You're 16 and it's 6:00 PM on a Friday evening. What are you doing?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Me: Getting ready to go to a dance somewhere.

[zanana1]

1. Driving around with my girlfriends.

Yup. Pathetic.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. That's called cruising!

[bottomofthehill]

3. When I was in high school a long time ago, long

I would be looking for someone’s older brother or sister to buy the weekends beer for us.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. That was one of my friend's older brother Bob. Always willing to help a fella out!

[bottomofthehill]

8. Good friend to have.

In the winter we could get a couple cases and hide them in the basement bulkhead. They would stay nice and cold there. Sometimes off cold as a few would freeze. The summer was more Just in Time purchases as there was no place to hide it and keep it cold. The girls mostly stand Riunite wine ( Rosatto or Lambrusco). The twist off was the key. We drank red white and blue, Miller high life, Bud. Schaffer, even occasionally Schlitz. What ever we could get our hands on. Occasionally Molson, labatts or moosehead once in a while Heffenfeffer

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. Our default purchase was a pint of cherry vodka and a quart of PBR.

[bottomofthehill]

14. In the north east it was blackberry brandy or Dr McGillicuddys menthomint

The food Doc also had a cherry and root beer

[Solly Mack]

4. Working

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Friday was my night off!

[Solly Mack]

7. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were my primary working days.

When off, we "hung out".

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Reading while tuning in to AM on my transistor radio. ❤ nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. 😄

[multigraincracker]

12. Warming up for the

kick off or tip off.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. 👍🏻

[hunter]

15. I'm breathing lead solder fumes as I build a computer.

It's possible I'm still a little angry that my grandma has told me yet again that I need some kind of social life and how I'd soon see that quitting high school was a terrible mistake.

My parents at this point are too worn out to argue with me.

The next decade of my life is going to be a billion times more complicated as my mind goes sideways. (I don't think it was the solder fumes, but they probably didn't help.)

At twelve years old I was reasonably certain I could figure the world out. At sixteen I still had some hope. At seventeen and eighteen the only thing holding me together was my OCD.

Then all hell broke loose.

[EYESORE 9001]

16. Don't know yet...looking for a party

You heard of any parties going on?

[Binkie The Clown]

17. Sitting in my room reading Dickens and listening to classical music. Yes, I was a major nerd. nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. Working

My first job, from age 16-19, was at a movie theatre. 1974-77

I didn’t have but maybe a handful of Friday or Saturday nights off (before 11pm anyways) during that period.

[onecaliberal]

19. Either working my car hop job at A&W, or cruising Main Street with friends.

[Shrike47]

20. Getting ready to go out with my boyfriend, either a movie or live music or football...

High school stuff but no drinking.

[Ocelot II]

21. At 6:00 I'd have been having supper with my family; after that

I'd be either watching TV or reading in my room, feeling like crap because once again I hadn't been invited to some dance or party or anything else. I was an unpopular nerd who never once went out when I was in high school.

[gibraltar72]

22. Pumping gas for $19.9 cents a gallon.

[csziggy]

23. This time of year? Starting home from an all day horseback ride

In the summer, I'd leave home before dawn, be out on the road by sun up, ride until it got hot, take an afternoon break (sometimes a nap under a tree), then ride home, getting back just before the sun went down. It wasn't unusual to put thirty miles under the saddle in a day. And I'd do it seven days a week unless Mom came up with some other plan - which I always resisted.

[surrealAmerican]

24. I'm either babysitting ...

... or home eating dinner with my parents.

[Niagara]

25. I'm either waiting tables at a chain restaurant that was popular for it's buffet...

or I'm out cruising with my friends.



I don't believe that I got too many Friday nights off work though.

[msongs]

26. playing with yer phone looking for a better offer nt

[CloudWatcher]

27. Getting ready to go to the football game

Friday nights was high school football. I was the school photographer, great view from the sidelines

[Nittersing]

28. Roller skating at the rec center!!

[Wicked Blue]

29. In NYC at an Estonian folkdancing practice

I had no social life at my highschool.

[rownesheck]

30. Playing the new

Super Nintendo game i just rented from the video store down the street.

[NightWatcher]

31. Working at the video store from 6-1am

[alphafemale]

32. Probably roller skating, or on the way there.

Big thing in the late 70'sand early 80's

[gratuitous]

33. Getting ready to go to the game

At least during football and basketball season. Maybe a late evening working on the school newspaper. Yup, boring as it sounds.

[lpbk2713]

34. I never did do much on Friday night.

But Saturday night was usually for roller skating.
Most times we would be there until closing time.