What happened to cruisin the high school?

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False-Storm-5794@reddit

The two primary streets in our town were both one way. We would drive north from one end of town to the other, turn around and drive south. Every Friday and Saturday night was like that. That's the part of American Graffiti that is pretty much a documentary.

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Prudent_Baker_2851@reddit

Gas prices got too high for teenagers to just drive around, and law enforcement started cracking down on teens parking at closed businesses because the business owners didn't like having to clean up their parking lots on Monday morning.

At least, that's the story I was told. I do know that by the time my friends and I aged out of thinking cruising was fun, there seemed to be an edgier and more dangerous vibe in the air, whereas just couple or three years before, the atmosphere had been very good natured and laid back. You'd check out each other's cars, chat up the girls etc.

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Jas62021@reddit

Warm weather used to send us to Hampton Beach. But the police have cracked down on that. Too many fights and other violence.

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Happy-Bluejay-3849@reddit

Nobody cruised where I lived. That was some antiquated thing old people would go on about. We met up in the mall, roller rink or some place people we heard people were going to.

We still hear plenty of kids bumping up and down the street on their way to school. Sometimes so loud the house rattles. They’ll be deaf soon and we think it’s a shame they don’t know better.

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Otherwise-Job-1572@reddit

I'm curious to know how old you are and how large was the town you grew up in?

I was born in 1972, so I turned 16 in 1988. My home town was about 800 people, and we certainly cruised on the weekends. But there was literally nothing else to do, either.

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Happy-Bluejay-3849@reddit

Similar age, but grew up in a much bigger place. We had more people in our school than you had in your entire town. Never heard of it being done anywhere other than old 1950s movies.

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Business_Coyote_5496@reddit

Same. I grew up in a major urban city. Turned 16 in 1984. I knew what cruising was from the movie American Graffiti but I didn't think it happened in the 80s still. We all had fake ids and went clubbing.

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

We just called it cruising, not cruising the high school, if we're talking about the same thing.

It's where we'd hop in someone's car with no specific plans and "cruise" by happening local spots to try and meetup with others doing the same thing. Could be the mall or by the beach, or where high school football games were going on.

You'd pullover and talk to other kids trying to find a house or somewhere to go party. If there wasn't anything happening, you'd hang in a parking lot.

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meekbootz@reddit

They mobbin in ebikes now

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lunabluestocking@reddit

We never called it cruising. It was "riding around." Well, more accurately "ridin' around." Circa very early 1980s, small (7k) town in Ozarks. Main social activity on weekends! So much fun back then.

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Cczaphod@reddit

Gas prices are not 52 cents a gallon anymore.

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Ok-Offer-541@reddit

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cadien17@reddit

Boomers in convertables cruise our Main Street every weekend, ending up at the drive-in. So I doubt local teenagers consider it anything but cringe.

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Alternative-Law4626@reddit

The Miracle Mile in Omaha was Dodge St. from 72nd to 90th streets. Various places to hang out. People would semi-race. Not really, but maybe a 1/4 mile.

Fridays and Saturdays in the evening. By my senior year the police had cracked down and you could do a U Turn. There max police presence on the road and in the hang out areas. Later GenX probably never saw it like it was.

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Robviously-duh@reddit

we hung at the Indian Hills parking lot or Burger King.. lol.. loved street racing up the hill from 84th to 90th... class of 84 checking in... it was awesome back in the day.. and yes, my son doesn't get it either...

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Alternative-Law4626@reddit

I was Burke Class of ‘82. We usually ended up hanging at Crossroads, and agree 84th to 90th was good for getting after it.

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Robviously-duh@reddit

lol wife is Burke 84

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SSquirrel76@reddit

Cruising was dumb as hell and I never understood why kids at my school did it. Tiny Kentucky town. They drive around the KMart parking lot all night. I never did bc, well I already said it was stupid :)

As to why it isn’t done now, have you see gas prices now vs then?

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13mys13@reddit

oh i did that. i kept my '99 accord so i could teach my son to drive stick. now he can and is off to college, and i decided that i like driving stick in a smaller car than driving a mid sized SUV every day so i made the old thing my daily driver. one thing i missed from the crv was the radio that connected to my phone by bluetooth (still had the cassette deck and cd changer in the accord). while swapping out the head unit, i decided i might as well throw in a sub and separates. now, i bump everlasting bass and posse on broadway when i pick up and drop off my daughter at hs

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Ok_Traffic_3240@reddit

Drive stick?? Manual gears right?

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man_in_ict@reddit

We cruised main street in my small town. Never went near the high school outside school hours

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tiger_knots185@reddit

We used to do that too! But we also got our full licence at 16 after passing a written test and a driver's test. I don't think it's that simple anymore.

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man_in_ict@reddit

I think its more about the price of gas now. It was illegal when we did it but police never did anything. My mom let me drive anywhere anytime by myself when I was 15 with a restricted license 🙂

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Uncle_Brewster@reddit

I was from a small town as well. We cruised main street, and this other main road. The two roads made like an L shape, and are probably 3-4 miles long total. We never cruised by the school.

My niece graduated high school in 2025. I never got the sense that they went cruising. It really was a huge waste of gas.

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WorldsMostDad@reddit

Exactly. Several cruising spots, none of them were the high school.

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MisterSandKing@reddit

It was a lot of fun cruising my 65 Oldsmobile, with a 15 in the trunk. Such a cool cruiser, load it up with friends, and go do stupid shit.

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carlivar@reddit

Watch Dazed & Confused with them.

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Mikethemechanic00@reddit

License to drive also

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Battle_Intense@reddit

Would be about 37 felonies by modern day standards...

Houston PD busted a house party I was at in the early 90s, asked if we were masturbation in progress, aka M I P, minor in possession and told us party over get the hell out. Today it would result in a dozen court appearances and several thousand in legal fees.

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BuccoFever412@reddit

Alright Alright Alright

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sliverme@reddit

I get older, they stay the same age..

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Substantial_Layer_79@reddit

No one cruised our high school parking lot. We'd drag race before school, about 3 miles away. We weren't allowed to loiter in our parking lot. There was always a coach, with a paddle, to ensure that. I went to a very small school. But, we 4 different cruising towns to choose from on the weekends. I was always at the one with the college and the big arcade.

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doctor_machinegun@reddit

if i was in high school and a coach tried to “paddle” me he would of bad his ass beat 😂😂😂

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Substantial_Layer_79@reddit

We had ex NFL players as coaches. In the mid 80's the average high school male weighed under 160 pounds. Our biggest football player weighed 175 pounds. They were no match. Plus, we had manners at school.

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doctor_machinegun@reddit

wow! you weighed all of students!? thats weird. its also weird you happen to KNOW the sizes of the biggest players!? wow, very werid indeed. in fact, sounds like you are making shit up grandma. what psychopath accurately knows the size and weight of their classmates? 😂

its also obviously fabricated because if your biggest high school football player weighed 175lbs then he was either annorexic or anemic. jesus christ lady are you talking the 1980s or 1880s?? thats like saying the tallest guy on your basketball team was 5’2 LOLOL

and tuning someone up for attempting to hit you with a paddle has zero to do with “manners” lol, what a very odd, twisted correlation to draw.

i mean, i understand discipline, sure. but the guy who is looking to paddle high school age kids should not only be on a watch list, but also would of gotten his ass kicked where in from.

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Substantial_Layer_79@reddit

There were only 40 kids in my class. Everyone was weighed, publicly, for gym class. My gym class and boys athletes were at the same time. I'm sorry you were a fluffy kid.

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doctor_machinegun@reddit

what kind of redneck school did you go too?? 😂 my god what an awful experience that must of been

must of been a pretty terrible school if years later you think “my gym class and boys athletes were at the same time” is a legible sentence

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Samhain-1843@reddit

Gas prices, insurance…. Due to cost, many teens don’t even get a license until they’re 18. I would try to get my kids to leave the house and they would rather have friends over just to hang out.

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irishpwr46@reddit

At 5 dollars plus a gallon for premium, my days of laps on Francis Lewis Blvd are long gone.

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vf-guy@reddit

Like others, I've never heard of cruising the high school. We cruised the strip, yes. Or hang out at the local convenience store trying to find the parties.

And like others have said, kids aren't interested in getting their licenses. They hang at home and game. Nowhere to go. Not much to do. No drive-ins. No malls. No arcades.

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HiOscillation@reddit

There's nowhere to go where they are allowed to just be there, not shopping, not participating in some structured activity....just existing.

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Mikethemechanic00@reddit

My daughter is in her 1st year of HS. She forgot her Chromebook a few weeks ago. I was in shock when I got to her school parking lot to drop her tablet off. There was no loud music anywhere form cars. Almost every student immediately got out of their cars and maybe talked to someone they knew for a min or two. That’s it. No cruising. The vice principal was at the entrance of the HS. I asked if the parking lots have been quiet and no loud music and no hanging out for sometime. She laughed and asked my age. Told her I am 51. She said it has not been that way since the mid 00s. I looked around and noticed kids wearing Bluetooth headphones. Told my kids about it. Early 90s we would blast the music at HS and cruise everywhere. Hang out in parking lots on a school night. We had no crefews. Cops would not bother us 12 midnight on a weekend or school night. My kids laughed and said. Your generation were mad at your parents. I agreed and told them I had to work a job at 15 year round in HS. Also I had to get out at 18.

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HiOscillation@reddit

"Early 90s we would blast the music at HS...."

Early 80's that would get you suspended at the schools I went to.

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HiOscillation@reddit

I think it has something to do with loud music? Never heard of this until right now.
Graduated 1983.

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IndgoViolet@reddit

No one can afford the gas

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

It is the cheapest the kids will ever see. drive now in 10 years it will be much higher.

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IndgoViolet@reddit

I'm hoping it won't be gas in 10 years. Come on hydrogen fuel cell!

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CHILLAS317@reddit

Well, for one thing it's not the 1959s anymore

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Hairbear2176@reddit

You want the unpopular answer? Older generations furcking ruined it. They placed anti-cruising laws and ordinances that issued tickets for cruising, they implemented curfews, and did pretty much anything they could to stop kids from "menacing" our towns.

The other reason is that kids don't have time. They are in school, then sports/extracurriculars, which take the majority of their free time. Lastly, with social media, they don't want to be on someone's random video for doing something stupid, which kids do. Add in the fact that colleges and employers scour social media now, they walk around in fear of being rejected for jobs/college.

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doctor_machinegun@reddit

this is the actual answer. some of the people in these comments are insufferable

“I USED TO DO 90 MPH IN MY SCHOOL PARKING LOT AND DO BURN OUTS ON THE FOOTBALL FEILD AND FLIP MY PRINCIPAL OFF ALL WHILE PLAYING THE LOUDEST MUSIC YOUVE EVER HEARD AND LATE, TOO. WE WOULD STAY UP SO SO LATE. UNTIL LIKE 5AM. AND NO ONE EVEN CARED, NOT THE COPS NOT THE TEACHERS NOT EVEN OUR PARENTS”

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SarcasticGirl27@reddit

When I was in HS, we used to drive up & down the parking lot at the movie theater. They put in a gate that they would close on Friday & Saturday nights (it’s still there, but it never closes) to keep us kids from trolling the entire mini mall’s parking lot. Most of the time, if we really wanted to cruise anything, we went to the local mall and walked around. We would window shop or break off & buy what we needed. We were a group of about 20 of us & we all didn’t fit into Wicks & Sticks. We’d meet up later at the food court for snacks.

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TripMaster478@reddit

Video games.

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dbrmn73@reddit

and cellphones

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Ohio_gal@reddit

Cruisin is largely illegal now. We became the machine we used to rage against.

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ablaut-reduplication@reddit

I know, right?

I grew up in Silicon Valley. We'd go cruising most weekends along El Camino Real in Santa Clara. Cops hollering at us, all left-turn lanes blocked. Music and girls everywhere. An occasional drag race when in my friend's '66 Mustang with the 289...

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b_o_m@reddit

I remember cruising ElCamino well, so much fun back then. You never knew who you were gonna run into or who you might meet for the first time. Nights of endless possibilities.

Yeah, the cops were heavy handed, but it never really overshadowed the excitement of just being there in the moment. A good chunk of that strip has a 3rd World feel to it now (I just happened to be passing through there a few weeks ago on a Friday night), and there is no sign of the fact it used to be THE place to be as a teenager on a weekend night.

I grew up here too and (foolishly) never left. Silicon ruined the Valley.

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ablaut-reduplication@reddit

Until a few years ago, there was one remaining 'no left turns, weekend nights' sign still posted in the median of ECR at Halford Ave. Over the years, I noticed it got more and more faded. And eventually it disappeared.

That was sort of a sad day for me, the day I noticed it was finally gone.

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Erazzphoto@reddit

Is that supposed to be cruisin “in” high school? Cause I have no idea what cruisin “the” high school is either? Assuming the former, kids have a lot more options now to entertain them than we did back then. Not to mention, gas was a hell of lot cheaper then, so cruising around on a Friday night maybe cost you $40 now haha

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DPax_23@reddit

This sounds like American Graffiti to me.

We all skateboarded and took the subway (well, the T where I grew up). The kids that had loud cars and cruised around were called either townies or guidos depending on who they rolled with.

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Beginning_Key2167@reddit

In highschool in the 80’s. We spent all weekend in our cars riding around. Endlessly.

Kids now think that is absurd. We almost had to force my partners son to get his license.

Granted we do live in a city with good public transit. They just don’t have the desire. Why would you ride around for hours on a Friday night?

Granted we also had zero tech. So it was a good way to find out what was going on.

Now they can just text.

I can say I liked the not knowing what the night may have in store. Sometimes nothing at all.

Sometimes finding a great party.

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OldGamerX@reddit

Chris Hansen just woke up in a cold sweat

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DueConversation5269@reddit

the good Ole days

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W0gg0@reddit

I was gonna call you out there for a second

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Fatboyneverchange@reddit

Was watching this the other day.

Tis' funny as hell you can hear him coming at the gas station before he pulls up.

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LonesomeBulldog@reddit

It’s $4/gallon for gas. Cruising where I live would mean being stuck in bad traffic burning money. You won’t even see any friends either which is a major point of cruising.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

Keep in mind, like us, This will be the cheapest gas prices they may ever see. Drive now because in another 10-15 years it could be 6 bucks a gallon.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

Around here there seems to be less and less kids even getting there license's. Blows my pea sized brain.

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tanhauser_gates_@reddit

There was a completely different definition where I grew up. I wont go into it.

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Vegaprime@reddit

Passed anti cruising laws here. In violation if you pass the same spot twice. Enforced hard for a few years.

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Wldchld73@reddit

I don't see kids cruisin' like we did, but around here I do see them congregating in store and strip mall parking lots.

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Dboogy2197@reddit

Right?!

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HighJeanette@reddit

I don’t know what you’re talking about? Cruising the high school?

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CommodoreVF2@reddit

We used to cruise main street in my podunk rural Kansas town every Friday and Saturday night. When I went back for my 10 year reunion....nothing. I looped through and saw maybe two cars.

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Basic_Assumption5311@reddit

Dude when I got my last truck guy asked jokingly if I wanted a kicker sub & amp installed, bet your ass I did! PS I’m 50

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Hedonistic_Yinzer@reddit

They're not cruising because their parents are picking them up from school. Riding the school buses character building. Picking them up is spoilage.

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Diesel07012012@reddit

I have a 19 year old nephew who grew up coddled and afraid of his own shadow. Cannot mentally function behind the wheel and wants no part of obtaining a license. Mommy and Daddy continue to drive him everywhere. You're not entirely wrong.

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Head_Trick_9932@reddit

My senior would never allow me to drop off or pick him up LOL. He drives but even if he didn’t, he’d be walking or the bus.

I agree. I won’t do school drop off or pick up if I want to keep my sanity. Mine have always bussed and then at 16, take themselves (or older friends that drive).

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Losaj@reddit

I noticed this as a teacher. When I was in school, kids couldn't wait to get a license and car. We were super jelly of the kids who turned 16 as a sophomore because they could drive to school then. Parking spaces went out as a lottery. Now, kids couldnt care less about a car. Its no longer the freedom they want. They have access to the world in a palm sizes computer they e been using since grade school. They don't see cars as freedom. They see it as a trap for payments, gas and insurance. Truly a difference in generations.

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NoMayoForReal@reddit

All of our high schools are gated with a youth relations officer so I don’t think the kids could even cruise if they wanted to.

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flabackyardgarage@reddit

I met my wife cruising!

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LemurCat04@reddit

We hung out at a 7-11. And when they got sick of us, we went to the other 7-11. And when they got sick of us, we hung out on The Trail.

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togocann49@reddit

We went cruising, but not at our high school. Usually through the city, near around events where folks our age and/or a bit older were at.

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OkConsideration8964@reddit

We didn't do that. In NJ, you don't get a license until 17, so maybe that has something to do with it? During the school year we were mall rats and also hung out at the skating rink. During the summer we were on the beach and boardwalk.

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cyvaquero@reddit

Cruisin the high school wasn’t a thing for us. However, we had a large state flagship university in the next town so folks would cruise downtown until they banned it in the late 80s (something like over three laps in an hour being a ticketable offense).

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GeeDub1974@reddit

Ha, we used to cruise around the SeaTac Mall in the 90’s and eat .99 cent whoppers before the kegger in the field. Ah the good ole days.

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HaloTightens@reddit

It has been a sad thought to me for a while now that kids won’t know about cruising or backroading anymore, with gas so expensive. We spent so much of our time that way in the 90s, just driving, listening to music, talking about whatever, meeting up with random friends or new people. Lots of memories.

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Bushwazi@reddit

Don’t kids get their licenses like a year later than we could now?

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blackpony04@reddit

I moved to a small Illinois town just after graduating HS in suburban Chicago in 1988.

The kids would drive the main drag of town over and over again and it was a practice for over 70 years before the town cracked down due to loitering.

They called is "buzzin' the gut."

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Hostile1974@reddit

Gas prices + police state = no cruisin

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snakeayez@reddit

Our cruising area was up and down the main drag or sitting in the KMart parking lot. The cooler you were the closer you got to sit to street. My location depended on who I was with.

If there was a party it was on the sandbar where the two main rivers met (called 3 ponds for reasons noone knew)

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SkintagK@reddit

We would meet up at a place called the Spillway..

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pushing_past_the_red@reddit

We'd meet at the"upper", which was short for the upper spillway.

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trukkd@reddit

This is why my kids have:
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And I have:
" EEEEEEEEEEEE".

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BraveG365@reddit

When I saw your title it made me think about the scene from Dallas where Sue Elllen ask JR about which jr high school he had been cruising.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs4wHH2D37A

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dcamnc4143@reddit

The government closed our LONG time local cruise spot about 20 years ago. They actually made it illegal. Some kids still meet at parking lots to hang out; they do at our local Cookout burger place.

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HarveyMushman72@reddit

C-Y Avenue Friday and Saturday nights. Drag racing on Amaco Road. We'd meet up in parking lots to find out where the parties were.

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Chad_Hooper@reddit

It was cruising the drag where (and when) I grew up. Or just going to drag (street name).

Every town had its own drag, some with more traffic and cooler people than others.

The town south of ours? Bunch of snobs who wouldn’t even talk to people from out of town. The largest city within a two hour drive? Great times on Polk Street in the 80s.

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vindicatorx1@reddit

We did this. You cruised the loop, the main 3 lane one way streets that went east to west and then you would park in some closed businesses parking lot and smoke while hanging out with the losers who were still hanging out with high school kids years after they graduated high school.

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Chad_Hooper@reddit

Yeah, exactly like that.

But some of the losers were the best philosophers I had ever met up to that time.

I wonder what happened to them?

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HarveyMushman72@reddit

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Bumberti@reddit

Nothing happened to them. Because, see, time is a flat circle….

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Accomplished_Cash630@reddit

Video games and phones. Plus I’d hate to be a high schooler cruising in my diesel truck and $7.50 a gallon

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dinnerwdr13@reddit

Amp and subwoofer? I think about it all the time. Nothing crazy, a little 8" or 10" with a small amp just to get a little more thump.

Then I remember, oh yeah, I have profound hearing loss headed towards total deafness. And my 15" and 12" I used to have hooked to 1000w and 250w amps are part of why I'm in this predicament.

Honestly I think those days are long gone. I don't and won't have kids, but I think they mostly socialize electronically.

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davekva@reddit

Tinnitus is my reward for having a booming system. Totally worth it!

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Slipstream_Surfing@reddit

WHAT

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SaltyBlackBroad@reddit

It's safer in the Matrix.

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Dead_Inside50@reddit

With these gas prices? Cruising requires an $80,000/year job.

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vindicatorx1@reddit

That’s why I got the hybrid lol 35 mpg lol.

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Stompboxer1@reddit

Benjamin Orr died.

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drunkfaceplant@reddit

this made me cry 😢

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Strange-Employee-520@reddit

Gen X and I have no idea what this is. I used to hear cruisin as an older (50s 60s?) term for driving around, we just called it driving around. It had nothing to do with school though🤷‍♀️

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Winnapig@reddit

My City all summer does ”The Sunday Cruise” where everybody shines up their ride and drives around cranking tunes and meeting up getting Ice cream and pizza and burgers and stuff. It’s been that way since the fifties.

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Strange-Employee-520@reddit

I hope gas prices improve before this summer, 😬

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Slipstream_Surfing@reddit

History of fuel price changes at the start of summer season does not bode well for your wish.

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sarcasticorange@reddit

Right, but not at the school. We wanted to be as far away from that place as possible.

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QueenVell@reddit

They don't have licenses, and don't bother getting one because driving makes them anxious.

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Tampadarlyn@reddit

Gas be expensive

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tilt-a-whirly-gig@reddit

When I was in high school I got paid $5/hr to work at a gas station that sold gas for $0.99⁹/gal. I got 12 mpg from my '77 Pontiac V8, so it was a mile a minute.

(I also kept a gas can in my booth, and whenever a customer finished and left I would go drain the last few drops from the hose into my can. I usually got a couple gallons on a weekend shift.)

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Head_Trick_9932@reddit

100% lol

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bendingoutward@reddit

It's still a thing. These days, it's Bluetooth speakers and electric scooters.

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mldyfox@reddit

Uh, dude, have you seen gas prices? These kids don't have gas money for just driving around! I'm kidding, a little, but yeah.

Plus, even if they were just driving around, parents are tracking them through phones or insurance devices for safe driving. Kinda defeats the purpose.

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thirtyone-charlie@reddit

Oh yeah we used to have to be there an hour early so we could ride around the school. We may have smoked some weed every once in a while daily.

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Least-Leading2457@reddit

every twice in a while

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Th3R00ST3R@reddit

I like that. I'm using it.

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phloxies@reddit

There were 5 of us girls that drove through two towns. Basically a big loop until we found where the party was. It was either the beach or the woods. We'd get one of the older guys to buy our alcohol. Miller light ponies, Boone's Farm or go thru the diaquari drive thru.

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Automatic-Unit-8307@reddit

Kids have Tinder and other dating apps apps now

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Flaky-Debate-833@reddit

The device glued to their hands enables them to cruise anywhere in the world in a moment's notice.....and they don't have to pay for gas.

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NoHankyNoPanky@reddit

Yuck… no

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dirthawg@reddit

I don't let you drink and drive anymore

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CheckeredVansGenxGuy@reddit

If kids congregate anywhere, the pigs will kick them out.

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Serious-Mongoose-387@reddit

i never understood why people cruise, so i’ve never done it.

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napalmthechild@reddit

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goonwild18@reddit

It was lame then, too.

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Admiral_Ash@reddit

Friday night, hop into the Odie-Mobile (my buds '89 powder blue Lumina with an old Odie sticker in the window), head to QT for snacks and drinkage and cruise the Seneca. No photos, no videos. Just memories.

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Normal512@reddit

First, everyone stays in on their devices. Getting youth out and about and seeing each other face to face outside of school is a problem.

Second, everything is expensive. Gas was \~$1.15 a gallon when I turned 16, even when it was "cheap" recently it's still 3 times that, and they don't make much more money than I did back then.

Third, I can only speak to my state but the licensing stuff is graduated now so you really don't have the freedom to do it until you're 18. There are driving curfews, restrictions to a single passenger under the age of 21, and so forth.

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GenX-ModTeam@reddit

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prisongranny@reddit

I always thought "cruising" was what gay men did in public bathrooms. Or teens in the 50's

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jseger9000@reddit

I'm gay and I think cruising means something different to me than it does to you. I've not heard of cruising the high school.

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Strange-Employee-520@reddit

Right?! Sounds very illegal.

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LilBitofSunshine99@reddit

I think they mean like when you cruise the main streets of your small town with a carful of friends on Friday nights. But I could be wrong.

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jseger9000@reddit

I've heard of that cruising. It's always possible I'm just a square that missed out.

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spintool1995@reddit

Ya, it wasn't a thing in white bread small town New England where I grew up.

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LilBitofSunshine99@reddit

Believe me, you didn't miss out on much. Life became so much better the older I was.

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4158264146@reddit

Whatcha mean? I still do it

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meswifty1@reddit

In my area cruisin was about the revs and half of the newer cars don't make much noise. Unless you're the dummy I saw last week that put a glasspack effect on their Tesla

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Correct-Doctor8329@reddit

Who cruised the high school? We would cruise the beach, or certain loops in town, no one wanted to go by the school

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RedditSkippy@reddit

I never did this. Do you mean just driving around the school?!

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jd3marco@reddit

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largos7289@reddit

I never understood the concept, but i did do it some nights. Like why were we crusing the place we were at the whole week? and why were other people there...

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Parker51MKII@reddit

A lot of jurisdictions have outlawed the practice, or at least aggressively enforce existing loitering and curfew statutes. Nowadays, too many things can go bad with large numbers of teens gathering (weapons drawn and assaults, or worse).

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Temporary-Library597@reddit

Here's the cause. You think idiot kids didn't have access to their idiot parent's weapons when we were young? Nothing's changed, mate. Except for the Culture of Fear Fox News feeds you 24/7.

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Ok-Till-5285@reddit

my kids are now 35 and 37 and they have always had tunes bumping so loud at times I could hear them half a block away! If you get into my oldest kids truck when she has been in it last by herself, and start it up, you will be blasted out of there!!

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SaltyBlackBroad@reddit

There were numerous places that we'd cruise. We socialized. Lived in the moment. Weren't wired to an electronic IV.

A lot of kids don't believe there were really house parties or cruising and in many cases, sneaking out. They think it's just "in the movies."

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Mindless-Ad2125@reddit

The El

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Jag-@reddit

“Are you gonna cruise the miracle mile”

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TravelerMSY@reddit

The tiny minority of them that have any interest in driving whatsoever would be mystified as to why you would waste all that gasoline.

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SoUpInYa@reddit

Sunset Boulevard!!!

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SnoSlider@reddit

Deer Park Avenue on Long Island was where it all went down. 1/4 mile races from light to light for $50 was the norm. What I’d give to go back.

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Frequent-Print-918@reddit

We cruised Main Street

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New_Succotash2500@reddit

We cruised a Main Street in our city, back and forth a few blocks, lol, cat calling and waving at people in other cars. Music loud, it was fun.

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694meok@reddit

OP next school pick up

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LuckyAd2714@reddit

Lmao

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AdGold205@reddit

We cruised until chronic road construction broke the cycle. After about 3 years of construction and the kids just didn’t do it anymore.

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Legitimate_Jump142@reddit

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Please do this when you pick them up!

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joshua_addison_music@reddit

I have a 18 & 15 year old that are both Fn clueless. Despite me teaching them as much as possible, it doesn’t natter. They grew up in AZ and I grew up in Chicago. They just won’t EVER get it.

This generation is cooked. All the information at their fingertips(phones) and they don’t know 💩.

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