Gen X was probably the last generation of feral kids.

I remember one boring humid summer day where me and my mates, most of us 8-10 years old spent the day trying to put leeches on girls, or touching the electrified cattle fence for shits and giggles.

One day some guy laying water pipe didn’t know where the street was he needed to be on. So we all climbed in the back of his van to show him. Afterwards he gave us the the leftover pipe which we turned into a race track for our toy cars, and blow pipes to fire rocks at girls. Ahhhh the summer of 1989. That Xmas I got a Commodore 64…

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spjennifer · 56-60, T

In the 60's and 70's we had potato guns and cap pistols and we'd head out on our bicycles first thing in the morning and only come home for supper, our parents had no idea where we went nor what we were doing all day long. I can remember riding on the package shelf of my parent's car reading a book for a 500+ mile trip when I was about 8 years old, bombing down the highway at 120 Mph, in a 5000 lbs Oldsmobile 98, something like this one but ours was blue 🤪