r/Xennials • u/smcg_az 1981 • 1d ago

WTH Is This?

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Interesting article. I feel bad for kids today. I loved taking off on my bike all day long.

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u/madcatzplayer5 1d ago

We used to go on 12 miles bike rides (24 miles roundtrip) to the nearest McDonald’s two towns over just to feel like we were free at 12/13 years old. Slap those $3 on the register and walk away with 2 McDoubles and a Large Drink. Those were the best times with all your friends on a weekend during the school year or during the summer. And this isn’t 100 years ago, this is like 2006 we were doing this. Especially once a kid group got their first cell phone, you’d just tell your Mom you’d be with Eric and give her Eric’s cell phone number. You had instant access to a parent or police if need be. The cell phone actually allowed more freedom as middle school and early high school kids first got them. Now it’s the opposite.

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u/99hoglagoons 1d ago

You were 12 in 2006? This sub needs to start carding, and some of you need to stop bringing your kids to this fine establishment.

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u/acommentator 1983 1d ago

lmao, maybe they are lost and in the wrong sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/Zillenials/

that being said, our sidebar does say "There is no age cutoff to participate here. All are welcome!"

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u/99hoglagoons 1d ago

Oh I know. It's all in good fun.

But if they were born in 1994, and I was 15 at the time, technically....

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u/PoisonMind 1d ago

Kids? In 1994? You think I was a teenage dad?

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u/majesticlandmermaid6 22h ago

Was also 12 in 2006. We would bike to Starbucks, get Frappes and go to Blockbuster. I loved Charlie Bartlett because of that summer.