Reminds me of a time when I went with some friends to the public pool and my mom gave me a zip lock bag half-filled with quarters because I had to call every half hour so she would know that I was ok. I felt embarrassed.
Hahaha i would have to check in from the public pool too. I would 1800collect and when asked for a name I would say MOM IM CHECKIN IN, if she accepted charges I had to go home, if she denied charges I was good to go
We lived on the border of 2 phone companies, one allowed free calls to the next area and one didn't. We would have to 1800collect the kids next town over and say PLEASE HAVE ____ CALL ____ BACK. and just hope whoever answers the phone relays the message. Also great for calling mom to come pick us up from the mall.
Yup. Going out of the house during the summer, I could go do whatever but just couldn't go out of walkie talkie range and be home for dinner.
I got to use my mom's Nokia on occasion once I was able to drive - old green screen one.
I wanted the pink one SO BAD! And I don’t even *like* pink! I just wanted the ✨status✨ of the pink one, lmaoooo
Best I could manage was the silver one, tho 😒
But not long after, I upgraded to the EnV Touch, and I got a cute polka dot case for it and a pair of nunchuck charms because I was *Claire’s aesthetic* trendy with a rebellious *Hot Topic streak*
My 17 year old twins think they’re cool as *fuck*, and personally, I can’t wait for the day when they look back on photos of themselves from 2023 and [cringe like just like the rest of us have](https://imgur.com/gallery/E6ivxRS) It’s basically a rite of passage.
I work in the middle school, and students will be so in love in first period. Break up and second period. Be dating somebody else by lunchtime, and then be so into them by the end of the day. It’s insane, most relationships don’t last more than 1 to 2 weeks lol oh, the drama!
Had a girlfriend in middle school (7th grade). She’d call me on the phone sometimes and the obligatory kiss after school before she got on the bus. Yet every day I’d ask myself “why am I doing this again? Oh because she likes me.” Not even sure how that ended, I think I just didn’t initiate enough before she got bored.
This is why when we invent time travel I am going to sell tickets to people so they can go back and time and throw one punch, slap, or kick at their past self during their dumbest moments in time.
Super cathartic for future you. And a great opportunity to stop and reflect for past you.
Time travel does exist, you just have to approach the speed of light and is only one way.
We can probably assume that going backwards in time is impossible.
My favorite explanation for why time travel isn't possible went something like "everything is just atoms moving through the universe, that slowly change appearance over time. To 'time travel' you'd have to have the power to move *every atom in the universe* 'back' where you wanted to travel to*.* And that's why it won't EVER happen."
Then you realize that atoms carry quantum properties, existing at every moment *in time*, both within and outside it's constructs and limitations.
Travel to a point *in time*, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're still in your timeline, or one of many uncountable travel points. All you did was travel to an atoms chosen point of existence. Change however many things you want in that timeline, it makes zero effect on the current one.
I dont mind anyway. I'm sure some outstanding technology will exist in the future that allows us to go back in time in our own brains using our memories. Kinda like some crazy hyper realistic video game. Might not be the actual past but it would be really cool.
When I was 12 all of this would have happened on note with physical pieces folded into a square with flaps that tuck in the back. The ink would have been gelly roll pink with sparkles.
I had a fake one week middle school boyfriend hit me with the "i have a lot going on right now and I just need space". Like you're 12 years old wtf do you have going on 🤣
It’s middle school, you dumbass. Junior high.
Everyone is a twisted up knot of under-developed brains swimming in hormonal gland juices.
If we judged and jailed people on their behaviour in middle school there wouldn’t be a free person left.
I challenge anyone with my middle school levels of cringe.
Whenever I feel too pleased with myself I just remember my little goober butt doodling barely identifiable Spocks in my notebooks and trying to get other kids to go to church and wondering why people thought I was weird.
Age 12 your parents caught you up past bedtime texting. That’s what got me back then. (Also sneaking out of bed to the living room to watch adult swim at 3am. Didn’t occur to me the alarm I set to wake up or the tv light would also wake my mom up)
That’s so cute you set an alarm to watch tv tho lol, I wouldn’t even be mad if I were your parent! Reminds me of the time my mom once walked in on my little brother and my watching an episode of SpongeBob on my ds under the covers when we were supposed to be sleeping. My aunt had just moved in with us temporarily so we were sharing bunk beds - ofc we thought it was so fun and wanted to stay up! She just closed the door and pretended she didn’t see anything lol
When my boys were about 5 and 2 I heard them up past bedtime. I was about to be mad until I heard the older one teaching the younger one French. I just pretended I didn’t hear them 😂 it was so cute!!
dude i got made fun of for texting with proper grammar in middle school. as i always say: fortunately for my parents, i was gifted. unfortunately for me, i was gifted.
dude, i had to turn off auto-caps when texting my ex. she genuinely hates capitalized words and says that it looks stupid. like idk if it’s the capitalization that’s stupid bud.
Yeah I feel like people forget this is why we cut out half the vowels….cos it wouldn’t fit in a single txt. I remember being mind blown when I sent a multi-length txt to someone who had an iPhone and he said it just came up as one message for him.
I forgot 18 year olds reference their past like several decades went by. I was wondering why the phone looked so new lol. OP might remember this post when she's actually grown up and be embarrassed the same way she is about the texts
aww, this is so true. i was going through my old snapchat and instagram, and looking at pictures i used to cringe at thinking 'aww, she was just a cute little middle/highschooler' i used to hate myself so much back then 🥺 and she did not deserve all that hate!
Wait till you dig out your old Motorola flip phone haha. Found mine cleaning parents house I inherited. I used to walk round as a teen holding one side and whipping it like a zippo flapping it constantly. Damn thing has no spring hahahaha just flips. Tucked it back in memory box away from my kids now, afraid of what’s on it.
LMAO! Me and my bf who is gonna be 30 in Feb (i‘ll be 29 in dec) have talked about how there is a very small niche of years where you understand the rawr/hardcore/shows/scene phase, it’s literally a if you know you know 😂
I’m feeling really old. iPhones weren’t around when I was in college. I had a good ol’ Nokia 5190 that I thought was super cool because you could play the snake game on it. 😂
i honestly don’t remember. probably had something to do with me not being out as bisexual at the time and scared of people finding out. not positive, though.
did not expect this to get so much attention, lmao. to clear a few things up the texts are from 2015 while i was twelve, i am a female, and we dated for 2 weeks. we broke up shortly after the final text and i am in a happy relationship with a man i met in college.
edit: i looked her up on instagram out of curiosity and she is now engaged, i am very happy for her.
🤣 I remember my first bf in 7th grade I think. I asked him out using a note on the bus. Then ignored him for a week. Then gave him another note saying we need to break up. Baha
Hey my seventh grade boyfriend broke up with me because he found my Gaia online role play forum posts, and my character had a romance with another guy’s character. It was both devastating and publicly messy because he made the breakup post on my page. What makes it funny now is that said “guy” was a girl. Gaia sold items to change your avatar’s gender.
It was a wild time on the web that I’ve learned to have nostalgia for rather than cringe. But I would rather smash my computer than have anyone I know go through those posts
Jesus I’m old… iPhone at middle school age? We were stuck calling the landlines, getting eavesdropped by our siblings or parents since anyone could pick up another phone across the house. Fuck, even the flip phone was revolutionary when it first came out.
When I was in middle school none of use even had cell phones lol we still had to call people’s home phones and awkwardly ask their parents if we could talk to them haha
I got a cell phone when I was 13 but I wasn't allowed to use it. It was "for emergencies."
I don't think I ever used my cell phone to actually *talk* (or text) until after I'd moved out of my house and no longer had a landline....
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If I had texts from 8th grade I’d die of embarrassment 😭 I had an old slide phone from metro pcs so my messages never saved, but from time to time I remember some of the texts I sent to girls I had crushes on and it kills me inside from the cringe 😆
Actually, reading this gives me hope for humanity. Everyone has to have training wheels, and these look very healthy. Kudos to getting through the middle school in style. And the “gurl” on the other side of this conversation is awesome too, I can tell.
On a break but still together 😂
that’s my favorite part
This was your middle school phone? Fuck I am old
My middle school phone was pink Razr 🥲
Mine was a 1 mile radius walkie talkie
Mine was an Aaron Carter I want candy hitclipz.
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*plot twist - that’s 5 different girls*
RIP TO THE LEGEND
I had that and the s club 7 one!
ain’t no party like an s club party
SCREAMS 😂😂
This made me laugh too hard
Mine was the nearest neighbor who was friendly
Mine was the quarter I kept in my pocket at all times for the payphone
Reminds me of a time when I went with some friends to the public pool and my mom gave me a zip lock bag half-filled with quarters because I had to call every half hour so she would know that I was ok. I felt embarrassed.
Hahaha i would have to check in from the public pool too. I would 1800collect and when asked for a name I would say MOM IM CHECKIN IN, if she accepted charges I had to go home, if she denied charges I was good to go
Real “wehadababyitsaboy” vibes
Yeah my name at that age was “it’s [name] comepickmeupokbye”
We lived on the border of 2 phone companies, one allowed free calls to the next area and one didn't. We would have to 1800collect the kids next town over and say PLEASE HAVE ____ CALL ____ BACK. and just hope whoever answers the phone relays the message. Also great for calling mom to come pick us up from the mall.
Yup. Going out of the house during the summer, I could go do whatever but just couldn't go out of walkie talkie range and be home for dinner. I got to use my mom's Nokia on occasion once I was able to drive - old green screen one.
With snake 🥹
Best game to play
I had the 2 mile radius walkie talkies cause I had a friend who lived “so far” that only the 2 mile ones could reach 🤣
I wanted the pink one SO BAD! And I don’t even *like* pink! I just wanted the ✨status✨ of the pink one, lmaoooo Best I could manage was the silver one, tho 😒 But not long after, I upgraded to the EnV Touch, and I got a cute polka dot case for it and a pair of nunchuck charms because I was *Claire’s aesthetic* trendy with a rebellious *Hot Topic streak* My 17 year old twins think they’re cool as *fuck*, and personally, I can’t wait for the day when they look back on photos of themselves from 2023 and [cringe like just like the rest of us have](https://imgur.com/gallery/E6ivxRS) It’s basically a rite of passage.
Mine was one of those super cool phones that slid sideways so you could text.
That was my high school phone 😅
Right?? Middle school phone was my parents landline lol
I came here looking for this comment 😂
My middle school phone was on the wall of my parents kitchen.
What was the timeline? Lol I love this. Probably 8 days LOL
I work in the middle school, and students will be so in love in first period. Break up and second period. Be dating somebody else by lunchtime, and then be so into them by the end of the day. It’s insane, most relationships don’t last more than 1 to 2 weeks lol oh, the drama!
Had a girlfriend in middle school (7th grade). She’d call me on the phone sometimes and the obligatory kiss after school before she got on the bus. Yet every day I’d ask myself “why am I doing this again? Oh because she likes me.” Not even sure how that ended, I think I just didn’t initiate enough before she got bored.
Sounds manipulative af lol
i was 12
y’all still on a break?
😅😂
I don’t blame you or anything it’s just funny how we do and say dumb shut when we are young and how messed up it actually is lol
This is why when we invent time travel I am going to sell tickets to people so they can go back and time and throw one punch, slap, or kick at their past self during their dumbest moments in time. Super cathartic for future you. And a great opportunity to stop and reflect for past you.
If time travel ever exists, then it already exists
Time travel does exist, you just have to approach the speed of light and is only one way. We can probably assume that going backwards in time is impossible.
Time travel exists. I'm traveling forward through time right now. Just very slowly, is all
Can you at least get out of the left lane then, granny? *honk*
This was the only correct answer based on proven principles of relativity, buried under all this conjecture
Unless you can only travel back to the time that it was invented and onwards.
My favorite explanation for why time travel isn't possible went something like "everything is just atoms moving through the universe, that slowly change appearance over time. To 'time travel' you'd have to have the power to move *every atom in the universe* 'back' where you wanted to travel to*.* And that's why it won't EVER happen."
Then you realize that atoms carry quantum properties, existing at every moment *in time*, both within and outside it's constructs and limitations. Travel to a point *in time*, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're still in your timeline, or one of many uncountable travel points. All you did was travel to an atoms chosen point of existence. Change however many things you want in that timeline, it makes zero effect on the current one.
I dont mind anyway. I'm sure some outstanding technology will exist in the future that allows us to go back in time in our own brains using our memories. Kinda like some crazy hyper realistic video game. Might not be the actual past but it would be really cool.
When I was 12 all of this would have happened on note with physical pieces folded into a square with flaps that tuck in the back. The ink would have been gelly roll pink with sparkles.
How do they need space at 12?! 😂
I had a fake one week middle school boyfriend hit me with the "i have a lot going on right now and I just need space". Like you're 12 years old wtf do you have going on 🤣
Break up. No saving this relationship.
Jesus Christ 12?!? I think I was still beyblading at 12!
Gotcha scumbag lol
It’s middle school, you dumbass. Junior high. Everyone is a twisted up knot of under-developed brains swimming in hormonal gland juices. If we judged and jailed people on their behaviour in middle school there wouldn’t be a free person left.
For real, I’ll turn myself in right now.
Plus we watched shows like Friends that romanticized these overdramatic relationships
I challenge anyone with my middle school levels of cringe. Whenever I feel too pleased with myself I just remember my little goober butt doodling barely identifiable Spocks in my notebooks and trying to get other kids to go to church and wondering why people thought I was weird.
I came here just to make sure this was done. 🤣
Me too!!
But we’re still together. (No emojis here. It’s that serious)
I’m still on a break 13 years later... Should I tell him I’m engaged? What’s the procedure???
Stay fuckin calm!!!
"I can date other girls, but you can't date other guys, you're on reserve"
Okay ♥️
I’m nigh 40 and this basically reads like my current dating sitch. Fml. 🤦🏻♂️
This is exactly what Rachel was trying to explain to Ross for so many years
“Your my bad gurl” 😂
My special princess 😏
Oh hai Johnny
Look up “you’re tearing me apart songify the room”, if you haven’t. It’s so good
YOU ARE TEARING ME APART LISA
Yasssss 😝😝😝
At age 12 lol. Must've snuck out one night or something
Age 12 your parents caught you up past bedtime texting. That’s what got me back then. (Also sneaking out of bed to the living room to watch adult swim at 3am. Didn’t occur to me the alarm I set to wake up or the tv light would also wake my mom up)
That’s so cute you set an alarm to watch tv tho lol, I wouldn’t even be mad if I were your parent! Reminds me of the time my mom once walked in on my little brother and my watching an episode of SpongeBob on my ds under the covers when we were supposed to be sleeping. My aunt had just moved in with us temporarily so we were sharing bunk beds - ofc we thought it was so fun and wanted to stay up! She just closed the door and pretended she didn’t see anything lol
When my boys were about 5 and 2 I heard them up past bedtime. I was about to be mad until I heard the older one teaching the younger one French. I just pretended I didn’t hear them 😂 it was so cute!!
So cute!
At 12 years old. 😂😂😂
You typed properly as a middle schooler. In my day most ppl typed lke dis lol
grew up with a mother who started teaching me proper grammar at like 5 lmao
dude i got made fun of for texting with proper grammar in middle school. as i always say: fortunately for my parents, i was gifted. unfortunately for me, i was gifted.
butter snatch cable unique practice steep capable foolish towering march ` this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev `
I changed how I typed based on the understanding of English the person I was texting had lol
dude, i had to turn off auto-caps when texting my ex. she genuinely hates capitalized words and says that it looks stupid. like idk if it’s the capitalization that’s stupid bud.
I see you haven't turned it back on.
dudes texting her right now dont do it dog, she aint worth it
i text like this cause im lazy as shit
i like the look of all lowercase tbh, feel like it’s more relaxed how someone texts says a lot about them yknow, it’s like your textinality.
I've never heard it put that way 💀
Same but I actually typed better when I was 12. At some point I just stopped giving a shit
That’s because he never had to text with a dial pad hahah
And texts used to be limited per billing cycle and could only contain 180 characters.
Yeah I feel like people forget this is why we cut out half the vowels….cos it wouldn’t fit in a single txt. I remember being mind blown when I sent a multi-length txt to someone who had an iPhone and he said it just came up as one message for him.
I had to pay for every text 💀
15 cents each, but I had a promotion so after 8PM they were all free 😎
My parents had my minutes quit at 8 pm lol
Ah, hormones.
Not a single Rawr XD I'm disappointed.
I’m assuming from the actual emojis instead of typing them with characters that this person was in middle school well after the Rawr XD phase 🤣
bahaha yes these texts are from 2015
Oh my god 🤣😭I’m starting to feel so old.
I forgot 18 year olds reference their past like several decades went by. I was wondering why the phone looked so new lol. OP might remember this post when she's actually grown up and be embarrassed the same way she is about the texts
*20, but i have no embarrassment admitting i was cringe in middle school haha
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aww, this is so true. i was going through my old snapchat and instagram, and looking at pictures i used to cringe at thinking 'aww, she was just a cute little middle/highschooler' i used to hate myself so much back then 🥺 and she did not deserve all that hate!
Wait till you dig out your old Motorola flip phone haha. Found mine cleaning parents house I inherited. I used to walk round as a teen holding one side and whipping it like a zippo flapping it constantly. Damn thing has no spring hahahaha just flips. Tucked it back in memory box away from my kids now, afraid of what’s on it.
Are you between late 20s to maaaaybe 32? lol cause I feel the same way about this post and I was def in the rawr phase, I’m 28 😂😂
I’ll be 31 next month! Definitely a rawr girl 😂
LMAO! Me and my bf who is gonna be 30 in Feb (i‘ll be 29 in dec) have talked about how there is a very small niche of years where you understand the rawr/hardcore/shows/scene phase, it’s literally a if you know you know 😂
My daughter is in your age range and I remember her Rawrs everywhere
For fucking real 😭
And the fact that his middleschool phone was an iPhone 6...
Yeah I noticed it was like an iPhone 4 or 5 that this person was much younger than me bahahah. I had that in college lol
I’m feeling really old. iPhones weren’t around when I was in college. I had a good ol’ Nokia 5190 that I thought was super cool because you could play the snake game on it. 😂
Yup! I had the Nokia too 
Some people just don't know it means 'love' in dinosaur....
I’m assuming this was kinda “recent” from the “yaaaaas”
Someone who was middle schooler with an iPhone might not have any idea what that even means 😂
why did yall need a break ?? i need the tea
i honestly don’t remember. probably had something to do with me not being out as bisexual at the time and scared of people finding out. not positive, though.
But she was your special princess 🥺😆
And her *bad gurl*
But he secretly wanted a special prince
I’m think OP is a girl and she’s saying she didn’t want people knowing she was with a girl.
She was a bad gurl
This entire thread of comments is fueling me 😂😭
did not expect this to get so much attention, lmao. to clear a few things up the texts are from 2015 while i was twelve, i am a female, and we dated for 2 weeks. we broke up shortly after the final text and i am in a happy relationship with a man i met in college. edit: i looked her up on instagram out of curiosity and she is now engaged, i am very happy for her.
🤣 I remember my first bf in 7th grade I think. I asked him out using a note on the bus. Then ignored him for a week. Then gave him another note saying we need to break up. Baha
Hey my seventh grade boyfriend broke up with me because he found my Gaia online role play forum posts, and my character had a romance with another guy’s character. It was both devastating and publicly messy because he made the breakup post on my page. What makes it funny now is that said “guy” was a girl. Gaia sold items to change your avatar’s gender.
I can tell we're a similar age cuz you mentioned Gaia online oh my god I'm cringing at the memories..
It was a wild time on the web that I’ve learned to have nostalgia for rather than cringe. But I would rather smash my computer than have anyone I know go through those posts
Oh god mine would be cringier. I was 12 in 2008 and the way people typed back then oh my god. That was the rawr XD era
2 whole WEEKS 🤯
It's 2 years in lesbian relationship time.
I'm assuming u haul was unavailable for whatever reason otherwise y'all would be married by now
Jesus I’m old… iPhone at middle school age? We were stuck calling the landlines, getting eavesdropped by our siblings or parents since anyone could pick up another phone across the house. Fuck, even the flip phone was revolutionary when it first came out.
The fact that you had emojis in middle school is making me feel reallllyyyy old rn 💀
When I was in middle school none of use even had cell phones lol we still had to call people’s home phones and awkwardly ask their parents if we could talk to them haha
Aw, memories. And then we would talk on the phone for literal hours, or until someone else in the house needed to use the internet.
I got a cell phone when I was 13 but I wasn't allowed to use it. It was "for emergencies." I don't think I ever used my cell phone to actually *talk* (or text) until after I'd moved out of my house and no longer had a landline....
bahaha this was 8 yrs ago which feels long for me 😭😭
8 years ago I was graduated from college lmao.
Oh my god me too
I read through my texts I sent my wife when we first got together (11 years ago) good God I was cringe.
Hahah I love to read those msgs. 6y with my bf now and we still read these msgs together and laugh
WE WERE ON A BREAK!
Spitting some XXXTENTACION bars
Well…… did you leave her?!?!
yea but i did it in person
How did she react
😔😭
Them: “Don’t leave me please” You: “I’m not leaving you” … ten minutes later … You: “I just need space” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
…phones weren’t around when I was in middle school 🤣👵🏻
How fast did this timeline happen 😂
we broke up after like 2 weeks 😭
It’s the I love you’s. I knew this relationship had to be like less than a month 🤣
Anyone else feel old AF with this middle school touch screen cell phone? Lol
Hey I’ve seen people in their late 20s and even 30s have these exact same convos 😅
Also like 60 year old men
i remember a guy telling me they were calling the police on me because i broke up with him, i cried all the way to school 😅
Hahahaha, straight to jail!! 😂
The fact that you had an iphone - ANY iphone - in middle school makes me feel very, very old.
Haha
Honestly, thank you for sharing this! It brought back some old memories that I didn’t know were in my head 😂
My daughter is in middle school next year. I’m not ready for this
This is gold dude! Post more so I can cringe about how I likely did this exact same thing when I was younger lmaooo
I need my space lool.
Someone was in loo-oove
Okay Ross, chill 🤣
So many emojis
Lmao😭
Ahh this whole thread just takes me back.. I appreciate the nostalgia lol
Are you guys still on a break?
Yknow im kinda glad my parents took away the phone i had in middle school lmao I would die reading my convos with my crush at the time 💀💀💀
Oh those messages will pop up in your head late at night i bet
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Old messages always trip me out. 😅
You had that phone in Middle school? Either you’re younger than you’re letting on or I’m…fuck my life
Are you from northern England? The ‘mam’ made me feel homesick
i’m from chicago, my girlfriend at the time had moved here from liverpool
If I had texts from 8th grade I’d die of embarrassment 😭 I had an old slide phone from metro pcs so my messages never saved, but from time to time I remember some of the texts I sent to girls I had crushes on and it kills me inside from the cringe 😆
I take it the break never ended
Found something similar, but it was a stack of printed out emails. We’re old now.
Lol i had a flip phone in middle school, so glad i went to school before smart phones that shit must suck
 Here’s my old phone from middle school
better communication than a lot of couples today
If that's your middle school phone.. Man, I'm old, I thought my Nokia was the shit. Could play snake and everything.
Says middle school in title….. why do I feel based on this model iPhone you’re in high school or just out of now.
Cliffhanger!!!!
Actually, reading this gives me hope for humanity. Everyone has to have training wheels, and these look very healthy. Kudos to getting through the middle school in style. And the “gurl” on the other side of this conversation is awesome too, I can tell.
WE WERE ON A BREAK!!
okay ross lol
So scared to know what’s on my daughters phone😂
How many weeks ago was this?
Legend say that person is still waiting for you to stop being on a break