Teen stories from the 90s (or earlier) that would never be allowed today

[Martinii]

And most for good reason!

My sister who was 15/16 in 1997 told me the story of when her and her friends (same age) used to go to/hang out at a blokes flat to smoke fags and weed, he was 26. One of her friends was shagging his his upstairs neighbour, also 26, and one day (whilst the girls were playing truant) the guy upstairs's girlfriend went storming upstairs and caught them. She threw a glass at my sisters friend, cutting her face.

The guy downstairs apparently drove them to a&e where she received some butterfly stitches (all in their school uniform) then dropped them off at school 🤔 No way would anyone get away with this nowadays without serious questions!

Do you have any teen stories you'd never get away with nowadays?

Ummm… nearly all of them I can think of! Teenagers are so well behaved nowadays.

On one of the many days I bunked off school, my friend and I went to visit her bf and a mate of his in Wormwood Scrubs. We were 15 / 16, no idea how old these men were, probably in their 20’s but seemed much older to me as a teen. Also no idea why they were banged up.
If my mum had ever found out, I dread to think.
How / why we got in I’ll never know! Didn’t stop me applying to be a prison officer at Holloway 5 years later though 😆

I left school in 1990. More girls in my year dropped out pregnant than went on to any variety of post-school education. We used to go drinking with a few of the teachers. One of the nuttier ones used to do spot uniform checks by jumping out of the shrubbery on the school drive in the mornings, and was also obsessed with girls sitting in an ‘unladylike’ way. ‘Close your legs!’ he would shout in the middle of geography lessons. To this day I associate oxbow lakes with him trying to catch a glimpse of knicker.

My sister was repeatedly sexually harassed by a teacher who was warned several times but never lost his job or had any real repercussions 96/97 or thereabouts

So, so many.
Loads of us in secondary school would regularly go into Oxford on a weeknight and get hammered. I was 14 and got into clubs and pubs and never showed ID. If you were a girl you had a free pass basically. Nobody's parents seemed to care at all.
I never did this (hand on heart, I was far too scared) but loads of girls in my year would regularly steal makeup from the local chemist. Miss Selfridge was also a popular choice.
I also didn't smoke (and was the odd one out) but loads of kids would buy their cigs at the newsagents a few yards from the school gates wearing their uniforms. This was from year 7 age.
I dated a 24 year old man when I was 14. A lot of girls dated much older. Grim.
I really do miss the 90s and I'm glad I was a teen then, even though I've listed a loads of awful things! It was a great time to grow up.

We pretended to be 'camping' in our back gardens at 15/16. We hopped onto a bus after parents went to sleep and went clubbing. Fake IDs. We only got caught when my friend walked into our patio doors because she was so drunk she didn't see the glass! 😂

When I was 16 I went on holiday with my boyfriend and friends for the first time. We had a budget of about £50 each, so after the first few nights we left the campsite and slept on Bournmouth beach for a few nights, and then moved to the New Forest. Where we were woken up once by ponies sniffing at us (pretty cool) and once by a policeman, who seemed fairly unconcerned once he’d established we were neither dead nor proper down and outs.

We used to go to the pub in our lunch hour when we were in Sixth Form, so 16-18. We had no problem getting served and there was always a couple of teachers in there too. We often went back to school pissed for our afternoon lessons.

Oh and we booked a local pub for our Christmas night out (1994), all of us were underage. Had no problem getting served.

I used to nick my parents fags as a teen. Their response was a half hearted telling off (hard to have any credibility telling your teen about the dangers of smoking with a fag in hand) and to switch to smoking Lambert and Butler which were so disgusting I didn't want to smoke them. Nineties parenting win.

Buying vodka in a supermarket as a very young looking 15 year old

Going into town to the beach boulevard aged 15 in tiny skirts and heels. Drinking vodka in the bowling alley toilets and then flirting/getting off with older boys in souped up Vauxhall novas 🫣

I used to nick my dad's ciggies, he used to have that many packs he never noticed! Singed my eyebrows off once lighting a cigarette on the gas stove. 😂

Oh yes, and in 6th form we were supposed to spend Wednesday afternoons doing voluntary or community work. I got my boyfriend to write a letter saying that I was babysitting for his children (he was a year older than me, there were no children). Nobody checked or questioned it, just said fine.

Teenager in the 70s. 2 of my friends age 13 had 18 year old boyfriends, used to tell parents they were sleeping over at each others houses and spent weekends in guest houses with the BFs. Underage drinking in the pubs and clubs was rife. If you looked over 18 you were in. Used to practice saying a fake date of birth if challenged.
I was sat on a bus one night when I was about 16. Also sat on the bus was a girl who I recognised from primary school and I knew her to be 12. She was wearing lots of makeup and high heels. She was sat hand in hand with a man who must have been at least mid 20s.
I always wondered if he actually knew her true age 🙄🙄

In our small country town there was very little to do apart from underage drinking so we did a lot of that. All the pubs and shops turned a blind eye to piss poor fake ID from kids as young as 15/16. I'm afraid there was a fair amount of drink driving too which I look back on with horror now.

Once I got horribly pissed at a Young Farmers barn dance on a disgusting combo of cider with Cointreau that tasted like alcoholic Fanta (DIY alcopops) and had to be taken home in the back of a tractor as no taxis would take a vomit covered girl. I can't really drink cider to this day.

I am amazed that my teen shows zero interest in drinking, smoking or boys (which was pretty well my whole life at her age interspersed with occasional hanging out in shopping malls if we could get to a bigger town). She and her mates like to go to the gym and for walks and play computer games together and apparently drinking and smoking is just tragic and for losers.

We used to go to the under 18s club, we were 14, fine, but my friends sister was 11! 😱 High platform "stripper style " shoes, short skirt, skinny as a rake because essentially she was a child with a child's body, make up etc.

We also used to drive around in a 26 year old guys car which is really scary to think about!

Mandy Smith and Bill Wyman.

My best friend and I once told each others parents that we were going to the towns firework display with other ones family only to jump on the bus alone. We vaguely knew the bus from where we lived went near there but had no idea where to get off or how to get there. We got off at a stop a load of people got off at, and in the end asked someone directions. I remember telling this lovely guy that it was the first time we’d been allowed out by ourselves. It must’ve been 93/94 because the local radio station were at the fireworks and they were playing “Jessie” by Joshua Kadison when we went in and it’s still one of my favourite songs.

I honestly can’t remember how we managed to get home! It would’ve been the bus but goodness knows how we found the stop

I think the OP's story would be called grooming today and most definitely does still happen.

Also the time we convinced a friends parents to let a bunch of us stay on our own in their cottage in a run down seaside town for the week after GCSEs ie we were all 16 or some even 15.

Obviously we brought loads of booze and got stupidly drunk. One night I can remember us trying to figure out if/ how we should call an ambulance for one of my friends who was vomiting and paralytic to the point of unconscious. We decided not to in the end and put her in bed in the recovery position. She was Ok thank goodness

Later in the week we met some very dodgy older men probably in their 20s and went back to their house where we all partook liberally of their cannabis and ecstasy stash and tried to fend off their sexual advances and then went to an illegal rave in a random field with them.

No-ones parents knew anything about it and we told them we'd had a charming time sunbathing and paddling in the sea.

We accidentally got a Yr7 drunk on a school choir trip. (Drinks got mixed up).
Only the 14+yos were supposed to have wine/beer, the 16+ could have anything
Our parents signed a permission slip for this!!!

We could never get served for cigarettes so we came up with the cunning plan of sending the most child like looking one of us in school uniform to sainsburys with £50 of pooled money to buy 100 fags at a time and say they were for our nan. Got Served every time!

A group of 15 year olds collecting all our bits of change together and sending the oldest looking one into the local shop to buy a few bottles of white lightening, that we shared around between us in the woods by the local playground before going home and puking

Also 10% tax on cigarettes bought for you by older kids, in return for them buying them, so you had to give them one out of a ten pack of two out of a twenty (if you had the money for it)

Excellent thread.

Sleeping with dudes in their 20s from aged 16. Drinking, smoking, passing out in fields.

Best one: Drunk driver who was boyfriend of mate was banged up after scoring some coke from a dealer, getting high and driving my mate around - crashed onto a roundabout As police were on rounds. He had previous for dealing, driving under the influence and theft (we had no idea) He got less than a year for it I think.

80's. Going to the pub at 14, clubbing at 15. No ID required. Moved in with 21 year old at 16!
My 16 year old is aghast that I moved out so young, don't think he has plans to go anywhere for quite some time.
Am sure a lot of the stuff we got up to back then still goes on but to a much lesser extent it seems. My ds and his friends are all so well behaved and have no interest in drinking down the park thankfully, you're more likely to find them at the gym! I'm so pleased mine is nothing like me , my poor parents.