Alex Buscemi
Growing up as a Gen X kid was like living in a wild, unsupervised jungle compared to today.
They rode bikes without helmets, drank from the garden hose, and their idea of “screen time” was fighting over the TV remote for Saturday morning cartoons.
They didn’t have cell phones—if you wanted to talk to your friends, you either used a landline or, gasp, showed up at their house unannounced.
And social media? That was a notebook passed around class.
Today’s kids have it easy with GPS-tracked playdates and instant everything, but they had the ultimate adventure: surviving the ’80s and ’90s.
In a thread on Reddit, Gen Xers are dishing on the things they did as kids that were considered normal that would never happen today.
Scroll on for a look into a bygone era.
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