Happy New Year. when I was a kid...

[bobjustbob]

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[DrakeM]

...everybody drove giant hunks of iron made in Detroit with no seat belts, gas was sold in gallons not liters, and your car had an AM radio, if you were lucky.

 

[ApolloBalboa]

I'd be forced to go to bed at 9 o' clock sharp, and upon trying to sneak downstairs to see what all the hullabaloo was about, my dad would yell "If you don't cut that ---- out, you'll be lucky if you live to see the New Year!"

 

[dakdak]

when i was a kid we were so poor we used actual stones to get stoned.

happy new year

 

[Rey C.]

When I was a kid... (even though the Vietnam War was raging and several prominent people had recently been assassinated) I thought that people were basically good.

Happy New Year

 

[Jack Davenport]

My dad taking us to the South Carolina state line to buy real fireworks. Explosive fireworks are illegal in NC but they look the other way for the most part during the 2 big holidays July 4th and New Years.

 

[RASQ]

friends and i would walk around our hood and throw 100 count black cats into cars that left their windows down.

 

[bobjustbob]

Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes. Front balcony just me. Yea, I've seen them before but never in a comfortable theater seat and them on a stage with curtains. I ain't driving either. Train and walk. This will lead to staggering since I'm hooking up with by buddy somewhere in New Brunswick. Rutgers busses all night long. Crash at my buddy's or train home.

 

[BlkHawk]

Dad was asleep in his room, mom was at work, and my older brother, and sister would wake me up to sneak downstairs. We would huddle close to the BW TV turn it on, and slow as possible change the dial, holding our breath at every clunk the dial made as the channel changed, hoping not to wake dad. Once on the right channel with sound just loud enough to barely be audible, we would watch Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve till the ball dropped.

 

[John_8581]

When I was really young, aged 6 to 10

This used to always come on Channel 5 TV WNEW in New York on New Year's Eve! ...

 

[FreeOnes_Adam]

I remember having sex with my girlfriend while the whole y2k thing was happening. I remember getting up, going outside as soon as it was midnight on new years bringing in year 2000, and looking over the horizon for the destruction.

Sadly, there was none.

I went back to what we were doing. Not a bad day.

 

[D-rock]

I don't remember if this happened exactly on New Years. It's been a long time, but I remember hurrying to shovel our long driveway so my father that worked late could get back into it on a day with really bad weather. He would be kind of pissed if I didn't get it done as having a car stuck in it or the road would suck. It also wasn't a ten minute job or anything like that. It would take seven or eight hours and was something that would be very challenging to an adult in good shape. I was maybe 11 or 12 years old. I had neighbors that both felt sorry and were impressed when I did things like that.

 

[Mayhem]

I remember having sex with my girlfriend while the whole y2k thing was happening. I remember getting up, going outside as soon as it was midnight on new years bringing in year 2000, and looking over the horizon for the destruction.

Sadly, there was none.

I went back to what we were doing. Not a bad day.

I was far from being a kid on Y2K. I had to work that night and I had a fuckin' arsenal in the trunk of my car. If the lights had even flickered I was going to crush any poor soul that stood between me a the parking lot.

I didn't believe in that shit, but I had fun preparing for it.

 

[FreeOnes_Adam]

I don't remember if this happened exactly on New Years. It's been a long time, but I remember hurrying to shovel our long driveway so my father that worked late could get back into it on a day with really bad weather. He would be kind of pissed if I didn't get it done as having a car stuck in it or the road would suck. It also wasn't a ten minute job or anything like that. It would take seven or eight hours and was something that would be very challenging to an adult in good shape. I was maybe 11 or 12 years old. I had neighbors that both felt sorry and were impressed when I did things like that.

Commendable. I should buy my dad dinner sometime. No, better... dim sum!

 

[D-rock]

Commendable. I should buy my dad dinner sometime. No, better... dim sum!

To be clear I don't hold anything against him. It's just what needed to be done with nobody else that could do it. It also comes as living a life where I was forced to have a lot of adult concerns and responsibilities at that age because there wasn't any alternative.