It's Friday !!! What was a Friday like when you were 25 ??

Friday night ages 16-19... "running around" with friends to see what trouble mischief philanthropic endeavors :giggle: we could get into.
Friday night ages 19.5 - 20.5... usually going to sleep early after working in a hot, miserable, and back breaking factory job all week. Too much in pain to do anything.
Friday night ages 21 and 22... working a 72 hour a week job in a city. M-F 12 hrs. a day and Sat/Sun 6 hrs a day. A couple days off every two weeks. Got home at 8 and then had to sleep to start the next day soon after.
Friday night after starting a family 22-now... whatever I needed or wanted to do. (y)
 
At 25, I had a 2-year-old and had just started a new job. Money was tight, so Friday nights meant doing something like going to the mall, walking around and sharing an icecream cone. Or maybe going to the laundromat. Or sitting out on the steps of our apartment building and counting the johns that the hookers who lived upstairs brought home. That was cheap AND amusing.
 
Friday after I'd get home from work, if I had time, I might take a short nap before jumping in the shower and then driving to my girlfriends house. We'd cook dinner together, sometimes invite a few other friends, hang out for a bit and then get dressed to go out to the bars/clubs. We danced and carried on until the wee hours of the morning, and had a blast! Yeah, baby, those were the days!
 
My first wife was pregnant, and we lived a pretty modest lifestyle in a portion of a house owned by a woman about the age I am now. We'd moved into Vancouver from a cottage on a farm in Richmond. We were cooking our own meals at home, usually. Sometimes a couple of friends would drop over and we'd make music with guitars & other stringed instruments.

By the time our daughter was born ( I was 251/2), we'd moved to the general region I live in now. We were making friends, so there were often get-togethers, with adults & young kids. There was lots of homemade food, conversation, joking & music. Adults planned their gardens & construction projects, and chewed-over their financial challenges. It was a good life.
 
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At 25 I was still in college because I enrolled later than others my age. I would usually go out on a date with a man I was seeing. We'd go out to dine or to a movie, sometimes we'd watch our university's debate team which we both found interesting. We'd go to museums or concerts.
 
I was married with a 5-year-old little girl. I would get off work around 5:30 pm and be home around 6pm. My wife would not be home for a few minutes, as she was picking up our daughter from the babysitter. We would then relax while our daughter played around the house and maybe have something to drink. Then later have a nice diner...

Of course at time we would go to a movie and/or get something to eat. It just depended on the day...

By the way that little girl had twins after she got married and she is now a grandmother making us great grand parents....life is beautiful...!
 
At 25 I was married and we'd had our first son. Walking 4 or 5 miles even in Winter to dinner or a movie theater, and then back, had been just routine before the baby. Apartment living soon wouldn't work any more and we were aware of this and making plans. We had bought a car already making it easier to consider moving outward from the city, but that was also a huge change in lifestyle from walking, bicycling, or taking buses everywhere. Renting cars for out of town travel was no longer an issue.

So Fridays were usually "in" for the evening, or getting ready for a road trip the next day to visit family.
 
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By the time I was 25 I had two children under the age of two. Friday nights were nothing special. Saturday night might be a date night, but we were trying to save money for a down payment.

I have one friend who put off having a child until she was nearly 40. I have another pal who also had kids young, like I did. I don't think there's any wrong or right way to start a family. I missed out on partying when I was in my 20s, but I was never into parties after about age 20 anyway. I think they still have singles parties in my area? Never again. They are sooooo depressing.

Giving birth is generally much easier on the female body in your 20s than near to 40. I wish today's women were told that more loudly and more often and would try to plan accordingly.
 
Had to think back where I was at 25.
A little more money in my pocket with a new stripe.
Living in an apartment in California with a roomate from the base.

If not working a shift, we'd have some friends over, put some music on the stereo and unwind.
(Dominoes or Backgammon was played and made them listen to the latest Jazz Vinyl I got from Tower Records)

Thinking back, seems I was just in a Temporary Mindset.
Just waiting for the next place to live.
 
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