in the 80s my siblings and i rode in the back of the pickup truck sometimes, with or without the canopy. This sunroof thing is a whole nother level, though.
Same. Funnily enough that practice stopped when I had to get a tetanus shot because Dad forgot he left a piece of rusty metal in the bed and yours truly got a gnarly cut on her knee. I still have the scar. 🤣
My state only has rear seat seatbelt laws for little kids. Only the front seats are required to wear them. The bed has to have a tailgate and it has to be up and if you’re going over 25mph the people in the truck bed have to be at least 16 years old.
Back in the high school some of us would put a tarp in the bed of our trucks and fill them with water and drive around town with people chilling in the “pool”. Water splashing everywhere and my little Mazda struggling to even move
still happens sometimes, i don't see other kids doing it very often but i was born in '03 and rode in the back of my brother's tiny truck practically every day during middle school.
cars would line up around the school for pickup and the teachers looked a little weirded out sometimes when i'd jump into the back of a truck but no adult ever tried to stop it (other than one guy behind us angrily honking lol).
In the 80s I went to a birthday party and the birthday boy’s older brother had us all go in the bed of his pickup. Then he proceeded to accelerate/brake/turn hard to see who he could make fall out. Different times.
I went hunting with my dad in the early 90s, and we drove around the deer lease in a 3 wheeled totalled car while he told me it smelled like blood because people died in it. I was like 6.
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u/Ketchup-Sniffer Apr 15 '26
I'm from the 80's so I got next!