People Share Things They Did As Kids That Would Seem Insane To Kids Today (20 Tweets)

We’ve reached a point where people who grew up in the 70s and 80s are sharing their tales about how different life was — and as someone who came around quite a bit later, I have to admit: I’m also pretty blown away by some of these stories.

In a Twitter thread shared by Dan Wuori, we get a whole lot of answers to a pretty simple question: “What’s something you experienced as a kid that would blow your children’s minds?”

Let’s check out some of the best answers below.

1. One bus stop

2. Throwing things

3. Seems hot!

4. A pay phone

5. So few options!

6. PANTS PLEASE

7. What a doof

8. Ashtrays for mom

9. NO INTERNET?

10. Candy cigarettes

11. Forgotten

I feel like our parents forgot us places. Like, a lot.

— Crash Test Meg, Head Advice Crone (@MegNumbers) April 25, 2022

12. Jarts

https://twitter.com/jamesadewberry/status/1518374400529244161?s=20&t=srQO6d5bhT4maNrCZ0c-YA

13. These death traps

https://twitter.com/DarciaAnne/status/1518413472635265031?s=20&t=nxpaX6FTQkqeRiwQFKHfMQ

14. Party lines

Until the summer of 1987, our house was on a "party line," sharing a phone line with two other houses in the rural subdivision where I lived. Whenever the phone rang, you listened for your assigned ring to determine if the caller was calling for you or one of your neighbours.

— Scott Seymour (@Seymour_from_GP) April 24, 2022

15. Knocking out a kid

https://twitter.com/realtimaier/status/1518257067655634947?s=20&t=01HJ7EydCUlbSNf8d5p7lA

16. Playing with mercury

I remember in eighth grade a guy bringing in a little medicine vial with some silver colored mercury in it that he had gotten by breaking open a thermometer. He poured it into his hand and then we turns rolling it around in our palms as laughing at the way it looked.

— Kevin Gibson (@KevinGi62453362) April 25, 2022

17. McDonalds?

McDonald's that had huge playgrounds.

Me and my brother had our kindergarten age birthday party there in the early 80's and were even allowed behind the counter to learn how to make ice cream cones for the rest of the kids. pic.twitter.com/L81N64cPX2

— TrinityStar22 (@HelloKameHaHaHa) April 25, 2022

18. Just off on your own

https://twitter.com/HughThunkIt/status/1518323786180825088?s=20&t=ss1DyFS8BS3nMbBNEN2CwQ

19. Smoking inside

We could smoke in hospitals when I was a kid, if pt was on O2, they just disconnected it and walked down the hall to the “smoking” lounge!! I think the only place one couldn’t smoke was inside a church. Grocery stores too, pretty much everywhere.

— Pauline Criel (@pecriel) April 25, 2022

20. Death car seats

https://twitter.com/long17_de/status/1518338460083445760?s=20&t=h25-PcbVuS7ULhJkis7ovw