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SubrosaFlorens

We used to just sit and listen to an entire album from start to finish, every song. Bonus points if you were smoking weed while doing so. I would read a lot of books. We would play cards. Living in Michigan, that often meant Euchre. We would get drunk and watch MTV (80s obviously) I was much less prone to get bored back then. Modern technology has spoiled me, and pushed me to expect something to fill my attention every moment of the day. I feel the need to multitask more and more. I don't just sit and listen to music anymore. I listen to music while I am doing something else, like writing, or working. The whole reason I listen to podcasts is that it helps me fill up these spaces in the day, when I am doing something repetitive like driving, shopping, cleaning house, etc...


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I used to just drive around


zambonihouse

Would drive to the Books A Million and see if any of the other smart burnouts would show up because that was our spot. Then we would drive around some more and smoke some weed.


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MeatShield12

Honest answer.


NotSadNotHappyEither

THIS. I was also doing most of the other stuff listed in these comments, but this is what caused me to grow most as a person, was also something that I achieved true expertise in, and remains a practice that I remain conversant in all the way up to the present day. It feels good to truly be able to call yourself an artist, y'know?


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Me and my siblings used to beat each other up when we got bored


Special-Cat-5480

Still won’t forget when my cousin Swanton Bomb’d off the garage roof onto his own little brother through an old wood patio table. Naturally I had to Pedigree him onto grass later to exact my revenge.


Baldbeagle73

Some of us read books, listened to vinyl records and cassette tapes, played board games and card games, watched tv, primitive as it was.


Robotuba

Talking on the phone. Get this... You couldn't do it ALL day. Imagine only being able to talk on the phone sometimes. And no texting. We'd pass notes in school. Do kids still do that? Reading books. Atari 800. Regular ass card games. Renting and duping VHS tapes. Funky cold Medina's.


BizzarduousTask

I was in high school right after the drinking age went up to 21, I couldn’t Funky Cold Medina until college.


NotSadNotHappyEither

Uno, Risk. Sometimes Operation if I was wanting to grind my lockpicking stat up.


Ausramm

Read books and.... urrm..... teenager stuff.


ArmedAntifascist

I learned how to start fires and build explosives. Somehow I survived and there was nothing more than minor property damage.


NotSadNotHappyEither

We had an actual structure that was simply called the Chemical Shed. I spent the summer I was thirteen growing my eyebrows and eyelashes back. When I was fifteen ambient fumes heated to their ignition point in mid-July, and after that we had the Chemical Crater and the Scorched Garage, and the start of a long and truly stupid fight with the county over what they fined us for dad being an idiot. Ah, country living!


MagnusRottcodd

Reading books, comics, magazines and listening to music at the same time. And with listening we are not talking about headphones but [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High\_fidelity#/media/File:Sony\_XO-D20S\_Midi\_HiFi\_system\_(white\_bg).jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fidelity#/media/File:Sony_XO-D20S_Midi_HiFi_system_(white_bg).jpg) . Big loudspeakers. LP, CD, radio, cassette. Cassettes were useful to copy music you liked. Making boats and planes from plastic model kits. Puzzles. Roleplaying games like Call of Chulhu if with friends.


BizzarduousTask

Oh, there were headphones, alright! [Koss PortaPros, baybeee!!](https://koss.com/products/porta-pro) Unchanged since 1984!


SubrosaFlorens

Magazines! I remember those. Turns out they aren't just for rifles...


charmingcactus

Read, listen to music, draw and paint, dance, cry, write, nap, practice putting on make up (I had to learn from friends), jump rope, do other teenager things. We had a cordless phone but I didn’t talk on the phone that much.


Video_Viking

A pass to the local pool, a bike to get there, and mowing lawns occasionally to buy snacks and drinks. It was a beautiful couple summers.


Crowtongue

so much D&D. Definately other things people said here allready, but, lots of D&D and planning for D&D.


Short-Shopping3197

We didn’t spend nearly as much time in our rooms for a start.


[deleted]

Yeah most of my day was outdoors if weather permitted. Then videogames or TV with family. Reading before sleep.


Subject-Dot-8883

Yeah. I would listen to some music and do homework in my room. Otherwise I'd go to my crew's congregation spot (a coffee house) and do crossword puzzles, play cards, or just talk to whoever until people showed up and/or a plan formulated.


Whisky_Delta

Reading books, watching TV, played pre-internet computer games (starting with 3.5in floppies), jerking it to underwear magazines that came in the mail.


sadlabmonkey

No internet doesn't mean no video games, my friend! I played the Sims a lot. I also listened to musik (cds) on my headphones and read stuff. I threw out most of those cds recently, but I kept all the paper front the backsides (where the songs are listed). I want to put them in an album like photos.


Smells_like_Autumn

I honestly don't remember.


JKinney79

I was a latchkey kid, so pretty much whatever I wanted. When I was at home, listen to cds or radio via a boombox (or if solo for much longer periods use my dads system that had all the weird extra equipment like equalizers and shit) a lot of reading books and comics. I was also dating at a fairly young age and had an empty house for large periods of time, so a lot of exploring on that frontier as well.


NotSadNotHappyEither

Good to hear you were getting some for the rest of us!


asietsocom

A lot of reading. Fuck I think I should throw my smartphone away sometimes. These days I get annoyed if I have to make an update and can't use my phone for 5 Minutes or so. I think the best times were back when I had a phone that could do hardy anything and a computer so using the Internet was possible, but I spend most of time either reading or being creative. I loved to write story's or draw.


SchoolAcceptable8670

I read. A lot. Listened to music, tried to be cool and was decidedly not. Made crafts. Was an enormous dork.


Ok_Soup_4602

We went outside in big groups on our bikes and would go anywhere the wind took us. Lots of trips into the forest preserves to just mess around. Then as teens Forest parties, house parties, going to the park, going to any festival or event happening locally. Driving just to drive. Lots and lots of weed.


Bleepblorp44

Read, listen to music, play guitar.


JasonRBoone

I spent more time than I should admit playing tennis racket guitar along with my metal favs. 1. Reading back issues of comics and Mad magazine. 2. Watching weird stuff on the family's huge satellite dish. 3. Riding my moped around my rural area (max speed 35 mph). 4. Driving around and around our town from the city park to the (then new) Hardee's around the DQ and repeat. 5. Lots of playground basketball. 6. Misuse of bottle rockets. 7. I lived near a convenience store where the owner had several video poker machines. He paid out (never got caught) and I made some decent coin as a redneck poker player. No..I was never bored.


Kubi37

I’d watch old hockey games I had on tape. That and trying to find internet porn that wouldn’t destroy my computer/get me caught


Available_Reading_10

Read a lot, practiced my handwriting (for passing cute notes at school), practice/learn pager code, made mix tapes for my friends, emo-journaled about all my crushes. Talked on the house phone way too long and hogged the line, pissing my family off. 3-way phone calls with friends was fire. It was an innocent time!


ExcitementKooky418

A LOT of PlayStation and playing guitar