“Discover 32 Bizarre ’80s and ’90s Norms That Today’s Youth Can’t Fathom!”
Being on a phone call with someone using the home phone when all of sudden someone in the house picks up another phone and tells you to get off
Going out as a kid from dawn til dusk without your parents being able to contact you or know where you are. Then knowing you have to go home when the street lights come on.
Riding your bike around town with no destination, looking for a pile of your friends bikes so you can hang out.
Having your friends’ phone numbers memorized
Having to wait or be somewhere you don’t want to be like visiting your mom’s friend’s house or at the bank with NOTHING to distract you but your own mind. My parents never bought me a handheld game nor did she have room in her handbag for my books. So I just had to BE in the moment.
Going out into the world with no cell, a map in hand, hoping to find the new address you’ve never been to, and then in addition to that, hoping the people you were going to meet up would get there.
If you got there and your friends weren’t there, the most you could do was ask the business to lend you their phone or walk to a pay phone and call your friends house phones to see if they picked up. If they didn’t, you had no way of knowing if they were late, selling you out, or dead.
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