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?

One of the worst things me and my friends did was organise a stripper to come to my friends 16th party at her parents house. Her parents had gone out for a few hours but were pretty strict. We charged the other girls from school about £3 each and even allowed her 11 year old sister to watch!

Worst part was one of the girls parents were super strict and came to collect her. The stripper was half dressed walking out. Her parents asked who it was and she said it was friends brother who was on his way out

I have so many stories when I think back to the 90s!

The care taker at my secondary school uses to tell pupils his name was "Hard shag" and if he saw a boy and girl kissing he would stare and say he would like some of that. How he wasn't sacked I gave no idea

Just remembered my friend bringing a hip flask (!) full of whisky in to school on the last day before Christmas holidays. Three of us gradually got shit faced and were in the afternoon Christmas carol assembly with the local British Legion, vicar and pensioners lunch club. We were giggling hysterically and rolling around the floor like a right bunch of idiots. We got booted out by the head and got a right bollocking, but despite probably being visibly drunk nothing was done.
The PE teacher used to wallop the boys round the back of the head. I remember her dragging one out of the changing rooms by his ear for lighting his farts with deodrant spray.
The teachers really never gave a shit about if we turned up or got good grades. I skived an entire term of maths because I hated it. They didn't tell my parents, I just got told off.
One teacher had a physical altercation with a pupil -a stand up fight. Didn't get the sack.
This was all at a very respectable Cotswolds school.

Oh god I was a teen in the 90s

We used to get into this blokes convertible Audi who used to drive round near our school.
he was prob in his late 20s/30s

My mate ended up going on a date with hkm and shagged him after. and then we never saw him again

Another friend used to fancy this bin man that we'd see on the way to school, we were probably 14/15 and he was again late 20s or 30s and we dared her to go up to him and ask for a snog and he obliged

When I was 15 my group of friends made friends with an 18 year old who was happy to buy us alcohol and hang out with us.
Me and him got close when we were drinking and although we didn't have sex, we did everything else in terms of sexual activity.
Back then I thought he was so cool and it was amazing hanging out with him.

But now?

I think what did an 18 year old want with 15 year old girls?

Well I gave him what he wanted didn't I

I'm too switched on to what kids get upto because I did it all. My daughter will get away with nothing 😂

If we couldn't get served in the off license (because we were 14) we would wait round the corner and ask adults to go in and buy it for us and they mostly said yes.

If we couldn't get into the pub (because we were 14) we would wait until some older guys came along and ask if we could walk in with them, pretending to be their girlfriends and they usually said yes.

I doctored my actual birth certificate to make fake ID

Our PE teacher was dating a student and it was an open secret (she was 16 but even so).

Strippers were commonplace at 18ths- our town was small so there was only one stripper and she was at ALL the 18ths.

Went to a party at a teachers house. Loads of booze there, one of the year 11’s had sex with the French exchange student in the attic

In the pub Tuesday, Friday and Saturday nights from being 15. Would buy a half return on the bus and then go out drinking. Never got asked for ID. Then pub at lunchtimes and free periods in sixth form, my sister used to regularly snog our tutor at collage. (Thirties and married, she was 16). No one cared. At 16 my first boyfriend was 21. All normal back then.

Honestly, the data suggests not. Some are doing it but a lot has changed that means they're not

IDing for drink and fags is SO much stricter now. When I was 14 the shop assistant was thinking "if there's any way I can persuade myself that she might be 18 I won't ID her" now they're all "think 25. Sorry bitch. No Malibu for you, and you need to be 18 to buy that energy drink too"

Social media means that teens are much more image conscious and worried about being video'd doing something embarrassing or having that news go round like wildfire. They're all about their brand/ narrative

Just a general decline in going out- probably due to online culture.

The recent data on the decline in sex amongst teens and twenty somethings was staggering-

My parents bought me a trip to Amsterdam for my 18th. They totes knew what I was going for! In the 90s

Edited to add it wasn’t for the red light district 🤣

Late 80's I was going clubbing from age 14, no fake id required.

This is all so familiar 🙈
Going to Ann Summers parties for groups of 15/16 year old girls because someone’s older sister was a rep
Getting a 16th birthday card with a lottery ticket, a cigarette and a condom stuck inside from friends
Going on a bus holiday to Spain post GCSEs with a load of friends (and a load of pensioners 🤣)

It’s bringing it all back…. God I loved the 90s

I don’t think my kids have nearly as much fun.

I went on a 6th form school trip in 1990 to Russia. We all stayed up to the early hours drinking vodka with the teachers. Me and a friend bought more supplies of black market vodka from a hotel worker in the hotel basement at 2 in the morning. Never told my parents about any of this

Going to the pub at lunchtime in between A level exams. (I got As)
Going out with a 37 year old, aged 18. Hanging out with his mates as if this was normal. I was the one who ended it because he was old and boring!
Several classmates had flings with teachers. No one blinked.
I was at a boarding school. Girls used to go out at night to meet boyfriends, no one had a clue where anyone was most of the time.

SO much underage drinking. I'd spend evenings in the pub from about 15 and I had "strict" parents because they demanded to know which pub I was boozing in. I had (still have) big boobs which means I never got ID'd. It was always me and our friend who was 6'5 at 15 who got sent to buy the drinks 😂.

All late 90s.

Buying tonnes of booze aged 14 from various shops who didn’t seem to care less.

Telling each others parents we were all staying at each others houses, drinking all the booze in the park then crashing at my mates house who’s dad worked nights and didn’t know there was about 6 of us asleep in the house.

Taking loads of acid, god knows where it came from.

Going to a rave in a city about an hour away in a disused warehouse, drinking, smoking loads of weed, can’t actually remember how we got home, I was about 16 ish.

Loads of my mates ’dating’ blokes in their early twenties when we were 14/15.

During 6th form my boyfriend was a weed dealer, smoked far too much, would’ve got much better A levels had I not - I must’ve reeked of smoke, nobody seemed to bat an eyelid.

Drinking vodka from my parents booze cupboard on school lunch breaks and going back to school, used to do this quite regularly when we all had double art 🤣

Regularly going to the pub from aged 14 onwards, no issues getting served whatsoever, we would’ve gone more but drinks in the park were cheaper 😂

I swear how I’m not dead in a ditch is a miracle.

I've actually got a photo of our school PE teacher hugging one of my mates with his hands clearly groping her bum. It was in public at an athletics meeting too! She looks pretty happy about it as we all thought he was gorgeous and the 'cool teacher'

Aged 14 in 1995 I went to a 'sleepover' at a friends - or so I told my parents.

Whilst I did start at this sleepover, a chef from the hotel where I worked weekends picked me and my friend up and we went to a club. After we went back to the chefs house and my friend hooked up with one of the lads. She was 14 he was at least 10 years older and they were at it all night!

To this day my parents never found out, I'd be mortified if my kids done this today.

That is my favorite - respect!

Going to the pub with my (tee-total) dad after passing my driving test and ordering a celebratory G&T. In my school uniform. And being greeted as an old friend by the barman!!

About 1997 went to the pub early one August afternoon, ordered a round of double vodka & cokes.

Barman, recognising us as we’d been going in there a few years, says ‘you celebrating something girls’

‘Yeah we’ve just got our GCSE results’ says us.

Clearly pointing out that not only were we only 16, but we’d been getting served for years, he gave us the drinks and never batted an eyelid 🤣

I was a teen in the late 80s/early 90s and looking back a lot of men got away with grooming young girls because their motivations were just not questioned often enough and there were no real safeguards. Just a few examples

• Local school with a 6th form decided to start admitting adults to their 6th form. That year there was just 1 adult 'pupil'- a man in his early 40s who could then hang around at lunch time with children as young as 11/12 and after school in the art studio with GCSE and A level pupils and no supervision. He went out with my friend when she was 16 and school saw it as no different from other lower sixth pupils dating upper sixth pupils. No one said 'hang on, why would a grown man want to go back to school rather than the adult education college down the road that has the same A level options?'
• Local night club ran under 18s evenings, with no alcohol sold and advertised to school children from age 14. Men in their 20s/30s were admitted without question, even when they were 'making friends' with young girls.
• A friend (14) used to get the bus to a nearby independent girls' school (wearing uniform, so very obviously a child). She and another girl got chatting to a couple of post men in their mid 20s one morning and over a few months they went from saying hello, to leaving early to be able to have a chat, to arranging to meet them from breakfast and eventually on to 'dating'. This was all done very openly.

Drinking at the beach on Friday and Saturday nights with half my year from 13.

Drinking in pubs from 15. Going clubbing every weekend at 16. If you were a girl, you were never asked for id & could get served anywhere.

At age 14/15, Meeting random men in their 20s at the park, thinking they were so cool, getting in their cars, driving round wirh them for a few hours then going back to their flat above the takeaway. Parents knew about this & didn't mind.

Going out at night in the middle of the winter in a short satin dress (actually a nightie!) With no coat to drink at your friend's house as they had 'cool' parents. Those parents also bought us all the booze we could drink from year 10 onwards.

My 2 DC are now over 18 & I know for a fact they haven't even done a 1/4 of what I did at 15!

They also think I was groomed as my first proper boyfriend was 22 when I was 17 - I meet him in a nightclub! My parents let him sleepover regularly after a few weeks of us getting together - all normal. My DC think it is awful and it was abusive. It really wasn't & I'm still in touch with him now - he was a good guy & we were together for a few years.

Times have changed so much & I'm glad I grew up in the 90s , we had so much more fun than kids now (although I often wonder how I didn't end up dead doing some of the things I used to....)

@SgtOliviaBenson yes! Us too. Pub in study periods while doing A-levels.

Regularly skipped classes too.