Remember When

I was talking with my co-worker about her 16 yr old daughter missing her boyfriend because they haven't "talked/texted" in 4 hours! Wow... it made me remember days before texting... before cell phones... before emails! You had to WRITE letters and MAIL them by use of a POST OFFICE! Do teenagers know what a post office is? I don't mean a "UPS Store"... I mean the United States Postal Service Office.

So, that conversation lead me to think of things from the "good ol' days"... and that thought alone made me think to myself "wow, I'm at that age of saying... I remember when..."


Remeber When we had:
*car phones- in a bag!

*cell phones- like a brick- not the little one's like that have now
*chordless home phones- when they were new!
*snail mail- hand written (not electronic)
*HUGE computer monitors

*TV's before remote controls

*life before microwaves- I barely remember this... I mainly remember getting a microwave when we were kids
*atari- pack man, frogger, galliga

*playing 4 square
*dodge ball
*wall ball
*"jump rope for heart" at our elemntary school
*paracute pants
*tight roll jeans
*double socks
*rolled up sleeves on your t-shirt
*big bangs
*blue eye shadow
*blue mascara
*rainbow bright
*glo- worms
*Walk-man's
*record players
*tape players
*CD players
*answering machines- not connected to your phone
*caller ID boxes- not connected to your phone
*rollidex
*playing outside until the street lights came on
*leaving your house unlocked because crime wasn't a big issue
*leaving your car unlocked because crime wasn't a big issue
*Hardees
*He-Man
*Stretch Armstrong
*Cabbage Patch Kids
*Garbage Pale Kids
*Baseball Cards
*Star Wars (the old school version)
*Knight Rider
*Family Ties
*Growing Pains
*Silverspoons
*The Jeffersons
*The Facts of Life
*Pogo Balls

*When Michael Jackson was still black

*When cuss words weren't in songs... or on TV
*no DVR
*VCR's
*Video tapes
*Top Gun
*Rocky
*Goonies
*rubik's cube

*the Challenger exploding


*Ronald Reagan as President
*cuss words weren't on TV shows or the radio
*Wilson Phillips
*Beetlejuice (the movie)
*sayings such as "that's Rad" or "I know you are, but what am I?"
*Mary Lou Retton
*Leg Warmers
*Jams (the shorts)

*gas was less than $1 a gallon
*Fat Albert
*film projectors in school

*Punky Brewster
*G.I. Joe

*Game Boys

*The Bears "Super Bowl Shuffle" Rap

*Tom Landry

*Dallas Cowboys- Aikman, Smith, Irving

*Cameras (with film- not digital)

*old video cameras (not digital)

*Max Headroom

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