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re: 80s Mall Culture

Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:20 pm to
Posted by TexasTiger08
Member since Oct 2006
25573 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:20 pm to
Things really were better then.

Parents dropped kids off and picked them up at a specified time and location without needing cell phones. As a kid, you had so much responsibility. If you had a few bucks in your pocket, you had to figure out a way to make it last.

Don’t even get me started on social skills.

The atmosphere also promoted more physical exertion.
Posted by boxcarbarney
Above all things, be a man
Member since Jul 2007
22886 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:25 pm to
quote:

Things really were better then. Parents dropped kids off and picked them up at a specified time and location without needing cell phones.


Hell I remember being 6 and my mom leaving me at the arcade for a few hours while she shopped. Nowadays parents would go to jail for child endangerment for pulling something like that.
Posted by LSU316
Rice and Easy Baby!!!
Member since Nov 2007
29345 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:26 pm to
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If you had a few bucks in your pocket, you had to figure out a way to make it last.


Damn right that probably would have had to last you at least 3-4 mall trips worth in the arcade.
Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
Member since Dec 2008
171114 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:28 pm to
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Parents dropped kids off and picked them up at a specified time and location without needing cell phones. As a kid, you had so much responsibility. If you had a few bucks in your pocket, you had to figure out a way to make it last.

Don’t even get me started on social skills.

The atmosphere also promoted more physical exertion.


Parents are still free to do this today.

We have people here that say shite like this then we have threads asking what monitoring service you have for your kid's phone.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
49100 posts
Posted on 5/6/20 at 4:44 pm to
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Don’t even get me started on social skills.

Half of these kids are going to grow up with some kind of social anxiety disorder
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