Mostly wandered the streets during summertime. No cable, no video games, so I went outside when I woke up, played with the neighborhood kids til the streetlights came on or someone’s parent came outside and hollered for us to get our ass home. Drank water from the hosebibb at whatever house we were in front of at the time. I wandered the bushes around our place with a bolt action .22 or my BB gun. I had a key to let myself in/out. At least twice I had adults tell me that they were there to pick me up and take me home. I rode my bike for miles unsupervised, five, six miles from home.
That’s a pretty boomer way to phrase all that shit, but the facts are mostly correct.
Apparently in the 80 parenting got more hands off cuz it was the first time having both parents work full time became really common and nobody really knew how to deal with children in that situation so a lot of parents kinda just let their kids be vagrants till they got home.
Both my parents experienced this, my mom says she would just wander around her home town for hours.
Yo what kind of fucking childhood did this freak have?
That’s my childhood to a tee.
Mostly wandered the streets during summertime. No cable, no video games, so I went outside when I woke up, played with the neighborhood kids til the streetlights came on or someone’s parent came outside and hollered for us to get our ass home. Drank water from the hosebibb at whatever house we were in front of at the time. I wandered the bushes around our place with a bolt action .22 or my BB gun. I had a key to let myself in/out. At least twice I had adults tell me that they were there to pick me up and take me home. I rode my bike for miles unsupervised, five, six miles from home.
That’s a pretty boomer way to phrase all that shit, but the facts are mostly correct.
Time to pack it up grandpa.
spoiler
I’m a millennial so I have no right to talk.
That’s right it’s feeding time at the home and it’s pudding night, so I gtg.
I’m like dead-center millennial and this is an extremely exaggerated and stupid-to-brag-about, but not completely wrong, version of my childhood.
This person’s just doing the “father I cannot click the book” joke because gen xrs are boomers.
The childhood where there was still lead in the gas I guess
Lead in the gas, lead in the house paint, lead in the toys paint, lead in the plumbing. Just lousy with the stuff.
Lead in the brain. Just a solid lump of soft metal up there
This sounds like a totally normal childhood and like the lamest possible thing you could brag about.
You’re at once correct and also it’s a fucking tragedy.
Apparently in the 80 parenting got more hands off cuz it was the first time having both parents work full time became really common and nobody really knew how to deal with children in that situation so a lot of parents kinda just let their kids be vagrants till they got home.
Both my parents experienced this, my mom says she would just wander around her home town for hours.
the kind their failing mind remembers poorly and their vanity fills in the blanks
Although if your childhood wasn’t actually completely insane, you might not have remembered tons of it anyways…
kind of jealous tbh, I had the exact opposite upbringing and I feel like it’s part of why I’m fucked up and terminally online
If it makes you feel any better, it doesn’t matter. I had sort of this childhood and wound up here too.