" flap down the headphone down to end a phone call . "
Recently,u/Just_a_Ginger_Fellaaskedr/AskReddit, “People over 35, what’s something you genuinely miss that younger generations will probably never experience?” And we thought we’d share the best responses.
1.“Toy stores. Nothing beats the aisles and aisles of stuff at Toys ‘R’ Us.”
– Chrisinthsth
2.“Finding a magazine with something you love on it, a band or an actor or whatever. Now if you love something you can immediately consume every piece of media on that thing, which is also cool, but I’ll always miss turning the corner at the grocery store and seeing that Spin is doing an all-punk issue, or the Rolling Stone issue after Hunter Thompson died, and being like ‘FUCK YES’. And the smell! The ink plus the paper and the perfume samples, incredible.”
– drulaps
3.“Slamming the phone down to end a phone call.”
– whathuhmeh10k
4.“Life without social media.”
– mom2twocats
5.“Life without tech in everything – whole summers with just you and the backyard, alternating sometimes with friends and bicycles.”
– 4llu532n4m3srt4k3n
" I miss when new technical school was something to be excited about rather than something where you ’re appear for the grab . "
– Dunnersstunner
6.“Internet before the corporate world got hold of it. It was truly a wild west era.”
– fs_12
" Man the old Internet was just morefun . There was this sense of uncovering when you found a niche internet site or community , like it was something unparalleled and exceptional , and there was more unparalleled soma of verbalism out there . Now it ’s all TikTok and YouTube , and YouTube is n’t even as in effect as it used to be . It makes me sad . "
– EvilSock
7.“That feeling of not being watched/recorded.”
– angelofireland
8.“The excitement of your new favourite song playing on the radio or MTV.”
– ckred
9.“When everyone watched a TV show at the same time in their individual households and then came together to talk about it the next day. Pre streaming services days. Commercials still sucked but there was something magical about it.”
– jurassicMark618
10.“The joy of getting off a plane and having someone right there at the gate waiting for you.”
– robbythompsonsglove
" Or waiting at the logic gate with expectation for some to get off the plane that you were so activated to see . "
– Korista
11.“Creating my own ringtone on Nokia composer.”
– nofearnev
12.“We didn’t have to pay an exorbitant amount of money for concert tickets.”
– 30yroldheart
13.“Living my coyote ugly dream – dancing on bars thinking I’m hot shit but likely being an absolute embarrassment to myself and there being no video evidence of it.”
– aussb2020
14.“Being able to be unreachable. It’s hard to really get alone time or time to relax when you have a phone on you all the time and you can always be reached.”
– Witty - Radish-389
" Yes and along with this , if you say you ’re going to meet someone somewhere you ca n’t bail at the last bit . Like if you make a commitment you generate ta stick with it because the other person would n’t be able to be extend to to cancel . "
– JSol1113
15.“Things built to last.”
– GoldenLadyBits
" More than that … Things were built to be fixed .
We joke so much about how Gen Z does n’t know how to get anything , but they ’ve literally never owned anything they could fix themselves . Literally every single thing is ' usance and throw ' . How are they supposed to learn ?
I think of in the ' ninety look at my boombox apart , finding out that a few cogs had chipped teeth , razz my bicycle to the neighborhood store , find the right cog in a giant box of cogs and then fixing the boombox . It was a fun summer good afternoon . I ’m moderately dear at fixing stuff , but I ca n’t do anything if my phone breaks now . Or even my car … You necessitate specialised peter for a fucking vegetable oil change . "
– iomegabasha
16.“The arcade. Putting two quarters on the glass indicating you’ve got next. Watching this one dude beatMortal Kombat2 on just two quarters.”
– Fun - Palpitation5847
17.“Blockbuster.”
– Severe_Chicken213
" I remember become and putting in my pizza order . Then pass away next door to Blockbuster , picking out movies and games . Then going to get my pizza . Heading home and enjoy the evening . It was an event , an experience .
Now I postulate my kids if they desire to see a movie . They say they have already watch it on their phone a few days ago . "
– Intelligent_Past_924
18.“Walking down the street collecting your mates along the way to go hang out.”
– Odd - Table-2610
" Or if you were latterly – search for the atomic pile of wheel in the pace to know where they were . “–Strawberry_Pretzels
19.“Listening to whole albums, not just singles on an app.”
– Material_Outcome8917
H/T tou/Just_a_Ginger_Fellaandr/AskRedditfor having the discussion!
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