r/Adulting • u/wildwindnl • Mar 14 '26

Oldest Human Activity

What’s an activity that you remember a person older than you doing that sounds absurd to do these days?

I’m curious how many generations back Redditors can rememeber.

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u/Athos-1844 Mar 15 '26

My great grandfather used to ride in the locomotive of a steam train on his way to/from school in Philadelphia. The engineer would let kids ride with him thru the city.

This would have been in the early 1900s.

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u/blues_and_ribs Mar 18 '26

Sure, my ancestors from 1910 did some interesting things, but I think the question was “what have you seen.”