Life as a child in the 90’s

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EternalMehFace@reddit

Biggest cruelty and tragedy of childhood and youth is you're so unaware of how damn good you have it when you have it (if you were even lucky/fortunate enough to have it in the first place). Siiigh.

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No_Attention_2227@reddit

Oh I knew how good i had it. I just thought it would never end

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A casual line in Bluey I overheard today when my kids were watching “Yep. Enjoy it while it lasts.” The dad talking to one of his little kids. The line just flows over my kids head, but stuck in my brain like a dart. Damn Bluey… you’re hittin hard.

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EternalMehFace@reddit

You're lucky you at least had that first part down right, ha.

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eat_like_snake@reddit

\>Pizza Hut \>Blockbuster We had Dominoes and the locally-owned rental place. This is some rich kid shit.

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JimMcRae@reddit

Also some Pacific Time Zone shit or somethin, TGIF didn't start until 8:00

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draculasbloodtype@reddit

East Coast was 8:00 too

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WaxWorkKnight@reddit

Same on the east coast. Central time may have been 7? Would need one of them to confirm.

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monkeetoes82@reddit

That's right.

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ses267@reddit

Grew up on the west coast. Primetime also started at 8 for us. Wasn't until I moved to Texas do I come to appreciate that 7pm start time.

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eat_like_snake@reddit

Wasn't my kind of thing to begin with. If I wasn't out riding my bike or taking a walk in the 90s, I was playing games on the Nintendo.

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reillan@reddit

Central time it was 7. Still ate dinner before it came on.

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rifunseeker@reddit

Thank you. This had me all confused with the times. TGIF is on but you haven’t eaten and you still want to go to Blockbuster? Aggressive.

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Odd_Soil_8998@reddit

Grocery store rental with one of those oversized sub sandwiches they sold in the deli department. Was I the poor kid?

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DerangedGinger@reddit

Family Video is way better than Blockbuster.

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Shotgun_Kid@reddit

We had the locally owned video store and the side-of-the road pizza shop owned by a Lebanese couple.

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reillan@reddit

We had a grocery store with the world's smallest video rental place where you could rent movies for a dollar. $1 movie and Totino's ftw.

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Klutzy-Delivery-5792@reddit

That seems awful late to be eating dinner. Blockbuster would pt e closed by the time you finished.

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monkeetoes82@reddit

I was in Jr. High in '96 and where I'm from, we only had one, maybe two school dances a year. However, going to the skating rink was a big deal. I wasn't exactly popular with the girls so it was Blockbuster for me on Friday nights.

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WaxWorkKnight@reddit

It's bothering me that this entire thing is out of order.

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LemurCat04@reddit

Child? That was my freshman year in college. TGIF was always terrible dreck, by the way.

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NeonRx@reddit

Yea at 14 I wasn’t watching ABC on a Friday night….. dorks.

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GimmeUrBrunchMoney@reddit

My man bragging about how cool 30 years ago when you were when you were 14 is not the flex you think it is

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thecicilala@reddit

Exactly I was like maybe 1992! In 1996 I was in HS going to house parties lol

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poofyhairguy@reddit

1992 was more peak TGIF anyway, it was on the decline by 1996. 1992 had Dinosaurs and prime Family Matters in the lineup. 1996 had last season Family Matters when Urkle jumped the shark and the terrible Clueless show. Unless you absolutely love Sabrina the Teenage Witch 1992>1996 TGIF.

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NeonRx@reddit

Yea 92 definitely I would have been down to watch some Full House and eat pizza. At 14 I was a hormonally crazed asshole lol.

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SuperDoubleDecker@reddit

Lol, ya. Maybe 92. I wasn't partying yet but i also wanst watching Urkel.

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Fine-Position-3128@reddit

Lol it was not that good but it wasn’t hellstagram and shittok

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GimmeUrBrunchMoney@reddit

Remember how Boomers romanticized the 1950s their whole lives because that was when life was simple and prosperous because everything was taken care of for them by their parents, but it seems so naive for them to do so because it glosses over the very real challenges facing society at that time, namely Jim Crow laws? Let’s not be like the Boomers as we head into the second half of our lives, hmm? In 1996 Gays *definitely* couldn’t marry and in roughly half of the states in the USA, “sodomy” wasn’t even legal. But yeah Gushers were yummy I guess

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KittySwipedFirst@reddit

Don't forget Saturday night when SNICK was the jam. Weekends in the 90s were peak everything.

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shayshay8508@reddit

How I loved SNICK! All That and Keenan and Kel 🥰

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Diva_Bot@reddit (OP)

I always chose SNICK

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automaticmantis@reddit

“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.”

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veryblanduser@reddit

Imagine a single supreme costing $30 today.

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automaticmantis@reddit

# “I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.”

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12345CodeToMyLuggage@reddit

We were a Little Cesar’s fam that transitioned to Papa John’s. I still like the occasional PJ’s.

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SuperDoubleDecker@reddit

Pizza pizza with crazy bread. That's what we did.

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12345CodeToMyLuggage@reddit

Every Friday night!

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HungFuPanPan@reddit

Pizza Hut AND Blockbuster on the same night? ![gif](giphy|JSsMMImVrjRX2puiVO|downsized)

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happyhippy27@reddit

This was not my house, lol

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FLPeacemaker@reddit

Dial that back to 1989 and you've got a deal

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OtherlandGirl@reddit

As much as I enjoy being able to stream stuff on demand now, it can’t compare to the pure joy of finding a good movie or two for the weekend at Blockbuster… asaahhh, good times 😌

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Diva_Bot@reddit (OP)

I still miss the smell of Blockbuster. I don’t even know how to describe it.

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OtherlandGirl@reddit

I had the good fortune to work there when I was a junior in HS. Will always be the most fun job I ever had 😁

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SuperDoubleDecker@reddit

It was all so simple and easy. Universal.

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Evening_Warthog_9476@reddit

Hahah I grew up deep in the mountains and we had to drive literally two hours for any chain food or blockbuster, but at least it was an option to go get it back then lol

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LateExcitement3536@reddit

This gave me the warm fuzzies. Add whoppers and sour patch kids and youve basically captured my childhood.

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pedomojado@reddit

And runts!

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LateExcitement3536@reddit

Was never the biggest fan but they had their place :)

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BallsWilliger@reddit

We descend into the basement to begin a marathon session of AD&D

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plotholesandpotholes@reddit

We did Little Caesars on Fridays and a trip to Blockbuster or eventually Hollywood Video. I feel like we didn't catch TGIF very often but we did watch all the shows in syndication.

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godofcheese@reddit

In the late 80s/early 90s, our family used to Pizza Hut. While waiting for the waitress to bring my free personal pizza (thanks Book-It) to come out my mom and sister would go the small video store next door and rent a Nintendo game for the weekend. Sitting there eating pizza and looking at the instructions for the NES game that would occupy the next couple days of my life may be one of my favorite memories of my childhood.

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Mammoth_Ad_4806@reddit

Parents??

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JusticeFrankMurphy@reddit

You and your best friend then spend an hour or so playing Super Mario 64 before you pop the movie into the VCR on your basement TV (Se7en, or Apollo 13 if your parents wouldn't let you rent Se7en).

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