re: 70’s and 80’s kids, what is one thing you recall from back then…

Bottle Rockets wars.

Sitting in the front seat when I was a little kid. And my mom doing the arm thing when she braked.

Hitching a ride on the front handle bars of a buddy’s bike

My mother giving me money to go buy her cigarettes at K&B..

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being gone from home from daylight to dark and my parents having no real idea of exactly where I was all day.

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Yep - I'd come home and my Mom would simply say "we ate supper already but you can heat yours up whenever". Wouldn't even ask what I did for the last 12 hours.

Used to LOVE riding in the back of a truck and goofing off with the other kids.

only two genders

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My mother giving me money to go buy her cigarettes at K&B

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... and they were like .35 to .50 cents.

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70’s and 80’s kids, what is one thing you recall from back then…
…that was totally normal but certainly wouldn’t be considered so now?

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Was just driving my 15 year old son home from school and Jenny (867-5209) came on the radio and I told him that every time I hear that song I remember being in the bed of someone's Dad's pickup truck with about 6 other kids at around 13 years old heading to a football game in pads driving down Hwy 90 going 55 MPH. He had his sliding back window open and all the guy back there were signing along to the song.

Yeah...that shite for sure.

Not an actual photo of said event:

I thought of another one: My kids can’t fathom that it wasn’t possible to go into the gas station and grab a bottled water. Soda or Gatorade. That’s all you had to choose from.