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Just how boring weekends at home were. No internet yet, dog shit tv programming (hope you like Golf, MASH, or Land of the Lost). Stare at the walls or read a book. My family was anti vidya.
Pagers ushering in the age of always being online. Mom could send a page to Dad and then he knew to find a phone and give her a call.
Rewinding the VHS before returning it to the rental store
Memorizing the CCS skate catalog
Being able to buy realistic looking toy guns and brandishing them everywhere
Those shirts made of towel material
Switching to the other "real alternative ROCK" radio station whenever one goes to commercial to catch "Livin on a prayer" for the fourth time today
(A bit later) Calling home to have Mom look up MapQuest directions because I got lost
We had a cabinet with like 50 VHS tapes in it and I'm pretty sure I watched all of them at least 3 times.
At my first job as a delivery driver (late 00s, early 10s), I remember being able to text google to get turn by turn directions before I had a smart phone
I didn't know that was a thing, that's wild. I do remember the text services that would basically just google stuff for you, but I had never thought they would work for directions
I did like M*A*S*H though
maturing was learning to love mash instead of freaking out when the theme started
actually maturing was realising how fucked up half of mash was and how far we've come
did you know anybody with one of the quick-rewind boxes? I remember my (much older!) sister had one that was shaped like a race car, and you just put the VHS tape in and closed it and it would super fast rewind it to the beginning
(to make it easier to return videos, "be kind, rewind" etc)
Oh of course. My parents thought the racecar one was tacky so ours was just a rectangle but I do remember enjoying the eject mechanism