Feel free to add more in comment section below.
1. The thrill of Blockbuster on Friday night (and the heat ache of intended flicks being sold out) and forever big eyes for the ever changing row of "NEW RELEASES"
2. Call waiting. And, "waiting" In general . . .
3. The blood sweat and tears that go into mixed tapes for the loved ones you hope will cherish it.
4. TV Guide
5. A ninth planet
6. The high that comes with seeing your note makes it ALL the way across the classroom without being confiscated.
7. The cow themed box of a new gateway computer
8. The God awful sound of a busy signal bleating a phone line
9. Finding friends in the phone book
10. The art of the encyclopedia
11. The stress in trying to save yourself (and a wagon full of kids you acquired) along the Oregon Trail.
12. Prank calls with no strings (or tracking) attached
13 Taking your film to be developed and finding that 90 percent of your photos are blurry are just no good.
14. Waiting an hour to download one song (illegally) on your parents computer
15. Videos on MTV
16. Scrounging spare change for pay phones at the movie theater to assure your parents you lived through Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
17. Camping out for concerts that sell out regardless
18. The horror of an Unrewond VHS
19. Getting lost with printed directions from Map Quest
20. Getting the last number wrong on a landline phone
21. The fickle fact of TV antennas
22. Missing your favorite show
23. Talking to the hand
24. Pepsi Clear
25. DIAL UP INERNET
26. The unmatched thrill of discovering hidden tracks on CDS
27. 911 Alerts on your beeper
28. Muppets
29. Glamour Shots
30. Not knowing the lyrics to a song
31. Ronald McDonald and Michael Jackson
32. One shoulder overalls
33. Schunchies
34. Family Ties, Gem, Kids Incorporated, Punky, Charles in Charge, Different Strokes, Webster, (ect, ect)
35. Not having your entire childhood documented online
Man SO weird!! I almost feel sorry for our kids! Haha awesome list, although I wouldn't be surprised if one shoulder overalls and scrunchies (that is supposed to say scrunchies isn't it?) don't make a come back at some point soon.
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DeleteAh, the sweetness of nostalgia!
ReplyDeleteKnowing the way to get the 8 track to pull the loose tape back in or winding the tape back into a cassette with a pencil or your finger.
ReplyDeleteCarrying records with you so you could play your music at a friends house.
Trying to record your favorite song off the radio onto cassette.
Riding your bike off into the neighborhood and not coming back until dark.
Only have 3 channels on your TV.
Roughhousing at school with your classmates, like playing king of the mountain and no one getting suspended.
Listening to the radio while laying in the sun using baby oil because we still didn't understand the dangers.
yes!!!! To all these I failed to include.
DeleteOh, yesterday....
Yes! I am feeling kind of sorry for our kids now, so many awesome things they don't even know they are missing out on. And I'm laughing and remembering pretty much every one on your list.
ReplyDeleteThe Wonder Years
Sitting by the radio for way to long just to record your favorite song onto your cassette and then have the DJ talk over the beginning of the song
Coming up with codes to page your friends on their beepers... 143 = I love you. And trying to spell boys names out of numbers so friends would know that that hot boy you have a crush on showed up.
Remember that old brown cable remote that had a super long cord and had long skinny buttons, it was called a Jerrold.
Playing super mario brothers on nintendo and having to keep the console on all night or you'd lose everything and have to start back at level one. And kind of being afraid to turn off the TV in case that did it too.
yes!! ALL of it, Drae!
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ReplyDeleteSuch a good list!! Makes me sad that my kids won't get to experience any of these.
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