Is it possible to go back and enjoy your car rides with mom and dad again?
My only memories of riding with both parents consist of them arguing in the car
That sucks. That is what it is like for me now, but it didn't always use to be like that.
No because they’re dead
You can never go back.
The secret is becoming aware of the fact that, one day, you'll miss today like you miss yesterday.
Why would it be?
Because I want it to be possible.
Not anymore. Imagine your days long road trips in this. Hook up a console and play multiplayer with your bros.
>already experienced this reality a couple of times now
How old are you manbabies?
IDK, I was nostalgic for my 4-10 years old years once I was 12 and I still am. I don't miss being 11-22, but I have always missed being 4-10.
fuck
Nigga, no. I'm 30. I sit up front and listen to Dad rock now while my kids play games in the back. It's pretty cool
Exactly this. That's why I try to enjoy the moment. It's honestly the same with music. You think "le born in wrong generation" but you'll grow nostalgic of the music that's coming out now in 10 years.
>hop in a mildew-filled car for an afternoon of headaches from the stench and parents screaming at each other and at us
was that peak childhood?
>Could only play Gamecube for a few minutes in the car before it shut off
>Dreamcast worked longer
I try to sit with my dad in the front sometimes, but if he turns on the radio, my mon and sister will instantly say to either turn it down/off (Because they don't like his old timey music) and then a fight starts.
Not true, a lot of people I know listen to the exact same music they listened to when they were 14, 10 years ago.
I don't mean same style or genre, I mean literally the same music.
I don't even listen to music that was made when I was alive. I always hated music until I was given access to older music.
i get sick in the cars
I got motion sickness after two minutes so no
Fuck, this. And my dad was an angry alcoholic boomer.
Why the fuck did they always want to go out so often if they were just going to yell at each other and us all the time and not enjoy anything?
I miss my mom
>that kid who couldn't do this because he'd get car sick
OH NO NO NO NO
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They should make a steering wheel mount, so that you dont have to waste all that precious game time during your commute.
How the fuck is anyone able to play a gameboy or use their fucking phone when riding in a car? If I so such as look down to play my gameboy I immediately start getting car sick and have to keep my head up straight or else I'll end up fucking puking.
Find a mommy gf
Probably narcacistic. I was the only one who tried to avoid fights instead of causing them. IDK why everyone in my family wants to hate each other.
because you have loser genes
some people just don't get car sick
You are low iq.
>dad would always get mad at me for playing my DS in the car, said I should "pay more attention to my surroundings" as if I was going to be driving soon when I was like 9
>as soon as I turned 14, any car ride with them would turn into the berating me for not having a job as soon as I was legally able to
>kicked me out as soon as I turned 18 and I haven't spoken to them in the 5 years since
My aunt tells me my dad asks about me a lot and gets upset when I talk to other members of the family instead of him, but why would a parent who's been so awful expect me to care about him when he was the one who made me leave? I don't get it.
>having mommy and daddy drive you around
>not abusing free lyft rides by making alt accounts every time you need a ride
I kinda miss not being aware of all the shit my family was trying to hide from us when we were children. We used to go on long-ass trips and I used to look out the window like there was nothing to worry about
this was a total meme. Everyone gets carsick playing video games or reading in the car.
shit genes
I never did, I only get motion sickness on boats. I don't know how people can get sick in the car so often.
>parents plan trip to local festival
>doesn't really interest me, ask if I can skip
>"No."
>why?
>"Because I said so! Now shut up and get in the car!"
>get in car, mom takes another 20 minutes to get ready
>parents argue every second of the trip
>get to festival, it's boring shit, nobody has any fun
>tired, hungry
>finally time to go home
>"Hold on, we need to go to Home Depot. No, this can't wait but you can stay in the car."
>wait in hot ass car for 3 hours
>parents come back empty-handed and are arguing in the parking lot as they walk up to the car
>Sit in silence until we get home
>Get grounded because my shoe laces were untied when I step out of the car
>next week
>"Hey user, you're coming with us to another event whether you like it or not."
What the fuck was their problem?
I don't beleive you, the fresh air from a boat helps prevent sickness. It's only if their is no breeze and the boat is very still that you get sick. If it's windy and the boat is moving you don't get sick.
Even if I took a gravol a car would make me feel "dizzy" even if not queezy if I would read or play games. it probably has something to do with looking down.
I just talk to my dad as an adult now and I have an enjoyable time.
BS parents aside, sometimes you need to try and have fun instead of just waiting for it to happen. If you want to be unhappy at the festival you will be. This is pretty much the two types of people in my extended family.
soulless
>parents bought me a Gameboy Color
>it was Red in the catalogue
>Arrives Pink
>Not allowed to take it out the house in case it got stolen
>Just spent car rides reading Goosebumps and pretending a little super hero was running along side the car
I wish I could go back to a simpler time.
Nah, I have ridden on boats on steady lakes many times that didn't make me sick at all. I went into the pacific ocean on a boat once with my family to fish and within 30 minutes I wanted to throw up. I was like that for a few hours before we got back. The boat was rocking an insane amount. The guy told me to look at the horizon to feel better, but no matter how long I watched I didn't feel better. I decided I felt the least nauseous laying down. I have never gotten sick in a car ride, roller coaster, or on a steadyish boat. Not everyone is like you.
Sounds like to me he was just trying to make you learn from your mistakes in his own way. Talk to your father.
My parents were too poor to get a car. I used to get new games and lego at the charity store cause the clerks would feel bad for me
No. I actually did go on a family trip and got to play on my old DS on the road ...I had to stop after not even ten minutes because I started getting car-sick.
Growing up kind of sucks, honestly
Nope, just the unlucky ones like you get sick in cars. I used to read or play my Gameboy pretty much anytime I was in a car when I was a kid. Pokemon crystal on a long drive was fuckin comfy. I've never had motion sickness in my life other than one time my bro and I went on the same rollercoaster half a dozen times in the same half hour.
Sounds like he's a retarded fucking dickhead, simple as. You are under no obligation to talk to him and dont let anyone tell you "ohh b-b-but he's your daaaadd.!" Your birth is a foregone conclusion, that doesn't mean jack shit
>gameboy SP
>Talk to your father.
Shut up cuck, don't do this fuck him
If anything you should do the opposite, send him a letter saying you want nothing to do with him, he was a failure as a parent and he won't be invited to your wedding or be allowed to see his grandkids to really rub salt in the wound
Combos are fucking nasty
>science camp as a kid
>everybody has to choose an activity to focus on
>too afraid of parasites to choose swimming in the lake
>wanted to try archery but too afraid of being rejected or failing
>end up not choosing anything and getting put in the small group of people handling earthworms
>at night time batteries run out of flashlight
>too afraid to bring it up to counselor because I didn't want to look stupid
>have to walk back alone in the dark
>last day, finally
>everybody has to play some sort of dodgeball/capture the flag/tag game with one another
>scared of getting injured
>tell the counselors I feel sick
>get to sit on the bench and look at the clouds
>picked up by mom, last kid there
>she takes me out to eat
>get chicken strips with buffalo sauce
>fuck yeah chicken strips
This. Fuck that cringe anime mentality of buuuh muh family, it means nothing
You have caretakers until you don't and then those caretakers become your friends. Or they don't and you have no reason to talk to them, it's as simple as that
this is bs sometimes people are just dumb and bad
this guys under no obligation to be the better person and rekindle that relationship
but chances are hes gonna end up like his dad when hes older genes and childhood are just too strong
Worm light
Wasn't great but it was something.
Maybe the festival was just shit
>"b-but you need to make the best of it"
Boomer rubbish, you literally don't, you will save money, time and have more fun sitting at home playing videogames then going to some dull festival themed around fall with shitty rides, overpriced food and D-list bands
>The struggle
It's called turning on the light above the glovebox.
>it's as simple as that
back to plebbit hylic
I just gave up playing and turned it off. Who would seriously try that?
It is possible, but I have had fun a in a lot of places when some of my cousins were throwing a tantrum the whole time because they didnt want to be there. I am sure in their mind there was 0% chance of having fun when they easily had the chance if they weren't so concerned about being embarrassed by family or whatever.
most parents would go apeshit on you if you tried that
To continue, I played lots of video games as a kid, but I always made the effort to hang out with family when I had the chance.
My parents did this all the time lmao.
I remember one time where they were arguing over some dumbshit and they crashed the car and my dad crippled his leg.
What kind of big retard didn't just use a booklight
>gaming in the car
No thanks I prefer not breaking into sweats and wanting to throw up in the backseat from motion sickness
>motion sickness
Subhuman
same
This
I've dreamt of my dead mother the other day and before i woke up i started sobbing telling her pls to not go
I've never shed a tear IRL but many times i dream of them being close to death and me crying hoping that they won't die
Man, this hit heavy. Fuck
I have motion sickness and my father drives like he's a stock-car racer. I never enjoyed family car rides.
Jesus fucking christ. I feel bad for you too. Were your parents drug addicts or beaners?
Shit advice from 4hanz of all places, color me surprise.
Y'all are short sighted malignant dipshits shilling the absolute worse advice imaginable.
>Waaah mommy and daddy tried to instill discipline and lessons growing up I can't wait to adult so I can do whatever I want whenever I want and cut my mommy and daddy out of my life because they FORCED me to exist ÓÒ
Yea sure that user's father may have been harsh but growing up a lot of those irritating reminders serve a purpose and only come to fruition with age, wisdom, and experience.
Fucking self-centered morons. There will come a time when your parents are dead. What have you to look back on other than treating them like shit, whether they deserve it or not, and cutting them out of your shit life with a shit mentality. There are no take backs and life is of finite duration. That path you gloat is for suckers and husks.
TIL many 4channelers have subhuman genes
newfag
>Implying
>Y'all
>Reddit spacing
Fuck off retardera tranny
Go back to sucking Confucius' dick, mind slave.
I wonder about that sometimes.
I often hear my parents talking about their siblings/my cousins and wonder just how glad the are they don't have to hide all the shit they do from me
Nice blog retard
>You can never go back.
If everyone keeps saying this nobody will ever find a way.
Oh I'm sorry Anons I didn't have your feels in mind :c
Yeah you did. You wrote a whole paragraph to address our feelings lol
This
Kicking your kid out the minute you're legally able means you're either a stingy cunt or you just dont like them. It's also a strictly american phenomenon where parents seem hellbent on viewing their children as labor potential. My parents didn't kick me out but I know several kids who got just booted out the minute they turned 18, and every single one of them hates their parents for it and dont talk to them anymore.
fuck you this is the past reminiscience/feels thread faggot
dont wake up the boomers and adhd zoomers m8
>There will come a time when your parents are dead.
I am banking on it faggot. Go slop up your dog shit somewhere else.
Middle Class Americans don't do this.
>It's also a strictly american phenomenon
Actually I've seen it happen a lot outside of the first world.
I miss those slow summer days just playing on the family computer, shitposting on forums and watching TV while everyone was out working. Now it’s just either worrying about which classes I should take so I can finish my fucking bachelors, worrying if I can renew my work contract, worrying about renewing my ID card for work or worrying about trying to get enough experience to get into the industry I actually want to get into, only to worry about those contracts for that later on.
I just want to be carefree again.
Cool story.
Can't really sympathize with you skipping out on physical games though. Those were really fun for me. I was slow unfortunately, but big and strong which came in handy sometimes.
I said it was nice, didn't I?
Allow me to out-Reddit you for a moment.
Some people are just garbage, and sometimes those people have kids and are garbage to them.
This scene is meant to represent sometimes these garbage people never change and the only memory you keep from them is how shitty they were to you and you only hoped for a change that never happened.
Yea but it's apparent that who I were addressing are the sensitive sort.
Yea I see that, but all the same, being forced into the world is a merit all it's own, rather than being coddled.
So be it. IDGAF it's your life you live with it.
It just get worse really.
>What have you to look back on other than treating them like shit, whether they deserve it or not, and cutting them out of your shit life with a shit mentality.
If parents want a legacy to live on in their children, they shouldn't abuse their kids. Cutting off abusive relatives is only right.
>mom and dad divorced when I was 1 year old
What?
>born in 1984
>Game Boy, not Game Boy Advance
>a few years later, had Game Boy & Game Gear in car
>late 90s
>dad starts dragging me on actual road trips
>by then the Sega Nomad had come out
>dad gets AC adapter for Nomad, and an outlet for the cigarette lighter
>spend night after night playing full Genesis games on the road like ToeJam & Earl
what if this guy is right tho? We all say we cannot go back in time blablabla but what if going back is just as easy flipping a switch?
>inb4 so why has no one tried
well how do you speak to one who has gone back?
I wouldn't go to any extremes, but you should tell your parents you want to have nothing to do with them, straight up. There's no point in not cutting ties when they're only hindering you.
>playing games in the car
Who cares what you think lol
Unfortunately that is true and there are exceptional cases of where the child has that bittering conclusion to ultimately cut ties.. but the instances I'm seeing itt hardly warrant that reaction.
He looks like musk on that picture
>Wow selfish faggots so what if he kicked his son out at 18 into a shit economy he himself contributed to fucking up?
Fucking rope yourself, i learned discipline by looking at the retards around me and educating mtself on how to not end up like that and conventional social conditioning
My parents are two democratic lesbiansband my dad dipped to germany, what the fuck do you think i would be learning from those two other than mexicans good, border bad?
Yea, so be it. But in turn that legacy is revitalized by learning what NOT to do through experience, should he or she rise above.
Is he about to get hit by a train?
I see it.
kicking your child out imo is the ultimate signifier of a bad parent.... unless the kid was a top tier troublemaker druggie that will never change.
>try to play games during car rides to vegas with the family
>get motion sickness after a short while
>stop playing and end up just sleeping the rest of the way
YOU’RE NOT MY MOTHER
>They didn’t fall asleep immediately in the car
Sleeping in a car is fast traveling Irl
No, it isn't revitalized. There is no "wow, turns out my dad was right" moment when your dad's been abusing you since age 14 and kicked you out at 18. There is not an ounce of justice or truth in that.
>Yea I see that, but all the same, being forced into the world is a merit all it's own, rather than being coddled
Boomer please go
This is why your kids hate you
Yea it is, but like I mentioned earlier there are experience and lessons earned that are normally unavailable to someone who's lived comfortably and largely quarantined from the hellish scape that is now.
There is. Fuck the guy then if that's how you want it, but it ultimately fuelled your trajectory whether you made something of yourself or not.
I'm playing my switch in the car while my brother drives right now. Pretty comfy.
I didn't fall for that meme kiddo
>what if going back is just as easy flipping a switch?
What would happen?
If you went back, would you have any recollection of the fact you went back?
And if not, then what's the point?
You wouldn't cherish it any more than you did the first time around, because as far as you know, it's the first time around.
You wouldn't intentionally do anything differently, because you wouldn't have the experience to know what you want to change.
>tfw hated college while I was there
>looking back I miss it
>driving to 6 flags with some friends and parents
>playing Pokémon pinball in the back seat
>have the highest score I’ve ever gotten
>don’t want to get out of the car when we arrive
Fuck that
>Be me, 6 years old
>Parents have been arguing non stop all fucking morning about which hotel to stay in
>Get to the car, mom takes about 45 minutes to get ready and pack her bag despite having the entire weekend to plan for the trip
>Not even 9am
>Dad says "fuck this", goes inside and grabs a beer, cracks it in the car
>Finally get going, parents fucking yelling at each other all the way
>At one point mom slaps dad over the head and nearly causes a car accident on the highway
>Stop after 2 hours for lunch at a mcdonalds, mom bitches about no healthy options, dad veers off to the nearby liquor store
>Get a mcnuggers happy meal with a spider man toy, so I'm amused, alternate that with the gameboy
>Dad yells at me for not paying attention to the scenery, mom tells him to stfu, 2 more hours of arguing
>Finally get to the hotel, dad is half cut, mom is literally pulling out her hair
>Drive back after the weekend ended abruptly when dad got pulled over and booked for impaired (leafspeak for dui) and mom for assualting an officer (she slapped a cop)
>Get put into foster care for the next 12 years
As an adult though, I enjoy car rides....by myself
For some reason I was cool with playing my gameboy in the car, but then one day when the gba was out, and Wario Land 4 was new, I was playing it in the car and suddenly vomited. I don't know why I was motion sick from that but after that I really couldn't play anything in the car. Which was weird, cause I had the old brick game boy so it was fine, same with my gbc and my goo green goblin worm light thing.
>why would a parent who's been so awful expect me to care about him when he was the one who made me leave?
He helped make you and, in the minds of a lot of people, that's reason enough. There's a huge difference between being an actual parent, and being someone who just helped make a kid.
>dad & stepmom fought constantly when I was 12/13 years old
>knew I was a factor, but they were fighting about their own treatment of me - nothing I did
>mental stability deteriorated rapidly from the stress and perceived guilt, since neither of them bothered to tell me one time that I wasn't responsible
>nearly killed myself when I was 13, convinced that I was as awful a person as I felt
I wish my parents tried to hide shit from me. That was half my lifetime ago, and I've completely forgotten what it's like to feel alright with myself.
>his mistakes of playing video games at 9
shut the fuck up
>mfw I have become the dad who gives car rides
The cycle begins once again
Fuck. Reminds me that my whole childhood obsession with video games was a way to drown out the constant arguing and drama going on around me... Hold me Yea Forums..
>HURR DURR OLD THING GOOD, NEW THING BAD
fuck off boomer retard
I feel you user
tbf kicking you out at 18 might have been the right thing to do. Forced you to become independent and fend for yourself. Honestly more parents should do that. your dad sounds like a cunt though
>rode with my grandpa all the time
>poor eyesight, always had to be a spotter
>clearly saved my life dozens of time
>now cannot be a passenger without staring at the road and breaking my neck every time we stop to view the opposing side
I CANT BE COMFY
> not feeling sick when looking down in a moving car
How did you guys do it
first post hurts the most
Reminder that for most people the time when they were 5-10 is "the best", with anything before you were 5 being outdated/overrated, and anything after you were 10 being shit.
Just remember that people older than you thought late 90s-early 00s cartoons like Ed edd n eddy and Pokemon were homosexual compared to 80s-mid 90s cartoons (He man, transformers, x-men), that PS1/N64/Dreamcast were soulless compared to NES/SNES/Genesis solely because they were in 3D (retro game forums used to not allow 5th gen and hated on it, unlike today where it's beloved), that Sonic adventure 2 sucked/was soulless, and that Linkin park and System of a down sucked.
i dont have it bad like most anons here, i love my parents and i think they love me but man i really dont like getting rides from them, feels super awkward and a bit uncomfortable im 25 btw
>man i really dont like getting rides from them
get a car then, dipshit
or at least take Ubers if you don't live in a shithole
it would be a bit awkward when we're going somewhere together from home
Why do white people kick out their kids when they turn 18?
Why do beaners keep their kids around until they're 40?
It's an American thing. Teenagers used to be able to move out and afford their own housing but not anymore unless you want to live in some shit apartment with crippling debt and some dead-end job.
Jokes on you. I still live with my mom and dad and get car rides from them while I sit in the back seat playing my GBA SP.
>reddit spacing
retarded newfag meme. He's just separating ideas with paragraphs. Reddit spacing does a space after the >> and after every line.
How much money can I make taking NuBoomers on family style road trips? I'll also provide gameboys and 2 extra AA batteries.
It's illegal to drive with it on, zoomer.
>car hits a bump
>SP top shell bends all the way back
1 - They are dead
2 - I get easily carsick
3 - I don't like video games anymore
I can relate user. After my olds split dad made absolutely no effort to be involved in my life in any way. When he remarried he let his wife ban my siblings and I from his house except for rare occasions like holidays. Now he's old as fuck and wants me to give a shit about him despite never putting any effort into his relationship with me.
>tfw dad hung himself 9 years ago
>forced to move back with mom across the country
>mom never talked about it with me
>finish last year of high school in a completely different godawful surrounding
>so depressed that I had to go through senior year a second time
>if it weren't for my principal supporting me 100% of the way I would've killed myself back then
VIDEO GAMES
not just american. on my 17th bday my mother told me I had 1 year to get out (child support ends (or ended back then idk what it's like now) at 18 in australia.
>tfw doing anything in the car as a child other than looking out the window would just make me vomit
Road trips were just boring and a lot of are we there soon
>DAD YOU'RE GOING TO CRASH INTO THAT FUCKING TREE
no, my families sense of direction was awful, I was always left with the map and giving directions.
Also I got car sick if I tried to play my GBC while in the car.
I tried playing my 3DS one time and it almost instantly gave me a headache. Made me sad, because I used to play the GB and GBA for hours in the car.
This. Get like 3-7 days together with the bros. Go places, play vidya, eat unhealthy food. No one is allowed to bring their gfs/wives along, it's bro time
>no one is allowed to bring gfs/wives
Get ready for every cunt to constantly be texting them then.
could have been worse, he could have driven your mother into the biggest tree they could
No obviously you'd tell them "hey im going to be busy doing stuff with them and i wont have the opportunity to text you so if you nees aomething gice me a quick call" or something. Set some boundaries, it's what i do, if your gf doesnt understand that you have a life of your own then it's a problematic relationship most likely
implying anyone here has
>3-7 friends
>friends with wives/girlfriends
>a good enough job to take a week off all together
>enough money to afford such a trip
Is what I would have said a decade ago but nowadays this might just be possible.
>hated high school every single day I was there
>always dreamed and look forward to when I was older
>4 years on I realize it wasnt that bad at all
>that PS1/N64/Dreamcast were soulless compared to NES/SNES/Genesis
that's true though
It's not nearly as hard to organize as you want to believe
Me
>Put in for time off
>Get it
>Buy train ticket (like 50-80 bucks i forget), play handheld or sleep for the 8-9 hour ride there
>Arrive at the friend's house we've all agreed to conglomerate at
>Proceed
It's not a big deal i do it at least once a year minimum, sometimes more, and i only pull 14.50/hr right now
Well it definitely gets harder the more people you have and the longer the event. Getting 3 people together for a long weekend is one thing, getting 7 people together for a week is another. Plus once you do have everyone together the logistics of just lodging and feeding everyone becomes a bother of its own.
I do agree that a small group of people who have their shit together can do it easily though.
I used to play a lot in the car without problems. Now that I'm 25 I cant even look at my phone without motion sickness.
Not at all
>Lodging
Literally just bring your own shit, blanket, sleeping bag, whatever, maybe a foam pad to unroll as well, you won't be doing much sleeping anyhow, usually me ans my friends are up until we all mutually pass out
>Feeding
Often during a 7 day hangout we will go out to eat or order in. Usually we do this 3 or 4 times over the week and the food is 7 days worth or more altogether, usually whatever's leftover is left at the designated house as more or less a parting gift
I make my wife drive road trips while I play vita lol
Not true about ps1 dreamcast or n64 being soulless to older guys back then. Maybe to fedorafags. Cartoons from the late 90s early 2000 were mostly gay tho
MK8D is literally the most SOUL game in the series you moron.
If you want to see soulless, look at nearly every other games' returning tracks.
This gif would be a lot nicer if you removed the text and actually had a good artist
fuck you.
the last joyride i had with my parents we got into a car accident and both died. i ended up living with my grandparents until i turned 18 and went to college.
You should thank the principal.
>be me
>be afraid of everything
You're just sound like a fucking wuss. I'm surprised you were brave enough to make a post here.
>he's an orphan
Haha, everyone! Laugh at the pathetic orphan haha!
>used to play gba in the car while my parents were driving
>now I have to drive my parents around while they're looking at some boomer shitpost on their phones
huh
>playing games in the car
not me. I get motion sickness especially reading
How can you be such pussies?
>that one road trip where I grinded Hercule to Level 50 in Legacy of Goku 2
That cutscene was not worth it
>24 years old now living with my parents after graduating uni looking for a job with my shitty gpa and no internships
At least I landed something at Lowe’s. I hate feeling like a loser though and I’m getting nowhere job wise
>all these motionsick anons ITT
Bahahaha, of all the genetic and health failings I've had in life, I'm super glad I didn't get this shit, at least nowhere near enough to hinder playing vidya in a vehicle. I still do so, mainly since I do a lot of metroing for work.
it can come later in life
it started happening to me too at 21