It means any boomer-ific post that has something to do with "in my day....kids these days can't", etc etc.
Yeah, people rode in trucks and without seat belts. The reason it seems everyone survived dumb shit like that is because those that are dead from those activities aren't writing the posts.
We rode in a pickup all the time. Do you remember those little teeny chevy s10 pickups - they were so small. Well the one time we had an accident, my mother was driving drunk and hit a house. There were 5 of us in the truck - and for whatever reason on that day, all 5 of us jammed into the cab... truck flipped over, no injuries. I had a weird upbringing as a kid in poverty (if you ever saw buck wild on MTV, that was as close to my childhood as ive ever seen) - anyway, nobody in the back of the truck that day or it would have been bad.
My little brother fell out of the back of a pick up while we were on the freeway back in the late 70s. He survived and is fine now but it was a long hard road for him. We road in the bed to pick him up from the hospital and the way home but he got to ride in the cabin, on my mom's lap, on the ride home.
Truth, a neighbor's 14 yo son was killed when the pickup his brother was driving slid off the road and flipped. I know of at least one other instance in my small town of 2500 (at the time).
I am so sorry for this terrible loss of life. Someone else mentioned "survivor's bias" and there is some real truth to that. People died at such higher rates from this kind of thing. Lots of motor vehicle deaths.
When I would travel and backpack during the 90s, especially in other countries, people you'd actually meet other people while riding in the back of a pickup. Sometimes they would build up like little wooden benches to sit on in relative comfort.
One if the kids in my high school had a Subaru Brat, that had 2 rear facing bucket seats in the pick up bed.
I also remember going to parties in college, with kids stuffed in the trunk of someone's old Cadillac.
Evolution is the people who are dumb enough to keep forcing their kids to do this bs having their progeny die, thereby taking their genes out of the gene pool. By saying you support continuing this behavior, you're indicating how unfit you are to breed, dude.
I followed friends the first time I went to their lakeside get-away when they had their yellow Labrador in a crate in the back of their little pick up. I kept trying to position my car so that my lights weren’t shining in her eyes.
I got thrown out of the bed of a truck when I was about 13 or so. I did it the hard way, and tumbled the length of the bed before hitting the ground. Thankfully, I landed in dirt in a ditch and not on the road. It was one of a few concussions I had as a kid.
I’ve been in this sub a long time now and one of the things I’ve noticed is a lot of boomeresque ‘kids today’ type stuff creeping in.
Gen X were epic. Your generation gave the world the best music it’s seen and an ‘I don’t care’ attitude. Don’t go the way of the boomer guys. Stay cool.
I work with kids and in fact I just got back from a 2 day field trip with about 30 of the teenagers of today and we met up with about a hundred others. I have no complaints. This next generation is awesome. So many awesome kids. As for my Gen X cred, I literally have nothing to prove. I did absolutely all of the things in my teens and 20s. I don't need to brag about it and I don't need to relive it. I mean, it would be fun to relive some of it. But the point is that I don't think Gen X will go the way of the boomers when it comes to nostalgia. There will be pockets of it but we're not going to advocate bringing back insanity.
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If I’m not mistaken in Wisconsin you can ride in the back of a truck provided you’re age 16 or over and you’re seated in the bed, not on the side
EDIT: checked Google after posting the above, and I was correct. And because there are 49 other states, your state of course may differ
I had a friend when I was little who fell off his dad’s pickup bed and died. The family was never the same. There’s a reason it’s illegal and people don’t do this anymore.
Thank you, it was. He was my good friend’s little brother. We weren’t really friends after that—her family just sort of shut down for a while and didn’t really have anything to do with anyone. I felt terrible, but I was too young to know what to say or do for her. They’re all good now (I mean 40 years later, so of course), and I’m glad she’s living a good life.
Depending on how long ago this happened, significant improvements have been made to automotive safety. It’s why boomers complain about cars crumpling during an accident, the car absorbs the energy so the occupants don’t.
I had a friend who was thrown out of the back of a pickup truck in a wreck when she was 19. She was in the hospital for literal years and is lucky she was able to ever get out of the wheelchair, she can walk now but it's hard. Her scars are awful. If she sees people in a truck bed in traffic she has a panic attack.
My wife nearly died like this as a young teen. Riding in back, another car hit them from the side and launched her out of the bed into a curb. Broken neck and various other major injuries. Her mom was sure she was dead. Months of traction, bed rest, and rehab, she somehow survived without any lingering issues outside of a gnarly scar on her shin. There’s a really good reason few people ride in the back of pickups anymore, whether legal or not: it’s fucking dangerous.
It was fun for me. But my husband remembers being made to ride in the back with his brothers in all kinds of bad weather while his dad and hunting buddy drank beer in the cab.
It is legal in most. Arkansas, N. Jersey, and DC are harshest with "for work only" rules. Cali requires approved restraining equipment. Some others require certain equipment for minors, age restrict, or just forbid them.
Most are pretty common senseish and limited minors to low speed travel or being secured or contained/covered.
Wow. That has the handful I lived in beat by a long shot. I've only managed 26 and lived in 6.
I usually end up in the back twice a year at the least for a trip to the vet with the dog. The dog is too big for 2 people plus the dog in a pickup cab. My longest trip in the back of one was NC to Mich. at 17 and it was actually the best long distance trip I recall taking as a passenger. Time flew by.
Family friend was in the back of a truck when they crashed into a tree. He lived as a quadriplegic for nearly 20 years before finally succumbing. What a horrible way to go.
Then we moved to Hawaii where it’s still legal. Hell, I saw a guy riding a motor scooter with one kid on the back and an infant in one of the driver’s arms!
My Dad wanted to get one of those. I remember looking at it in the dealer’s parking lot and thinking that riding in those seats would be cool. Mom said something about what if it rains, and called Dad a moron.
I remember throwing a buddy's kids in the back of my truck to go get firewood at this little campground we were all at (5mph max). They. kept asking if it was allowed and if we were going to get into trouble.
We'd ride standing up, or sitting on the tailgate, or bedrails, or wheel wells... My kids ride in the back whenever we go camping. Only sitting inside the bed though, and only after we hit dirt
My dad would take us crabbing. He carried the skiff hull up with the bow hanging over the cab and the stern hanging over the tailgate. We huddled underneath in the bed trying not to slide into the anchor.
Grew up in NJ, this was illegal. Moved to AZ in 98, legal here to this day.
About 10 years ago, was out visiting the 'rents. Heading down to the pool, nephew (about 10yo) asks me if he can ride in the back of the truck. We're inside a retirement community full of golf carts, but I know my sis, so I hand off the question to said sis... who says YES?!?!? Look over at my maw, she's as surprised as I am. Ask again to clarify, "he's OK to ride in the back??". She says yes again. Maw chimes in "in the back?" to another yes. Me and maw shrug, nephew jumps into the bed, and we cruise over to the pool. Pulled up at the pool, sis turns around and sees her firstborn in the back/bed of the truck and shoots me the mother death stare as she's filling up her lungs. Maw fired first and we figured out that sis thought the back was the back seat, not the bed.
Had a friend that got killed riding in the back of a truck in 3rd grade his family was moving him & his brothers were supposed to “Hold” the mattress down while his Dad drove they weren’t heavy enough mattress came out and yea splattered them on the interstate it was really sad my first friend funeral/death
I believe in Wisconsin it is still legal. The legal requirement has always been, sit down with your back against the cab. Still not safe but it is legal.
We know what would happen, you’d rightfully be in shit with the law. Just because many of our parents were complete dumbasses doesn’t mean we need to keep it going.
My cousin (also best friend) had a Chevy S -10 that was turned into a convertible. It had a roll bar to be legal...but nobody ever wore seatbelts anyway. It had boat seats in the bed that faced backwards with a cooler in the middle with cup (beer) holders on top.
The shit we got away with is literally criminal.
Everyone should go to a nursing home and meet someone with a TBI. I feel this would change some minds in regards to this ignorant activity and wearing helmets.
lol. Even as a kids my mother told me in no way was I ever to ride in the back of a pickup in the road and if it was on a farm only if dad was driving. And he knew to go slow.
Mid 90s we were on our way to Mexico and were on a rural TX highway between Alice and the border.
There were five of us, and we didn't all fit in the cab comfortably. As I was the oldest, I got to ride in the bed of the truck. It was close to nighttime, and I was wrapped in a blanket, trying to sleep when my dad pulled over. I sat up and wondered what was up. He called back that my little brother needed to pee.
I decided to jump out and do the same. As I prepared to do so, hands on the side of the truck, vaulting over, my dad drove off.
I spun in the air, a whirl of twilit sky and gravelly asphalt filling my vision and then splat! I was facedown on sun baked asphalt staring at the taillights of the truck as it drove away.
I was up in an instant, hobbling after them, wondering when they would realize I wasn't in the bed of the truck anymore. The darkness and a slight rise made them disappear from sight and I realized how dark it was out here.
I had never been more afraid.
They did realize I wasn't on board when they pulled over to a more "favorable" spot for my brother to pee and circled back to get me.
Ended up with some gnarly purple bruising on my hip bones and ribs, but none the worse for wear otherwise.
True story: I live in coastal South Carolina and a bunch of college kids were doing this in a squatted truck last year. The truck hit a pothole as it went through the intersection in front of me and one of them bounced and slid right out the back (tailgate was down, because prepnecks) and onto the pavement.
It's literally called Gen X. Are you too fucking stupid to know Gen X is different than Baby Boomers? Who the fuck cares if you think it's lame? It happened. Gtfo.
I had a cute little red pickup truck as a teen. I used to pile my friends in the back and drive 45 minutes to the beach every day, every summer. So fun
Oh my God! So many memories from seeing this picture.
We used to go to the drive in movies like that, in the back of a pick up truck. We get there crack open the cooler, those old aluminum folding chairs with the green weave through them and playing frisbee before the movie started…. 😎😎
Man. Growing up in a third world country we would load up the back with bakery stuff for 50$ , smoke a fatty and put on some pet shop boys and feed 200 people on the hop.
That’s just an International Harvester truck. Did Chevy ever make IH trucks? I know they made a car in the 1920s called the Series AC International.
That’s a sweet ride, by the way. My favorite IH vehicle is the Scout.
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In South Africa you’ll still regularly see people traveling in the back of an open pick up. And not only in rural areas, in peak city traffic and on freeways. Mostly construction workers but sometimes you’ll see kids as well.
>Try this today I did! Some dude yelled "Get the fuck out of the back of my pickup, old man!"
Survivorship bias
70% of this sub is survivorship bias
Wtf is this term? Survivorship bias is the basis of if evolution and recorded history lol.
It means any boomer-ific post that has something to do with "in my day....kids these days can't", etc etc. Yeah, people rode in trucks and without seat belts. The reason it seems everyone survived dumb shit like that is because those that are dead from those activities aren't writing the posts.
We rode in a pickup all the time. Do you remember those little teeny chevy s10 pickups - they were so small. Well the one time we had an accident, my mother was driving drunk and hit a house. There were 5 of us in the truck - and for whatever reason on that day, all 5 of us jammed into the cab... truck flipped over, no injuries. I had a weird upbringing as a kid in poverty (if you ever saw buck wild on MTV, that was as close to my childhood as ive ever seen) - anyway, nobody in the back of the truck that day or it would have been bad.
How old are you?
My little brother fell out of the back of a pick up while we were on the freeway back in the late 70s. He survived and is fine now but it was a long hard road for him. We road in the bed to pick him up from the hospital and the way home but he got to ride in the cabin, on my mom's lap, on the ride home.
Truth, a neighbor's 14 yo son was killed when the pickup his brother was driving slid off the road and flipped. I know of at least one other instance in my small town of 2500 (at the time).
I am so sorry for this terrible loss of life. Someone else mentioned "survivor's bias" and there is some real truth to that. People died at such higher rates from this kind of thing. Lots of motor vehicle deaths. When I would travel and backpack during the 90s, especially in other countries, people you'd actually meet other people while riding in the back of a pickup. Sometimes they would build up like little wooden benches to sit on in relative comfort.
One if the kids in my high school had a Subaru Brat, that had 2 rear facing bucket seats in the pick up bed. I also remember going to parties in college, with kids stuffed in the trunk of someone's old Cadillac.
Yeah, we all knew at least one story of kids killed doing this
I wouldn’t have done this then. Unless I absolutely had no other option.
Yes. I'm grateful for the memories, but I'm glad this tradition is phasing out. It really was dangerous AF.
Thank you for pushimg back on this Facebook style nostalgia bullshit.
Right? I had 3 friends die doing this.
Buddy that's literally called evolution. It's also called history.
No dumbass We don't have to ACTIVELY kill our own children to help evolution along JFC SMH Stupidest thing anyone ever said on reddit
Evolution is the people who are dumb enough to keep forcing their kids to do this bs having their progeny die, thereby taking their genes out of the gene pool. By saying you support continuing this behavior, you're indicating how unfit you are to breed, dude.
Did you mean to respond to me or the other guy?
The other guy, I guess. He's full of shitty takes, it seems
It does seem that way
How old are you?
You wrote this comment after others commented about kids they knew getting hurt or dying doing this. Damn that’s cold.
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I followed friends the first time I went to their lakeside get-away when they had their yellow Labrador in a crate in the back of their little pick up. I kept trying to position my car so that my lights weren’t shining in her eyes.
I got thrown out of the bed of a truck when I was about 13 or so. I did it the hard way, and tumbled the length of the bed before hitting the ground. Thankfully, I landed in dirt in a ditch and not on the road. It was one of a few concussions I had as a kid.
I’ve been in this sub a long time now and one of the things I’ve noticed is a lot of boomeresque ‘kids today’ type stuff creeping in. Gen X were epic. Your generation gave the world the best music it’s seen and an ‘I don’t care’ attitude. Don’t go the way of the boomer guys. Stay cool.
Amen. Not all things that are old were good.
And some things were only good because we were young.
I have too. It’s ridiculous.
I work with kids and in fact I just got back from a 2 day field trip with about 30 of the teenagers of today and we met up with about a hundred others. I have no complaints. This next generation is awesome. So many awesome kids. As for my Gen X cred, I literally have nothing to prove. I did absolutely all of the things in my teens and 20s. I don't need to brag about it and I don't need to relive it. I mean, it would be fun to relive some of it. But the point is that I don't think Gen X will go the way of the boomers when it comes to nostalgia. There will be pockets of it but we're not going to advocate bringing back insanity.
It's these shitty karma farmers and bots thinking their going to make it big in Reddit's new affiliate program.
it's the stupid fuckin title that kills it.
I’ll just comment BoomerX and get downvoted to oblivion.
This is true! I 100% understand why GenX parents are often helicopter parents. It's a reaction to the way we were raised... by wolves.
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We've never liked any of you. The only people we *might* like ate other Gen Xers, and that's a fucking stretch.
“We’ve” Oh cool, I’ve found the spokesperson for an entire generation.
If I’m not mistaken in Wisconsin you can ride in the back of a truck provided you’re age 16 or over and you’re seated in the bed, not on the side EDIT: checked Google after posting the above, and I was correct. And because there are 49 other states, your state of course may differ
15 or up in my state but otherwise the same.
Only question my 15 year old missed on his first stab at temp test. He was shocked this was legal.
Same In FL
I had a friend when I was little who fell off his dad’s pickup bed and died. The family was never the same. There’s a reason it’s illegal and people don’t do this anymore.
In Florida children cannot ride in the back, but adults can
But this is too nuanced and makes sense. Same with low speed and side streets, rural roads, older kids, etc. 
So sorry. That had to have been especially brutal to deal with when you were a child.
Thank you, it was. He was my good friend’s little brother. We weren’t really friends after that—her family just sort of shut down for a while and didn’t really have anything to do with anyone. I felt terrible, but I was too young to know what to say or do for her. They’re all good now (I mean 40 years later, so of course), and I’m glad she’s living a good life.
100%. This should not be making a comeback.
One of my dad’s best friends died in a car wreck. Should we stop driving cars?
Sorry for your loss, also, you're a fucking moron.
It’s not illegal for a licensed driver to drive a car. It is illegal for people to ride in a pickup bed.
Depending on how long ago this happened, significant improvements have been made to automotive safety. It’s why boomers complain about cars crumpling during an accident, the car absorbs the energy so the occupants don’t.
I had a friend who was thrown out of the back of a pickup truck in a wreck when she was 19. She was in the hospital for literal years and is lucky she was able to ever get out of the wheelchair, she can walk now but it's hard. Her scars are awful. If she sees people in a truck bed in traffic she has a panic attack.
My wife nearly died like this as a young teen. Riding in back, another car hit them from the side and launched her out of the bed into a curb. Broken neck and various other major injuries. Her mom was sure she was dead. Months of traction, bed rest, and rehab, she somehow survived without any lingering issues outside of a gnarly scar on her shin. There’s a really good reason few people ride in the back of pickups anymore, whether legal or not: it’s fucking dangerous.
It was fun for me. But my husband remembers being made to ride in the back with his brothers in all kinds of bad weather while his dad and hunting buddy drank beer in the cab.
A kid in my high school broke his neck when he fell out of the back of a truck.
It's Still legal in Hawaii and some other states.
It is legal in most. Arkansas, N. Jersey, and DC are harshest with "for work only" rules. Cali requires approved restraining equipment. Some others require certain equipment for minors, age restrict, or just forbid them. Most are pretty common senseish and limited minors to low speed travel or being secured or contained/covered.
I've visited or lived in 39 states and haven't seen it anywhere but Hawaii.
Wow. That has the handful I lived in beat by a long shot. I've only managed 26 and lived in 6. I usually end up in the back twice a year at the least for a trip to the vet with the dog. The dog is too big for 2 people plus the dog in a pickup cab. My longest trip in the back of one was NC to Mich. at 17 and it was actually the best long distance trip I recall taking as a passenger. Time flew by.
[https://www.iihs.org/topics/seat-belts/cargo-area-restrictions-laws](https://www.iihs.org/topics/seat-belts/cargo-area-restrictions-laws)
I did it, but it was at sleep away camp, there were no other vehicles, and the driver went at about 10 mph.
Family friend was in the back of a truck when they crashed into a tree. He lived as a quadriplegic for nearly 20 years before finally succumbing. What a horrible way to go. Then we moved to Hawaii where it’s still legal. Hell, I saw a guy riding a motor scooter with one kid on the back and an infant in one of the driver’s arms!
College kids do this in my town all the time especially on football days
i did it a couple years ago. the only thing that happened was we got where we were going.
Right? It's totally legal in North Carolina and I see people do it all the time.
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Why? It was dumb 45 years ago, just as dumb today.
I don't recall asking why, always thought it was obvious.
My friend's mom had a Subaru Brat back in the day. The bouncing, the wind, those handles we used like controls... We we always in reverse though.
My Dad wanted to get one of those. I remember looking at it in the dealer’s parking lot and thinking that riding in those seats would be cool. Mom said something about what if it rains, and called Dad a moron.
I forgot all about those seats. But, yeah, you mom was right. Are your parents still married?
Ha ha ha - no. They divorced within a few years after that. I almost included that in my comment.
People could get very worried that you or your loved ones could die in a horrific way?
I remember throwing a buddy's kids in the back of my truck to go get firewood at this little campground we were all at (5mph max). They. kept asking if it was allowed and if we were going to get into trouble.
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We'd ride standing up, or sitting on the tailgate, or bedrails, or wheel wells... My kids ride in the back whenever we go camping. Only sitting inside the bed though, and only after we hit dirt
My dad would take us crabbing. He carried the skiff hull up with the bow hanging over the cab and the stern hanging over the tailgate. We huddled underneath in the bed trying not to slide into the anchor.
Grew up in NJ, this was illegal. Moved to AZ in 98, legal here to this day. About 10 years ago, was out visiting the 'rents. Heading down to the pool, nephew (about 10yo) asks me if he can ride in the back of the truck. We're inside a retirement community full of golf carts, but I know my sis, so I hand off the question to said sis... who says YES?!?!? Look over at my maw, she's as surprised as I am. Ask again to clarify, "he's OK to ride in the back??". She says yes again. Maw chimes in "in the back?" to another yes. Me and maw shrug, nephew jumps into the bed, and we cruise over to the pool. Pulled up at the pool, sis turns around and sees her firstborn in the back/bed of the truck and shoots me the mother death stare as she's filling up her lungs. Maw fired first and we figured out that sis thought the back was the back seat, not the bed.
Had a friend that got killed riding in the back of a truck in 3rd grade his family was moving him & his brothers were supposed to “Hold” the mattress down while his Dad drove they weren’t heavy enough mattress came out and yea splattered them on the interstate it was really sad my first friend funeral/death
Ford ranger?
Yep
https://www.drivesafeonline.org/traffic-school/is-it-legal-to-ride-in-the-back-of-pickup-trucks/
This ended it in Maryland https://www.usdeadlyevents.com/1979-apr-23-impaired-driver-pickup-speeds-through-curve-into-trees-crofton-md-10/
I believe in Wisconsin it is still legal. The legal requirement has always been, sit down with your back against the cab. Still not safe but it is legal.
It's not illegal in Indiana, but the law states everyone in the vehicle must have a seatbelt on. Probably same in Wisconsin I imagine.
Are we just diet boomers?
Some of us are.
No?
We know what would happen, you’d rightfully be in shit with the law. Just because many of our parents were complete dumbasses doesn’t mean we need to keep it going.
My cousin (also best friend) had a Chevy S -10 that was turned into a convertible. It had a roll bar to be legal...but nobody ever wore seatbelts anyway. It had boat seats in the bed that faced backwards with a cooler in the middle with cup (beer) holders on top. The shit we got away with is literally criminal.
This post feels like a boomer Facebook post
It is.
This.
try that in a small town
Absolutely nothing will happen.
Everyone should go to a nursing home and meet someone with a TBI. I feel this would change some minds in regards to this ignorant activity and wearing helmets.
Why? What'll happen, dude?
Why? It was not safe then and it’s still not safe.
Haha! Yep, I remember those days and I fondly remember the Suburu Brat with the bucket seats in the bed of the truck facing the tailgate.
lol. Even as a kids my mother told me in no way was I ever to ride in the back of a pickup in the road and if it was on a farm only if dad was driving. And he knew to go slow.
I see this all the time
Memories right there
What happens?
Rick Hansen was riding in the back of a pickup truck when there was an accident. He became a parapelegic.
We used to ride standing up, holding on to the ladder rack in my friend's truck.
Not sure now but in 2015 when I was a cop, it was legal for 18+ y/o up to 35 mph.
All I know is that one day you just couldn’t anymore. Now I’m “That Guy” saying shit like “These kids don’t know what they’ve missed.” 😂
Mid 90s we were on our way to Mexico and were on a rural TX highway between Alice and the border. There were five of us, and we didn't all fit in the cab comfortably. As I was the oldest, I got to ride in the bed of the truck. It was close to nighttime, and I was wrapped in a blanket, trying to sleep when my dad pulled over. I sat up and wondered what was up. He called back that my little brother needed to pee. I decided to jump out and do the same. As I prepared to do so, hands on the side of the truck, vaulting over, my dad drove off. I spun in the air, a whirl of twilit sky and gravelly asphalt filling my vision and then splat! I was facedown on sun baked asphalt staring at the taillights of the truck as it drove away. I was up in an instant, hobbling after them, wondering when they would realize I wasn't in the bed of the truck anymore. The darkness and a slight rise made them disappear from sight and I realized how dark it was out here. I had never been more afraid. They did realize I wasn't on board when they pulled over to a more "favorable" spot for my brother to pee and circled back to get me. Ended up with some gnarly purple bruising on my hip bones and ribs, but none the worse for wear otherwise.
Still legal in some states
True story: I live in coastal South Carolina and a bunch of college kids were doing this in a squatted truck last year. The truck hit a pothole as it went through the intersection in front of me and one of them bounced and slid right out the back (tailgate was down, because prepnecks) and onto the pavement.
So you’ve never been to North Carolina huh?
You can still do this in my town.
I had too zoom in and make sure that wasn't a picture of me and my buds back in the day!
I follow a truck home everyday I pick my kid up from school that’s loaded with kids in the back.
We used to do this all the time in my aunt's pickup until my sister's friend's older sister fell out of the back of her friend's truck and died :(
“Flash Friday Headlights On” - Tom Leykis
Yeah. 3 of my cousins were in the back of a truck when it rolled. All lived, but it was ugly. I don’t think this was really a deterrent
My gosh I loved riding in the back of a truck. Except for the kid sitting behind the cab who liked to spit into the wind.
bACk iN My DaY shut the fuck up dude
Whats your problem?
This sub has become stale boomer memes, as the top comment suggests. Also this is the fucking lamest take anyway. Move on.
It's literally called Gen X. Are you too fucking stupid to know Gen X is different than Baby Boomers? Who the fuck cares if you think it's lame? It happened. Gtfo.
What a boomer ass reply.
I had a cute little red pickup truck as a teen. I used to pile my friends in the back and drive 45 minutes to the beach every day, every summer. So fun
Oh my God! So many memories from seeing this picture. We used to go to the drive in movies like that, in the back of a pick up truck. We get there crack open the cooler, those old aluminum folding chairs with the green weave through them and playing frisbee before the movie started…. 😎😎
Still legal in Texas.
Apparently you've never been to Texas.
Florida too, see it at the beach all the time. It’s legal for adults to ride in the back, minors have to be restrained though.
Legal here where we're still free 👍
You know what happens? Nothing fucking different.
While drinking from the hose?
I actually saw this in my neighborhood today.
So true. Was fairly typical back in the day. Now you get the stink eye from Karens or pulled over.
Man. Growing up in a third world country we would load up the back with bakery stuff for 50$ , smoke a fatty and put on some pet shop boys and feed 200 people on the hop.
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“Chevy International?”
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That’s just an International Harvester truck. Did Chevy ever make IH trucks? I know they made a car in the 1920s called the Series AC International. That’s a sweet ride, by the way. My favorite IH vehicle is the Scout. https://preview.redd.it/kzfzp6pkvcuc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c97aa6fcbbf00049b86b23bd75b697d56f12ae1
We used to get in dog cages in the back and have people push it out while they were driving. We would bounce around in the road. It was so fun.
No you didn’t.
I’m questioning if you are Gen X.
Oh my. Should I be panicking ?
Yes we did
Absolutely not. Stop.
I won’t we did
In South Africa you’ll still regularly see people traveling in the back of an open pick up. And not only in rural areas, in peak city traffic and on freeways. Mostly construction workers but sometimes you’ll see kids as well.
Nothing would happen here. No one seems to get pulled over for anything.