1. Folding actual paper notes and passing them in class. This was so much fun! I mean, I love texting as much as the next iPhone addicted mom, but I really miss my 80’s style note folding days.
2. Why they call it “rolling down” a window.
3. The absolute certainty that you could one day become rich by buying and reselling Furbies.
4. The excruciating blisters that jelly shoes left on your toe knuckles.
5. Waiting by the radio for hours for your favorite song to come on so that you could “dub” it onto a blank tape. Or even knowing what a blank tape is. Or a tape.
6. Why see through phones were the coolest.
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7. How to spray up your bangs.
8. Why they call it “taping” a song or a movie.
9. Having to stand next to the toaster to pop up your toast at just the right time so that you can get it as dark or light as you want it.
10. How to roll up your jeans with that perfect little fold that proves you’re one of the popular kids.
11. Working out at Spa Lady in a leotard, neon leggings, and leg warmers, because you looked totally hot.
12. That a rat tail doesn’t only come on a rat.
13. Singing along to a TV sitcom theme song. Why don’t theme songs have words anymore??
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LOL! Just this morning I was trying to explain to my 8 y/o about the double tape-deck boombox I received for my 9th birthday and why it was important. This was all precipitated by Dire Straits Money for Nothing being on 80’s radio.
Blank stares all round…
I think we must be exactly the same age 😀
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Yes! How can you dub a mix tape without the double deck boom box?!
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I’m always talking to my grandsons about “the olden days.” Their dad had a rat tail!
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No way! You must post a picture sometime…if you can dig one up!
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They probably never open a map to figure out how to drive somewhere before they leave the house.
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Or if they’re anything like their mother, they’ll forget it’s even in the car!
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Technology is going to make us into limbless,but not voiceless, little blobs one day.
enjoyed your list of “extinction” ? *winks* You do know what ration cards are, right?
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Know what they are? Yes. Ever seen one? Nope!
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Ha! great trip down memory lane. forgot about the jelly shoes..
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And don’t forget jelly bracelets!
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We’ve just finished Summer here and I was in a car that had one of those buttons you push to “wind the window down” and it was jammed! Their air-conditioner was on the blink and all I wanted was a original wind down window!
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