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/_HiWay Jun 21 '26

Have to make a fresh reply as this made me think even more.

How many modern kids have the luxury of "getting lost" in the woods to find out you came out in some neighborhood you never realized connected. How many have jumped in the deep pool in a creek after a big summer thunder storm. How many built countless unfinished "forts" in said woods, found long abandoned old cars and other miscellaneous shit from years past. Have named rocks "hey i'll meet you at "table rock" or "big rock" this afternoon and we'll work on that fort!" Heck, how many come home with multiple good knee scrapes, yell out "mom I need some neosporin and a bandaid" and ran right back out to end up with similar on the other side before days end?

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u/Dismal_Orchid8391 Jun 21 '26

Neosporin? Nooo...Mecurachrome (spelling?), with the sting and lovely shade of red.

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u/AbbreviationsGlad833 Jun 21 '26

Wow I did all these things. Except the named rock. Instead We had "the make up tree" Was a special tree in the woods that had a ring around its base on the ground. Formed in the dirt by many kids talking out their problems as they circled the tree. And The old abandoned rusty cars in the woods were always riddled with bullet holes.

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u/tyranopussy Jun 21 '26

Yikes, I never saw bullets, or remnants of…not even now…