what's something or a situation from your youth that the younger generations of today would go..."seriously dude?"

@TheShanachie When I was a teen we had an 8-party line. All it took was one family with a chatty adult (usually a woman) or with teen girls to hog up the phone line for everyone. We had a neighbor who married a very nutty woman who would either stay on the line all day line calling various people when she couldn’t for some reason go into to town and run around bothering people all day. So many friends and relatives would call us later in the evening saying that they had tried all day long to call us to tell us something. My great-uncle made a surprise bus trip and called about a dozen times, always got a busy signal. He wanted us to go to town and pick him up at the bus station. Finally sent a telegram to us telling us that. They didn’t deliver it. They tried several more times to call us on the phone and finally got ahold of us and we got him earlier in the evening. The woman’s husband had come home and probably told her to get off the phone.

@cherokeepatti wow!! I think we had 6 and my grandparents had at least 8, it was nearly impossible to call them.

@exexec I remember putting a tin can over a lighted squib (firecracker) and being astonished how high & far the explosion threw it.

@ffony Yes, that was a fun thing to do. Actually, we got in trouble because the can came down on top of my Dad's car.

@ffony we lived in a rural area and that was one of our favorite activities with fireworks.

@OlderSometimesWiser same

@OlderSometimesWiser Seatbelts were for pilots & racing drivers. No one else had them.

@cherokeepatti My friend would call and say, "your goat is in my garden." Of course, they would say they didn't have a goat. So he would answer, "I know, he's in my garden."

@cherokeepatti Phoning the grocer, asking if they had any leeks and recommending a plumber.

@Elessar Blue is cool because it was probably at its peak before my time. 😆

@Elessar Hey, that is a gem 😆

@CrazyMusicLover They both had a *very* long lifespan. Like, in the 2010s you'd likely hear both at parties, clubs, beach and such. 😅

Him, Gigi d'Agostino and GALA are the triumvirate of 90s songs

@ffony That is definitely an old habit worth revisiting . .

@Sapio This was the phone I received for my 16th birthday. My classmates thought I was a rockstar. 😅

@bijouxbroussard do you still have it?

@Sapio Yes ! And it still works, too. 😊

@rosyhills There were no movie 'stores'. Movies were shown at the cinema. No cell phones; damn few phones, actually.

@ffony I'm aware of history

@rosyhills That's good. (I'm only aware of some of it 😊)

@SW-User How girls and women screamed for Elvis Presley when he was performing, later the Beatles.

@cherokeepatti Before my time but i've seen archive material to back that up!! :)

@Lilymoon haha..me too....looking in the phone book 6 inches thick and picking out a "victim" dialing on a rotary phone (push button in better times) ....we were sooooo cruel 🤣

@beermeplease oh yeah good times 😆

@bijouxbroussard that's so cool 🤗...you are the sister i wish i had

@NinaTina I can understand why people wear a bra, but thongs - why does anyone wear those? Unless you mean sandals 😆.

@NativePortlander1970 Salted pumpkin seeds in the red box with an Indian on it. Root beer barrels or lemon drops, two for a penny, and on and on....
Wax lips ! Lol! Little wax bottles filled with 1/4 ounce of God knows what sweet liquid.

@daydeeo Bubble gum cigars and candy cigarettes

@NativePortlander1970 Riding bikes to the nearest firework stand, or several in an unincorporated area on the edge of the town. Looking at the selection and ending up with smoking monkeys, smoke b*mbs, small strings of Black Cats, pinwheels, pop bottle rockets, sparklers, pinwheels and some chasers. Seeing how creative we could be with them once we got home. Daytime activities included sticking firecrackers in the loose bark of elm trees to blow the bugs out out, removing the gunpowder from the firecrackers and collecting it to put on red ant nests down in the hole and lighting them up, lighting the black snakes and smoke bombs. Bigger fireworks in the evening after dark.

Going for long walks in the rural areas around my grandpa’s village. We’d walk for miles sometimes in the afternoons. No a/c at home and only a couple tv channels that were in black & white so no reason to stay indoors. See what we could find on the walk, snacks like berries or wild cherries for example or wildflowers to collect in a bouquet. As hot as it was we didn’t carry water with us and did good to go to my grandpa’s well behind his house and pump some ice cold water to drink when we got back to the village. Also since his well didn’t ever go dry (he lived near a river) we were at liberty to play under the gushing ice cold water to our heart’s content. Even going into his shed-bath house by the house and getting his round bathtub and filling it up and sitting down in it.

We had to be home by dinner time so we kept an eye on the sun to watch how low it was going before heading back to the house.