I used to pull a random Encyclopedia off the shelf and find something interesting to read about.
Yep, did that
We used to interact physically with other people…
At 10pm on a weekday? I mean I get chatting to your significant other about stuff but outside of that I don’t see anything happening even if we removed phones from the equation.
Go to bed early, sleep well, wake up for a whole new day feeling refreshed.
I mean that’s not interacting with other people on a weeknight is all haha.
I don’t feel bad texting (or replying here late at night) but I wouldn’t go knock on my neighbors’s door past 8 and expect to talk to them or anything like that.
You’d be surprised how many phone calls took place at that time.
Mayne talking about a show, or chatting someone up, etc. You were bored, so a phone was great.
Fair enough.
I didn’t consider a phone call from a dumb phone as human contact. Guess it goes to show how much I conflate phone with smart phone now.
They used to have these things called “books”, before they were all banned.
That’s not physically interacting with people though?
LMAO…
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When in the bathroom, the marketing and ingredients to all the shampoos were read.
Some people had magazine racks next to the toilet. There was a whole Seinfeld episode about George taking a book into the bathroom.
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, new book annually, great way to pass the time on the toilet.
Read a book, play card/board/video games, watch movies, listen to radio, go to a public space in your community (parks, squares, etc.)
Books before, still books.
Books before, now ebooks while avoiding Amazon like the plague
Pokemon on Gameboy. Physical books and comics. Sketching.
Shampoo bottles while pooping.
I’m surprised nobody said wank yet.
Are you confessing?
Oh absolutely. I got my first smartphone when I was 20 years or so, so you can imagine what hitting puberty was like.
No one has mentioned magazines or newspapers yet.
Listened to music. Hung out in a diner and had coffee & fries all night with friends. Hung out at the mall. Got drunk. Had sex.
Threw rocks at stuff.
Trains, signs, each other,
Peed off of tall stuff.
Ride bikes.
Try to build ramps for the bikes.
Crash the bikes.
Ask your mom for a popsicle cause you have a fat lip now from hitting your face on your bikes handlebars.
Generally dumb things.
Freak out cause the kid s few doors down got his hands on some dry ice.
But the dry ice in bottles.
Run away when that nosy old lady calls the police cause people are “making bombs”
I did not do half of that, but I did more than half of what you did not list, with glee.
Suspiciously specific
Played outside with friends almost every day.
Read books. Make stuff from said books Show friends the stuff you made from books. Drink beer and watch sports and other hobbys.
You ever stand behind a couple of geezers in line somewhere and they start talking about some random stuff? They didn’t know each other. They were just bored.
I read a bunch, and played a lot of video games. I am on the older-end of Gen z, so smartphones only became a thing when I was older, so most of my childhood was spent on computers running a mix of windows 98, Windows XP, and eventually Linux, where I got most of my books and almost all my games.
Read books. Cereal boxes. Ride bikes and fuck around.
