- You know where to go if you “wanna go where everybody knows your name.”
- Conveyor belts regularly carried washing machines, deep-fat fryers and a cuddly toy.
- Partying “like it’s 1999” seemed SO far away.
- You chewed Dr. Pepper bubble gum.
- You wore the little bootie socks with the colored balls on the back.
- “Poltergeist” totally freaked you out.
- You never questioned why the A-Team were always imprisoned in places that had sufficient tools to build an armored tank.
- You actually believed for a minute that K.I.T. (The night rider) actually was real.
- Ooh, you could crush a Grape!
- You remember the original version of Windows: Macintosh.
- At one point during your teenage years, you walked with a noticeable tilt to one side due to the number of plastic rings on that arm.
- You own any cassettes or records.
- You rolled the sleeves of your suit jacket up
- You remember when film critics raved that no movie could ever possibly get better special effects than those in the movie TRON.
- You remember Michael Jackson when he was still black.
- You know how to use a rotary phone.
- You knew what Willis was “talkin’ ’bout.”
- You yearned to be a member of The Babysitters Club, and tried to start a club of your own.
- You’re doing absolutely nothing with anything pertaining to your major degree
- You know what movie the phrase, “Number 5 is alive!” is from.
- Once, while spending hours in the arcade, you actually lined up quarters on the top panel of the game — to “reserve” your spot.
- If you ever said “I pity the fool”.
- Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you actually learned the English language
- You fell victim to 80’s fashion: big hair, crimped, combed over to the side, and you wore spandex pants.
- You ever owned a thin, black leather tie (and were proud of it), or worse it was patterned like a piano.
- You ever wore fluorescent (neon if you will) clothing…
- You owned at least one Choose Your Own Adventure book.
- “Ca-vey Wa-vey!” means anything to you.
- You remember when you could buy half cans of soda (great for field trip days!).
- You can, right now, hum to yourself the theme to ‘Inspector Gadget’
- You had top-of-the-line Commodore 64s in your jr. high computer lab
- You had to stay after class to scrub your desk because your silver Outliner pen leaked through.
- You sat on your back porch, playing with your “My Little Pony” , “Rainbow Brite” , and “Strawberry Shortcake” dolls
- You can still sing the rap to “Fresh Prince of Belair”.
- You even wore fluorescent, neon if you will, clothing.
- You wore a banana clip or one of those slap on wrist bands at some point during your youth.
- You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish, or know someone who did.
- Cerise pink, electric blue and banana yellow have ever featured in your wardrobe or make-up collection.
- You inserted the word “like” into, like, every sentence.
- You remember with pain the sad day when the Green Machine hit the streets and made your old big wheel quite obsolete.
- You remember when Betamax was at the cutting edge of technology.
- In many of your childhood photos you are wearing something plaid.
- You believed that “By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!”
- There were days that the homework just had to wait until the ABC Afterschool Special was over.
- You know how (or wanted to be able) to Moonwalk!
- You wanted to communicate with Synergy, or you wanted green hair like that lead singer of the Misfits.
- You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish.
- You think there should be a Kids Incorporated original cast reunion.
- you’ve ever said “I’m a vegetarian” and immediately had someone call you a hypocrite by saying “Nice leather jacket you have there…and gee, is that a suede bag…those shoes leather, too?”
- You have heard of “Garbage Pail Kids” (and perhaps still have a collection of them).
- you’re starting to dread your 35th birthday, and have even begun going into denial about it’s possibility
- You remember when McDonald?s served their burgers in styrofoam boxes.
- You ever uttered the word “Radical!”
- You were disappointed when an episode of 3-2-1 Contact didn?t include a Bloodhound Gang segment.
- You still know the Big Mac song. “Two all beef patties, special sauce?”
- You owned a *realRubik’s cube.
- You always wondered why Tootie always wore those skates.
- You were afraid of the Sleestacks on Land of The Lost.
- You were sad when the “Where’s the Beef” lady died.
- You remember the episode of Good Times when Flo broke down after James’ funeral.
- You ever wanted to be gagged with a spoon.
- Words: “Atari” “IntelliVision” and “Coleco”. Sound familiar?
- Your lunch times were spent perfecting swan dives and backspins.
- You thought that Transformers were more than meets the eye.
- You remember exactly where you were when you heard the space shuttle had exploded.
- You know the profound meaning of “Wax on, Wax off.”
- Your first Walkman weighed about as much as a brick.
- You used to own a Snoopy Sno Cone Machine.
- You wanted to be on Star Search.
- You carried you lunch to school in a Gremlins or an ET lunchbox.
- You are still baffled by the “day glo” clothing trend.
- You ever had a Swatch Watch, and a Swatch Guard for it.
- Jelly bracelets & shoes!
- You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we’d all be living on the moon.
- You tried to convince your Dad to fit a strip of red lights on the front of his Capri so it looked like KITT.
- You had a Swatch Watch with the Swatch Guard.
- You could have got away with it if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids.
- Your first computer was a Commodore 64 or an Atari 800.
- You wrote your boyfriends name on the side of your canvas Keds.
- Four-square was THE playground game.
- You wore French rolls on the bottom of your splatter painted jeans.
- Never let them see you sweat.
- Your dream car was either: the A-team van, KITT or The General Lee.
- You were convinced for years that Batman was a mildly overweight man with a moderate beer belly who wore his under wearoutside of his clothes and talked strangely
- You thought eating Reese’s Pieces would attract your own Alien.
- You can remember Michael Jackson when he was black.
- You used to hold in your head the thought that all those gold chains on Mr. T actually looked kinda cool and the thought that Mr. T made millions seemed rational to you at the time.
- You know what “Push Up” ice cream is.
- You played with Lego?s when they were just blocks of various sizes, not any of the special little parts.
- You know that another name for a keyboard is a “Synthesizer.”
- You were only cool if you hung out at the Roller Rink and actually knew how to skate.
- Chevy Chase was really funny in those Vacation movies.
- You carried a big colored comb in your back pocket.
- You can sing the McDonald’s Big Mack Filet-o-fish, quarter pounder, French Fry song while jump roping.
- You know what “sike” and “not!” mean
- You have worn a Banana Clip, or knew someone who did.
If I missed something..Leave it in the comment section. I wanna know!!! :)