Ok today’s my birthday and with that I’ll take that literally to start- a-new today! I can’t believe I’m 37! I really do feel 25 most of the time, except when I think back to the things that ‘kids today’ just don’t get, yet they make me smile ☺.
- It was safe to walk to kindergarten alone (ok that one is sad)
- Riding in the rear window of the car
- Riding in the back of the el Camino
- Watching my brother fall out of the car because we stuffed about 15 kids into the Nova to go to Dairy Queen
- Going to the BANK with my ‘passbook’
- Holding a paycheck in my HAND
- Having a console TV, console RADIO, and DIAL BUTTONS on my radio
- Changing the channel with pliers
- TV dinners in aluminum
- Sticking the big extra square thing in the middle of my record player so the 45’s would play.
- Getting home before the streetlights turned on
- Bubble gum cigarettes (can you imagine giving them to kids today?)
- Where’s the beef
- Centipede
- Asteroids
- Sticking the quarter in the Nintendo so the game would stick so I could play Super Mario Brothers
- Speak and Spell & Merlin
- Tab
- Not eating the RED M&M’s because they were cancerous
- AquaNet
- Crimpers
- Giant Hair
- Boys had tails
- Roller skating (chess-a-rina for my pgh friends)
- RECORDS, 8 Tracks, the first CDs, BETA, VCR
- Dance Party USA
- you can’t do that on television “I DON’T KNOW”
- Punky Brewster
- Silver Spoons
- Dukes of Hazard
- “Bright Light, Bright Light”
- Watching Marlena get possessed
- Smurfs
- Slap bracelets
- Jelly shoes
- Pegged pants
- Giant shoulder pads
- Laura Ashley
- Sweatpants with ONE leg pulled up
- 2 pairs of socks one to match your shirt - one to match your pants
- Spending 10 min trying to put my jeans on in the AM, then not being able to breathe for the next 8 hrs
- Ripping my jeans and REALLY aggravating my parents
- Stretch mini skirts, hypercolors t-shirts, (I have pictures, you know who you are and are lucky I’m not posting them).
- HAIR METAL (although most of my friends didn’t like it until years later)
- Girl bands (ok I was in one, we sucked – “angels without halos” LOL!)
- waiting until Friday night 9PM - MUSIC VIDEOS
- New Wave
- Side B,
- 10 speeds
- 30 lb bikes
- Writing on jean jackets
- Boom boxes on your SHOULDER
- Break Dancing
- Really wanting the "yellow" Walkman!
- Footloose
- ALF
- Love Boat
- Night Rider (yea my ring tone is Night Rider right now)
- The facts of Life
- The Breakfast Club
