80s Babies..
Allow me to take u back for a moment….
Do u remember playingAtari Sega GenesisDonkey Kong Wait…..Super Mario bros. Duck hunt…. Do u remember when Rainbow brightwasen’t considered “gay” she was just cool?…..Before there was pokemon we had the garbage pail kids?…….Do u remember when girls had landyards and had mad designs on their key chains like the butterfly the boxthe Chinese stair case but only had 1 key?……Had Click Clacks we used to turn the telephone cords into jump ropes?….Having mad baby powder in your neck for no reason…at all…..Wearing 54 leathers….mix matching ur shoe strings or socks?…….1 Lime green 1 Hot Pink…..
Do u remember really thinking that Gilligan would get off the islandKnight riderMc Giver using a battery some gum and a paper clip to do dome crazy stuff?…..WatchingHappy days Lavern and Shirley Cheers Alf The A teamStar searchSaved by the bell?……………The Wonder Years……..The Thunder Cats Staying up late to watch the Apollo and wishing that lady in the front would sit down for at least 1 song so u could see the performance clearly?…..U remember when……Kid n play had a cartoon watching uptown comedy club in living color?……When soul train was hot……..When MTV only played two black people Prince and Micheal Jackson?…Watching ….The box like Play 561……Then getting hyped up like yes some other person wants to hear my song too then u see 5….6…..8 damn…..that’s not the song…….I know I’m taking some of ya’ll back……..
At grandmas house walking into a room with no door but had a “bead” door?……Plastic on the couch…….
Do u remember when guys used to put cutsin their eye brows?….When guys wore 8 ball jackets Carharrt work jumpers?…..Ever do dances like the whop pee wee hermanthe snake or the electric slide?…..
Ever remember when it was ok for your neighbors to beat u?…………….Do u remember when a slice of pizza was 1.25 Subway tokens in NY was 1.25 too?….
Pay phones were 25 cents….When 50 cents could get u a candy bar……Paging somebody with smart beepWhen everybody was ur cousin?…..When u could trust ur neighbors?
Rochdale heads can rember when we had the OTBThe Old intercom system inside the apartment in the kitchen?…..Using a key to get in the front door not the beam?…..Hoping on the bus to get to the Sandwich Spot?…Using quarters for the laundry mat?….Throwing the key out the window we still do that now Getting a hat or shirt spray painted in the coliseum The photo booth in green acres?…..If u or anybody you know ever got a tattoo at the hut barber shop/tattoo spot?…….Having “brown outs” for those who don’t know that’s when rochdale lights go out?…..Having lights when everybody else don’t?……When club Ambience was The Scene?……Not having to cross the street by yourself until ur 12 unless ur going to 134?….Having tims called Beef Brocclii and Macaroni Cheese?…..Messing up ur moms credit in the store? until Papi stopped that a few years back………
Okay I gotta go now…….I’m about to go show my mom and her friends the new dance…..some things never change….=
TTYL…….I’m Outie!!!!
About the writer: She’s a Queens born and raised 26 yearold single mother of a 3 yearold son. She realized her passion for writing when her sons father went “away” for a year at rikers correctional faculty. Her detail and style stands out from the rest and will be recognized off the back. I hope you enjoy her work.
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