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Posted: 9/25/2023 10:48:14 AM EST
Pretty simple, name something you did, saw, experienced, your family , buddies, you, your teachers, coworkers, etc did, that was acceptable then, but today would have people freaking out , 911 calls, arrests, etc ?
When I was in high school, the students, ( juniors and seniors) drove the school buses as part time paid jobs.  They basically took an average teen, gave him a few classes on school bus driving, handed him the route and set him loose. Busses were loud and noisy, we had a jehovah witness kid, ( approx 15 -17 years old ) his name was Ben Monroe, our driver would not stop to let him on / off the bus. 7am, bus slows downs to 10 mph and opens doors, Jehovah kid runs after the bus and leaps thru the open door. In the afternoon, same thing, slow to 10-15, open door and kid has to jump out like a paratrooper. Let’s hear some of those old school things that would never happen / get you in trouble if done today. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 10:49:09 AM EST
[#1]
loaded gun rack in the window of a pickup truck in the high school parking lot
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Posted: 9/25/2023 10:49:28 AM EST
[#2]
Getting into a dirt clod fight with the cops
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Posted: 9/25/2023 10:50:06 AM EST
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Kids riding in the bed of a pickup truck is probably some kind of heinous child abuse these days.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 10:50:37 AM EST
[#4]
Elementary school. Physical Education/Gym Teacher would have ‘Smear the Queer’ posted as they days activity.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 10:51:44 AM EST
[#5]
drinking at 18
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Posted: 9/25/2023 10:52:17 AM EST
[#6]
People smoking everywhere.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 10:52:53 AM EST
[#7]
Dodgeball with tennis balls in gym class
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Posted: 9/25/2023 10:55:25 AM EST
[#8]
Flashlight wars in public parks at night
Bring a shotgun to school in the 90”s and reloading in science room. Making fun of people and getting made fun of. Not wearing seatbelts and riding in the back of pickups. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 10:57:50 AM EST
[#9]
Fireworks stands on every corner around the 4th of July (and being able to buy them as a kid without a parent), also being able to walk into a store as a kid and buy BBs / BB guns without a parent.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 10:58:03 AM EST
[#10]
Playing cat and mouse with the local cops on our snowmobiles. Looking back, they were having just as much fun as us.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 10:58:44 AM EST
[#11]
Jokes
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Posted: 9/25/2023 10:59:40 AM EST
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: People smoking everywhere. More specifically, on airliners. With how badly and how fast fire can affect a plane, I'm shocked this was ever OK. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:00:38 AM EST
[#13]
The movie Blazing Saddles....
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:01:08 AM EST
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Fireworks stands on every corner around the 4th of July (and being able to buy them as a kid without a parent), also being able to walk into a store as a kid and buy BBs / BB guns without a parent. I lived in Alabama as a kid for a while, we had massive fire ant mounds on our property knee high, big enough to flip an atv. The local gas station sold fireworks, as well as real firecrackers, the big ones too that could launch a steel trash can 10’ into the air. I’d get fire crackers at about 8 years old, and daisy chain 50 all around an anytime hill, blow them up. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:01:17 AM EST
[#15]
Smoking. Was common to see 15-16 year old kids smoking back in the 70s and 80s.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:01:27 AM EST
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Fireworks stands on every corner around the 4th of July (and being able to buy them as a kid without a parent), also being able to walk into a store as a kid and buy BBs / BB guns without a parent. Bought a full-auto CO2 Uzi when I was 13. All metal frame. Can't recall at all who made it, but it was the shit. 
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:01:52 AM EST
[#17]
Buying a large container of saltpeter at the drug store to mix with sugar to make smoke bombs.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:02:07 AM EST
[#18]
Riding on the back speaker deck of the family car, crammed up under the back window, while grandma and grandpa had a highball dispenser between them on the front seat, slamming highballs while dangling cigs out of their mouths.
ETA: google pic of said dispenser. Grandma would hold glass up to spout, grandpa would push down on top with his elbow while cruising down the road, never taking his eyes off of the road.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:02:08 AM EST
[#19]
I remember when the mail has ashtrays. Not uncommon to see people sitting around the fountains or planters smoking.
I wish I could go back to those days. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:02:17 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Kids riding in the bed of a pickup truck is probably some kind of heinous child abuse these days. I was raised in the back of a Chevy Scottsdale |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:02:22 AM EST
[#21]
My high school had designated smoking areas and an open campus.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:03:09 AM EST
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:03:16 AM EST
[#23]
Pocket knife at school was against the rules is the 90s/early 2000s, but nobody gave a shit. I could see it being a huge problem now.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:03:51 AM EST
[#24]
BB gun fights.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:06:05 AM EST
[#25]
When I was about 16, my mom used to drop me and a couple of buddies off at a cranberry bog to duck hunt, after the hunt we would walk into the small town called New Egypt and would go into a place for breakfast and lean our shotguns against the booth and sit and eat until she picked us up.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:06:07 AM EST
[#26]
Kids riding their dirt bikes and go karts around the neighborhood and making lots under development into mini MX courses.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:07:13 AM EST
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The movie Blazing Saddles.... I was just about to post this! ?? I've shown my kids this and a few other Mel Brooks movies. They laughed their asses off and said, " Dad, there is NO WAY this would ever be allowed to be made now!" |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:09:11 AM EST
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bought a full-auto CO2 Uzi when I was 13. All metal frame. Can't recall at all who made it, but it was the shit. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Fireworks stands on every corner around the 4th of July (and being able to buy them as a kid without a parent), also being able to walk into a store as a kid and buy BBs / BB guns without a parent. Bought a full-auto CO2 Uzi when I was 13. All metal frame. Can't recall at all who made it, but it was the shit. I had one of those. It was forbidden to use in our bb gun wars (probably frowned upon now) because of its wounding power. I still have the scars to prove it. ETA: it did jam a lot though. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:09:52 AM EST
[#29]
A lot of the stuff already mentioned was common in my youth;
Riding, unrestrained, in the back of a p’up. Kids riding their bicycles miles and miles away from home to play unsupervised. Kids buying fireworks and GOOD fireworks at that. Kids shooting BBguns and even .22s unsupervised Three-wheeled ATVs (tricycle style) Student smoking area at high school (you were supposed to be 18 but any Junior/Senior was left alone). Gun racks in pick-up trucks. Keeping a gun in your trunk as a student on school property. Pocket knives in school, every boy had one. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:10:29 AM EST
[#30]
Stage Crew building the fall play and spring musical sets with no training or supervision. Director would hand us some sketches of what it would look like and some basic dimensions, and we'd start building. Whoever had a drivers license would grab the key to the box truck from the auditorium office, and go to lowes for whatever lumber and hardware we thought we needed - using the director's credit card. no engineering or other structural knowledge. No instruction on using power tools. Just a bunch of students building shit. We'd make some complex sets, I know several times we had rolling pieces of set that had stairs and a second floor (no railings either)
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:10:31 AM EST
[#31]
Smear the queer in grade school
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:10:55 AM EST
[#32]
As a kid my friends and I would use our toy guns and play war, cowboys & Indians, etc. We ran all over around the block with our toy guns and had a great time. No adults ever called the police on us.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:11:20 AM EST
[#33]
Buying .22 shells at the local gas station to go out plinking or squirrel hunting on weekends.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:11:41 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: drinking at 18 High School graduation party with 2 kegs. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:13:12 AM EST
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: loaded gun rack in the window of a pickup truck in the high school parking lot This^^^ Late 60’s….Rural, southern Okla high school. Half of the boys had gun racks in the back window of the truck, with the appropriate rifle or shotgun for the hunting season that was open at the time. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:13:53 AM EST
[#36]
Just about everything.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:15:05 AM EST
[#37]
Not using lock out
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:15:46 AM EST
[#38]
Riding my bicycle to the Otasco store with my .22 strapped to the front basket.
Pick up a box of shorts for around 48 cents and proceed to the dump to shoot rats. Mom would pack baloney sandwiches for lunch I was 11 or 12 at the time. Gotta love rural Arkansas. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:16:12 AM EST
[#39]
Taking my .22 Ruger Single-Six to school in 1974 so that a kid in wood shop could make me new rosewood grips.
The grips were perfect, and the kid got an A. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:17:38 AM EST
[#40]
Taking rifles on the school bus to go hunting after school.
Our middle school bus driver very nice old lady, kept it on the bus all day, then dropped me off a couple miles from home. Late 1970's. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:18:57 AM EST
[#41]
Buying ffff black powder at 16 yrs old.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:19:09 AM EST
[#42]
My high school physics teacher taught us how to make spud guns, and even let us bring them on the last day of the year and launch some potatoes.
I'm sure that would get us all in trouble with the law today and he'd get fired. I also remember going to the store or the mall as a kid, and my parents would go one way and I'd go the other way. They knew where to find me after they were done shopping. Letting kids run around without supervision would probably result in the state taking them away now. And I won't mention the things from high school and college which actually didn't fly even then- but we got away with it because we didn't have cameras everywhere and we didn't have social media and text messages to brag or create evidence. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:19:21 AM EST
[#43]
Brazil nuts.
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:20:43 AM EST
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Kids riding in the bed of a pickup truck is probably some kind of heinous child abuse these days. A guy down the road from me does it all the time. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:21:47 AM EST
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The local country store sold .22 ammo;
.22 Shorts were .30 per box of 50. Longs were .40 cents Long rifle was .50 cents. He always kept one box of LR open. You could buy them for .01 each. As 10 yr olds, we’d ride the county gravel rounds picking up pop bottles for .02 cents and buy 5-10 .22 LR shells at a time, then go squirrel hunting on our bikes with our .22 rifles. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:22:09 AM EST
[#46]
Grandfather sending me to the bar for a bucket of beer with a note to let me also get him a pack of cigarettes. This spun into all of us kids riding our own notes around 12 and 13 years of age LOL
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:23:39 AM EST
[#47]
Kids having rifles in the rear window racks of there pickups during deer season.
Kids riding in the back of pickup trucks. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:27:00 AM EST
[#48]
Bringing my H&R 20ga to high school ,and walking out past the football field to go squirrel hunting after class.
I also did a demonstration in speech class on how to clean it. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:30:05 AM EST
[#49]
Quoted: Pretty simple, name something you did, saw, experienced, your family , buddies, you, your teachers, coworkers, etc did, that was acceptable then, but today would have people freaking out , 911 calls, arrests, etc ? When I was in high school, the students, ( juniors and seniors) drove the school buses as part time paid jobs. Same in SC |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 11:30:31 AM EST
[#50]
Ahh, the 80's. Funny thing is that a lot of that stuff CAN still be done, it's just a matter of getting away with it.
Light a Marb in a mall, bet you could smoke it before a minimum wage basement dwelling security guard finds you. Riding in back of a truck probably still fine on back roads at least. BB gun fights. Fuck yeah. Who's stopping you? Fireworks. Meh, they're mostly legal here anyway, just harder to get M80's, etc. (I got a 5 day suspension for M80 in garbage can, 7th grade) Didn't tell my parents, spent the whole week at 7-11 playing Spy hunter. |
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