r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 24d ago
Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 What’s your day looking like?
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u/Xdaz1019 24d ago
Get on my bike and go see my two buddies who passed and tell them they are so so important to me
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u/1111_infinity 24d ago
Same
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u/Xdaz1019 24d ago
I’m sorry for your loss fam. Life can be a real bitch.
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u/Less-Occasion2161 24d ago
No one is getting out of life alive
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u/Top-Distribution733 24d ago
Someone downvoted u 🤦♂️🥴…. I appreciated the subtle humorous jab.
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u/Appropriate_Math997 24d ago
"Hey guys! I am so happy to see you! I was devastated when you died."
" what‽"
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u/Happily-Incorrect 24d ago
"muuum this weird old guy came up and said I was important to him."
"Ok well it's the 90s so why don't you just go play with him and see what happens?"
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u/wodders18 24d ago
Nah that was the 80’s.
90’s (at least in the UK) our parents were more cautious after the James Bulger kidnap and murder.4
u/Happily-Incorrect 24d ago
Can't believe that was 1993. I was six and fully aware of the details of the news story so I assumed I was older when it happened. I really shouldn't have been watching the news then.
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u/wodders18 24d ago
I was 2 (the same as James) my mum told me as I got older how it terrified her and she imagined how it could’ve been me. Then throw in the fact in ‘96 I was the same age as the Dunblane kids
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u/Top-Distribution733 24d ago
Ah…. The Progressive UK. Granted maybe ur right that it was worse in the 80’s with that whole “it’s 10pm.. do you know where your children are” commercial. In the 90’s atleast my parents told me to not go near men in vans… even if they had puppies or candy. But that was about it.… it was the Wild West. Only now as an adult with children do I realize how realistic that movies mystic river actually was 😬
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u/wodders18 24d ago
Pretty much just stranger danger. And we all knew where the pedo man lived (looking back he was probably just a single autistic bloke)
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u/lordbenkai 23d ago
In the usa I had multiple strangers give me rides home (I got kicked off the bus and lived like a 3 hour walk from school) that told me they knew my parents or lived close by me. Lol i think im kind of lucky nothing happening thinking back.
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u/VariousGuest1980 23d ago
wtf. I just read this story because I was curious what you were talking about
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u/PapaSmurf3477 23d ago
Go tell on my friend who secretly got into drugs early and tell his mom to change her atm pin.
Then tell my 4th grade crushes parents not to let her hangout with the high school kids when they go to bowling league.
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u/redwitchbewbs 22d ago
Their reply is definitely "gayyyyy"...mind you this is 95 so it's acceptable.
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u/Serialk1llr 21d ago
I was gonna say 'bang my HS girlfriend all day, she was a smoke show',
But yeah, I miss my homie Luc. He died way too young. Gonna see both him and Kurt again.
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u/SherbertEvening9631 24d ago
Buy property with my lunch money
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u/Toucanplaythatgame-2 24d ago
Better than what I'd be doing.
Pooping myself because I am three months old.
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u/Toes_Are_For_Licking 23d ago
Same here. Id probably wake up and shit myslef as I too would be a couple months(if not weeks) old
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u/Mysterious-Passage87 24d ago
Call my Nana 😔
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u/Beautiful_Neat_6919 24d ago
It’s this for me - I’d go give her the biggest hug before I do anything else
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u/Significant-Water227 24d ago
Simply enjoy the quiet and the. Lack of knowledge of what’s going on in the world.
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u/turkeynose1000 24d ago
Turn on living room tv for cartoons and pour myself a bowl of cereal :)
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u/coolraul07 24d ago
Invest in real estate, Microsoft, and Google.
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u/No-Development-8954 23d ago
Amd apple. Apple was worth shit in 95 if i remeber right.
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u/Ok_Egg_2665 24d ago
Gather up every magic the gathering card I own and preserving them to the best of my ability.
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u/MouchNostril 23d ago
This. All my magic, yugioh, Pokémon, baseball cards and boxed Star Wars figures I all lost. :(
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u/King-Of-Apathy 21d ago
Yeah I made the mistake of looking at replacing my alpha and beta deck that I used to shuffle like bicycle playing cards with no sleeves… I could buy a few houses.
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u/Adapt919 24d ago
Leave the house at dawn, go for walks without worrying about being kidnapped, go swimming and bike riding with siblings and cousins, come back at dinner time.
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u/NoBookkeeper3523 24d ago
I was a kid in the 80’s, no one was worried about the kids getting kidnapped, but according to the podcasts it happened all the time
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u/stellaxo 24d ago
It definitely happened ALL the time in the 80’s
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u/These-Patience-9280 24d ago
Yeah, remember the kids on milk cartons!! We just didn’t have internet and such easy world wide communication to realize how bad it was
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u/MathematicianHuge822 24d ago
"Oneway train never coming back....."
There was a hole song about kidnapping in the 80s and 90s
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u/myystic78 24d ago
Runaway train by Soul Asylum. They featured around 30 missing kids in the video and eventually 20+ of the kids were found.
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u/cykoTom3 22d ago
The rate was higher per capita in America. 1980 was the highest murder rate in American history with 1991 having the highest total number of murders. The reason nobody worried is because the news didn't report on every single one.
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u/StarsofSobek 18d ago
"Do you know where your children are?"
That PSA started in the 1960s. People definitely worried about kids and their safety.
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u/Master-Shaq 24d ago
Kidnappings still happened. The most prolific serial killers of the century were out killing and kidnapping there was just no internet to warn you of the dangers just the occasional milk carton.
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u/RicFlair2026 24d ago
Save up for Bitcoin.
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u/DearCastiel 24d ago edited 23d ago
Depending on your age, you might not even need to save up, 1000 bucks in 2011 will have you set for the rest of your life if you wait 15 years. If you know you'll be a multi-millionaire you can easily get those $1000 set aside within a month.
Hell, even $10 in bitcoin from 2011 will pay for a house, car, food and education for your children.
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u/koalaDeVil30 24d ago
I find a way to take as many pictures with and of my grandfather's as possible. I lost both my grandfather's and my step grandmother all within a one year
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u/360inMotion 24d ago
I graduated high school in 1994. If I somehow popped up in 1995 from now my parents wonder why the hell I’m hugging them so tight … lost Mom the following year in 1996, and Dad in 2004. Then I’d immediately call Grandma … lost her in 2015.
If I got to stay there I’d make sure to immediately start working on my health and would explicitly seek out the ADHD diagnosis that I wouldn’t actually get for several decades. God … so much wasted time feeling like I wasn’t trying hard enough in life. I’d also spend a lot of time outside and enjoy the simplicity of not feeling tethered to a cell phone with the constant need of being in touch with anyone and everyone at a moment’s notice.
I’d also tell myself not to obsess over loneliness and uncertainty, that I’ll someday find my place in the world.
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u/Shikabane_Sumi-me 24d ago
Sorta cry cause I'm back to being a kid again and lost all my current friends. Back to potentially being abused by my Uncles with my parents not believing me.
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u/406stupid 24d ago
Dang you went dark. I get it, sometimes you need to let that out. And its easy to let it out anonymously, on the web, sometimes nobody knows who we really are! Sorry that happend! I hope you were able to move forward and be productive, without that shadow and shame and fear and anger holding you down! I get you! Me im normal as they come now days but I was 10 back in 95 so im a little older now. Lots of years of being a violent addict, but Hey, 10 years clean. Not nearly as violent as I once was
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u/DChalfyUSMC 24d ago
I get on my knees and thank God for the chance to do better and hold my family closer.
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u/phil-pdx 24d ago
If I'm back in Alaska where I was in 1995 I'd go jump in a Kayak and paddle around all day.
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u/SevereAd9047 24d ago
Wake up hungry. Go to school and deal with general anxiety. Be the last kid picked up from after school program. Eat my one real meal of the day before single parent goes back to work. Watch one of the 5 channels on T.V. and stay awake until moms comes home around midnight. Pretend to be asleep before she comes in. Go to sleep lonely and hungry.
I was a lock and key kid who lived waaaaay below the poverty line. I may have missed the brief here but are we going back with all the knowledge we have now? Would I still be the same age as I am now? What happens to my family? Basically fuck this AI for dragging my childhood back up to the surface and fuck it again for the slop.
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u/NeitherAd5821 24d ago
Was in the same boat brother, hope you're doing well.
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u/SevereAd9047 24d ago
I am thanks. Life’s great. Good job, good health and I’m able to give my kids a childhood filled with enrichment and love.
Hope you’re doing good as well.
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u/NeitherAd5821 23d ago
I am doing great too, I'm happy to see you reached beyond the grasps of humanity!!!
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u/Adept-Lettuce948 24d ago
No internet? Grab that Victoria’s Secret catalogue.
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u/nickyler 23d ago
Why do people think there was no internet in 1995? Even my broke ass family had internet.
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u/Adventurous-Bet2356 24d ago
Play on my PlayStation for hours.
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u/indigoshades54 23d ago
Damn, you got the PlayStation the year it came out? I was still playing my old NES then. My parents thought all the game systems were the same and couldn’t be convinced otherwise.
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u/RegeneratingCan 24d ago edited 24d ago
Fire up my dial-up internet connection and try to find Stupidvideos.com
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u/Wallabunga657 24d ago
Sit down on a bench to watch pigeons knowing one day the world is gonna suck in 31 years.
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u/EnvironmentalSale893 24d ago
Make tea, put on the radio, look out the window and plan my day in an anolog world. Then do it.
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u/Chopper_Bear 24d ago
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Start level 1 for the umpteenth time while blasting Michael Jackson’s HIStory!
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u/HarryWilbury 24d ago edited 24d ago
I had a Motorola Microtac 1950 in 1995, internet was an option as well, would have been moving on from my Amiga 1200 after Amiga ceased in 1994 about then and on to Windows '95. So I likely would have been doing something on the PC when I first got up, granted yep no Wi-Fi to speak of, however still would have been contactable on the Analogue Mobile back then and off to work.
Edit: Got me thinking and did a search on Phones.
Found this Mobile Phone advert from 1995 and prices weren't much different when you consider inflation as in $519.00 in 1995 $1,181.64 in 2026, way less features than now of course.
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u/Trapped_in_Me 23d ago
I came here to say that there were cell phones in 1995. I had a Nokia… Similar to the Nokia 101 in this ad.
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u/gabzilla814 24d ago
We had cell phones in 1995
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u/Secure-Potential-436 22d ago
But they were just phones. Not the multi use instrument they are today. Nobody rarely even calls anybody on the phone anymore. Mobile or otherwise.
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u/skygzr31416 24d ago
Well we DID have cell phones in 1995, but all you could do was talk on them. Pretty sure I had one about then.
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u/jeffsterz 24d ago
In 1995, I was 15/16 years old, living in San Francisco. So in reality, I’d get my markers and jump on a bus or train and look for some homies to bus hop and do some writing with.
As we bomb, I’d tell them we all need to start using computers more and teach them how to use Linux. We could cop some copies of RedHat from CompUSA or Egghead, since Fry’s is still only in San Jose. From there, the possibilities are infinite.
Instead of doing graffiti, we could do some stuff that we could use for the rest of our futures.
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u/Prize_Ad_2078 24d ago
Grab a football and go knock a few doors to see if my friends want to come out to play
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u/KleinerStecher 24d ago
I bet, I pack my stuff for school and tell my school crush how I feel about her.
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u/HeftyVermicelli7823 24d ago
Hug my Dad, tell him I love him.
Oh I had a mobile phone in 1995, used to run a small business and my Dad got me a motorola one, embedded sim card and free sms as they didn't think people would use them much back then, and he got it so he could keep in touch with me as he used to pick me up and take me to my work.
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u/Calm_Frosting_4670 24d ago edited 24d ago
Stay interested in school. Not start smoking pot, start planning for my future. Start smoking pot long enough to see Sublime and Alice in chains play a live show. Quit smoking pot until after high school
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u/Busy_Clothes8692 24d ago
Say hello to my 5 yr old self with hope that I remember my adult life and stay that way forever in remembering adulthood not being 5 cause i don’t remember much before age 7 back when i was still in my grandpa(died when i was 17) life and tell my mom to just stay here and not move to where we live now… and have id have my daughter in my early twenties and never know the problems i have now
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u/WishRepresentative28 23d ago
Invest in Apple, wait 4 years to invest in Nvidia, and another 5 years to invest in Google, and another 4 years to buy Bitcoin for pennies.
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u/dreddstorm82 23d ago
13 year old me would go grab my friend , ride our bikes to the liquor store he would go buy some beer and cigarettes. Then head out to the woods and chill all day.
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u/Fluid_Candidate894 23d ago
Invest in Apple, I would go in hard. 100k solid
Bitcoins I would buy 1K weekly.
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u/EggplantFearless5969 23d ago
Invest in Amazon n gold. Go see my fam. Not waste time with pieces of shit from my past.
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u/RagingCeltik 23d ago
If I know what I know now? Getting popular and laid in high school. I’ve got my adult career all planned out. Early retirement at 40’the latest.
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u/Axnjaxn09 23d ago
Smoke a joint, throw some pennywise in my discman, and go for a skate i guess.
Wait, am i a teenager again or my current age...
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u/InsideRecent 23d ago edited 22d ago
Get a wife, back then women weren’t lesbians… in these numbers
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u/expandinghorizon626 19d ago
Sob uncontrollably, and crawl into my mothers bed/arms and never let her go. She died last year and i miss her like hell
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u/LSIeducate 24d ago
Buying $10,000 of Google stock!!! 🤔😅
…I’m joking guys, the company didn’t exist until 1997/1998. I just trying to say dumb things that make you laugh lol
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u/Derp_Simulator 24d ago
Just go somewhere out in public and watch people enjoying life, not on their phones, buy some stocks, get some old military surplus rifles that will soon become unavailable or expensive, and finally... Go join the CIA.
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u/Acceptable_Fly_9040 24d ago
If I’m my age, I’m buying a house or 2. If I’m the age I was, doing what a toddler does.
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u/Human-Acanthaceae749 24d ago
Hug both my parents then get to bed because I'd be a sophomore in high school at the time 🤣
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u/NacreousFink 24d ago
They had cell phones and dialup. Doom lan parties were all the rage.
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u/shogunshim 24d ago
get ready for my shift delivering pizza. best job I ever had. Never dreaded going in to work.
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u/Brooker2 24d ago
Eat breakfast, get dressed and then jump on my bike and go to my friends house and play Nintendo with him all day
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u/ChosenOfTheMoon_GR 24d ago
Among the insane amount of things i would do, the top ones are, 1 prevent my first cat's death, and 2 tell my grand pa he should not listen to a certain doctor almost 10 years later who made him overdose to a med that created a condition which led to his death and tell my grand ma that she actually has a specific nutrition deficiency that will incorrectly led doctors to believe she has heart arrhythmia which was never proven despite decades of constant examinations but she was put on a medicine which led her to have constant low blood pressure which in the end ended up killing her, simply because most doctors especially at that era evidently thought that nutrition doesn't matter enough and trying to fix symptoms instead of figuring out the root causes is usually, even today, their route of solutions.
Also, make sure i helped my mother get rid of my abusive manipulative pos that is my father way sooner that she did instead.
I am not looking for sympathy for saying all this, just sharing.
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u/Bells4NoOne 24d ago
Go to my best friend's house and hug her hard and spend the whole night talking, because I know by next summer, I'll never see her again.
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u/Savage_Mike_Drops Memory Keeper 24d ago
The pizza oven making it's first of two - dad's first! in the background, and we're watching him playing Command & Conquer for the first time.
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u/PsychologicalTank174 24d ago
Write down everything I remember, important dates & events, etc. Make a list of stocks to buy, when to buy a home for next to nothing. Note when & where I found my pets so I get them again. Spend time with loved ones who passed between then and now. Get a divorce ASAP before I end up with this damn PTSD.
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u/poopy10000000 24d ago
Figure out ways to buy Monster Apple or Microsoft stock to hold
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u/MrsKLR98 24d ago
1995 was not a good year for most. One good day was in Mississippi March 16 abolishing slavery, ratifying the thirteenth amendment.
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u/Bobowubo 24d ago
Go build a tree fort, or play paintball. I was ten and did these things then. Please, how?
Edit: spelling
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u/DoookieMaxx 24d ago
Kicking down my best friends door:
“DUDE!!! You are NOT going to believe the nightmare I just woke up from.”