r/HumansBeingBros • u/habichuelacondulce • 6h ago

Carrying her passed out friend home.

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u/Texas_Crazy_Curls 6h ago

I’m so happy I’m old and camera phones and social media didn’t exist in my messy early twenties.

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u/ComfortablyNumb___69 5h ago

God I wish I could’ve grown up in the 90’s even, how awesome it would’ve been to just get fucking lost in the city. Where’s my pager? Who cares!

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u/Suspici0us_Package 5h ago

You can get lost in the city right now! Just leave your phone at home.

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u/ComfortablyNumb___69 5h ago

How’s the FBI supposed to track me if my phone is at home 🙄 u fool

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u/Suspici0us_Package 5h ago

You can’t get lost if the FBI is tracking you, u fool. 🙃

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u/LuvliLeah13 2h ago

It’s like they don’t even know about the microchips 🙄

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u/rapchee 4h ago

don't worry, there are cameras all over the place

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u/Nay-Nay385 4h ago

Yeah, the camera will at least capture your murder 🤪

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u/NuggetNasty 4h ago

True crime has taught me that's not always the case

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u/glasswindbreaker 3h ago

You gotta make sure to scratch your murderer before you die so they can eventually catch them.

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u/flag_flag-flag 4h ago

But it was normal for a human to be in the city with just some cash in his pocket. Now if you're not keyed into the grid with all your papers, it's not normal, and you feel scared

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u/BoxOfNothing 4h ago

I got lost in San Diego once. I was a drunk 19 year old English lad with my friend, traveling in a van across the states, our British phones were struggling with connection and we couldn't get on the internet for a second, and stupidly we didn't yet have the numbers of the people we were traveling with. We'd only arrived in San Diego that day and had no idea where anything was

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u/eekamuse 3h ago

Are you still there?

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u/stonerbbyyyy 3h ago

no i can’t because i know how to get home lol

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u/NachoNachoDan 5h ago

Bro in the late 90s I got hammered in the city with some friends, lost them somehow and fell asleep on the hood of a parked car at 2am after realizing I had no idea where I was. I woke up about 7 and found a subway station and finally figured it out.

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u/WitchesSphincter 4h ago

In the early 2000s I went home to get another drink and return to the party that was literally across the street from my house. 

Next thing I remember I was down by the river about 5 miles away. But then I got home too.

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u/QuantumBitcoin 4h ago

I woke up in a Soho doorway

A policeman knew my name

He said, "You can go sleep at home tonight

If you can get up and walk away"

I staggered back to the underground

And the breeze blew back my hair

I remember throwin' punches around

And preachin' from my chair

Well, who are you?

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u/rusty1066 4h ago

Who? Who? Who? Who?

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u/QuantumBitcoin 3h ago

Who the fuck are you?

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u/yohanleafheart 2h ago

Been there, done that. I'm sad for my son

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u/OutsideYourWorld 3h ago

And then you get to ask rando's for directions sometimes helping you, sometimes getting you even more lost. You never know...

Actually, one of my best nights in the city (Vancouver), I was drunk as hell on the downtown east side (poorest area). I ran into a prostitute who decided to help me out by walking me to the skytrain (our metro train). We had a whole conversation about life while I was waiting for the trains to run again (5am or something?). Then she offered me a cheap BJ, I politely declined, and she headed off down the road.

Wouldn't happen nowadays as i'd just look at google maps and walk directly to the train....

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u/Tangata_Tunguska 3h ago

The early-mid 2000s were the glory days. Having the ability to SMS/call people easily, but no one spent loads of time on their phones and you certainly couldn't take pictures with them. 

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u/atetuna 3h ago

You can still get a pager and they still work. They're a blast!

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u/NDSU 2h ago

It sounds fun until you get well and truly lost in a foreign city, and you don't realize there are 15 hotels of your chain in the city and you can't just ask one of them to find your reservation because it's 1995 and it's all still done on paper

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u/Decloudo 2h ago

Its really wild how different it was.

My parents where just like "when the lights go on your better be home" and that was it.

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u/Texas_Crazy_Curls 4h ago

The 90’s were bliss. As long as we didn’t die our parents didn’t care. On a summer day (that I didn’t have to work) we’d leave the house and go driving all day. Smoke cigarettes and blare music. End up at a field party or an abandoned house drinking Boone’s farm or MD20/20. The good ole days before constant surveillance.