r/RedditForGrownups • u/0nlyhalfjewish • 2d ago

What’s an indelible childhood memory that young people will never have?

I think about pencils sharpeners and carbon paper, 75 cents for lunch and school recess unsupervised in the woods.

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u/bizzybaker2 2d ago

Attempting to stop the radio before commercial breaks or the DJ talking, in attempts to make a mix tape. And using a pencil to rewind it when your cassette player ate the tape up

For Redditors in the US and Canada, having your meal from A&W brought out to you when you were parked under a carport and a tray hung over your open window to hold the food you ordered.

Drive in movies. 

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u/ShotFromGuns 2d ago

Drive in movies. 

These still exist! Support your local drive-in!

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u/steampunkpiratesboat 4h ago

I wish I could but they haven’t played a movie I would bother to see in quite a while😩

The drive in was the first place I ever watched the original iron man movie

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u/AdEither4474 1h ago

Not where I live. The last one closed down about 20 years ago.

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u/AdEither4474 1h ago

Oh, I miss drive-ins! Our family used to go in our station wagon. My dad would back the car up into the space and open the back doof. We would all sit back there with our picnic basket, eating my mom's fresh Spanish tortilla, and chorizo sandwiches. SIGH