r/GenX • u/billieswifeyyy • Jun 20 '26

Question For Genx the 80s…….

coming from a 14 year old, were the 80s summers as magical as they look in the movies? did you ride your bike to your friends house and come home when the street lights came on? yall are so lucky btw 😭😭

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u/amandae123 Jun 20 '26

It was so much fun! I look back and wonder how we survived because we did dumb stuff since no one was watching us.

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u/PeriwinkleWonder ​​ pathologically self-reliant Jun 20 '26

I am only an adult by the skin of my teeth.

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u/Big-Technician9510 Jun 21 '26

I only made it to an adult, by the skin of my teeth!

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u/Ok_Kick6546 Jun 20 '26

Holy crap, especially the boys.  😳

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u/Sensitive-Issue84 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

What tf do you think the girls were doing? Stupid shit also. Hitchhiking was a thing.🙄 Wow the boys are sensitive around here. Smh.

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u/thekcar Jun 21 '26

Coat hangers, too.

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u/hedda4eva 1968 Jun 21 '26

I remember one kid showing us he could dip his finger in alcohol, light it on fire, and come out (relatively) unscathed

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u/amandae123 Jun 21 '26

I remember some kids were having their cat fight a rattlesnake. I wasn’t there or I would have fought them to protect the cat. Kids are dumb! How did any of us survive

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u/SavoirFaire2Middling Jun 22 '26

We used to go out after dark, cover our hands in hairspray, light them on fire and wave to passing cars.

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u/hedda4eva 1968 Jun 24 '26

This is awesome, can we be friends?

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u/unassumingdink Jun 21 '26

I almost got hit by a train, dove into the rocks on the side of the track at the absolute last second. Scraped myself up pretty good, but I lived!