Oldheads (40s up) tell these punkass 80,90s & 00s babies how we used to live!!

[geechiedan]

POST YOUR LIVING DANGEROUSLY AND DIDN'T KNOW IT STORY BEFORE ALL THIS SAFETY AND STANDARDS SHIT KICKED IN....


1976 - I was 7 years old and spent half the trip to South Carolina sitting on my mother lap in the passenger side as Dad did 70MPH in the caddie on the highway...no seat belt..eatin chicken wings and sippin orange drink pointin out cows and shit...UP AND BACK!!

THATS HOW IT WAS!!!

 

[geechiedan]

playgrounds back in the day...

no sand or woodchips.. ASPHALT AND CONCRETE.

no round edges and composite plastics...SHARP EDGES, STEEL AND WROUGHT IRON

ever try to slide down a metal slide while the sun beat down on it at high noon on a hot summer day while wearing SHORTS??

you got hurt..you walked that shit off..bleeding..put a bandaid on that shit and go right back!!

you see that..that aint no foamy padded flooring..THATS THE GROUND!

THATS HOW IT WAS!!!

 

[lionelzeus]

Lmao

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[yureeka9]

And what the hell is this shit?!?

 

[godofwine]

1991 - jumped a milk crate ramp with the woods slat on a 3 speed. no helmet. The slat flipped off and I fell face first on the pavement. before I jumped there were 4 people on the street, when I woke up the street was packed and the ambulance was there. I have no idea how long I was knocked out

 

[LSN]

if an older girl/woman was giving it up to you...that wasn't rape...it was experience what that lil 13 y.o. cuban/puerto rican chic did to me when I was 6 would be on the news now

 

[godofwine]

1992 - rolled down a super steep hill in Forest Hill Park in East Cleveland on a three speed with no breaks, and no helmet. No crash this time or the other 50 times I did it. Walk the bike back up the hill just a ride back down again

 

[DigitalMethods]

This nigga just made me think of stuff i havent though of in......years!

 

[geechiedan]

This nigga just made me think of stuff i havent though of in......years!

and you SURVIVED!! thats the only way to put it..

 

[Coldchi]

my uncles used to have basket races coming down steep hills
with us kids sitting inside the basket holding on for dear life.
one of those front wheels hit the tiniest pebble, and thats yo ass.
happened to me and the basket flipped, all my gotdamn fingers cut the fuck up,
busted my lip and nose on the pavement, im already and screamin and hollarin
while the basket is somersaultin......and before i could even finish my
Bruce Willis, dive for cover, stunt roll.....he's beggin me not to tell my mama.

 

[HisFlyness]

80's baby here, but... riding to the beach summer of '89, 7 deep in a old ass Chevy pick up. 4 of us in the back(no cover), came over this big ass hill fast as fuck(dude driving was probably drunk), and we flew up about 2 feet off the bed. We all looking at each other with the face. Dude driving didn't give one single, solitary fuck(once again, he was off that OE 800).

You can't do shit like that nowadays.

Or what about being sent to liquor store to buy your aunty some cigarettes when your 8 years old, and dude behind the counter giving them to you without blinking an eye.

 

[Yogi Bear]

With shorts on that slide wouldn't slide unless you lifted your legs.


With the plastics we have now they could be indestructible. You can go buy a "green machine" now at toys r us. It's not close to what it used to be.

 

[Djmarkxr7]

LOL, DON'T FORGET that if you were wearing shorts YOU BURNED YOUR FUCKING LEGS IF IT WAS A SUNNY DAY on that mofo slide!!!

Speaking of car stories, from what I now know was my Dad's mid-life crisis, we had two cars, a '71 Buick Deuce & a Quarter, and Dad's new acquisition, a Triumph TR6 2-seater, the Buick was down and we took the Triumph to Kings Plaza via the Belt Parkway, from Pennsylvania Avenue (exit 14) to Flatbush Avenue (exit 11), with ME LYING DOWN ON THE FUCKING REAR DECK OF A CONVERTIBLE CAR DOING 60-70mph!!!

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[Yogi Bear]

With shorts on that slide wouldn't slide unless you lifted your legs.


With the plastics we have now they could be indestructible. You can go buy a "green machine" now at toys r us. It's not close to what it used to be.

 

[dablacktino]

I caught plenty bruises and cuts back then.... Sliding boards had that metal and wood on it... The tire that was chained up and the spokes in the tires cut you up... The swings with no safety on and when you used to jump off the swing and bust your ass if you weren't careful..

 

[Mo-Better]

Here's a few:

1. A car's bumper actually protected the car

2. Kids played outside everyday

3. A gun shot was a rarity not the norm

4. A White Castle burger was only 12 cents

5. 45rpm record spindles/disk

 

[dablacktino]

I caught plenty bruises and cuts back then.... Sliding boards had that metal and wood on it... The tire that was chained up and the spokes in the tires cut you up... The swings with no safety on and when you used to jump off the swing and bust your ass if you weren't careful..

 

[voodoo]

jumping ramps on bicycles was the big thing in my hood. watching Evel Knievel then copycatting.

many a dude broke a limb or sometimes got his nuts shoved back up in his stomach on a bad landing.

we also rode on the back of pickup trucks or in cars with no seat belt. kids sat in the front with no seat belt on those bench style seats going down the highway eating summer sausage and crackers.

 

[DEETZ181]

adults in the neighborhood were allowed to whoop any kids ass. if miss johnson down the street saw you acting a fool she tore your ass up,then you got your ass whopped again when your parents found out. nowadays if you say something to someone's kid they wanna fight.

no internet, computers. got a book report due...better take your ass to the library.

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

ever try to slide down a metal slide while the sun beat down on it at high noon on a hot summer day while wearing SHORTS??

seen mofos trying to pour ice water on the slide like that would help

 

[KrafMatik]

What ya'll know about playing arcade games in the back of the 7-11 all day long.

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

What ya'll know about playing arcade games in the back of the 7-11 all day long.

or stacking quarters on top of them(or tokens if at an arcade) saying how you got next

 

[godofwine]

used to try and ride my bike with my elbows on the handlebars. I must have crashed a half dozen times and not a scratch, well just a couple.

 

[Theo_Huxtable]

You old niggas have a ball with this...I'm out lol.​

 

[DigitalMethods]

and you SURVIVED!! thats the only way to put it..

I was a young kid and broke my left arm on that slide, the kind that swerve's around as it comes down, i won't say what year but it was a looonnnnnnng time ago, i was like 5 years old, wow!

 

[Madrox]

What ya'll know about playing arcade games in the back of the 7-11 all day long.

I remember when our hood 711 got Street Fighter II... It was over ..

Oh and I was one of many who got burned on that metal slide. ..or tried to slide, but got stuck halfway down from skin - on - metal friction...

As broke ass kids, too young to get jobs at the time, I remember me and my boys going underneath car seats and couch cushions to get enough change to go to Golden Corral's buffet on the reg ($2-$3 for kids back then). We paid with pockets full of pennys nickles and dimes and full stomachs and zero shame. ..

 

[^SpiderMan^]

adults in the neighborhood were allowed to whoop any kids ass. if miss johnson down the street saw you acting a fool she tore your ass up,then you got your ass whopped again when your parents found out. nowadays if you say something to someone's kid they wanna fight.

no internet, computers. got a book report due...better take your ass to the library.

And hope the book aint checked out.Otherwise you have to go all the way to another branch and possibly have to change the subject of your report.

 

[Madrox]

I remember having dirt bomb fights. ..number one rule you'd tell heads "NO ROCKS!", but dudes would still be packing rocks in there projectiles "on accident". At least one dude would always get pegged in the head and bow out. .. most of the time ending that days fight cuz now the teams were uneven. ..

I remember a dozen of us playing "guns" in the woods behind my house with pellet guns, REALLY tryna shoot each other at less than 20 feet away... somehow no one got hit (sorry ass aims we had )

 

[Madrox]

And hope the book aint checked out.Otherwise you have to go all the way to another branch and possibly have to change the subject of your report.

Speaking of books, I had to explain how dope Choose Your Own Adventure books were to someone the other day. .

 

[Madrox]

I remember riding on the bolts of the back wheel of a bike just to get a lift from hood to hood. Not back PEGS, actually standing and balancing on the BOLTS of the back wheel. One foot slipping off, if the bolts were particularly small or you hit a bump, was a MOTHERFUCKER

 

[man-machine]

Here's a few:

1. A car's bumper actually protected the car

2. Kids played outside everyday

3. A gun shot was a rarity not the norm

4. A White Castle burger was only 12 cents

5. 45rpm record spindles/disk

Mane that aint no way to play dem 45s....You got to get up every 2min and 45 sec or 5min if listnening to James Brown. You got to have one of these on the Hi-fi then throw a stack of 45s on and chill

 

[Dannyblueyes]

 

[Duval's King]

I remember having dirty bomb fights. ..number one rule you'd tell heads "NO ROCKS!", but dudes would still be packing rocks in there projectiles "on accident". At least one dude would always get pegged in the head and bow out. .. most of the time ending that days fight cuz now the teams were uneven. ..

I remember a dozen of us playing "guns" in the woods behind my house with pellet guns, REALLY tryna shoot each other at less than 20 feet away... somehow no one got hit (sorry ass aims we had )

Eighties baby here. . But this is funny. We use to have one pump bb gun fights in my hood. . And we use to have rock wars too.. both were fought at a "safe" enough distance away from the oppositionno one was ever seriously injured.

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

maybe this wasnt a big deal for some of ya'll, but learning to be quick to switch channels on the television whenever trailers like these popped up

 

[cb71109]

Let me break it down from a 80's baby

1. Slip n Slides on yards with hard ass rocks and no grass
2. Drinking out the faucet with the green hose(had to wait until the water cool down first)
3. Pumping your friend on the bike with only one pedal
4. Freeze pops
5. Stonewash jackets
6. Fila's
7. British Knights
8. LA Gears
9. Not allowed back into the house in the summertime before 6pm(if you leave out your ass better not return letting out the dam air out)
10. Every room in the house have a old dripping AC hanging out the window barely haning on and about to freeze up
11. Grey and brown cable box
12. Nemisis Munches for your base
13. Girls wearing jellies
14. 4Square
15. Hide and go get-it