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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the consequences of wild behavior are so much worse now—I wasn’t wild at all in high school but get my FH and his brother and his best friend from high school together and they have some crazy stories. “Borrowing” a parent’s Porsche and driving to California without having licenses. A neighborhood being taken to the hospital via helicopter for alcohol poisoning. Fights, parties, more alcohol and drugs, etc.

My in-laws weren’t particularly attentive parents, DH was the third boy, but a lot of what happened back then the cops would just turn kids over to their parents, say it’s just kids being kids,  and nobody who wasn’t there would even hear about it. Now there would be arrests, suspension, expulsion, news and social media. [/quote]
I think this is mostly why, it was just different then. [/quote]

When do you mean, by "back then"? [b]I guess I'm gen X but I can't really relate to most gen X posts but I'm a 1980 baby.[/b] I didn't have a cell phone until my 2nd semester senior year of college!  I feel neither GEN x nor millennial[/quote]

Honestly I would say you are more of a millenial.  Even among the generation Xers, I think the older ones partied harder than the younger ones.  When the Kavanaugh confirmation issue was going on, I remember being surprised by how many posters on DCUM were truly shocked by the heavy partying high school culture that was being described.  I think that's because most DCUMers are millenials or younger generation Xers.  I'm a little bit younger than Kavanaugh, and the description of going to parties every weekend and getting wasted while in HS totally completely mirrored my own experience.  I think this is something that began changing around the late 80's.  [/quote]

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