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15 Dangerous Things We Did Growing Up That Kids Today Would Never Understand

This is going to sound like 'angry man yelling at cloud' but we had no cellphones, no iPads, no social media. If you wanted to be social, you had to literally go outside and BE social.


From being outside all day and getting your nicest pair of jeans dirty and grass-stained to shooting cans with BB guns in the woods, being a kid back then was just different. There was no TikTok or Instagram that you had to check every hour. It was freeing.


That being said, things were dangerous as a kid in the 80s/90s. Literally watch any true crime documentary, and you'll realize that we all should've been kidnapped, murdered, or left for dead somewhere. We were idiot kids without a care in the world, and we loved it.

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“Take this note to the store and get me a pack of cigarettes." -Specific_Alps554

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Spending hours being fascinated by the snakes, turtles, frogs, and rollie-pollies that lived by the ditches. -ClauzzieHowlbrance

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Eating bugs. -RealOdd1

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Being literally locked out of your house during summer days. And "But I'm thirsty!" being met with "There's a garden hose!" -chubbybunnybean

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Just about every boy carried a pocket knife and sometimes a teacher would ask to borrow one. -daitcs55

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Playing with fire used to be a rite of passage for boys. -darrellbear

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Summers we left home at maybe 7 a.m. and returned when the street lights came on. -throwaway36644jhgj

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Prank calling your friends, teachers, neighbors etc. A favorite of ours was pretending to be the police and calling your friend to tell them that they were coming over to their house to arrest them. Fun times. -Johhnymaddog316

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Outdoor adult magazine stashes. Remember just randomly finding some grown-up magazines in the woods while playing. -Abedfv

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Be picked up by friends' parents and they're smoking in the car. Go to a restaurant terrace and people are smoking. As a teen go to a bar and people are, you guessed it, smoking inside. Smokers in front of the school starting in 7th grade, smokers at the scouts, etc. -Priamosish

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Crawling in sewers to see how far you could go to see where on the street you could pop up. -Quick-Possible-5850

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Starting at about age 12 my friends and I would go off into the woods and shoot at tin cans with actual guns which fired actual bullets and gasp nobody got hurt or shot up our school. -wholesomeorgange

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Getting whoopings. -Sdmartifact

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14.

Riding in the bed of the truck. No shell, no belts, no problem... -Icy_Application8165

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Stole scrap wood from local housing construction to build fort/tree house in the woods. -Spalding4u

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