What did you do as a teenager that would never be allowed to happen now?

[slippyfeet]

Reading threads today, one in particular about teenagers having phones has got me thinking about how times are so different now and the sort of things myself and my friends got up to as teens that just wouldn't happen in a widespread way today. Mostly a good thing, from a safety perspective, some of the things we did were downright dangerous and stupid. I was a teenager in the late 90's early 00's.

For me it would be:

• Arranging sleepovers where we'd all say we were staying at someone else's house when in fact we were all just staying out overnight, usually with a bottle of something alcoholic and the local teenage boys
• Sneaking out from sleepovers to wander villages in our pyjamas, god knows why
• Going to nightclubs and pubs underage (pre-photo ID being a thing)
• Watching films at the cinema that we were too young for
• Sneaking magazines with sex in them (hello MORE Magazine) to read about when parents were in bed
• Playing spin the bottle, properly, with the boys

Most of ours revolved around illicit alcohol actually. I should add that we all grew up unharmed to be responsible drinkers with good jobs and families now, in our mid thirties (I still have mostly the same friends!)

Things that don't happen now nearly as often:

1. Smoking at the school gates every break. ("We're outside school sir, you can't tell us what to do")
2. Getting stoned every lunch time. It must have been so obvious.
3. Going raving at 15, driving around the countryside looking for a party. Getting home at 6am. Must have been allowed as don't remember getting into trouble over it.
4. Parents drink driving all the time.
5. Working 16 hour shifts as 'waitresses' at weddings.for £1.50.an hour. Being given a bottle of wine from.the coupke though we were 12.
6. Avoiding the perverts but having lots of friends hang out with them. 13 year olds going to 20 year olds.flats at lunchtime.
7. Going to the pub from 13 every Friday. Someone could always get served.

Just generally: my parents having literally no idea where I was most of the time. I was a ‘good girl’, so they just accepted what I said/turned a blind eye, but I was never where I said I was going.