We drank! Like a lot!! Not a brag, truly for emphasis. We had drunk sex. I feel like athletics were a little bigger back then; the jock paradigm, I guess applied, but there weren’t any social standings need to be part of a tiny schools crowd. I was in a rural area in NE. There was a binge drinking epidemic among American teens in the 90s... it snuck over the border into our Canadian neighbors as well. Also we can drink in Montreal at 18! We did bridge jumping, for bragging rights, and a semi safe rebellion. And though I only did it once, skiing down things you’re not supposed to like sandpits, telephone pole lines etc, drove around; we only ever had one less can of beer than were people in the car so the driver could plausibly deny. Omg not everyone was but I and my group were horrible. Our teens today are angels; I went with truth and science as my substance avoidance technique and it did the scared straight thing on it’s own.
Our mobile phones had homeless people sitting under them so we didn't spend much time on those for sure but mostly made the best of having friends and family
Talked about girls, any girls, all girls. Said what was typical of teenage boys about said girls, despite having absolutely no knowledge of what to do with girls.
We roller bladed to WalMart to walk around and then hang out in the parking lot. My friend and I actually did our homework there.
Every once in a while we'd set the creek on fire with gasoline with from my parents shed.
And sometimes we would go not spend money at one of the Christian coffee shops.
We talked a lot more. My friends still get together and sit around a fire pit with nothing except maybe some music in the background and just talk about stuff. What’s going on in our life, sports, funny stories, jokes, work, deep philosophical subjects, whatever. It’s great.
We had jobs that we understood were not meant to actually support us for the rest of life and that we need to move on from minimum wage jobs to actually have the shit we want in life.
My friend group, about 12 of us, would be bored as hell and we’d eventually resort to “scavenger hunt”. We’d make a ridiculous list of about 20 things, pile into two cars (usually boys vs girls) and then meet back at the starting point like two hours later. Only rule was you couldn’t purchase the items on the list.
The stories we’d tell when we met back together would be hilarious and I’m kinda glad there were no cell phones back then because we’d have incriminated ourselves like the teens do today.
We did this too. We manged to get both a jar of Mount St. Helen's ash and 45 of Jim Croce "If I could save time in a bottle" from randos we met one night.
Drove around smoking cigarettes listening to Ween and Pavement. Talked on the phone as much as possible and when we had to get off, wrote letters to friends longhand. Read books. Watched MTV. Taped episodes of 120 Minutes then went back and dubbed the best songs to tape. Made mix tapes. Played guitar. Walked around the neighborhood. Drove to the edge of the city to hang out at big box stores. Wrote poems and stories on our Apple IIc. That’s about it for me.
At first reading this I was like “my people!”…. Then when I got to DIY haircuts and “cried in room listening to Tori Amos” I had to make sure I didn’t just write this and forget about it.
Literally, same. I still cry in my room to Tori to this day. The letters to friends, such a lost art. One time my friend and I took a city bus to a coffee shop downtown. We ended up taking like 7 different busses and got lost, never even making there. It was such an adventure. We met a whole cast of characters. Anything was possible.
Dude. Same. Had to make sure it wasn't me!
We dyed our hair with kool-aid and I learned that blue kool-aid on naturally red hair comes out a sickly green instead of a funky blue.
Go out in the actual world and mainly be bored, but would try to fuck shit up whenever the opportunity revealed itself. I remember one of our friends making an impossible scavenger hunt list and going out all night trying to find the items. We manged to get both a jar of Mount St. Helen's ash and 45 of Jim Croce "If I could save time in a bottle" from randos we met that night.
Before gamers on YouTube, there were 4 or so friends playing video games, taking turns.
And we had that one guy that was better than everyone else (perfect dark & goldeneye) that we just watched while getting high.
I went to the mall, danced around my bedroom, tried on makeup, listened to grunge, had marathon phone calls with my friends while sitting on the floor because the hall phone was corded, rode my bike from sunup to sundown, made up ridiculous songs and rhymes, played Nintendo and avoided responsibility.
I remember spending countless hours at the mall. before we were old enough to drive one of our parents would drop us off and we would just wander for hours and look at things we didn't have the money to buy.
The multi-hour phone calls
Call waiting and call waiting **with** call display was a technological marvel that changed the game
3 way calling? Mind blown.
I spent a fair amount of time trying to get the answering machine to record all my sisters’ calls automatically. Then I read about the phone phreaking kids and got all kinds of ideas I was never smart enough to pull off.
We would go hang out at each others houses and listen to music while playing video games. on weekends we would head up the canyon to camp and do bonfires. and generally just hang out around town.
We went out every night. We walked the avenue, went to the park, drank and smoked pot. We played hackey sack, basketball, had a yearly Thanksgiving football game.
We used aim and spent way too much for creating a clever away message and color/ font choice.
In the summer of my teenage years we were basically out all day. Me and a friend used to help at a bagel shop. Every day we'd get 5 dollars, a sandwich, two drinks, a pack of cigarettes and a Philly blunt. Still to this day one of my best jobs
Rode around. Listened to music. Smoked cigarettes. We would go find out friends we wanted to see. We hung out and we would meet up in town. I’m from a small town. We have a couple stores. No red lights. Used to have a wishy washy. We would all park at any of these places and stand around and watch traffic. We would talk about whatever was going on and we usually would decide on a location out in the country to go meet up and have a, “party.” We would drink beer and smoke weed. It was so much fun.
We rode our bikes everywhere, miles away from home, without helmets or cellphones, parents had no idea where we were. You would find your friends by riding around and looking for a pile of bikes on someones lawn. Also marijuana, early video games, loitering at the mall
My son did a lot of IMing. Once when he was about 17 he came home around midnight and when I casually asked him what he had been up to he said “Hookers & Blow Dad”
My friends and I would hang out and listen to music, go to all ages, shows with our local music scene, which was thriving in the mid 90s, and since we live near a university, we would hang out at the coffee shop and sometimes talk to college students.we would also go to bookstores, music, shops, arcades, stuff like that. It was a lot more social and you were out a lot. We did have video games, but it was still a little fringe back then. Most people would have a super Nintendo or genesis, but very few made it their identity like people do today.
We had parties, went to concerts, road bikes, constantly hung out with friends, played video games, talked on the phone for hours, watched tv…we did a lot of shit.
We had a Snapple hideaway where we kept our bottles, it was down the road from the corner store. We'd get glass bottles of the Strawberry-Kiwi, go to our spot, drink Snapple, and spy on people passing by. Occasionally we'd burn some incense there, too.
When they did their free Snapple promotion we realized it was linked to a phone number instead of an address, so we ordered them from every pay phone we could find since it was a 1800 number. We got like a dozen coupons each and used them all.
We hung out. Every evening there would be people on a designated bench in the neighborhood doing just that, and you'd just know there would always be someone there. Sometimes I was the first but it never took longer than 15 minutes to be joined by others for the hanging out to continue. We'd smoke some, play some football (⚽), shoot some hoops. Annoy each other, talk about the latest music and movies, etc.
If the weather got in the way of hanging outdoors, we'd end up in someone's bedroom to continue the hanging of the outs.
Hunng out outside, played Magic the Gathering, go to McDonalds, go bike riding, go toe ach others houses and play video games, or play Magic the Gathering in the hallway.
TGC Player has an app that will scan the card and tell you the value. Or you can just search eBay and see what it’s going for. My local card shop said they could only give me 40% of list price so careful there.
I found out a few years ago the rules were changed in the game.
I have not played MtG since high school (graduated in 2001, my ass should be walking with a cane)
I'm way older than you and I guess it was about 2001 when I last played. My boyfriend who got our sleepy little town started had a black lotus and all the moxs. He had all the beat cards, but he shares with our little group when we played.
I remember my elementary school friend had a binder of unlimited lotus and moxen etc. Doubt any of us knew what he had there and I bet he just traded them away for some Ice Age Jester Cap bs…lord, to have a time machine.
We had a spot called “the wall” in downtown. At any random time there were 1-5 teens sitting on it. My favorite wall story was when a Highschool acquaintance came and sat next to me and started talking. I never thought he liked me because he never said much to me so I stopped him and was like “are you feeling alright? You never talk to me this much.” And he was like “if I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t talk to you at all.” Then another kid walked up and said hi to both of us. He never once said a word until the kid walked away. It was such a great internal moment for me.
Sadly the wall has spikes on it now bit it’s still there and I very much miss sitting on it for hours.
We always started at someone's house because we were smoking weed. Then we would jump from house to house or party to party and we had a running joke that we always had to smoke a little bit more before moving to the next location. Now, as an old lady, I just take a gummy and I'm good for the rest of the night.
Our generation learned how to resolve indifference face to face.
New gens seem to struggle with coping skills, end up on reddit, bravely calling people names instead.
Our generation had personality. New generation is desperately looking for an identity in a phone... complete disconnected generation, connected by screens.
Ha, we got two extra lines - one for my bedroom as a teenage girl, and one to my older brother's bedroom, which was also the computer room. I could use the internet and talk on the phone AND the main house line was free from both those things. Truly the halcyon days.
Haha, I wish. It was only a couple years til I left for college. I grew up with all brothers and they were pretty horrible about listening in on my calls and even cruel at times. My extra line was my parents' "solution" and they got the separate computer line at the same time because it was always tying up the phone line. Then dial-up became obsolete and I was out of the house, so they ditched them.
When I first got a GF in high school we’d talk about how we were soooooo in love and destined to be together and all that on the phone BUT we couldn’t be that sappy without caution: whenever one of us thought a parent or sibling had picked up the line on another phone and was listening in we’d say “well… I think I’m getting hungry” and that was the signal to say “shut up I think someone is listening in!”
I felt so grown up when my parents finally got sick of me tying up the family line and got me my own line (and a phone with a 10 ft cord so I could walk all over my room with it).
We fucked yr mom.
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That joke. Over and over. That's really how it went when we weren't in school or working or moving friend's band equipment. "Help move my drums?" " I can't. I threw my back out fucking yr mom."
That and getting drunk and tackling lawn ornaments. So many lawn ornaments...
Basketball, skateboarding, dirt bikes and three wheelers, camping every weekend.
I was thirteen in 1990, by 16/17 I made my way into “town” to skate and that’s when I started experimenting…… good times.
I grew up in Las Vegas. We would cruise the strip, hang out in the hotel resorts, hang at the mall, parties at the caves, finding excuses to stay out as late as possible. We had a few amusement parks too that are now gone.
Growing up in a rural area, we spent a lot of time driving around, listening to music and eating gas station snacks.
All while hoping someone would be home to hang out at some point.
Indiana here, I wasn’t 4H but was close with many who were. Funny thing is most of their kids are still doing it today. And that’s good. I have always thought 4H is a good thing.
In 8th grade (1998) my friends and I would go to the movie theatre so much that I became friends with the manager who was definitely at least in high school and too old to be talking to an 8th grader lol. He used to let me into movies for free!
We hung out in parking lots in our Starter Jackets or Triple Fat Goose jackets turned inside out and drank 40 oz of St Ides or Crazy Horse or Colt 45 that we bought from some bodega and smoked some blunts while listening to music from someone who had hooked up an old Toyota Camry with some huge speakers and way to much bass listening to music like Cyprus Hill Snoop Dogg or Onyx. If we weren't doing that, we would go to the movies to see such classics as Candy Man, Army of Darkness or Reservoir Dogs or chill at someone's house and play some John Madden football, Street Fighter II, or Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis while eating some Little Ceaser's pizza with a clear pepsi. When we weren't doing that, we were going to bars in the shitty neighborhoods that didn't check our ID's and went there to try and pick some girls. We would all come from miles away to grind up against each other while listening to some bad reggae music while drinking some cheap draft beer, pitchers of kamakazi or alabama slammer, or shots of Jagermeister or Goldshlager.
Hung out outside. Hung out at the mall the next town over. There were commercials to remind our parents they had kids - “it’s 10pm; do you know where your children are?”
Eventually I did discover magazines like Maxim, FHM, and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit and well, stayed home.
By about 93 or so, you could have a PC with the baby internet. And I do mean baby—you could actually see it all and be done. There were chat rooms, message forums, email lists. AOL.
Other than that, hanging out, listening to music, clubs, sports, all the same stuff teens have always done.
It was fun enough but the ones I mentioned were freaking wild.
Foam parties, drugs all over the place, clubs designed as a maze, roller discos! They even had drinks and a dance floor.
Oh waiting for the top hits of the week with your fingers ready to hit record.
Many new years were spent listening to the top songs of the year ready to record all the best songs.
As a young woman, I remember having a lot of casual sex and fooling around. I don't think the kids today are doing like we did back in the day. The stats on teen pregnancies back this up. Perhaps phones are more interesting LOL
Kids are having plenty of sex as teenagers now...they are just wearing condoms or on birth control. Easy access to abortion has help a lot with teen pregnancy rates and availability of birth control in general.
It is good to hear access to birth control, condoms and abortions are now available where you are. I grew up in Toronto, Canada. Condoms were handed out regularly in high school. There was an enormous amount of sex education partially due to the prevention of HIV transmission. We also had Sue Johanson - Sex with Sue, an older woman who did a public access radio (and late TV) sex show, where she discussed all matters related to sex education. In general, there was a massive public health push for sex education that started early in high school.
HAHAHAHA, you think we do anything like that in Mormon Utah? Hell nah...they don't even talk about that stuff in school really still and it's 2023. They also essentially just banned abortion in our state.
Kids today (I work in guidance at high school level) are sophisticated & hate to burst your bubble but they’re having a lot of anal sex (!!) & use ovulation tracking apps and not abortion (eye roll that this was your first thought) so in my 12 yrs here I’ve only seen 2 known student pregnancies.Figured folks in heavily Mormon Utah would know about the anal sex angle
Misunderstood your first response when you said kids are wearing condoms and using birth control now. I assumed that was happening where you lived, since you are aware of it.
I remember talking to a friend a couple of years ago what we did on our computers before we had internet and the answer was that it mostly sat around unless we were playing games on it. I hardly ever really got it unless it was too late to go outside and then I would play games on it...or hack some crappy programs together. Other than that...it just kind of sat around.
Carmen Sandiego (and some other games), printing Dot Matrix posters, typing up documents, some simple BASIC programming... and that's about it.
If I knew more I would have gotten involved with BBSs, but I didn't know that was possible at that point.
I played a lot of Mind Maze, the game that came with Microsoft Encarta. Until we got the internet in 1994, then I played a lot of Hide From Creepy AOL Perverts and downloaded .txt phreaker manuals and warez that got me in trouble.
Smoke cigarettes at Denny’s. Played NES. Complained about that friend always on computer “chat boards,” whatever those were. He would later run an internet start and create the first third email service.
Watched MTV, Nickelodeon. Went on AOL. Hung out with friends, went to the movies and mall. Listened to CDs (still do), built scale model cars. Played Nintendo and Sega. It was a really good time.
Our parents treated us like adults at 15. You need money? Get a job you bum! You need a ride? Get your ass a good bike or find a friend with a car you loser!
Ya, I worked almost full time from when I was 16, if I wanted anything outside of the basics then I had to get money for it on my own somehow. I got lunch money for school, that's about all I got really and it was always a pain to even get money to go out with friends. When I was 16, I had to get a job or I had no money really...I worked about 30 hours a week along with going to school and trying to have a life.
I started delivering newspapers at 11 and had a lawn mowing company with 2 friends at 13. Once that started, all my mom would buy for me was school clothes and stuff for sports. If I wanted anything else, I had to cover it.
I was luckier than most. My mom gave me $20 a week to clean the house and back then $20 went a long way. It wasn’t free money though, I had to ACTUALLY clean the house: dust, vacuum, clean the bathroom including the tub and the toilet and mop the kitchen and the bathroom. It took a couple hours. The only room I didn’t have to actually clean was the kitchen because she regularly cleaned the kitchen after cooking.
That was a similar deal to what most of my friends had. My dad spent my entire childhood in prison, so my mom had to cover everything on a secretary's salary. There were times I had to loan her money for groceries because she was too embarrassed to keep going to her parents. It wasn't the worst thing in tge world to start working that young.
Go to the movies cheaply. Go to a concert cheaply where no phones ever were out. Spend hours at the arcade. Play Mario kart all night with friends. Steal beer and drink it in my car while listening to CDs on my alpine. Go to house parties. Smoke Marlboro reds. Go to the mall and try to get girls numbers. Play pick up baseball with the entire neighborhood or football or basketball.
The dollar theater was the best place in the world. My mom used to send us to the mall that had a dollar theater in it with 20 bucks and we'd kill an entire afternoon there. She would be like, "I need a break from you, here is 20 and just go please." LOL
We could get us a movie, a soda with popcorn, and then something for lunch including the bus ride to get there. Cost would be triple if I did that to my kid now...
We would meet up at a local pizza place at the beginning of the night and usually end up in the woods drinking. My teenage years in the 90s was very much like the movie Dazed and Confused.
I never did anything too crazy back then, but some of the stuff would have resulted in me being at least detained a few times...these days...it would be straight to jail.
Hung out at the mall, made mix cds and tapes and turned on friends to new music. We rode our bikes, hung out in the woods, went out to the mini mart and hung out outside...Jay N Silent Bob style.
Hung out with our friends. Drank, smoked weed, went to the beach, went to concerts, went to raves, barely worked because rent was like $500 and we lived with 5 other people...
Bikes were huge! Sports, skateboarding, biking, and basketball was a way to handle indifference.
Lots of fighting, shoving, and bullying in my days, and we all stood our ground and fought back.
Parties, hanging out, and then alcohol just wrecked everyone... I avoided the booze, nothing but undercover drama behind the bottle.
Tried really, really hard to see boobs
Before the internet we had to try and convince girls in real life to show em off. Now there's just boobs everywhere, all the time.
And when there weren't girls around, we used to sit around, playing Golden Eye on N64 and talk about seeing boobs.
As a teen in the 90's, boobs were pretty constantly on my mind
Beer, Cigarettes, corner booth at Denny's until the sun came up, drive around playing music as loud as possible, pool halls, hanging out at Barnes & Noble / record store / comic shop.
Oh, yeah. The corner booth at Denny's, packed with the rotating cast of oddball characters I hung out with 😆 There were 3 or 4 of us who were there every night and the others would come up when they could.
Our booth was at Bennigan’s. Not sure how far the chain reached, but they had a sandwich deep fried inside of a doughnut like batter dusted with powdered sugar and served with a side of jam. Monte Cristo it was called.
Ahh Denny’s. Unlimited drinks and you can smoke inside. You go with 4-6 people and treat it essentially as someone’s basement when no one’s basement was available that night. One or two people in the group would order fries so at least there was some food being ordered.
We hung out in the neighborhood, rode bikes, occasionally played co-op video games if someone had a console. Watch movies/tv, go to the movies or the mall. If you were alone, hanging out in your room reading, listening to music, talking on the phone.
Skate, smoke weed, go to shows, drink cheap malt liquor, and roll up into the local slider joint at 3 AM, drunk and high, to eat massive amounts of sliders and chili cheese fries 🤣
Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, MTG, all ages shows on the weekend (I saw Korn, and Sublime before anybody had ever heard of them, and they were both terrible), and lots of weed.
God I hate this question.....it's like younger generations don't realize we did the same shit.
Talk to friends, watch TV, listen to music, read, watch movies, play games....
We just had different ways of doing those things.
In my case I'd add booze and going to raves as an older teen. I felt like I had a secret life as a badass. Perhaps this was especially true being a girl, having to keep up a front of a good girl to my parents and family. Now as a 42-year-old, what you see is what you get, fully myself but wouldn't take back those crazy days, but would also never go back to being that way.
I went to a catholic high school, which already had its own drug cartel, but I hung out with some shitty people from another school that I knew on the weekends. I went to raves with those friends and felt so cool. One even got busted when I was there but luckily I wasn't on drugs that night so I didn't get handcuffed. That was a wild time for being 16.
Ahh the hypocrisy of Catholic schools! On that note, some of the shadiest characters went to private school.
I'm glad you didn't get handcuffed while on drugs, that would have been frightening. Wild times indeed.
I did get brought into questioning at a police station once for apparently giving one of my hood rat friends a ride when he had a bunch of stolen guns in his duffel bag. The cops watched me cry and have an anxiety attack in front of them and realized this girl isn't trying to lead a life of crime and let me go. The fear of God was put into me that day. I honestly didn't know about the guns but I did transport them. They decided not to charge me with anything.
I'm 41 now and still friends with that dude's ex girlfriend, who also turned her life around from being a future mob wife too. We still laugh about how dumb we were and the stupid people we hung with. Funnily enough i met her at my catholic middle school.
Stuff like that didn't happen at my catholic high school though! Just parties dropping ecstacy and acid and waving glow sticks in front of each other's faces from the comfort of our own fancy privileged homes.
Scooped the loop. Cruised around. Hung out in our friends rooms or basements. Listened to music. Snuck cigarettes and beer from parents and older siblings. Played video games.
Hung out in the woods, smoking cigarettes and playing music around a bonfire. We also worked after school and did after school activities like sports, theatre, and music. There was a particular pizza joint near where I lived where kids in the area would congregate and make nuisances of ourselves
I used to re-enact movie scenes and TV shows with my friends, brother and cousins when we were bored. I could remember whole songs/episodes/phone numbers/movies and now dumb me can’t remember where I put my car keys.
We got AOL when I was in 5th grade I think (so 1995) when I was 10. I used to troll people in chatrooms 😂 and like other people have said, we would just drive up and down the main road. Sometimes we would go to Eat N Park (it’s like Denny’s) and hang out there.
Hung out at malls. Hung out at Denny's. Hung out in the cool parts of town. Snuck into music concerts. Hung out at Burger King. Hung out at friends' houses.
What do teenagers do these days?
Not if you knew what you were doing. There used to be cheap theaters around where you could sit in a run-down place (old but usually clean enough and not as gross as I would imagine it today) for a $2 non-new release. We made plenty of use of that.
On a weekend I would call all of my friends one by one to see who was around. If nobody, I'd play Nintendo or something. If they were around, we would:
* Play a modified sport in our yards (driveway hockey, basketball, baseball with a foam bat)
* Play a NES-SNES game (often rented) or Apple IIE-esce computer game
* Play a board game
* Bowl for $2/game or golf for $5/nine holes at a par 3
* Make fantasy sports trades (we were early adopters: we began before stats could be tracked on the internet)
* Have regular sleepovers where we did the above
* Watch the Simpsons or a movie
* Do stupid things and find it funny
Those were the days.
Went to the mall, hung out at each others houses playing SNES or N64, or talked on the phone while watching the same TV show (usually Simpsons, would chat during the commercials).
Video games. Early 90s was Snes, later was N64.
Hung out. Coffees. But a lot of video games. Nothing like playing Goldeneye or Smash Brothers with a group of friends all in on the excitement
I went from 7 to 17 during the 90s so it really wasn’t all one seamless decade for me.
Early 90s was lots of street hockey and skateboarding. Soccer tournaments every weekend basically all year long. Of course TV and phone. jr high dances and such. I wasn’t able to get out and ride my bike everywhere as my area wasn’t really conducive to that, and I had 2 younger brothers I was suppose to be responsible for while parents were at work. We wore out VHSs of goldeneye and original Star Wars trilogy.
I graduated in 2000 so the late 90s were very different than the early 90s for me. Dates. Parties. Seeing who we could scam into buying us beer. Still had soccer tournaments every weekend. Fewer video games as AIM became popular. I actually studying my ass off for the SAT and killed it the first time around.
Smoke cigs outside the taco bell. Ride bikes and skateboards. Sat in many parking lots. Played Nintendo with friends too. We were basically independent latchkey kids. Home by dark.
Your post just made my heart sad! 💔
I couldn’t even imagine… Rode my bike until the streetlights came on as a kid. Latchkey at 10. Job at 14, walking to work, and worked until 11/11:30 at 15 on weekends (would get a ride home for safety). First serious BF at 16 and the heartache that followed.
Someone older always had a car to catch a ride to not bother the rents, often with no set concrete plans. We’d have make out parties. Go to clubs and dance with strangers. We had house parties on private property (friends had older siblings who bought us alcohol) drove the small town local cops bananas cause they’d wait at the end of the road to try to detain for under age drinking 🍻
All of the above is very similar to most of our general experiences. By the time college came around I was ready. No, a can’t imagine what your niece is facing her first few years. How was she never alone? Do they live in an exponentially violent area?
Is this really how bad things have gotten? It’s so hard to imagine never getting to experience teenage life moments that help shape you into adulthood.
I taught first-year college for many years. Some of the students were a lot less independent than our generation. It felt like I was teaching high school students. This is a sentiment shared among many professors. In many ways I look back and am shocked by what I did at such a young age because the culture has shifted so much more into a safety /helicopter mindset. I say this as someone who doesn't have children. If I had kids I'd probably struggle with not overstepping and sheltering them. There are some things like working a parttime job, or being independent in other ways that could be formative experiences that people miss out on - the other stuff I did as a young person, I'm not so sure about. It might just take young people longer to form their own identities outside of the family unit. But in our day, it was a bit easier due to the cost of living to move out on your own and be more independent. I also don't know how easy it is to get a customer service job vs our day.
Skating, jumping of thing into pools, smoking ridiculous amounts of weed. Dying of alcohol poisoning in a field when you told your parents you were at someone else’s house. Graffiti. You know, the usual.
Video games, MTG, hacksack, roller blades, bicycles, mall, late night TV, also I did an insane amount of camping with my friends. We never really went far it was just in the woods near one of our houses and mostly just so we could be up all night loud as fuck doing whatever we want without adults. Basically what you see kids doing in fancy tree houses in the movies only none of us had a big fancy treehouse.
as a young teenager I played warhammer with my friend down the street. We'd hang at each other's house. Once we got wheels, we'd ride around town and waste time, maybe hit taco bell. Just go BS around at places.
Fished by the river, played THPS, sports, space cruises, parties, cruise the main drag in town at night, generally just hang out. Cruising was big, especially the summer gas went down to $.87/gal.
**LONG POST WARNING*** I had an interesting dual experience. I'm from Michigan, but went to highschool in NYC 96-00. I spent my breaks back in Michigan so got to see both experiences.
In NYC I hung out in Washington Square Park a lot. Weed was pretty easy to get if you knew who to talk to. Watch out for five-0 LOL. At the time getting into Bars was pretty easy as long as you had a good fake I.D. and didn't look 12. I was already 6' freshman year.
In 9th grade I saw a senior wasted sitting outside a bar with a pitcher of Margarita. I asked him at school about it and he told me to get an I.D. at this tattoo/sex shop on 6th Ave between 4th and Bleecker St. It's still there, though no idea if they still sell I.D.s. The senior told me they were "perfect" Maryland I.D.s and were $200. That was a lot of money back then, worked my after school job a few weeks and saved the money. A group of us decided to get them at the same time, we'd even gone on "the web" and looked up real addresses.
We went to the tattoo shop and asked for a specific person. They took us in the back, and I swear the machine they were making this I.D. on looked like it got stolen off the back of a truck somewhere. It was very serious and official looking. It even printed with the state seal hologram. I.D.s were amazing.
That moment on, I was pretty much a functional alcoholic the rest of Highschool. We got into Bars, all the time. I even went to some often enough that the doormen would just wave me in rather than checking I.D. Went to see local/friends bands a lot. HS parties were kinda rare, maybe harder to pull off in apartment buildings. If we didnt go to the bar, hanging out at a 24 hr Diner and smoking cigarettes was a common ritual. I had a cool Highschool job, worked at an indie record store. (So 90's). That was my drinking money
Back in Michigan, my friends sparetime was comparatively more wholesome. I'd take a Greyhound by myself and stay with friend's families I grew up with. One thing funny thing that happened (that would NEVER fly today), my first week of christmas and spring break overlapped my friends still having a week of school. I would just...got to school with them. Teachers would ask who I was but never seemed bothered. The Principal would even say, "Oh Mr. --------, Back in town? Stay out of trouble".
Weed was a thing with my Michigan friends, but much harder to get. We were in Suburban Detroit and would go on "Hood runs". It was pretty scary. There was a house we'd drive up to in the deep ghetto. All suburban white kids lined up like it was a tacobell. Guys with guns would shine flashlights in the car, "They good". They'd ask what you need, hand the money first and don't ask questions. We'd always stop at the Chene Trombly Market on the way back to the burbs and try to get cheap beer. My fake ID from NY helped.
But mostly we'd drive around, get fast food, do the Blockbuster ritual and watch movies at whoevers' friends house was cool...preferably with parents not home but some people had "cool parents". My Michigan friends cared a little bit more about Video games but we never spent much time on them. The occasional highschool party was much more like something you'd see in a highschool movie. Similar to my NYC friends, smoking cigarettes at the all night diner/Cafe was common. My Michigan friends went to concerts occasionally, though I couldn't stand their taste in music. My time at a NYC record store made me a little music snob.
The biggest difference was my Michigan friends all drove everywhere, and only 2 kids (that I knew of) in my entire NYC Highschool had a license. We walked everywhere unless it was freezing, then we'd take the subway.
I moved back to Michigan after highschool. I had fun, but my heart was never in NY. I was glad to be back with my childhood friends and family. Most of my NY HS friends left NY themselves.
I’d usually be at my best friend’s house. Sometimes we’d be dropped off at the mall. Hang out there for hours. At his house we’d play video games and eat frozen pizzas. It was the life.
We would hang out in our town (cops were complete dicks about it) they would ticket us and we would move on to the next place. Our parents got so angry there was nothing for us to do but an arcade or movie theater, they grouped up and went after the cops. Once we had our cars, we truly had our freedom. That's the reason I find it so strange I'm literally fighting with 3 of my teenage girls about getting their licenses, I'm even willing to buy each a damn car! They keep saying no. It's all so strange to me.
Stole...er, borrowed, some of my mom's legit amazing weed. Smoked at my buddy's band practice on that old musty couch in the very poorly soundproofed basement. Then probably ordered pizza subs before walked around town all night looking for people and shit to do...good goddamn times.
Yep, but in my town the strip was in front of the mall and we’d hang out at the Texaco parking lot or the Taco Bell parking lot… my friends and I would swap cars and make a few laps and swap again. Cruising “the strip” every Friday and Saturday night.
In some ways, yes, it was a better time. I was almost never home in the early-mid 90s. I was always out with friends partying, going to clubs/raves, hanging out - doing all that normal teen stuff. I still worked once I graduated from HS but I really was never home. The best part was unless you had a pager no one could get in touch with you. It was great. No social media and people walking around with cameras and video recording every move you made. You could go to a theme park without a bunch of douchey wanna be "influencers" trying to make stupid content for cash.
I grew up in rural America. We just wandered around the woods, see what creatures we’d find in the creek, on the weekend in summer mom would take us to rent movies for the week (there was a place that did 7 movies for 7 days for $7), jump on trampoline, whatever we could think of. We were better at managing “nothing to do” than more recent generations.
First time I ever got my own printer I printed out the first picture I could find. It was like gold and I wanted to preserve it unsure that moment would ever come by again.
Hung out at friends houses
Hung out in coffee shops until we had to leave or order again
Tv, movies & video games
Biking & walking places
Beach whenever possible (I lived in a beach town)
Jumping off docks
Reading books & magazines
1. Looked at one another and had conversations
2. Had long conversations on the phone, and your parents probably listened in.
3. Buried our noses in books
4. Overdosed on MTV
5. Sports and games
Smoked cigarettes and drank coffee at Denny’s. Sometimes we changed it up and went to the pizza shop, where we would smoke cigarettes and eat pizza and drink lemon water.
Hung out, talk about TV, played games (warhammer/Necromunda) watched films/videos, talked, ate. Played on the NES/Snes. When Goldeneye on the N64 came out that was a literal game changer.
SNES and then N64. Magic the Gathering. Practice with friends for band. Shoot the loop with friends listening to new CDs. Hang out. Bowl. Go to Meijer or Dennys (only 24 hour places in my town). Rent or go to the movies… lots and lots and lots of movies (I think we saw Sphere in theaters 5 times and that’s not because it was awesome… we just didn’t have other stuff going on). Parties. Rollerblade/in-line hockey. Sneak wine coolers from friends mom’s garage fridge. Pickup basketball. ICQ and yahoo chat rooms. Read (lots of magazines, but a few books too). Walk around the mall. Walk around the cemetery. Hang out at a local monument.
Lots of hanging and just bullshitting really.
Broke my wrist for the first time in 3rd grade jumping over a ditch. I didn’t run first and just slammed into the side. My “friends” ditched me. Aside from the broken wrist, it was a fun game lol.
Hours and hours of video games for me. Either on my NES, SNES, Gameboy (usually during the summer road trips), or eventually the N64. Occasionally in the computer too (original *Neverwinter Nights* on AOL was the bomb, yo! I barely had a grasp of RPGs at that point though, but anyway)
After school, we would play D&D and Magic: The Gathering and smoke crappy brick weed. At night, we would sneak out of the house and smoke crappy brick weed at the quarry behind the park.
We had places that we’d meet up, knowing our friends would be there. No pre planning. For us it was Howard Johnson’s. And then spend two hours drinking coffee with free refills and smoking cigarettes. The whole bill was like under $20 for a table of 10.
We sprawled out in my friend's basement in the dark and talked about the meaning of the universe. We also taught ourselves to play pinochle and learned dirty things in sign language (or signs that look dirty but are innocent, like "ice cream")
The same stuff kids do nowadays except without social media. I can only speak for me and my crowd, but we’d ride bikes, play video games, watch movies/tv, read books, go camping, get drunk, play music, do drugs, and have sex.
Real weird stuff. I once locked myself in the trunk of a car with two other people and waited for someone to let us out. I'd recommend the movie Kids, but it's traumatizing.
Go to raves was my thing as a teenager. I would leave on a Friday night and come back home by Sunday dinner. As long as I kept my grades in good standing I was free to do whatever. La Raves in the 90's were a once in a life time experience. I was very lucky to have the experiences I did and still be around to tell about it now that I think back.
Driving to the middle of nowhere with older friends to find some speakers setup in the middle of the desert. No porto potties or anything just group of people in the middle of the desert listening to very loud music maybe a few strobe lights.
Or drive to a check point in la then get sent somewhere completely different for the actual rave. Show up to some weird filming studio lot with little bunkers all over the place and you are guided into one way in the back go inside and its two areas happy hardcore on one side trance on the other. Dance all night with people but not in a weird lets bump uglies way. At the end of the night everyone gets in a big circle and hugs it out in the middle of the dance floor.
I did that from 14 till I was about 19 or so. I would go out every Friday - Sunday and maybe once during the week if I could get away with it. During the school week I focused on my grades so I could go out on weekends. Chat on the phone or AOL chat room and troll people in the early days of trolling. Good times.
I grew up in a small town. I had my group of responsible friends and my group of degenerate friends who I loved equally. With my responsible friends, we’d go to the movies, or hang out at each other’s houses play guitar and talk about music.
With my degenerate friends we’d drive 1.5 hrs to Mexico to get drunk at bars (always had a DD though). This was back before they cracked down on underage drinking via busting teens who were publicly drunk after returning. Back then the border patrol agents would just laugh and ask if you had a good time.
All of this without even a cell phone.
Media Play for all your pop culture needs. Arcades were still a thing, and multiplayer was putting up quarters at the Mortal Kombat cabinet at the mall. Nintendo vs Sega was the big console war, although some of us early PC types were reveling in the Golden Age of Shareware. Gamestop weaseled its way into a used game secondhand market that would eventually doom everyone to draconian DRM and online-only models. You still had a friend that would have to adjust the TV antenna to pick up UHF channels for the off-beat cartoons.
Grab a Clearly Canadian at the gas station and head to the mall for a few hours, or tie up the landline for hours until my mom would get exasperated and make me hang up so she could make a call, or listen to my favorite radio station obsessively and be ready to hit record on my cassette deck so I could make a mixtape. Or grab candy, popcorn, Arizona Iced Tea and a couple of VHS tapes from Blockbuster. Maybe play a board game or two with my mom. Or watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer, put on my pleather jacket, grab a tent stake and “patrol” the neighborhood.
Those were the days.
Play in bands, skate, try to score drugs, booze, cigarettes, and girls. Worked on cars to make them loader, faster, and cooler looking. We also spent a lot of time driving between nearby cities and exploring. Try to find friends with pools, boats, cabins, etc.
I roamed. I smoked. I engaged in shenanigans and tomfoolery. I dodged parents and cops. I worked. I talked to as many girls as I could. I played sports. I skated all over my city. I built forts. I started fires. I hid injuries from my parents. I had the best time.
Go with my best friend to every 7-11 in town and check out the slurpee flavors, buying crap all the way. Decide which had the best combo and go back to buy a tri-color nightmare of frozen sugar water.
I hung out with friends, listened to heavy metal, watched TV, played hacky sack (poorly), skipped school, smoked cigarettes, etc. After I had a car, I'd drive me and my friends all over Hell's half acre.
Anyone else here draw? I drew SO freaking much as a kid (I still do, but it was a TIME SINK when you were a kid). I would just watch TV (maybe a tape) and draw, then when someone else wanted the TV, I'd listen to my walkman and draw, if we went to a restaurant I woudl draw. I would draw between classes, I would draw in study hall and lunch... I wasn't any GOOD, sadly, but I spent a lot of time doing it.
We found a way to get on the roof of 7/11 and drank slurpees behind the sign and just watched the madness. Other nights we’d go on hikes and talk about dumb shit. Got tree’d by some boar once. Good times…
Drink a fruitopia, fire up a xp computer game, burn some cds. Pirate off Napster. Taping fav shows, call friends have to go thru their parents on the phone first.
I live and grew up in the city, but the kids of my country were (still are) pretty sheltered. All we did was chill and roam around the malls after school, or sometimes (rarely for me personally) in the evening met up in the neighbourhood and sat and talked. I had a curfew and a bedtime until I was 17, so until then my world was literally my neighbourhood.
In junior college, met teens from all over the country. We would hang out at Starbucks or McDs (cos that's all we could afford). Walk around the central shopping district. Check out grungy/skatey clothes then buy the total opposite of those lol. Roam around down town after 10pm just to take in the city at night until the wee hours (2-3am) then take the night bus home. Eat and lounge at quirky cafes. Party at pubs and clubs, then crash at someone's to ride out the drunkenness so we can trudge home in the daylight the next day (not my favourite thing as a west side girl whose friends all lived in the east).
My friends and I used to spend hours cutting apart bottle rockets and filling film canisters, tennis balls, jars, etc with the powder inside and making “bombs.” So much fun.
We used to just drive around and listen to music. I played plenty of video games or just went to friend’s houses. The mall wasn’t a lame place to be at the time so we would walk around and check out girls or go to the arcade. I remember going to the video rental stores and laughing and movies we would find there and just hang out. Blockbuster, Family Video, 2nd Cinema, all kinds of them existed back then.
Hang out at parks listening to music, smoking cigarettes, and getting into shit with my friends. Playing Half Life, N64, and Quake. AOL chat rooms and AIM with friends. Skateboarding. Criminal mischief. Build forts in the woods.
Drinking coffee in a booth at Denny's all night, hanging out in a park, hanging out at the mall, going to shows, going to the movies, driving around and listening to music, going over to friends' and watching movies/listening to music, vidya games, arts/crafts if that was your thing, tabletop roleplaying if that was your thing
You just did. Stuff. We’d drive around aimlessly, Go see a movie, go to a bonfire, do mushrooms and wander around in the woods. Buy fireworks and set them off, go see your friends band play at a house party.. so many things. Salad days
So many movies (in the theater and from Blockbuster). Constantly outside walking in packs with friends. Always on the beach in the summer. Lots of phone calls on my sweet private line. Constant sleepovers. Endless trips to the mall.
Had sleepovers with my best friend, watched movies walked around town. Played Super Nintendo in her bedroom, called boys from school. We lived 2 doors down from each other so we were at each others houses pretty much 24/7 unless she was grounded which happened a lot because she had extremely strict parents.
Drive around. Play video games. Smoke pot. Go to the beach. Skateboard. Go to the movies. Sneak into an illegal rave. Get drunk in my friend's grandma's basement. Ride our Honda scooters around town to garage sales going to find some weird shit. Talk about David Bowie. Brew some mead. Go to a Brewers game. Trash an abondoned house. Get drunk. And that was only Monday-Tuesday.
Play video games, go to the mall, listen to music, play music, smoke things, sit on someone’s porch, talk shit, call people, go outside, read. People still do all that, but we used to, too.
Skateboarded, played video games, played guitar, took the bus and later drove to the college town ten miles away to hang out, listened to music, watched TV and movies. Pretty much the same shit I do now, the difference being I don’t spend much time with friends anymore.
Ride bikes, go swimming, play ping pong, shoot nerf guns, play NES/SNES/Sega, play wiffle ball, play basketball, play tennis ball baseball, have sleepovers, walk to the store to get snacks, tp people's houses, watch movies, read comics, made mix tapes, went to the movies, went to the mall, talk to girls on the phone
Early 90s = ride bikes and goof off with friends until dark.
Mid-late 90s = wait for boobs to load 1 row of pixels at a time on the family computer with a 28.8k modem lol.
Hung out at our friends’ houses. Roamed around the mall. Went to the movies. Drove around if someone in your group had a car. Hung out in the high school parking lot after hours.
Rode our bikes around like a bunch of degenerates. Went to Perkins in the middle of the night. Drove around smoking. Listened to whatever we had taped off the radio. Stole a bunch of golf balls from a course’s driving range in the middle of the night only to hit them into the lake behind one of our friends houses the next day.
Walmart was great for wandering around. Maybe actually buy something when you’re there but mostly just walk around and check out the electronics section. Pre-modern Internet that’s how you found out about new products.
Talk on the phone, go to the mall, read, listen to music, practice dancing w my friends, ditch school, go to all ages clubs on the weekends, hang out w my boyfriend, get stoned, throw parties, run the streets
Sat and listened to music on cassette tape or CD while reading the lyrics that came in the album cover. We drank Snapple, watched Thursdays tv show line up on NBC and TGIF. We hung out! And any time we were on the phone it was to talk to each other or to make prank calls. We made our own music videos and skits just for fun-not for popularity. We made out to the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack and watched MTV
We went to Jerry’s Deli, or Bob’s Big Boy or my favorite the local restaurant Dalts to drink malt shakes after choir practice and share club sandwiches. Dalts (in Burbank California) was in the same building as KROQ so we’d see someone like Eddie Vedder once in a blue moon in the elevator. Late late night we would teepee each other’s houses or go to house parties.
On weekends we’d swim in friends pools or jump endlessly on their trampolines then bike back home.
Slept in until noon (at least) on free days. Spent afternoons wandering around the neighborhood or the mall, hanging out in the woods, calling into radio shows to request or dedicate songs or to win stuff. Read Rolling Stone magazine (when it was giant-sized paper) and made collages with rockstars. Watched music videos. Watched late-night MTV cartoons.
Sometimes hit up midnight skate at the nearby roller rink. During the summer, friends and I would go to the beach…or climb into the clay pits next to the beach and then jump into the water afterwards to “clean up.” Then we’d walk home all soggy wet. Sometimes had beach bonfires.
Cruze main. Chased each other through the entire town in an epic team tag like game (I forgot the name) Bon fires. Golden eye. Kidnap your friend (we would tell their parents first). Go out in the woods in the dark. Hang out at the one coffee shop in the county.
I grew up in a small town. We had to get creative.
Always out with friends. Before driving it was bikes. Then came cars, weed, alcohol, psychedelics etc. Parties. Hanging out at an abandoned train station. Going to the beach (great lakes). Really wonderful times. I am so glad we did not have smart phones ruining everything. Running the neighborhood streets at night, on LSD. Much wow...
Bought Sobe at the party store and then went up to the park to hang out, smoke weed, and play hacky sack or throw the Frisbee. Or drive around smoking cigs.
Obsess over the boys I liked, write in my journal, watch TV, play Super Nintendo, read magazines, re-arrange my room. Also in the later 90s I was probably smoking weed while doing those activities lol
Hung out at the mall, went to death metal shows, hung out at the beach and in NYC while getting drunk and smoking weed. The summer of ‘91 my friends and I made a point to make the police blotter every week all summer. We succeeded.
Well, there wasn’t a lot to do in my small town, but we went to the roller skating rink, to the movies, and sometimes we rented Blockbuster movies and chilled at each other’s houses (if our parents knew one another). Sometimes we went to the mall.
Drive around aimlessly, meet in parking lots and hang out in big groups looking for a party, go up in the hills and listen to music and drink beer maybe build a bonfire, skate to shopping centers to grind red curbs. At the time it felt boring but it was the best time ever.
I grew up in a small central California town. We spent most weekends having parties out in the orchards or a friends farm. Cops were super chill, as long as we didn’t do any damage they let us have our fun.
My friends and I were pretty sheltered with strict parents so nothing terribly scandalous. We walked around the mall, went to the movies, listened to music, painted our nails, looked at teen magazines, talked about boys. In the summer we would swim a lot, go to the local amusement park or water park, go to concerts.
My city had a huge underground music scene, so i went to tons of concerts, then raves, then clubs, cocktail bars, house parties. I worked part-time and used all the momey i earned on clothes and good times. Had my older brother’s license from the time i was 16. I had an amazing run during my teenage years.
Weekends: went to local shows for our friends bands, drank/smoked weed, parties, skateboard through/around the local college campus, hung out at a few 24 hr diners, had a favorite coffee shop, drove around, snuck into bars and clubs. I think that about sims it up. At least for my group of friends.
Smoked weed, drank 40s, and snuck into the local AMC movie theater! That was Friday. Saturday was a complete new adventure. 😂
Once one of the friends got their Ls, it was game over. We were cruising everywhere!
Played computer games, read books, went to the pool, rode bikes all over the place, watched infomercials like they were the most interesting things ever seen on TV and we totally hadn't seen them all 20 times each. When I was old enough to drive, went to Walmart and the local store.
Grew up in a very rural area. We were in a lot of extracurriculars just for something to do.
Outside of that, listening to the radio while just hanging out, riding around back roads, randomly showing up at friends houses just too see if they’re home and wanted to ride around too, then everyone showed up to drive around and hang out in the parking lot of a local towns strip mall at 9pm Saturday nights, and the occasional field party where we got black out drunk.
Of course our parents never had any clue where we were or what we were doing as long as we gave them a general idea of when we would be home and then actually show up sometime around then.
I don’t know, but I know I was never at home.
My mom always tells me about all the family movie nights and things they did and she can’t remember where I was…
OUT lol
And this is why I am now a HOMEBODY!
I did too much in my teens and twenties! TOO MUCH!
BUT it was fun!
Drove around with our friends. Hung out in parking lots with our friends. Drinking around a fire in a field with our friends. Basically just hanging out with our friends, drinking, smoking weed, going to shows and just doing dumb shit.
We hung out at a coffee shop, went to the skate park, went to the mall, and hung out at people's houses. When I was a lot younger, we rode our bikes or skateboards. We hung out at the irrigation ditch and caught crawfish. We played a lot of street hockey.
Jesus this feels like what we asked parents about what they did in the 70s…I mean we had “Dazed and Confused” to help us in the general sense for that, not applicable for everyone of course.
As for me and my friends in Indiana? Played sports, went to HS basketball games bc that still was the thing to do back then, drove around in our cars and met up at the local “hangout” (usually a fast food restaurant like McDonalds or Taco Bell), went to parties held by college kids….we had a satellite campus of Indiana University in my hometown so lots of people stayed home and went to school there, so we’d go to their parties in apartments or houses.
Played video games with friends, Super Nintendo if their parents had money…rode bikes into and all over town, stayed out until dark. Specific to Indiana, lots of us went to a teen dance club on a lake in northern Indiana. It was surprisingly not trashy and to this day played the loudest techno/hip hop I’ve ever heard….and I’ve been to clubs in Vegas, NYC, EDM festivals, etc. RIP my ears, already have tinnitus. But we met girls there, got their numbers and if we were lucky we’d get invited back to an “after party” at their rich parents’ houses….sadly it closed about around the time kids started staying home more on their devices (2015)…I was pumped for my boys to go there bc it had been around since the late 70s. Even during the EDM surge of 2009-2013 it was packed. But it fell off a cliff after that. I knew the DJ bc he’s my age and he said the kids just stopped coming, pretty much out of nowhere.
But yeah that was my 90s experience
I didn't smoke weed cause DR Drew said it could fuck up my brain... So I just played D&D and drank Jolt cola if I wasn't playing super Nintendo and listening to Primus or NiN. If I was told to go outside I could be found out all over the city on my blades.
I used to like listening to Loveline on my local radio station back then, until I heard Dr.Drew tell a girl that she was too young to know if she was a lesbian and must have been sexually abused as a child to even think about it.
I was a nerd but this is what we did. We smoked weed, rode skateboard through the neighborhood meeting up with fellow nerds, to play magic the gathering or dungeons and dragons. We would play video games and order pizza. We would drive to the mall to meet up with more fellow nerds and then we would go to our rich friends house and drink our faces off then have the dd take us to Hardee’s for some Early morning munchies, then sleep the fuck in and try to do it all again.
Drove around doing dumb shit, made stupid amateur movies, hung out at each other's houses playing video games, listened to music, made prank calls, tried (mostly unsuccessfully) to get with girls, chatted on AIM, sat around lamenting how boring the suburbs were and how we'd move away from this place as soon as we were able (we didn't, lol).
Go to the movies, find somewhere to drink, go to the all night diner with free coffee refills, go to my friend’s house who had a pool table in their basement and good snacks, smoke weed, listen to music, generally just find somewhere to hang out with friends.
Smoked weed, drank, got into fights... Drove around listening to music in our boom cars, street racing.... Being a general delinquent in our suburb and surrounding areas.
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