wow, you know your town lacks a social scene when kids hang out at Taco bell

[charlie and algernon]

I had a huge lunch, so went out at 10 for a late dinner and went to Taco bell. Being that it was late and, you know, um, taco bell, I was shocked to see kids just hanging out chatting in the parking lot, lol. I never knew those taco bell commercials where everyone gathers there at 11pm were so close to the truth. :wtf:

i think this is a sign that I need to move to a bigger town, lol.

[bigwillq]

1. We hung out at Duchess all the time.

We would go there after every game to eat and hang out and then chill in the parking lot with some beers until the cops came.

[Left Is Write]

2. When I was a teenager, kids would hang out at the Tom Thumb...

kids will always loiter somewhere.

[charlie and algernon]

8. I guess we were never the loitering type

we'd always just meet at someone's house and hang out all night.

[Left Is Write]

9. I wasn't really either - in my younger teens I went to the roller rink

and in my older teens, we hung out at Perkins drinking coffee 'til all hours.

[charlie and algernon]

11. Perkins was a popular spot, as was Friendly's

After football games both those places were usually packed with kids. There were some fun times in Friendly's after games.

[Kat45]

17. Yeah, it was Friendly's where I grew up.

It would be packed at night after games.

[Aristus]

3. I used to live in a gated community near Houston. There was nothing to do

except hang out at the U-Totem. THAT is a dead neighborhood scene!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

19. Ah, yes....

The U-Scrotum, as one of my old BFs called it.

I remember those before they turned into 7-11s and then Stop-N-Go.

Known colloquially at the court house as "Stop-N-Rob".

[realisticphish]

4. When I was a kid, we didn't have any newfangled "Taco Bells" to hang around

No sir, we made do with a disused septic tank, and dagnabbit, we were GRATEFUL

[Monk06]

13. We had to sleep in bottom of lake and had a spoonful of cold gravel

for breakfast and worked in mill 36 hrs
per day and were grateful for it.

But try tellin that to the youth ta day.

Spoiled they are don't know nothin'

[realisticphish]

15. and every night our dad would murder us in cold blood

and dance on our graves singing hallelujah!

You tell that to one of these young ones, and they won't believe you

[Monk06]

16. .........*

:thumbsup:

[charlie and algernon]

14. damn straight

we walked 26 miles to school, up hill both ways. And we enjoyed it!

[begin_within]

5. Well, once I was in Vega, Texas

on a road trip and we stopped at a Burger King because that was the only place in town we could find. It was very hot and windy (this was in late June 1997) and it was hot inside the Burger King too. They had ceiling fans, but all they did was blow the hot air around. I was amazed at how many people were inside it - almost every table was occupied. After we ordered our food I began to notice that most of the people there weren't even eating. They were just sitting there chatting or playing games. I guess that's the only place to hang out in that town. It was weird, like we were in some movie and had discovered the perfect place to go just after you've committed a murder. We got the hell out of that town as soon as we could - spotting an ominous-loooking storm on the horizon too.

[TZ]

6. They hang out at the 7-11 here.

I've seen this for years...

[charlie and algernon]

10. yeah, I've always seen 7-11 as a big hang out spot, but usually during the day

Taco Bell at 10pm seemed to be the last spot I thought kids would hang out.

[TZ]

12. Dairy queen is another favorite

Around here

[Kali]

7. I lived in a hugh metro area as a kid and we hung out at Jack in the Box

in the nearest small town it seems like half the town shows up on a Saturday night at the walmart parking lot! talk about:wtf:

[Kat45]

18. At least they're not hanging out at Walmart.

I saw something on TV once about teenagers going on dates to Walmart. :scared:

[charlie and algernon]

20. dates?!

cripes, their town doesn't even have a mcdonalds? or was the mcdonalds in the wal-mart?? :wtf:

[Reverend_Smitty]

21. lol...holy crap I was just thinking that same thing to myself yesterday...

I have to drive past a Taco Bell on my way home from work and it was the second time in about 2 weeks that I noticed a large group of teenagers hanging in the parking lot of a Taco Bell. The first time was like 11pm on a Tuesday (don't these kids have to get up for school?)

Even at my most anti-establishment teen rebellion age I would never hang out in a Taco Bell parking lot. At the Denny's or in a pinch inside the Dunkin Donuts (which consequently is in the same shopping center)...but Taco Bell? Yuck!

I don't know maybe I'm just getting old and crabby because large groups of teenagers just about anywhere are starting to piss me off.

Though now I could kind of go for some Taco Bell

[charlie and algernon]

22. perhaps they're taking those commericals literally

the ones where groups of teens show up at taco bell after 11 to eat "fourth meal" off the new value menu, lol. As I said upthread, it was always Perkins or friendly's for my high school friends, we never would've considered loitering at taco bell.

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. maybe...stupid effective marketing...

But still I live in the diner capitol of the world...I can think of 3 in close driving distance that are open 24hrs, have much better food and best of all bottomless coffee!

[Hanse]

24. If you couldn't go to bars, but still lived with your parents, where would you hang out?

:shrug:

[slay]

26. The Park

Local parks are awesome at night. Assuming there are no random killers roaming around. That's where we used to hang though. Go take a girl for a nice night swing on the playground. :evilgrin:

[slay]

25. At a nearby redneck town it's the local McDonalds here

Bunch of drunk redneck idiots sitting around in the back of their pickups in the McDonalds parking lot in this one-stoplight type town near me. I'm afraid to even go there at night - being a guy with long hair. Freaky.

[LeftyMom]

27. At least they're not at the Walgreens.

That was the strangest damned thing I've ever seen: teenagers milling around in/outside the Walgreens, cruising the parking lot...

Yeah, the drug store. No, I don't get it either.

[Tabasco_Dave]

28. Home Video killed Drive-ins

And home game systems killed video arcades. I'm glad i didn't have all this new technology when i was a teenager in the early 80's.

[old mark]

29. Old timer hangout: the first McDonalds in the area was a hot car

hangout, as was a local ice cream and burger place in the county fairgrounds that was more of an older car / hot rod place.

mark

[Drunken Irishman]

30. I go to Taco Bell after drinking and clubbing and barring and whoring.

[CBR]

31. We used to hang out at the Wal-Mart. We drove 45 minutes

to go to Applebee's for a Prom dinner. They since have built an Applebee's in my hometown. LOL!