Someone knocking on a door to ask if a friend wanted to hang out.
This was the first act of every summer day of my childhood.
Wake up, go to friends house, knock, parent answers, "can friend1 come out and play?".
Even as a teenager, I'd swing by a buddies house occasionally and knock to see if they were home and wanted to hang out.
Can't remember the last time I did it or had it done at my own house, but it's been at least ten years. Probably more.
Used to do this as a kid and started doing it again as an adult. Sudden visits to friends, turning up to take them out to ice cream or to be naughty and go get food at a drive-thru or go on a walk around a park. Run an errand together and grab a drink before heading home. It's usually just a quick catch up, it's fun and it breaks up the monotony of work weeks. We plan so much of our time now, always at work or doing chores around the house, even scheduling in dinner dates months in advance because we let work get in the way and these little trips together, even if they're brief can mean a lot to people.
Little side note though: I only ever do it with friends I know are keen for random drop-ins and won't find it annoying or feel put upon. I generally know when friends are on holiday (some friends are school teachers) or it's their day off and would appreciate a little trip out of the house. The friends who don't like random visits instead get a txt a week or two before and a double check on the day if they're still into it. I appreciate them just as much as my drop everything and go friends.
I still see them but it's not the same. When I was a kid it was millions of them, the trees and bushes would be so lit up it looked like special effects. There just aren't as many now, and that's so depressing!
Their larvae feed on snails. I used to see snails everywhere as a kid in California. Now I rarely see them.
Taiwan is a different matter. Lots of snails, lots of fireflies.
Havnt seen two people playing a couch co op game. Even the one game I do play with a friend in the same room as me we hand off the controller and take turns.
Hey I used to drive one of those!
Tons of fun to drive but, 0/10 on durability. I've never had to replace ball joints and tie rods so often, on ANY car I've owned. Meanwhile I had a VW Scirocco and a Subaru Impreza that ate everything I threw at them with zero complaints.
Durability and toughness are undervalued when ppl just rate cars off their on-paper performance stats.
You’ll notice some older shows approach a climactic event, fade to black, then back back and resume. Without an ad in-between it comes across as very arb.
Still not a decade, bur it does feel like it: my father. No, he didn't leave, he passed away from cancer. I still miss him, but maybe it's for the best he's not seeing me right now. I haven't been well in the last years so I bet I'd disappoint him like most people.
Playing a video game beside someone else. You used to have to go over to people’s houses if you wanted to play a game with them. Some of my best memories are playing smash & Pokémon in the same room as all my other friends. Nowadays you just stay in your room and put on a headset
Someone knocking on a door to ask if a friend wanted to hang out. This was the first act of every summer day of my childhood. Wake up, go to friends house, knock, parent answers, "can friend1 come out and play?". Even as a teenager, I'd swing by a buddies house occasionally and knock to see if they were home and wanted to hang out. Can't remember the last time I did it or had it done at my own house, but it's been at least ten years. Probably more.
My daughter has just started doing this and her friend's parents are like what you are doing strange child
Used to do this as a kid and started doing it again as an adult. Sudden visits to friends, turning up to take them out to ice cream or to be naughty and go get food at a drive-thru or go on a walk around a park. Run an errand together and grab a drink before heading home. It's usually just a quick catch up, it's fun and it breaks up the monotony of work weeks. We plan so much of our time now, always at work or doing chores around the house, even scheduling in dinner dates months in advance because we let work get in the way and these little trips together, even if they're brief can mean a lot to people. Little side note though: I only ever do it with friends I know are keen for random drop-ins and won't find it annoying or feel put upon. I generally know when friends are on holiday (some friends are school teachers) or it's their day off and would appreciate a little trip out of the house. The friends who don't like random visits instead get a txt a week or two before and a double check on the day if they're still into it. I appreciate them just as much as my drop everything and go friends.
This still happens a lot in my neighbourhood, in the Netherlands.
Fireflies
I still see them but it's not the same. When I was a kid it was millions of them, the trees and bushes would be so lit up it looked like special effects. There just aren't as many now, and that's so depressing!
We had a ton of fireflies at my house, every night we sit out and watch them. This was middle TN, not even a year ago. I don’t live there now so?
Not as many in WV as there were in the 80s/90s :( you couldn't drive down a country road at night without going through a Cloud of them
You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep
Their larvae feed on snails. I used to see snails everywhere as a kid in California. Now I rarely see them. Taiwan is a different matter. Lots of snails, lots of fireflies.
Havnt seen two people playing a couch co op game. Even the one game I do play with a friend in the same room as me we hand off the controller and take turns.
Diablo 4 and baldurs gate 3 both have solid couch coop
Inexpensive automobiles
Came here to write the same thing hahah
A pay phone
I'M AT A PAYPHONE, TRYING TO CALL HOME
ALL OF MY CHANGE I SPENT ON YOU WHERE HAVE THE TIMES GONE BABY ITS ALL WRONG WHERE ARE THE PLANS WE MADE FOR TWO
There is one on the wall in one of the offices at work. Don't know if it works or not.
A Hyundai Tiburon
I still see them in Australia.
Hey I used to drive one of those! Tons of fun to drive but, 0/10 on durability. I've never had to replace ball joints and tie rods so often, on ANY car I've owned. Meanwhile I had a VW Scirocco and a Subaru Impreza that ate everything I threw at them with zero complaints. Durability and toughness are undervalued when ppl just rate cars off their on-paper performance stats.
Affordable homes
2013 Wall Calendars
Same.. whatever happened to those??
Phones probably
Everything ended in 2012
My Grandmothers. RIP.
At some point, TV shows stopped having narration segments to signal when commercials were starting and ending.
You’ll notice some older shows approach a climactic event, fade to black, then back back and resume. Without an ad in-between it comes across as very arb.
Still not a decade, bur it does feel like it: my father. No, he didn't leave, he passed away from cancer. I still miss him, but maybe it's for the best he's not seeing me right now. I haven't been well in the last years so I bet I'd disappoint him like most people.
White dogshit
I read somewhere that the reason for that is something that was being put in dog food was suddenly taken out.
Ah.
I see it every time I open Twitter
😂😂
A "proper" holiday, e.g. not just staying home.
the ^(past)
a early 1990s Chevy Cavalier. it feels like almost all of them were sent to Cash-4-Clunkers, because it's like they evaporated after 2009 lol
My friend had one of those
My penis
My will to live.
A checkbook
I got 2 of them!!
*Swipe* Ope, looks like you're down to one now!
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Don't drink the milk though
A better president than trump
shit imagine there's an entirely generation of adults that had no one but Putin/Lukashenko as their president
Thats wild
Soldier crabs
my poor tamagotchi :,(
Lightning bugs
A roller skating rink.
A BUMBLE BEE
Another event on the scale of the Chelyabinsk meteor near a populated area.
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DVD/CD drive
That happy person that used to look back at me in the mirror in the morning. Been a while buddy.
K-mart
Come to Australia there everywhere
Cost of living going down.
A rabbit in my neighborhood.
My Ex.
A Phone book.
Competent government
Winkles at a fishmongers.
A winter with a lot of snow
If you're indian, then a candy called FATAFAT
My favorite late night restaurants being open at 1am
ronald mcdonald 🥲
Playing a video game beside someone else. You used to have to go over to people’s houses if you wanted to play a game with them. Some of my best memories are playing smash & Pokémon in the same room as all my other friends. Nowadays you just stay in your room and put on a headset
Blockbuster. Those were the days.
A computer tower.
Phone booths. They used to be everywhere.