Millennials List Their Versions Of Walking Both Ways To School

We’ve all heard a baby boomer reminisce about how hard it was for them growing up, especially when they throw out the classic, “I had to walk to school uphill, both ways, in the snow!” A Threads user recently asked millennials to share their own version of that struggle, posting, “What is the millennial equivalent of ‘walked to school in the snow uphill both ways?”

More than a thousand jumped in with their own childhood struggles, and these are some of the best responses:

• "I had to carry my iPod, camera, AND cell phone in my purse in high school. They were all separate!!!!"
• "Waited 24 hours to download a single song from Napster."
• "We had to trek to Blockbuster to get 1 movie to watch for the night!"
• "Walked to the club in a foot of snow wearing a mini dress, stilettos, and no jacket."
• "Remember when we had to call the theater to listen to start times."
• "If you missed a TV episode when it aired, you just accepted your fate."
• "It's absolutely having to wait for mom to get off the phone so I could get back on the Internet and talk to my friends."
• “'When I was your age, Netflix came in the MAIL!'”
• "I’m a teacher. My students don’t really have textbooks, or at least not ones they have to carry around. So I say 'in my day, we had to carry around 30lbs of books on our backs every day!'"
• "Pushing the same button 3 times to type one letter while texting."
• "Back in my day, we couldn't skip the ads, we had to wait 2 minutes."
• "I used to have to write my exam essays BY HAND."
• "Back in my day, we had to listen to the radio for hours & record our favorite songs on tapes!"
• "Having to call a landline phone to talk to my friend, but first having to talk to whichever one of her family members answered the phone."
• "In my day, an unprecedented event only happened once every 4 years, not once a week."

Source: BuzzFeed