Stupid question - do kids "park" anymore?

[OmahaBlueDog]

Back in the day, those of us in high school who were couples would drive out to the countryside, or to a yet-to-be completed housing development, and fool around for hours on end... and then try to remember what the Washington Post said the plot was to the movie we were supposed to have been seeing.

Do kids even do that today... or do they just go straight to the Marriott now?

[Lex]

1. Ha! Those were the days . . .

:thumbsup:

[GOPisEvil]

2. Hehehe...."yet-to-be-completed housing development"...

:blush:

O8)

[OmahaBlueDog]

3. It was a real timesaver if you had to get married

You'd already familiarized yourself with the local real estate market. ;-)

[Kali]

4. seems like a lot of them are getting their drivers licenses later than we did,

I don't know about "parking" but know they still have what we called boondocker parties.

[Lil Missy]

5. I never did "park", but I'm an exception.

Marriott? What the hell? Where do they get the money for that?

I thought everyone fucked in corn fields around here.

:)

[OmahaBlueDog]

7. When I was a HS kid, we mowed lawns or worked in fast food

Now, these kids all seem to have disposable income coming out of their ears. Some of them are doing stuff like web development. Heck, my niece paid for a used late model Honda in cash -- she was pulling down $20+/hour babysitting.

I'm telling you, LM, it's just different now.


I've never heard tell of making out in corn fields -- I've heard some stories about infamous barn parties, though. One, in particular, that UNL students attend.

[Lil Missy]

11. I was just being facetious about fucking in cornfields.

You wouldn't believe how many times I've heard that. :eyes:

20$ an hour for babysitting? Shit! I should start a daycare! I'd even be nice!

[elleng]

25. Where was SHE working???

My daughters (both college, experienced with kids, etc) don't have the NERVE to ask for such!

[OmahaBlueDog]

35. An upper-middle class suburb of Fort Lauderdale

Let this be a lesson, kids. If you're going to do menial teenage odd jobs, do them for folks with money.

[jmm]

39. Thankfully I learned that lesson in high school

I graduated 10 yrs ago and I use to make about $20 an hour babysitting.

[old mark]

40. "Everywhere" ain't like Nebraska, missy......nt

[Jamastiene]

6. Last time I remember doing that was in 97 or so.

Of course, I was 27 and stoned most of the time at that point. I've calmed down since then. Tree roots and springs from the backseats of beat up old Hoopties hurt the old back. :P

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. ::: sigh :::

I left so many footprints on the liners of car roofs.

Good times .............

[grasswire]

9. I wish the senior in this house would get a car.

I'm tired of going into the living room and seeing him and his GF under a blanket on the sofa. Geez! No boundaries.

[OmahaBlueDog]

10. Ooohh...that was big trouble back in my day

..Mrs. OBDs parents were not ogres or anything, but that would have gotten me a long lecture from my now-MIL.

....I know, because I remember getting that lecture


.... twice

[grasswire]

13. what did she say? (eom)

[OmahaBlueDog]

14. I seem to recall the unintentionally humerous line that these actions could create .........

.."an explosive situation"

well....yes.. no denying that one.


Obviously, it ended reasonably well. Mrs. OBD and I celebrated our 20th anniversary last year.

My older daughter is 11, so I intend to start handgun lessons in the next year or so :evilgrin:

[XemaSab]

12. Sure!

None of my high school friends had a car, but in college... good times. :D

[OmahaBlueDog]

16. That's funny .. it was the opposite for me

I went to HS in suburban Maryland. Many friends with cars (or we borrowed M & Ds car). In those days, you could drive about 10 minutes and there were a bunch of places to go park, or have a beer party outside Columbia. One had to choose carefully to avoid meeting a bored policeman.

In college, I went to Cal Berkeley. No one had a car. Even kids with cars left them back home...unless they had an apartment, in which case, who the heck needed a car?

[catnhatnh]

15. If you'd ever seen the back seat of a Triumph Herald

You'd know why the British took up building them instead of chastity belts. Mine is personally responsible for a chastity streak I hated.

[OmahaBlueDog]

17. OK, I'm thinking you could lower the top, recline the drivers seat, take the shfter out of gear, and

....naw, forget it. I've got nothing. You're doomed in that car.

[catnhatnh]

20. Y'all MADE me laugh...

six months in that car and never again was I surprised that the population of Germany (the home of the beetle) was that much larger than England. A beetle would have been a passion pit by comparison. I've seen sex accomplished in a bug. In the back seat of that model Triumph the only thing EVER screwed was a bolt. And the bolt had to REALLY want it...

[flvegan]

18. I hope so.

I have a lot of good memories that can't ever be replaced in regards to that.

Helped make me who I am.

[susanna]

19. I mentioned that to DH...

I grew up in what was then a rural area in Michigan. We had loads of "getting away from the parents" parking spots; they are all gone, now home to large housing developments. I have no idea what kids do today. The funny part is: I didn't use our places for any questionable activity. Me and my dates just talked, I swear...I was kind of a prude back then, though. :shrug: :-)

[catnhatnh]

22. Did you ever notice that in the film "American Graffitti"

No one had sex. I've got a thousand flight hours in cars just talking. Honest to God. My first car sex happened way past the exploratory years. And with someone I married later, but as a non-first time deal. Cars never got me sex but was handy to have afterward.

[susanna]

23. My experience, too.

I was a big "talker." Most of the guys I dated were of the same mind, so it never was an issue. I never felt I let anyone down, LOL.

I actually "miss" the car talks! They were always deep, intense, and thought-provoking. Ah well...but we had lots of places to go "talk" back in the day.

ETA: a pronoun, those pesky things

[OmahaBlueDog]

32. Ummmmm.....

I think Ron Howard and Cindy Williams do....isn't that why he ends up becoming an insurance salesman in Modesto?

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. She kicked him out of her car

I've seen "American Graffiti" 40-something times, but I don't remember the exact dialogue from that scene and IMDb doesn't have it. Suffice to say, Laurie didn't want to and Steve got mad because she was "just laying there." Laurie said, "You want to, go ahead!" and Steve said something like, "Don't act all self-righteous with me after what you told me about watching your brother!"

She screamed, "I told you never to mention that!" and threw him out. :D

If anybody boinked, it was Terry and Debbie, just before Steve's car got stolen. But they cut away from their make-out scene, so we'll never know. :(

[OmahaBlueDog]

29. I'm not going to say we just talked, but there wasn't actual ess -eee-ex either

I would, as Phil Rizzutto might put it, took a pretty big lead off of third.

Not that I didn't try, mind you ;-)

[Broken_Hero]

21. They still park, the back portion of our property

which is near a creek bed...is a rather, well popular spot.

[elleng]

24. Silly answer:

WAS the Pope Polish????:silly:

[OmahaBlueDog]

30. I never see kids out doing that

When I was a kid, I'd periodically spy like minded souls parked in various hiding spots. Now, I see them all gathered at Sonic. When I lived in Florida, I don't think there were many places to which to sneak off.

[elleng]

65. Under the Board Walk!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV6WgRAN9FU

[stewartcolbert08]

26. No they sext! LOL

JJ I have no idea what they do now, in my city they park still but get caught LOL

[OmahaBlueDog]

31. Seriously, I think you're right

All the stories I hear now involve texting and webcams.

[DarkTirade]

27. I know I did it as soon as I started dating someone who had a car.

And I graduated back in 2000.

Granted, I never got past second base... but still. :P

[trof]

28. Ah...the fogged up windows...

Accidentally hitting the horn ring with your elbow at a crucial moment.
A cop rapping on the driver's window and scarring the crap out of you and your date.
Memories...
;-)

[no name no slogan]

33. Nah, they "cyber" in chatrooms

No handjobs under the bleachers for them-- they've gone high-tech.

[OmahaBlueDog]

34. I fear we are doomed as a species

What we need is a stylish plug in hybrid with a back seat large enough to support commercial agriculture, like an old Chevy or Olds would have. It'd combine the best of the old and the new.

[no name no slogan]

38. In high school, my best bud had a 1975 Lincoln Continental

The back seat was as big as a twin bed. It was a lot easy to park in that thing. I pitty the kids in the next generation who will have to park in a Tata.

[Maine-ah]

36. I dunno about the kids, but hubbie and I do once and a while.

:hi:

[OmahaBlueDog]

43. We have a winner!!!!!!!

+1

[Dappleganger]

37. I think that most kids are doing it in their own rooms now...

at least that's what my 17 yr. old dd says. She said that a lot of parents told their kids that while they don't approve, they'd rather they be in a safe place.

I had a friend in college whose mom was like that (no dad at home). It was very strange to go to her house, because she shared a room with her older sister. My friend and her boyfriend would sleep in the top bunk and her sister in the bottom bunk. Ugh, that was weird.

I'm not that open-minded yet.

[PassingFair]

41. "Safe place"!!!!???

The back seat of ANY car would be a "safer place"
than any ROOM, if I found my daughters
practicing reproduction in my HOUSE!!!

They can sneak away or craftily plan for
our absences, just like I had too.


:)

[OmahaBlueDog]

44. Thank you. It's not just me.

Maybe once the college years start, I'll reconsider. Until then, I'd like to maintain the pretense of innocence.

[PassingFair]

55. Hey, I don't let my husband MAUL me in front of THEM....

try as he may.



I expect a level of privacy on their part, as well!

[Lil Missy]

45. You have a teenaged daughter, don't you.

:)

[OmahaBlueDog]

47. Not yet, but we're getting there

..and she has friends in Middle School who already "date".

[Lil Missy]

49. OMG, that's when my dad got embarrassing.

He just about killed a guy was talking to one day. We were just talking! Out in the open!

He went and told this guy that if he ever hurt me, he'd break his knees. Jeezus Christ, I was so embarrassed.

Alcohol may have been involved. (With dad) :eyes:

[OmahaBlueDog]

50. One of my friends would regularly make a point...

...to be sitting at the breakfast table, casually cleaning an automatic pistol when boys would come to pick up his daughter for dates. He was never rude or nasty to them....but he got his point across.

[Lil Missy]

53. LOL! I'd get the point!

What would he have done if daughter was greeted by a female date? Clean a rifle?

Shit!

[OmahaBlueDog]

56. Y'know there are 2 sides to the female date

One one hand, there's the whole morality/it's-not-what-we-imagined/ how-will-we-possibly-live-with-the-stigma thing.....

OTOH, nobody is going to bring a little bundle of joy in the normal course of events...which is often the real objection to the boys, isn't it?

And a father can live in denial with the female date -- they are just really close friends who go out together a lot.

[Lil Missy]

58. And how would you feel, if your daughter came out as gay?

You suggest denial for a female date, and how-will-we-possibly-live-with-this-stigma. Like you said, they are really just close friends who go out a lot.

Seriously, how would you feel and react if your daughter were gay?

[OmahaBlueDog]

60. My kids are my kids. I love them no matter what.

If my daughter is gay, I will still love her and she will still have the support of Mrs. OBD & me. If my daughter is straight, comes home pregnant, and decides she wants to have the baby, she will still have the support of Mrs. OBD & me. If she comes home HIV positive, or needs to go to substance abuse rehab, she will still have the support of Mrs. OBD & me.

Likr I said in a completely unrelated thread of yours, blood is thicker than water.

I had hoped you'd realized I was speaking of a generic, traditional, middle American dad -- not necessarily me personally.

[Lil Missy]

61. I do recall your "blood is thicker than water" comment.

Forgive me for asking. Your honor is good with me.

:hug:

:hi:

[tigereye]

54. yeah my son (who has no interest as yet) has friends who apparently

"go out" = and most of em are barely 13, still in middle school. Not really sure what that's about. :shrug:


As far as "parking" I really haven't heard too many teens talk about that and I don't know what they would call it these days. A lot of the younger people I know seem to have waited until they were in college to become "active."

[OmahaBlueDog]

57. I think it's a status thing as much as anything

My daughter says nothing really happens on these dates

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

46. The popular "parking" place was a spot off the road next to the airport

where you could go to "watch airplanes." The road is still there but the parking spot isn't, alas.

[davsand]

48. With both parents working in a lot of families I think they are at home after school.

Seriously. They may well be in their rec room, their bedroom, or even under the dining room table--just like YOU are when you know they are out for the night.

Kinda gives you pause for thought--doesn't it...


Laura

[BeachBaby]

51. I think that adult, committed couples should "park".

Why does that kind of fun have to stop? Seriously.

[mike_c]

64. great minds think alike...

See #63.

[cloudbase]

52. Near the Schenley Oval

in the '67 Nova.

[tigereye]

59. hell, I used to "park" in front of my parent's house!

:rofl:

[Lil Missy]

62. Where there is a will, there is a way.

[mike_c]

63. I dunno about teenagers...

...but the GF and I certainly do, he-he. Of course, we don't have to worry about pissed off parents if we get caught. We might embarrass one another's kids, though.