Bahahhahaha

I think back to my adolescence and wonder if I would have survived if I had today’s social media. I feel like 20 years later there’d still be a meme with a picture of me in one of my wiser teenage moments and my child would be asking me about it.

Idk what just happened in my brain. You unlocked something I didn't know was stored there. If you don't hear from me again you know why

🤣🤣 seriously?? No one else? Ok I am old 😔 I played you on REPEAT

Why is this so true?!

My kids still still have this childhood. They knock on friends doors to ask if they can come out and play, they spend hours in the forest behind the house or down by the lake. They have to come home before dark. Its still normal in my corner of the world.

Best entertainment ever!! Miss them so much.

Haha, me too!

fact!

Ya mon

And the 4 foot tall speakers that went along with it.

It helped the Terminator to find Sarah Connor...

I always thought it was Booboo -TIL duh

Me! Me! I do!

My ADHD brain still does this but nobody understands me :') It also does this with any other obscure niche reference to the past it can think of.

McDonald’s has become unbearable now. I was lucky enough to go into one recently where they actually had a place to order at the counter instead of the kiosk. The employee then proceeded to come around the counter and have me give him my order while he punched it into the kiosk for me. Almost broke the whole store when I decided to pay with cash.

🤣🤣🤣

Sometimes I tell my kid to just stare out the window and make up a story in his head. I don’t think he understands but I remember spending so much time day dreaming, imagining things, completely unplugged (because, well nothing to plug), and so very calm.

Yes, and mine were also barefoot

Happened to me @ bros wedding..thought it was one of his friend's dad..nope..kid I graduated with...

I can still feel my wet ankles/calfs...

I have one of these floating around my parents house..it has pix of the world trade center from a class trip less than 3 months before they went down....

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, or just the perfect snack.

Fun fact: Swayze was 35 in that and Grey was 8 years younger

Such a cool actor, and his voice...ohhh !!

I'm still waiting for the flying car that folds up into a briefcase. I'm convinced that it can be done. Gyrocopters are getting close to the flying car and Transformers to the folding car. But I want them together.

Wow, hahaha

It’s amazing we survived. I remember wrapping that cord around my finger over and over again.

I live in a small coastal town and it is so safe that the local kids still do this

Game on!

I shouted "CAR!!" at someone the other day. It was because the cupid stunt had walked into the road not checking because ... phone - obviously. Should have left nature to it really.

I vividly remember the summer afternoons that I spent at the pool with friends, or the way the summer breeze would rustle the leaves of the large chestnut trees in the street we lived in and how the sun would set and twilight set in, sending you home to watch some cartoons after dinner before going to bed. Or when you would go to the school playground during summer vacation and it was like a deserted wasteland. The serenity of those afternoons is what I try to replicate to this day.

Good old street hockey!

we used to put mattress in the street during the summer night, as there was the city light. It was a nice place to chit chat

Any time I see "if (one random thing like this, or cartoons, or wrestling on TV) then you had an awesome childhood" I want to punch somebody. What if you dreaded the end of the game because it meant dad was almost home and he was going to beat you, like every night? What if you had more time to play because there was nothing in the house for lunch? What if the game in the street was just a break between chemo treatments?

I remember at 3 and my brother was 4, we got caught throwing rocks at cars while flipping them off too. Man knocked on our door to tell our parents what well behaved children they had. 45 and 46 now and it's still brought up all the time.

Definitely, cuz if it was one of my a hole cousins they wouldn't say anything, and I'd have been ran over :d

i just did this two days ago and am not a kid lol

My neighborhood kids haven't learned this because when I drive past they just stare at me from the middle of the road as I slowly swerve around them...

I was just telling my nephew about this last week. He drove by the old house and sent pictures. I told him about his dad and I playing baseball in the street, in front of the house. We had a sewer at the curb that served as 3rd base. Not many cars went down our street back then.

Well we didn't have to play on the streets though.

You could play in the streets and still come back to a broken home. To poverty or abuse. Childhood and happiness are more complicated than well perceived nostalgic imagery.

In many countries you can still do that without having to worry that someone kidnaps or kills your kid.

I don't think there was a single one that didn't make noise opening and shutting.... You know the unforgettable creaking noise?

I preferred swings and get them going flat out! I was on some swings recently and the thrill is different when you are 72...

Will “kid with the eyebrows” Poulter.

You have died from dysentery.

My first apartment had an entire set stolen from Pizza Hut over numerous visits to their Lunch Buffet.

Oh no. Now eggs are about to become a delicacy. This is the most expensive I've seen eggs ever.

Yep, still have it. Still for casserole. Still eating casserole. No sense in chucking away a good dish.

Whoa

Really?!? I'll never look at her the same

I have a picture of 4 year old me me dressed up in one of these when we still lived on the Navy Base in Japan. My Japanese mom did her best, and I don't remember what happened, but I had a skull mask and a Bozo The Clown suit for my constume. LMAO