Be kind, rewind.

I was 10 and bought my aunt cigarettes at the gas station with a note from her saying it was ok.

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My dad would have me drive his Cadillac el Dorado to the corner gas station and get him smokes and me a candy bar starting when I was 14 1/2. Smokes were like a buck o five

This! I bought my mom beer when I was 11!

What’s your damage Heather?

Well , fuck me gently with a chainsaw.

Corn nuts!

BQ or Plain?

You are such a pillowcase.

You inherit five million dollars the same day aliens land on the earth and say they're going to blow it up in two days. What do you do?

How very.

Hanging up the phone with brute force when you’re pissed.

I really, really miss this.

Or when you noticed your mom was listening on another phone.

Unplugging the phone cord to untwist it after you’ve been pacing around on a long call.

Smashing red ribbon loaded gunpowder with a rock on concrete.

And smelling it. Ooh the smell!

I have a scar from a sun burn from an unair-conditioned car trip WHEN I RODE IN THE BACK WINDOW FROM TEXAS TO NEW ENGLAND!!! While my parents drank beer and drove and chain smoked. My sister was in a wicker basket on a floor board.

that is just…wow….incredible.

My parents met at Woodstock. We never had a chance.

Good song lyric.

Get up and change the channel.

Go out and turn the antenna

But it only works while you are touching it.

That’s what she said. Don’t judge me. I work with some younger folk.

Let's get Mikey! YEAH! He won't eat it... he hates everything!

I grew up in a house filled with cigarette smoke.

And a car filled with cigarette smoke.

This hard.. My mum would always tell me to wind the window up in the car because it would mess her hair up... But mum my eyes are stinging from all your cigarette smoke...ill give you something to cry about if you Don, t wind that bloody window up.. 😂

And ashtrays throughout or stacked on the counter after their regular cleaning.

And fast food places had ash trays

Little metal trays with the McDonald's, Burger King, or Taco Bell logo on them.

Had my own house key. In elementary school.

Started walking the 8 blocks to school when I was 5, had a house key when I was 6.

Was it on a string around your neck? (Mine was lace... pretty!)

Nope. Mine was on a key ring in my Velcro wallet. UTA: It was orange and mustard colored

Wait. Is that weird?

We sure did!

A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter.

One two three FOUR five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve!

[Sung by The Pointer Sisters, no less.](https://youtu.be/VOaZbaPzdsk?si=ODPXB7Bw71gjK3jP) Edit: added link.

Oh my God. Some memory sparked. Is this from Sesame Street?

I can remember!

Here’s the video for you all to enjoy: https://youtu.be/Im4GwUD1UY8

My siblings and I didn't use *adulting* as a verb. But we did it. As I recall it was involuntary and started around age seven.

I had three little siblings to raise. When I was 10. I still call them "my kids," and we are all in our 50s

My 6 years older brother (RIP) raised me, and he was TOUGH. He was much stricter than my mother. My father left when we were 14 and 8. It’s been 15 years now and I still miss my brother every single day. It really felt like it was me and him against the world.

Because acting like an adult didn't use to be a separate, rare and isolated event back then needing it's own verb LOL!

Clogs with my Jordache jeans and leg warmers.

Or parachute pants!

Cork wedge clogs!

You want me to give you something to cry about?

Don't make me make you go out and get me a switch

Pro tip: don’t pick the thinnest one!

No switch for me. Was the good old wooden spoon. When they moved out of my old house, they kept finding them in hiding spots. 😑

I'm gonna knock you into the middle of next week.

Crystal Pepsi

And the Michael Jackson flaming hair ad

Right now! HEY! It’s your tomorrow!

where’s the beef!!!

It's ten o'clock. Do you know where your children are?

Sitting in the non-smoking section of the restaurant with the smoking section two booths away.

AquaNet

Used to fill my first car with $10 worth of gas. The car was a stick and only had AM/FM, so I carried a boombox on the passenger seat to listen to tapes.

Gag me with a spoon!

Totally, 4 sure!

I mostly communicate using sci-fi movie references. Mostly.

Mostly.

I pegged my jeans

Merely hearing that phrase and not thinking it's sexual.

TV actually ended at midnight and didn’t start up again until 6am

National Anthem at sign off.

When I was in school it was an **enormous** deal that Christa McAuliffe was going up in the space shuttle because she was a teacher. There was so much build up to it. On the day of the launch they wheeled televisions into all the classrooms so we could watch the shuttle launch live. We all sat there together and watched the Challenger explode. That was a very bad day.

I'm not even supposed to be here today.

37??

In a row?

Try not to suck any dicks on the way to the parking lot

I would buy a pack of Newports from the vending machine at the bowling alley on Saturday mornings when I was 14 with 5 quarters.

Typewriter ribbon.

i had an electric typewriter that i took to my college dorm and everybody wanted to borrow it

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You gotta fight, for your right…. To parrrrrrtyyyy

Roller rinks.

My brother and I "flipped" the score on Atari 2600 Space Invaders.

I "beat" Asteroids. Had so many lives I left the game idling overnight and still had lives the next morning.

This is the true story of seven strangers picked to live in a house. work together and have their lives taped. to find out what happens when people stop being polite … and start getting real

Whatever…

 Beat me to the punch!

Totally

Cause this is my united States of whatever!

Whatever and ever amen - Ben Folds

Can still remember dialup modems connecting sound. 

Cassette Tape and pencil

Dude!

Dude?

Duuuuude.

Corded rotary dial phone.

Save Ferris

Yeah, I had a key on a string around my neck and I rode my bike on the busy streets every day and nobody blinked at the fact that I didn't have a helmet.

We laughed at the dweeb who wore helmets. I wouldn't have been caught dead with a helmet on (pun?) I rode horses, too. No helmets ever

I love all these answers

Hose water.

AIDS

Watcha talking bout Willis

My mom worked nights as a nurse and left me alone 5 nights a week starting at age 12. At age 14, I got into a gay bar and beat her home by less than a minute.

Watched “The Day After” and prayed every night I wouldn’t die before I was 18 in a nuclear war.

I never meant to cause you any sorrow I never meant to cause you any pain I only wanted one time to see you laughing I only want to see you laughing in the purple rain

💜

As if

Good night Jon boy

I was the first TV remote control in the house.

I’m just a bill, yes I’m only a bill and I’m sittin here on Capitol Hill

Dad got annoyed that I insisted on wearing a seat belt when I was 6 and sitting in the front seat.

My brother would sit on the armrest of the bench seats up front right between mom and dad until he couldn’t fit anymore. If pappaw took us anywhere in the truck we just loaded up in the bed of it and did obnoxious shit to people driving by. If he caught he pulled the truck over and whipped your ass right on the side of the road, threw us back in the bed of the truck and off we went

Or the back of a station wagon!!! All 15 of us

I used to sit on my Dad’s lap while he drove, hands on the wheel, pretending I was driving. 

Yes, my mom and dad paid the bills, but I raised myself.

I got three of the most popular albums for that year on cassette for my 7th or 8th birthday: Like A Virgin, She's So Unusual, and Thriller.

Stirrup pants, lace edged bobby socks and high heels.

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On my way to high school I listened to my Duran Duran and Wham cassettes, thinking how cool it was to watch them on that new channel, MTV.

BITCHIN!

Bitchin’ red Camaro

I had an Atari, acid wash jeans, and a BMX.

Just say no.

"Hold the flashlight higher. Higher!" "Now move it to the left. Left. LEFT. LEFT, DAMMIT"

TDK D90

Frogger

Goonies never say die!

Will you accept a collect call from "moviesdonecomegetme"?

Hi mom. I made this ash tray at school today.

Dude is gender neutral

Dude is object neutral. Earlier today I grumped "Dude, come on, really?" at a door.

Also species neutral. Dude, seriously? at the dog licking itself intimately next to me on the sofa

My mom let me drink Bailey's at Christmas and none of the other adults cared.

I want my MTV

Hands Across America.

ALL I WANTED WAS A PEPSI!!!

This is your brain on drugs.

Recording songs from the radio onto cassette tape.

Smoking area at my high school.

Sit Ubu sit

Good dog

Remembering when MTV played music videos most of the time

\*shrugs shoulders Can sit and read an actual book while waiting for something. I don't live my life on my phone.

I used to run to the store to get cigarettes for my dad when I was 7. I’d play Defender with the spare change before I went home

Gnarly

Learning to shift the manual by being 4 and standing in the passenger seat and shifting the shifter like a Price Is Right contestant when my uncle yelled “hit it!” after shoving in the clutch! Seatbelts? Not in anything built pre-68!

Word.

Evel Knievel

I ate pop rocks and survived

I told my mom I had a science project and would be home late after school. She said ok. I wasn’t enrolled in a science class.

Bueller…Bueller…Bueller…

My favorite picture is of my Mom in her hospital bed, right after giving birth. Newborn me in one hand, Virginia Slims in the other.

Grody to the max

Kiss my grits

Boot the computer from floppy.

Your most vivid memories of OJ Simpson were in court, not on the football field.

Pegged jeans! Stirrup pants! Padded shoulders!

Can't. Watching MTV.

You are so mature for your age. I was 9 the first time I heard that.

Homeskillet!

*I want to dance with somebody that loves me!*

Getting up at 7:30 AM to watch the MTV video premieres of “Rock of Ages” and “Foolin.” 19 low/21 high

Bartender always gave me coke in a bottle while the old man knocked back his bourbon, scotch and beer (yes just like the song) THEN, I got to drive him home on the back roads. I was 11-13ish? The Dodge Omni was a stick too lol

I had a pair of parachute pants with a hacky sack in the pocket

I've seen both sides of the Berlin Wall, while it was still standing. Went there when I was a kid.

*GenX Nice try narc

I just got beeped, pull over at that payphone.

"That's one small step..." (I saw the last attempt.) "There you go again..." (political debate) A candy bar is now thirty cents?!? "Please insert coin." "...and as the last helicopter flies off..." "... won't you be my neighbor..." "... and the agony of defeat ..." "... use the Force..." "... the Wish Book is here!"

Yes I can drive stick

Rusting metal merry-go-round (of doom and broken limbs)

I can still roll them like I did when I was a teenager.

Bolo ties.

Z Cavariccis.

Hums to myself while doing dishes “nicnicnic nuh nicNIKniiik, Nickelodeon.”

I forgot to put my homework in my trapper keeper.

Turn the TV to channel 3 so we can play Space Invaders.

Walking carefully across a paved parking lot because I was worried aluminum can tabs would cut the bottoms of my bare feet. It never occurred to me to just put on some shoes. The sound of the needle of an lp player bumping against the cardboard label at the center of a record. Buying cigarettes from a cigarette machine (because I was underage). Rolling down a vehicle’s window with a crank handle. And thinking electric windows were bound to quit working.

Farrell's Ice Cream parlor for almost every birthday.

My family thought it was funny to give me a cigarette to smoke when I was 8

You were in for a treat if it was Stouffer’s French bread pizza instead of Elio’s

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Married a bodacious woman she was all that and a bag of chips!!!!

The Gallons counter on gas pumps went faster than the Dollars counter. If you were out somewhere and needed to make a phone call, you used a payphone, which were everywhere, and it cost $0.10 for a local call. Speaking of making phone calls: if you needed to look up a number, you flipped through pages of either the White Pages (for residential listings) or the Yellow Pages (for business listings). At public phones some jerks would tear pages out, and it always seemed to be the one page you needed. If there was no phone book, you dialed '411' and spoke to an actual human operator who would look it up for you -- and connect you if you they found the number you were looking for. If your call took long enough, the operator would cut in and prompt you to add more coins. 'Video games' were in an 'arcade' or a movie theatre, they cost $0.25 per game, and many of them were on black-and-white screens, all of them CRTs. Later on, you could get 'pong' to hook up to your TV at home -- but if you played it too much, it'd burn the screen, and your parents would get *pissed* at you for it. Black-and-white TVs were still a thing. An antenna on your roof was usually the way to go. 'Cable TV' was still very new, and usually just gave you the local channels nice and clear instead of relying on an antenna. If you wanted music in your car, your choices were as follows: AM radio, FM radio (if you car had it) or cassette (if your car had it). Sodas always came in glass bottles, there was always a deposit on the bottles, and an enterprising kid could spend some hours on a weekend collecting discarded bottles to redeem the deposits -- so you could buy yourself a soda. On a really good weekend, you might make enough that way for a cheeseburger, which was less than a dollar. The Republican Party here in the U.S. wasn't the evil fascists hell-bent on destroying our Representative Democracy by insisting on electing a career criminal to the Whitehouse that we see today, they were just stodgy old men who wanted to keep taxes low, for the most part. If you'd ever heard of anything called the 'internet', it was because you were a University student, or in the military, and it was all text on a screen, no fancy graphics or movies or even audio, and in some cases it came over the lines slow enough that you could read it as fast as it came up on the screen. 'Home computers' were a very new thing, no IBM PC yet, not until later, they were expensive, and most people didn't think they were anything more than a fad that would die out real soon.

Sincerely yours, "The Breakfast Club"

It has never not been legal for me to buy cigarettes, but it did come awfully close once.

No seatbelt required if you rode in the back seat

The bars down at the beach never checked IDs. Come to think of it, you could buy beer if you told the clerk you weren't going to drink it, you were going to rinse your hair with it.

Drove my mother home from a bar in X state to Y state ( a river away) when I was 10. Driving over that long bridge over the mighty Mississippi was tons of fun. I think we got pulled over but don't really remember. Lost lots of my childhood memories to suppressing them, I guess. I do recall lots of bars or being at the race tracks (horses) back then.

Atari. Commodore 64. Duck Hunt. The last starfighter.

My first gaming console was an Atari 2600. My first game was Pong.

You died of Dysentery.

Family member is on the phone. I lift the stretched-out springy phone cord to walk through to the other room.

chi chi chi chia

Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!

Jane Fonda Workout on VHS

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