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20 Crazy Life Experiences You Had and Loved That You Can’t Have Anymore

ByVictoria Cornell December 2, 2023December 2, 2023
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As time passes and life changes, you may often find yourself thinking happily about experiences from your past. These old memories hold a unique persuasion, evoking nostalgia and offering a glimpse into a world that has faded away. In this exploration of ephemeral experiences, we delve into the question: What’s an experience you’ve had that you can’t do anymore?

Childhood Activities

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To start, one Redditor replied, “Watching the animatronics perform onstage at Chucky Cheese. I loved that stuff.”

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Another Redditor added, “Birthday party at McDonald’s. We got to go in the back.”

Date Nights

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A user commented, “Wanting to call a cute girl you met but didn’t get her phone number so you open the phonebook and find her last name and start at the top and call them all until you find the right one.”

Educational Experiences

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One simple comment was, “Having to go to the library to look up a random fact.”

Another comment said, ‘Nuclear Bomb drills where if we saw ‘the flash,’ we had to scramble underneath our school desks for cover (like that would have done a darn thing).”

Family Time

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A Redditor wrote, “Going to a restaurant and being asked if we wanted the smoking or nonsmoking section.”

Hobbies and Pastimes

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A user commented, “Waiting overnight in a line to buy concert tickets. So much fun. Met cool people, sang, played games, peed in bushes…. sad kids today won’t ever get that high of getting to the front of the line and leaving with your newly printed tix in your hand.”

Sports and Music Events

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A most-liked comment read, “Attending concerts and just enjoying the music without someone’s cellphone blocking the performance.”

Retail Stores or Brands

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One Redditor wrote, “Looking forward to Friday nights when my dad took me to the local Blockbuster store to pick out a movie and some candy.”

Community Places

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A popular comment was, “Bowling at a bowling place in my old town that closed down a while back.”

Another was, “My local minigolf course closed right before the lockdowns started (Feb 2020), and now it’s a nearly complete warehouse.”

Communication Methods

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One Redditor wrote, “First thing I thought of was a pay phone! Amazing how far the telephone has come In such a short amount of time….”

A second Redditor added, “Answering a rotary phone without having a single clue as to who was calling.”

Transportation Modes

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A user replied, “Meeting people at the gate as they come off the plane, or being met, was really a wonderful experience. I genuinely miss it.”

Weekend Fun

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One Redditor commented, “Saturday morning cartoons. Like, sure, you can still watch cartoons on a Saturday morning (or any other time, day or night), but… it’s just DIFFERENT now. It’s not a borderline holy institution like it used to be. A bowl of your favorite cereal (such as Apple Jacks, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms, etc.) truly completed the experience.”

A second Redditor added, “Just cruising around aimlessly on Friday and Saturday nights.”

Childhood Toys

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One popular comment was, “Looking through the Sears catalog for Christmas ideas.”

Another added, “​​Chain toy stores like Toys R Us and KB Toys.”

Games and Gaming Consoles

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A user added, “Changing to Chanel 3 to play video games.”

A second user replied, “Blowing into an Atari cartridge to get it to work.”

Television Shows

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A most-liked comment was, “Running from the kitchen to the den during commercial breaks to refill or grab a snack.”

Another comment read, “We had the TV antenna on the top of a big tree and had to move it with a little controller to get better reception.”

Food trends

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A Redditor added, ‘begging my parents for purple ketchup.”

Internet Experiences

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One popular comment was, “Getting yelled at by my mom for tying up our phone line with our dial-up internet. I just wanted to download one song and needed the internet for 12-16 hours tops.”

Traveling Times

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One Redditor replied, “Road trip with a paper map we bought at a gas station.”

Another Redditor commented, “Pumping gas before paying for it.’

Social Media Platforms

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A user commented, “I made it all the way through high school and college before social media was a thing. There is zero proof of 99% of all the dumb things, embarrassing things, and mistakes I made growing up.”

School-Related Experiences

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One comment was, “Smoking cigarettes in the smoking area at my high school. You needed a red S on your bus pass to smoke.”

A second comment was, “School field trip to NYC and seeing the city from the top of the World Trade Center.”

Work Activities

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Finally, a Redditor replied, “Getting my paycheck from my boss and standing in line at the bank on Friday afternoon to deposit it along with 38 other people.”

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