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Gen X’ers Share The Childhood Things They Did That Would Never Be Allowed Today


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“My parents won tickets to an Amnesty International Concert at Maple Leaf Gardens. They had no interest in going, so they told me I could take a friend since I liked Bruce Springsteen and Peter Gabriel. The two of us were 12 and took the subway from our suburban Toronto school directly to the concert in Downtown Toronto in the 1980s (which was not the nice, clean, sanitized Toronto that it became in the late ’90s).”

“The concert went FOREVER, but we somehow managed to get the last subway at around 1:30 a.m. (luckily, it was well known how early the subways closed, so we left the concert before the official end). There were no cell phones, so we couldn’t call our parents until we got to the subway station closest to our house. The buses on our routes had long since stopped, so I had to call my dad at 2 a.m. to pick us up. I can’t believe we hadn’t set up any sort of a plan ahead of time when two 12-year-olds were going to be out that late, but that was just the ’80s.”

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