“I don’t ever remember being bored, to be honest.
There was always something to do.”
Here are some of the best replies:
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“Our group of friends would meet up in a coffee shop and just hang out for hours.
I remember being busted for being out when I was supposed to be at a friend’s place.
She assumed that I was out drinking and doing drugs.
The good news was my curfew was lifted after that.”
So much fun!"
“I made collages with my leftover magazines.
“Im in my late 30s, so I grew up with dial-up internet.
My childhood memories were filled with sleepovers at the neighbors' playing video games until the sun came up.
They’re filled with walks to the nearest neighborhood store to get the latest comics.
They’re filled with playing badminton with the neighbor next door using the fence as the net.'”
I must have listened toSteve MartinsLets Get Small50 times.”
“Im more bored now than I was then.
“In the ’70s and early ’80s, it was all about the rollerskating.
It was a mostly socially acceptable way for a peculiar boy like me to be graceful.”
I don’t ever remember being bored, to be honest.
There was always something to do.”
“We had one TV, one phone line, and much later, one computer.
I was ‘grounded’ a lot as a kid, so I read in my room a ton.
The Scholastic Book Fair was myDisneyWorld.
I got so many free personal pan pizzas as a kid.
I started writing as a teenager, too.”
“When I was in elementary school, I used to build model warships.
My parents were not amused.”
“Man, we used to ride bikes everywhere, all the time.
“We would go to Dennys and order coffee and smoke cigarettes and talk all night.
No one ever kicked us out.
Im sure the sales associates hated us, but we were too young and dumb to care.”
And I would write letters.
“I grew up in a small town in the ’90s.
I lived on a street packed with kids, so we were always outside doing something.
We had a patch of woods at the end of our street, and built us an awesome fort.
We walked around or biked around town with no shoes.
A friend had a creek in their backyard, and their house was the place to go.
We could go swimming, make smores by it, etc.
21.“Magazines.
So many magazines, reading them while playing my cassettes.
Shopping even if we were broke.
“One of my friends was given a video camera by our schools football coach to film games.
It was a little like TikTok before TikTok!
