Say something about your childhood that seems old fashioned/ridiculous by today's standards

I turned 18 in 2001, and when I graduated you could buy a 22 ounce bottle of Mountain Dew from a vending machine in the school and chug the whole thing in 1st period. Kids health was NOT a priority in 2001. As others have mentioned, in the summer I would leave early and ride my bike pretty much anywhere I wanted all day until dinner time. I remember my 11th summer being gone all day, sometimes riding to McDonalds to buy myself lunch with my friend, who was also 11, or riding our bikes to the movies.

All without a cell phone for my mom to get ahold of me. No adults questioned it, kids just had more freedom back then. I think nowadays if a couple 11 year olds went to a restaurant by themselves the cops would be called.

When I was 3 or 4 my mom had a station wagon where the back row faced backwords. Road trips were soooo much fun, but it's scary now considering if we got rear ended there was a likely chance I would have died.

we used to call all elderly people aunts and uncles.

When I was in elementary school, kids could go home for lunch if they lived within walking distance, so first though third grades I walked home for lunch. By 4th grade we had moved and were bus riders so we ate at school.

You have to be home before the street lights come on.

I'm old enough to have watched the Grinch Halloween special on TV

Not that it's ridiculous, but I see this far less now.

When I was a kid, all the kids I knew (including me) had these almost psychic body clocks that were finely tuned into our routine. We would automatically wake up early because we knew certain cartoons were on at certain times, so we'd have enough time to watch, then get ourselves ready for school and go. After school, we knew we could run off and be out of doors for however long, and we just knew when to come home for food.

I don't see that in most kids now. They seem reluctant to get up in the morning for any reason. They don't seem in tune with a routine and they don't often leave their parents for long amounts of time - probably because they can be on their various technological devices and still be in view of their parents. No matter how long these routines continue for, they don't seem to adjust. But maybe that's just the kids I'm acquainted with.

Having either a Rand McNally atlas in America or an AA Atlas in England for road trips.

Knocking on a friend door to ask if he wanted to play with me.

Burning music CD’s was a great hobby too.

I thought I was pretty bad ass when I first smoked the ganja at age 16 but nowadays, at that age, if you’re not tattooed and full of amphetamines your not cool.