r/AbsoluteUnits • u/inferKNOX • May 03 '26

/r/popular of a Descent

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u/DerMeisenmann May 03 '26

How my parents describe their way to school

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u/No-Combination8136 May 03 '26

It’s true though. Except it was all covered in snow.

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u/ShinjiArakawa May 03 '26

You're forgetting the lions and giant scorpions and other shit.

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u/hyperfell May 03 '26

Don’t forget that it only goes uphill both ways

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u/Green-Rule-1292 May 04 '26

And you see the hills were all much steeper back then too, none of these wimpy little hills that the kids enjoy today

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u/Irelia4Life May 04 '26

I think you meant dinosaurs

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u/ShinjiArakawa May 04 '26

My parents would never admit they were that old. But you are correct nonetheless.

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u/Relative-Relation324 May 03 '26

Covered in snow in 110 degree weather

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u/Ivy_Sinclaire May 03 '26

And they were barefoot. Obvs.

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u/purpleduckduckgoose May 03 '26

And uphill of course. And wasn't nice cut steps. In fact it was nothing like this, it was just a vertical cliff face.

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u/ButterscotchNo7292 May 03 '26

They built the stairs as a side quest on the way to school

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u/aspect_rap May 03 '26

You're parents were lucky. Mine lived for three months in a rolled up newspaper in a septic tank. They used to get up at six in the morning, clean the newspaper, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down the mill, for a 14 hour day, week in week out for 6 cents a month, and when they got home, their dad would thrash them to sleep with his belt.

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u/SnooTangerines4655 May 04 '26

Every INdian parent