Odd Things You Remember From Being A Kid

[Mixolydian]

i remember no one being obsessed with, or even talking about being "green"

 

[Iron Woode]

we also listened to the music on the AM Radio

 

[Newbian]

we also listened to the music on the AM Radio

Hell even FM can be looked on like that.

I can't remember the last time I listened to it compared to a internet radio station at home or when driving to some mp3's or even cd's and I remember why with how many commercials they have these days.

 

[Phoenix86]

$.79/gallon gas.

 

[Farang]

Television in the summer. Jerry springer in the daytime and Conan at night. TV wasn't my life but these shows would often be on when I woke or went to bed (didn't have cable), and were a trademark of summertime when school was out.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

The exact noise my JVC VCR made. That feel of putting a tape into it and rewinding it.

The other one is the sound of my Dad's Ford Bronco's steering rack. It had this weird winding noise to it that it made when he was pulling into the drive way.

 

[Slew Foot]

Obsessively trading Wacky Packages cards with my friends in the late 70's.

One of my buddies would steal money out of his parents wallet/purse and we'd go to the local 7-11 to play arcade games and buy stacks of baseball cards.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Being able to violently attack people that looked at me funny or laughed at me with relatively minor consequences.

 

[ScoobMaster]

SLIME!!!!!

Wonderfully oozy and gooey out of the can, but sadly dried out and got full of pet hair and carpet fibers a few weeks later. If you ever opened a can to play with, you will never forget that smell!

 

[highland145]

edsels. and studebaker pickup trucks.

You really should post some more before you're time's up.

Looks like the pickup was last made in 1964....the years I was born.



ScoobMaster has nailed some for me. I had the banana seat Schwinn, ~1970, yellow too. Just the other day, I thought about the bubbles you could blow up from the gel in the tube......that smell...a paint sniffers delight.

 

[Newbian]

SLIME!!!!!

Wonderfully oozy and gooey out of the can, but sadly dried out and got full of pet hair and carpet fibers a few weeks later. If you ever opened a can to play with, you will never forget that smell!

I think this is one thing I don't miss.

That stuff was horrible in so many ways.

Not to mention silly putty kicked it's ass.

 

[shortylickens]

Every thing from my childhood was odd.

 

[Newbian]

Every thing from my childhood was odd.

Did you live in a van down by the river?

 

[exdeath]

Being able to lounge around in the same clothes for a week and still smell like fresh laundry.

Ah to be to be eternally 6 yrs old in ANY era... Being grown up is overrated.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Being a kid was pretty odd all around.

l-o-a-d-space-shift-2-star-shift-2-comma-eight-comma-1

I remember being very, very familiar with what, at the time, felt like arcane rituals for getting certain things to work (cassette tapes, record players, 5.25" floppy disks, etc.) that I feel like I would be completely stumped by if I saw one today. But I could also be remembering it as being harder than it actually was.

I still can find my way around a Commodore 64 with little issue, but when in doubt, type LOAD"*",8,1 !

 

[Zeze]

Why don't we openly admit and turn this thread into a nostalgia thread.

Here, this probably applies to good 50% of ATOT- 20-30yos today:

http://pinterest.com/jaylijahsmommy/nostalgia-i-grew-up-in-the-80s-and-90s/

 

[AeroEngy]

SLIME!!!!!

Wonderfully oozy and gooey out of the can, but sadly dried out and got full of pet hair and carpet fibers a few weeks later. If you ever opened a can to play with, you will never forget that smell!

Me and my brother would put this stuff on the ceiling fan and turn it on to watch it splat against the wall. However, that ended when one time instead of coming off in a big chunk it extruded into what seemed like a mile of thin slime string. There were thin strings of this stuff wrapping the room, all over the walls, couches, bookcase etc. It was hilarious ... until we had the realization that our parents were going to murder us.

 

[waggy]

Me and my brother would put this stuff on the ceiling fan and turn it on to watch it splat against the wall. However, that ended when one time instead of coming off in a big chunk it extruded into what seemed like a mile of thin slime string. There were thin strings of this stuff wrapping the room, all over the walls, couches, bookcase etc. It was hilarious ... until we had the realization that our parents were going to murder us.

hahahahah

 

[shortylickens]

Did you live in a van down by the river?

Nope, angry abusive alcoholic father who (supposedly) was also a genius. Add in a shy mother who joined the reserves and wasnt home much except to mess with my head, and you got a pretty good combo.

 

[Iron Woode]

I still can find my way around a Commodore 64 with little issue, but when in doubt, type LOAD"*",8,1 !

shift + run/stop for tape loads

L + shift O = load

if you have extended basic or basic 4.0 D + shift L for disk drives.

 

[who?]

23 cents a gallon gasoline.

 

[Linflas]

Johnny Carson show from 11:30 to 1:00 AM. All TV stations going off the air around 1AM with a Benediction followed by the National Anthem. Then either snow or a test pattern.

 

[SaurusX]

23 cents a gallon gasoline.

Remember this scene from Die Hard? I had to pause the movie and show my wife, because I had a hard time believing it.

 

[eldorado99]

Remember this scene from Die Hard? I had to pause the movie and show my wife, because I had a hard time believing it.

A better time in America... :|

 

[Jeffg010]

Strolling Bowling - "you wind up the game you bowl right down the lane" :whiste:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDK19gpksks