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

...we had a tv that had no remote...dad would make me change channels by pressing buttons or turning knobs on tv
...i know how to write cursively
...i didn't own a cell phone until my 30s
...i knew what "be kind and rewind" meant on a sticker on a vhs cassette...let alone beta
...i played video games on an atari console...before that pong 🤣
.... classics like "all in the family"... 'welcome back kotter" and "charlies angels" were quality programs....
.............. the list is endless..

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NativePortlander1970 ·

Riding our bikes without helmets and jumping over a line of other kids while onlookers of our peers cheered us on.

Puke a go round, seeing how fast we could spun them, first up chucker paid for the sodas from the corner store.

Jart Chicken, throwing lawn darts at each other's feet, first flincher got a knuckle duster punch on their shoulder.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@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.