All of these would have today's parents saying, "Absolutely not!"

"The concert went FOREVER, but we somehow managed to get the last subway at around 1:30 a.m. (luckily, it was well known how early the subways closed, so we left the concert before the official end). There were no cell phones, so we couldn't call our parents until we got to the subway station closest to our house. The buses on our routes had long since stopped, so I had to call my dad at 2 a.m. to pick us up. I can't believe we hadn't set up any sort of a plan ahead of time when two 12-year-olds were going to be out that late, but that was just the '80s."

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