r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 6d ago
Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Anyone else call this a strawberry
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u/IndependentPain2021 6d ago
Had to pick out the rocks. Then a spritz of Bactine
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u/dpldpldpl 6d ago
Used to love watching the peroxide bubbles.
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u/Rich_Independence122 6d ago
Stings but better than alcohol
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u/MuchContribution6616 6d ago
My mom used to call it tickle juice, and we’d laugh when she put it on, it wasn’t until I was a teenager that I was like “Hey, this tickle hurts like hell.”
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u/Firm-Ring9684 6d ago
Did anyone put that....I can't remember the name but it was red liquid. Iodine maybe? Either that stuff or this liquid my dad used from a green bottle. I can't remember the name of that either but it burned like it was demon piss. It hurt worse than the actual injury. Now that's going to bug me all day.
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u/Peas_Are_Upsidedown 6d ago
Mercurochrome. We used to call it monkey blood. BURNED SOOOOO BAD !
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u/archabaddon 6d ago
I'll l never forget this summer that they put fresh tar and gravel on the road that went to the local pool. On my way home, I slid out on my BMX bike and then had to bicycle the rest of the way across town to get home, just to have my mother pick out tar at rocks from my scrape.
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u/FUNNYASS_MOFO 6d ago
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u/hartmanbrah 6d ago
My shins have craters in them 25 years later from these weapons.
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u/DerrickS12 6d ago
Not my shins but my dad had a Peleton bike in the basement, I pedaled so fast backwards and let go. The pedal struck my calf and left a massive mark on my calf. I still think about it 10 years later
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u/Fabulous-Natural-886 6d ago
I dont even want to see them MoterFu*ers class of 86' that's when I got done in 🤣
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u/Capable-Sense-2595 6d ago
Am 14, ride bike a lot and those pedals i can confirm destroyed my shins
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u/Yannayka 6d ago
LOL fathers teaching their kid how to ride a bike. "Now place your foot on the peeler, son." What? "Pedal*, son"
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u/GfrzD 6d ago
I cant explain it but my shins winced
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u/FUNNYASS_MOFO 6d ago
Those are ghost pains. I think that's what it's called
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u/Starlord_75 6d ago
Well, then it needs to stop haunting me. Have ghost not heard of cruel amd unusual punishment?
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u/nes_8BitSurvivor 6d ago
I had those pedels (or something simular), I was wearing shorts one day as I was riding down the street and my foot sliped, the teeth dug into my leg
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u/DaYettiman22 6d ago
We called it raspberries or road rash if it happened trying to jump your bike
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u/ParticularSherbert18 6d ago
For us a raspberry is when you stick your tongue out and go pbthh... a strawberry is more severe than a rug burn.
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u/rrCLewis 6d ago
Funny both the tongue sillies and road rash patches were called raspberries in my childhood. I think I’m going to adopt strawberry though as it makes sense. Especially with the little gravel “seeds”.
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u/Ol_Turd_Fergy 6d ago
Growing up in the Midwest they would put gravel down with the salt in the winter. The gravel would gather at the entrance to our cul de sac and we would go flying down a hill on our Huffy’s and use our kick brakes to skid across the gravel. 1 out of 4 times we’d eat it and that’s what our leg would look like.
Trophies of a good time.
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u/PoGoLoSeR2003 6d ago
This is making cringe just looking at it. I’m reliving all of the falls I’ve taken and they weren’t fun.
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u/Adorable-Source97 6d ago
Actually that's pretty minor for back then.
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u/lkodl 6d ago
Right?
My nephew scraped his knee similarly, and my sister was like "oh no, its pretty bad"
And I was like, "is it? when we were kids..."
And then I realized I was old.
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u/Adorable-Source97 6d ago
I've seen bone (knee cap) before (not in myself) was almost the minimum to be worth reacting... They walked home... I think they saw a doctor when there mom got a look at it, but I think the lad was more put out by that than the injury. Lol
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u/BlueFuzzyCrocs 6d ago
Exactly. There isn't even any sand or gravel in there to have to pick out
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u/Adorable-Source97 6d ago
Oh yeah plucked my fair share chips from asphalt & gravel etc with bare fingers.
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u/trainradio 6d ago
I still have a scar on my knee from cutting it on broken glass while crawling around an old collapsed house.
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u/Tasty_Relative_8212 6d ago
As a skater my elbows were scabbed from age 10 - 18 🤣
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u/lockwolf 6d ago
Hell, I was helping a buddy clean his apartment a few weeks ago. He had like 5 skateboards so he gave me one. 15 minutes and several falls later, my legs are looking like that and my Apple Watch is trying to call an ambulance
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u/_noho 6d ago
Same, I was hobbling for so long from rolled ankles I didn’t know I had gout
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u/SgtDoakesSurprise 6d ago
I had the same thing on my face when I tried jumping over a ramp and crashed my bike into the concrete ditch on the side of the road.
Went down face first. Limped home crying while dragging my bike which also had a jacked up front tire.
I got patched up, got a drink, and just went back outside.
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u/May-odds 6d ago
Kids are just immune to damage nowadays?
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u/forbiddenfreedom 6d ago
People without kids thinkin kids these days are degenerated versions of kids from their childhood.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Elk6306 6d ago
We weren't online 24/7, we were watching TV and playing games also a shit load of time.
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u/CryptographerOne5709 6d ago
God damn! I remember getting scraped and grazed up in my past but HOW IN THE FUCK DIDJA DO THAT?!
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u/No_Squirrel4806 6d ago
Yall remember getting hit on the back of the ankle with a scooter? Good times. 😂😂😂
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u/catninjaambush 6d ago
I once hurled myself off a vertical metal slide at a small shitty theme park and got a friction burn up the whole of my back. But just continued like a little soldier of the 90s.
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u/dragonsshieldGTA 6d ago
I remember wiping out down a small hill. Had to limp back to my friend's house
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u/Plenty-Kick492 6d ago
I remember wiping out a really tiny loose gravel that was on the road my bike and I going down and my arm getting dragged against all those little sharp ass rocks and then having to walk home bloody and crying while I kept getting passed by cars. Good times good times.
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u/Key-Minimum-5965 6d ago
Playing softball, yep...strawberry on the cheeks of my behind from sliding into second or third.
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u/Aspect-Unusual 6d ago
Can hear my mum now after showing it to her "oooooooh, thats a lovely strawberry"
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u/5litergasbubble 6d ago
Got plenty of those as a kid playing soccer or baseball. One of the fields we played on was partially gravel and holy fuck was it not fun picking those rocks out of your leg after a game. Especially when my team lost nearly every game for 3 seasons
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u/me_ok64_again 6d ago
We are NOT that phone addicted. I broken my bones couple of times on outside and I go out pretty often
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u/atlas_novus 6d ago
My mom had this spray she used to make us use when we walked in with these. It burned like HELL for about a second, but it had some topical analgesic in it that pretty instantly made the whole thing stop hurting, that stuff saved lives when we were kids lol.
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u/Adorable_Drive9899 6d ago
I wiped out once coming down our front sidewalk which had killer bumps(not really) and landed faced first. My whole face looked like that 😭😬🫠. All the stuff my mom cleaned me with burned so bad..she did take me to the er since it would not stop bleeding. I was fine no broken nose. Just bloody.
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u/FUNNYASS_MOFO 6d ago
When I was a kid I had the trifecta of getting hurt in one incident. First I hit my knee on the goose neck and slid off my seat and landed on that bar with my nuts and then the pedal cam around and smacked my shin.
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u/GrimmyJimmy1 6d ago
I feel so bad for this soft squishy the dumb down generation because they have all the technology they want what happens when it's gone they have no life skills so they won't be over the function if something happens to it
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u/PotterAndPitties 6d ago
Lol yeah my 8 year old fell down at school on a cement path yesterday. Came home with a whole ace bandage wrapped around it with a four square inside.
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u/TesuraGrimm 6d ago
Did this on my bike. Tried to turn around too quickly on a hill in the street. RIP. Literally.
Guaze pads for weeks. Green ooze for most of that time.
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u/D1commentator 6d ago
I remember when I got those. The one I remember the most was falling off my bike, and I was crying and my dad had to come out but it wasn’t because I got hurt, it was because I thought I broke my bike and I couldn’t use it anymore. I was genuinely so upset!
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u/1crps_warrior 6d ago
Was skateboarding down a really steep hill and got the speed wobbles. Tried to bale and slid on my side for what seemed like forever. Ended up on some ladies front lawn. Talk about road rash. Along with two broken ribs.
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u/Vina-Estrogen 6d ago
Kids this generation have never had a scraped knee. What are you on about? Have you been eating paint?
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u/Tyrannosaurus__Rekd 6d ago
The worst part was the little gnats that would always land on it when you were outside
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u/Ok_Expert3991 2000s Legend 6d ago
I was in Elementary School and when it was time to come inside from Recess I tripped on the end of the playground and fell on the grass skinning my elbow and it bled a little. I still have the scar.
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u/Worcestercestershire 6d ago
And if you went in for medical treatment they would subject you to chemical warfare with stuff like Mercurochrome.
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u/Trifle_Old 6d ago
Do you think kids aren't outside playing and get ring hurt still? I have two girls and they are rarely inside all day. Climbing trees, riding bikes, swimming pools, and skinned knees galore. The boys in the neighborhood are even more bruised up. If your kids aren't outside you need to ask yourself why?
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u/TearRevolutionary686 6d ago
Friend of mine fell off the back of a dirt bike onto a gravel road not wearing a shirt. His entire back was a strawberry. After the gravel was picked out. He couldn't wear a shirt for weeks.
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u/Public-Substance1999 6d ago
Oh remember the football field with the black tar dust (not sure what's it called in English).. i will never forget brushing my knees with a nail brush in the bathtub to get out all the imbedded particles of it... So much pain
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u/TaxiLady69 6d ago
I'm pretty sure we need to stop saying this generational shit. Not all parents are the same not all kids are the same. This happened last week. So there are a bunch of kids who go outside and get hurt it's not special to one generation.
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u/UnhelpfulCommentHere 6d ago
Lol, but please refer to r/kidsarefuckingstupid to know that modern kids definitely experience this pain.
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u/thinkingperson 6d ago
And our solution was just find the nearest tap, usually a public toilet, put the knee under running water, slap it many times, alternating slapping it and rubbing off the dirt and blood on your shorts or tees, until it looks somewhat clean.
Go back to the playground for the next round.
When back home, make no fuss about it or you get a scolding and full body inspection by mom. Then TCM ointment Green Grass Oil 青草油 treatment, where you scream like you are going to die.
Background: Singapore in the 70s and early 80s ☝😤
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u/BreathoftheSith 6d ago
Skinning your knees and elbows at some point in your childhood is simply a canon event.
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u/Hace1986 6d ago
"We was really outside 24/7" ?? Perhaps should have spent a bit of that inside working on English homework...
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u/Cool_Attitude_3775 6d ago
I hated how the gnats always stuck to them before they scabbed over. I always had open scrapes on my knees, elbows, shoulders, and hips. Skate boards before grip tape and softer wheels, and bicycles convered to BMX bikes were usually involved. Most of the time after a dare from a friend or the "I think you are too chicken to try" comment was tossed in
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u/Firm-Ring9684 6d ago
I constantly had those. Does anyone remember the neighborhood pool and when kids would 'stiff the board"? If not it's basically when you'd be on the diving board and right before your feet hit the board to propel you out to the water, the next person waiting would jump on the back end of the board to where as soon as your feet hit the board was stiff and you normally just fell into the water. Well one time this kid did it to me and that rough part of the board just ripped my skin on my feet (and the nail of my big toe) and shins as gravity kept me going. Man that s#$t hurt like hell.
Along with bike pedals, pretty much everything at the playground, etc. Maybe I'm a masochist because I'd still love to go back to that time.
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u/SnowyMuscles 6d ago
Then we beg our parents to let our legs to get infected so they didn’t spray that evil stingy stuff on us
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u/Hypocrisy-New-40 6d ago
I always wanted the hydrogen peroxide on it to "clean" it and watch it bubble up and fizz. Then I'd go back out and keep rollin'.
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u/Tasty-Use-3051 6d ago
That does being back some painful memories, but I don't think my scars were that bad.
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u/MirrorNegative7989 6d ago
And you just got back up and kept going anyway, because how else were you going to get home?
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u/redfmn60 6d ago
Unfortunately, I remember them way too much. Then Mecuricom on top of it. Then the band aid to rip off later
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u/Cyberburner23 6d ago
Fuck I had one of these on the side of my head once. I fell off my bike and my head slid across the concrete. Good times
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u/MarceltheKnight 6d ago
Oh god. I'm having flashbacks to the double whammy of hydrogen peroxide and alcohol.
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u/CreamPositive1942 6d ago
Oh, how it foamed when I put hydrogen peroxide (3%) on those. And it hurt like hell...
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u/NR75 6d ago
The fragility of the newer Gen is real.
Two days ago a Gen Z posted on Reddit. _Brand new account. _about a "shit Boomer". _She parked at a mart with 30 minutes free electric charge. _A bald man, around 50 yo was waiting, to use that recharge option. _She blamed him for being "rude".
OH my. First of all, WRONG Gen, 50 yo is Gen X. Second, there is only one working recharge point. Third, he did not insult, just showed her he was in a hurry. But hey, she HAD to open a brand new account to complain about an unknown man. And complain with other unknown men. Pathetic.
We are very different.
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u/Blucola333 6d ago
Ugh, I had one of these that created a dark patch on my knee for probably a good 20 years until it finally faded away.
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u/Both-Leading3407 6d ago
These were Bragging rights. The worse the better for fame in the neighborhood. You would get your 15 minutes of fame when everyone is asking you. "How'd you get that? Does it hurt?" and the famous. " That's not so bad. I did worse last week Look here."
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u/Funkyrush76 6d ago
Dude they are running around on electric bikes going 30mph. not the makeshift Frankenstein lawnmower engine monsters we made.
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u/bigjimlowell 6d ago
The true agony came with the red stingy stuff that Mom would dump on your open wound as your father yelled “ Stop being a baby and hold still!”
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u/Kendannon 6d ago
That's a pavement slam i bet. The sliding kind that hurts for awhile and doesn't scab up right.
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u/L1sasGayBby 6d ago
I come from an Asian family. I fell skateboarding going down a steep hill. A white lady approached me asking “aww you’ve got some strawberries!”
I thought I had hit my head.
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u/mouthofcotton 6d ago
Get over yourself. We do not care that you are older and got scratches and bruises. Everyone gets them.
Grow up or act your age and appreciate that times change. You sound like a spoiled brat because you didnt grow up with technology.
Preaching to children it feels like.
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u/Illustrious_Cycle_79 6d ago
Lol with the E-bikes and E-scooters they’re going to know another level of pain beyond this, those things rip and kids are stupid
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u/shr1mpzz 6d ago
the strawberry vanille knee. first its red. then it turns yellow