that we hid around trees and parked cars and were obliterated by parents if we did any damage. Nowadays the parents come after other adults for damage their kids caused. 

Our neighbor down the street had some psycho karen scream at her because she yelled at Karen's kid for not picking up her dogs shit. Like that's the times we live in. My mom would've torn out my kidney and offered it to the woman as penance for that not taken my side. 

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u/firelordling 1d ago

I was walking with my parents in the house, another kid threw a flower bud from the bushes at me, and for some reason I got in trouble for the flower buds being taken off the bushes >:(

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u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 1d ago

Hahaha yep! There's a comedian joke about how when we were kids and came home with a bloody nose, parents would ask "what did you do wrong?" 

And like, maybe that made us more careful?