More Things That Aren’t “Things” Anymore
As I sit here on Christmas Eve, I find myself feeling nostalgic for days gone by. That nostalgia turned into a conversation, which turned into thinking about a million different things I used to do that today’s kids would find weird. Of course, those thoughts turned into a story.
As a teenager in the 80s, there were just certain givens. There were things we did as a matter of course that no youngster would even think of today. Those of my vintage know exactly what I’m talking about. So join me on this little trip down memory lane, back to a time when things were simpler when the collars were turned up and so were the jean legs. Back to a time when the United Colours of Benetton meant hope for a time without racism and the hair was huge. Let’s look at the things we crazy kids got up to back in the day.
Passing Notes: I’m not sure about anyone else, but I wrote more and read more notes than I did actual schoolwork. Notes were HUGE. They were the primary means of communication between kids during school hours. More often than not, these communications were surreptitious, secretly handed to each other during class while the teacher’s back was turned.
Notes were how we poured out our feelings. They were how we communicated the important…
