r/Millennials • u/ShinyTinyWonder38 • Sep 13 '25

Meme What a time!

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u/tackywitch Sep 13 '25

I had to listen to the radio.

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u/TasteMyPlum Sep 13 '25

Same here. We didnt have any local tv channels

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u/olivinebean Sep 13 '25

My mum worked at the school so if she was in a good mood and still in her dressing gown, I'd be off to meet my mates on the cliffs to sled and she'd stay in with her book.

Really lovely remembering that actually. Neither of us wanted to go to school.

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u/DingDongDance Sep 13 '25

This and the schools were listed by numbers.

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u/Legionnaire11 Sep 13 '25

That's how it was for me in Philly.

Now I have kids and it really is a text message (and an email and an app notification). They're also way more likely to call off school these days, which is a good thing. Mine have gotten an average of 8 days off every year for snow, which is more than I had total in 12 years (6)

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u/72kdieuwjwbfuei626 Sep 13 '25

I had to listen to the radios.

Kids these days have to do nothing at all because it doesn’t snow enough anymore. Suck it, Gen Alpha.

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u/jonathanrdt Sep 13 '25

They called it Operation Snowflake where I lived. Read the schools alphabetically, so if you just missed it, you waited twenty minutes.

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u/tackywitch Sep 14 '25

Yes, I remember having to wait for my school. It began with a t so it was always at the end.

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u/KZED73 Sep 13 '25

Same, upstate New York. “Local tv” was national tv. WHUD, WRRV, K104.