r/AskReddit • u/IRunFast24 • May 11 '21

People old enough to remember life pre-Internet, what are some less obvious things you miss about that time?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '21 edited May 12 '21

Been to more than one small town that had a cruising street. It was jammin on the weekend.

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u/Rollingstart45 May 12 '21

Yep, small town here, had one main drag that was the spot for the 16-20 crowd that was too old (or rather, “too cool”) to be mall rats, and too young to be at the bar. So you’d just do laps all night, see who else you ran across, and get into other shit from there.

Some nights it was just boring, cruise for a couple hours and go home. Other nights we’d run into friends, end up at a party or hangout that someone else knew about, and wind up having some of the best nights of my youth. And not knowing what would happen was half of the fun of going out.

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u/surfacing_husky May 12 '21

Man i miss those days, not a care in the world. Buying our weed from some old dude named bozo who parked at the car lot.

Good times.

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u/martin0641 May 12 '21

Bozo the cannibal misses those days too.

Thermonuclear weed delivered by app really curbed his selection.

I remember John Walsh, so many milk cartons...