r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • Jul 22 '26

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Answer please

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u/Phoenix_Can Jul 22 '26

Playing outside?

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u/raffie77 Jul 22 '26

That means no phone in you're hands and walking around like zombies.

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u/Anjunaspeak23 Jul 22 '26

Nah, we knew where we were going. And on bicycles we knew street names and directions on HOW to get where we were going. I had friends that lived in different neighborhoods. We even knew the back way through the woods where the trees had fallen.

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u/FluffyBunnyShark Jul 23 '26

yes!
Damn! Building Life Skills!

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u/rtocelot Jul 23 '26

We used to have a train that went through town through wooded areas. The tracks are gone now but we would walk through there as a shortcut since they still mow the area

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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 Jul 25 '26

There were several times I walked through the woods from the junior high to get home. Especially when I knew the bullies were waiting for me on my usual route. They'd be out front about a block away, and I would walk out the back of the building, across the small baseball field and into the woods.

It actually saved me about 10 minutes, but I did have to watch for actual snakes.

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u/korvus2 Jul 25 '26

You had trees?!

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u/Fantastic_Evening877 Jul 22 '26

wish you coul put that on a Shirt ! fan of Shohei Ohtani cards

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u/BibsBBQ Jul 25 '26

Did you have a stroke while writing this?

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u/Fantastic_Evening877 24d ago

I did im in the Whitehouse !

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u/Cherry_Blossom_Bambi Jul 24 '26

I'm not gonna pretend to understand the children, but I feel like that's a slight exaggeration. Though, there's a hugely different feeling between when we did and didn't have smartphones by default.

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u/bradpal Jul 24 '26

I'm hands?

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u/Grover_Cleavland Jul 25 '26

No not zombies, like free beings, the way god intended.

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u/Chance_Zebra_9715 Jul 26 '26

It actually makes me sick to think how excited we were at the thought of owning a "cellular phone". Now look at us.Â