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?

Using teacher training days as an opportunity to wander the streets drinking cheap cider. We made it a bit of a tradition!

Oh yeah, how could l forget the free periods in the pub! I’m not sure if the teachers didn’t care or were just totally oblivious. Then again they were often smoking themselves silly in the staff room, you would knock on the door, eventually someone would open it and loads of smoke would come bellowing out

@LoobyDop We did the same thing on a different beach! No phones of course so our parents had no idea that we weren’t in the youth hostel.

Many many teachers sleeping with pupils in yr 10/11, everyone knew and it was just sort of normal and accepted.
Group of teachers would take group of yr 11s to Ireland every summer after GCSEs for 'Irish music club'. Nobody was Irish, none of the teachers were music teachers and no Irish music to my knowledge was ever played.
Lots of 14 year old girls with 22 year old boyfriends.
I never did anything particularly awful, although I did once end up in hospital having my stomach pumped while dressed as a St Trinians girl.

Did anyone else go to ‘balls’ - these involved an entrepreneurial guy from the boys school booking a function room in a hotel and selling tickets to anyone from about year 10 upwards. Somehow this circumvented all licensing laws and meant we could all rock up and get hammered from about 14 onwards. People used to get smashed, see how many people they could snog in a night and joints were passed around - invariably some parent would be tasked with picking us up as we tried not to puke in the car. Mid 90s.

Had my first cigarette aged 12! Everyone was obsessed with drinking alcohol from 13+ I remember once a friend took some vodka in an Evian bottle into class and we kept sipping it and giggling! As a 16 year old I went on a date with a policeman in his twenties (I cringe now). Grew up in a middle class family in a pretty affluent area, had older brothers who smoked and drank and me and my friends thought it was so cool so wanted to follow in their footsteps! House parties in my teens were crazy too... always lots of booze and sexual things happening! Keeping my daughter under lock and key when she gets to that age!

@ToxicChristmas I know a 15 year old girl who dated a 50 year old man and later married him! Nobody batted an eyelid!

Also, memory unlocked about Miss selfiridge and their make up! I never shoplifted either. Just have fond memories of all their amazing and skimpy party dresses and loads of glitter make up

Have to agree with @LaPalmaLlama about today's youth. When I look at my teens and 20 somethings and their friends, they're very different to me and my friends back in the 80s and 90s. Drinking culture is different, not just the fact it's so much harder to drink underage, but also the fact it's much more acceptable to not drink. In my day everyone drank, you were ribbed and bullied for being boring and dull otherwise. It's also much more expensive these days to go pubbing and clubbing every weekend.
Social media definitely plays a huge part in their lives. Everything is documented.
Regarding sex, I think we're all more clued in to unwanted pregnancies and STDs now than we were. Even in the 90s there wasn't always a massive need for condoms because practically every girl went on the pill. I wasn't aware of half the STDs you can get when I was 15/16/17, whereas now they're teaching it in schools from 13 onwards. I think a lot of teens just aren't as interested in sex as they are in a ton of other things too. It feels a lot more 'complicated' to phrase one of the teens I know.

@LoobyDop actually crying with laughter at this! I had to volunteer too. Went to Oxfam Bookshop stayed an hour then met up with friends for a pint and fag at the grand old age of 16 😂😂

Yep @BellaEllaWella would have drinks tokens and chain smoke! I was never sick from booze but from chain smoking

Drinking white lightening and 20/20 in park, smoking your 10 embassy number 1 (all purchased from the local offy with the lunch money from school that week). Had a local pub that was basically a youth club with a bar, all of us were 15/16 yrs old. Clubbing from 15. Lots of debauched house parties and village halls hired for parties where one of the kids would DJ, everyone would throw up and a few kids would have sex. Hitchhiking between friends house. Get stoned in a house that had been built but no planning permission so never completed - originally titled by us all 'the house'. Shoplifting from body shop (Ananya perfume sticks were my jam). Smoking in burger king with those little disposable metal ashtrays.

We went out around the pubs all the time when we were underage, nobody cared!
During gcses a few of us would.go down to the pub near school between exams!!
We only played pool & bought soft drinks then as we were often going back to school later but we'd literally go back at the weekend in regular clothes and buy alcohol!
My dad even used to take me out to the local pub where he'd buy me cider and get me to help with the pop quiz! I was 14/15 at the time and it was a school night!

I don't have any because I was a goody two-shoes, didn't like alcohol, didn't fancy boys and looked really young so I couldn't feasibly start going out until I was actually 18 and had ID.

There was a house on our estate that was for sale that that was empty and the estate agents hadn't locked the door. Me and my mate used to tell my parents we were going there for peace and quiet to study but really we had lads round , looking back we were 16 and they were in their 20's .

Where do I start?!

Chroming? We were doing butane gas in the woods in 1990.
Fags, no problem.
Weed was solid. Proper red eye from that shit.
Out all night at a rave? Staying at a mates, can't remember their parents landline number.
Too much E? Orange juice allegedly (never worked)

Going on a school activity holiday to France and mate and I coming home with new boyfriends (activity leaders who were students).

I also went to Glastonbury in 1983 (before it was commercialised).

Took LSD for the first time. Also got stoned and practically fell unconscious the first night.

Met a long-haired hippy guy there and we hitched back home together. Slept on a motorway slip road (on the ground 😂), got picked up by a dodgy lorry driver the next day because he thought we were both girls!

When I got back to my home town, I lay down and went to sleep on a bench on a main road (because I didn't want to go home). An old woman took me back to her house and fed me and gave me fortified wine.

Them was the days!!

My children were all at local grammar schools,they were meeting in local park ,smoking and drinking vodka 🙄They all got their A levels so all dispersed to Uni and are now in late 20s with great jobs and I don’t think they have had a cigarette since 6th form. Just think it’s a part of finding themselves and pushing boundaries.
They all went to Reading Festival post GCSEs and had their last hoorah !

This all very familiar! I got a summer job at the other end of the country when I was 16. Went home afterwards, for A levels, but spent a lot of time hitching about to go back and work weekends. Lived in lots of shared houses and staff quarters, so doing adult stuff wasn't odd. I think teens now are at home longer, and more dependant overall, perhaps?

I had a 25 year old boyfriend when I was 15; he was a horticulturalist in the garden centre I worked at on weekends and in holidays (I used to run the cafe so the manager could have Sundays off!). He was one of the nicest men I've ever known, and we got on so well. I still don't think it was odd/inappropriate.

Bunking off 6th form to go to the pub with the teachers
Teachers used to put a bet on for you at the bookies
Buying a quarter bottle of gin from the supermarket cigarette counter on Friday lunchtime for the night out
History teacher used to smoke in the cupboard
One of English class was shagging the deputy head- she married him and they had loads of children
Several times a girl gave birth in the loos

Hot rocks from solid leaving burn marks in all my clothes 🤣

And yes people did gas too, or lighter fluid ffs 🤯

Going drinking with the teachers and snogging them (just to say I didn’t do the snogging but did have my breasts squeezed in school more than once and my bottom smacked). Left school in 1999.

My 19yo neighbour got a 12yo girl pregnant. He had a couple of other girlfriends in their early teens, then a couple of years later when he was about 21 he got a 14yo pregnant. No police involvement whatsoever.

When we were 13 the 24yo pool attendant chatted up my mate and shagged her in the back of his car while I waited, then told her she was a slag and kicked her out. Again, no police involvement.

I really hope this sort of stuff doesn’t happen any more because it’s disgusting how adults just overlooked statutory rape in those days.

I’d consider myself and my friends at the better behaved end but we were going to pubs and clubs by 16, it was completely normal and there were no issues with ID. Our sixth form college had parties at nightclubs on weeknights with the bar serving despite it being clear the majority must be under 18. Other girls in our year were going clubbing from 13/14, and lots were seeing much older men in their 20s which was seen as cool.

Walked into a bar with my mate. Barmaid looked at us and said "I don't know how old YOU are(pointing at me), but you are not 18! (pointing at my friend)

We went to the next pub and got served straight away.

I was 14 my friend was 12.

1972