Things I wanted to give a shout out to...

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oddball_ocelot@reddit

Hypercolor shirts, the ones that changed color with your hand prints.

The goddamn dog in Duck Hunt.

Public water drinking apparatuses, whatever you called them.

THUNDERCATS! THUNDERCATS! THUNDERCATS HOOOOOOOO!

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theladyroy@reddit

OMG. I have lived this long and thought that was only a ‘Sconsin thing!

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oddball_ocelot@reddit

My folks were from Worcester ('Whistah' to you). That used to confuse my friends here in Maryland where they moved to right before I was born.

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burnerburneronenine@reddit

The thought of some rando blowing their hot breath on my shirt is appalling now, but I loved those hypercolor shirts

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LazierMeow@reddit

Until someone threw it in the dryer and fucked it up

I'm not still angry about..... promise

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I have one now! They've fixed that issue... I wash and dry mine all the time. Unloading the dryer and I'm like "what's this pink t-shirt? Ohhh, yeah, duh." and then it turns purple again as it cools off.

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siiilenttbob@reddit

With the new Masters of the Universe coming soon, I am hoping it does well enough that studios consider making a Thundercats movie. How whackadoodle would a live action film look? 😆

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ottersqueaks@reddit

I am hoping the same thing! Live action thundercats would be amazing.

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relikter@reddit

A live action Mum-Ra that gives me nightmares for weeks? Yes, please.

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BillyDMountain@reddit

I used to have those as swim trunks. They changed colour in water too.

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CrazySporkDude@reddit

Turning 47 next week. Slap bracelets and tight rolled jeans. That’s how you knew you were the shit.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

YAAASSS omg than we were totally the SHIT. Man those pinch rolled jeans with the guess triangle on the butt.

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cloudshaper@reddit

If everything's coming back, I'm looking forward to the acid washed jeans, especially now that jeggings are super comfy.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

I'm positive I will never wear acid washed again. I could barely do it then. But if floofy bangs come back??? Damnnnnnnn I'm your girl

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CrazySporkDude@reddit

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Needed that today. Happy birthday!

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laurcar@reddit

Worn with 2 pairs of socks, in different colors.

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cloudshaper@reddit

Which were scrunched down and twisted slightly so that the sock ribbing would make squiggles.

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laurcar@reddit

Gotta have the squiggles!

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CrazySporkDude@reddit

Straight up forgot about that. What a flashback.

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corinthluv@reddit

You're still middle 40s! I was told it goes you're 40, then early 40s (41, 42, 43), middle 40s (44, 45, 46), late 40s (47, 48, 49) and then, 50! My husband crossed to late 40s today.. I'm still middle 40s this year.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

TBH I like this better LOL!!!

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Thicknineinchh@reddit

Watching porn through the scrambles, woah I think I saw a boob!

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

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loves_spain@reddit

Budweiser frogs

Edgy msn messenger away messages

Paper bag book covers

Discman

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

THE BUDWISER FROGS!!!! I knew I was missing one of those big tshirts! And obviously paperbag book covers!

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Infinite-Tip-4132@reddit

Klutz Book Of... Book It! Reports & pizza vouchers Ovaltine Criss Cross Backwards Pants phase Slouchy socks doubled up Everyone's parents Volvos Out of This World outer space dad show Trapper keepers & paper book covers Turtles music stores Whatchmacallit (best at the pool) Monchichis Dino roars

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

-Koosh balls

-Silly Putty and copying newspapers

-Laser shows in elementary school assemblies

-That weird waterfall thing in the cafeteria wall you threw your cardboard tray into

-The yearly “Don’t Do Drugs” assembly play-show (our middle school called it the “Rad Rally”) which ended on “Total Eclipse Of The Heart”

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Putrid_Appearance509@reddit

DARE, where I was promised someone would give me drugs. I am still waiting for these free promised drugs.

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raveybaby78@reddit

I am fucking dying and also waiting!🤣🤣🤣🤣

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

In the DARE program back in elementary school, I was the only student in my class who didn’t “graduate” from the program (and get the tshirt) because my bitch teacher wasn’t satisfied with the final essay I had to write for it and had me re-write it, which I didn’t do. So for the program “graduation”, my entire class was wearing their black “DARE” shirts on stage while I was told to simply wear a black shirt. Ironically, I was probably one of the few (if any) students from the class who actually never went on to do illegal drugs because of career goals.

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TerpeneTiger@reddit

Hmmm, we did not have the weird waterfall thing. I wonder what the heck that was?

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plantalones325@reddit

Our cafeteria did not have one. But then we went to a mathletics tournament (or model u.n. or something) at another school and our 7th grade minds were blown away by that glorious contraption. Suddenly everyone was graciously offering to take up someone else’s tray just to have another go at disposal line. There was this whole backroom setup where you went through doors and there was a conveyor belt and the waterfall and you got a jello cup at the end. It was THE hot topic on the school bus back and next day at school. It garnered a lot of new mathlete signups.

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

Ha, yeah you saw more about it than I ever did! Public elementary, middle, and high school all had one. Can’t find anything about it online for those not in the know…Basically like a 2-foot square cutout in a wall with a metal rim, with a rubber-flap partition draping down over the hole. Behind the partition was a dark, unlit space with a constant fast stream of water going down an angled chute aimed away from you which would whisk your disposed tray…somewhere…like a miniature dark flume ride going over the edge of the big drop on Splash Mountain.

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TerpeneTiger@reddit

Thanks for the description. Sounds neat. That was the first non googleable thing I've seen in awhile. Kudos.

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Notabagofdrugs@reddit

Yeah, what’s the waterfall thingy all about?

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TuckerCarlsonsOhface@reddit

Daaaamn, someone went to a fancy school. Laser shows? Disposable trays and a waterfall cleaning system? WTF?

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

Ha, well it was the public school system in South Florida. The schools I attended in the 90s were no more than 10-15 years old at the time, so they would have had newer technology built-in. The laser show (set to popular music) appeared to be operated by an outside provider with the projector set up on a floor-stand, pointed toward I believe a large makeshift blank screen. We were told not to turn around and look at the projector. 😄 I have no idea how or what funding provided for the arrangement to do that at the local schools.

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TuckerCarlsonsOhface@reddit

I went to public school in rural Maine, so our outside provider assemblies were basically another student’s dad dressed as a clown telling us to brush our teeth twice a day.

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arrantknavery@reddit

Oh my god, the Total Eclipse of the Heart skit! Ours demonstrated the mOrTaL dAnGeRs of gateway drugs by having a bunch of people dressed as progressively harder drugs standing in a line with their backs to the audience, while our wayward protagonist went along the line from “Beer” to “Heroin” and DEATH tapping each one on the shoulder in turn to get them to… turn around.

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Nervous-Shark@reddit

Omg ending a this is your brain on drugs school assembly with Total Eclipse of the Heart? Epic. Amazing. I love this. 😆

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Gian_Luck_Pickerd@reddit

I mean, early 80s or not, the video does seem like a bad trip

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Inevitable_Tone3021@reddit

The plastic chain necklaces full of plastic charms. I had a few and I was always jealous of the girls at school whose charm necklaces were full.

Those charms were the ultimate fidget toys during church too.

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raveybaby78@reddit

Oh my gosh I loved those charm necklaces!!!

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cranberries87@reddit

I was jealous of the rubber/plastic “jelly” bracelets girls wore around the same time. One girl at my elementary school had them up to both elbows on both arms. I had a few, but I wasn’t willing to pay that much money to invest in that many.

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ashre9@reddit

I used to loop mine together to make multi-colored configurations https://www.tiktok.com/@stacklettes_/video/7341543532450237742

The strange part is that I don't remember actually buying them. They just seemed to proliferate. Maybe I got them out of those quarter machines that dispensed the little hollow eggs with toys inside.

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smacfa01@reddit

I still have my charm necklace AND jelly bracelets!!! I wonder how much they would go for on Ebay….. (not that I’d ever sell them. Just put them in the coffin when you bury me.)

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Inevitable_Tone3021@reddit

OOOOHHH I almost forgot about the jelly bracelets! The girls who had a bunch up their arm were the coolest.

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Timely-Ability-6521@reddit

No no. We are 29 for the rest of our lives. At least that's what my daughter tells me. We no longer age after that. We are timeless entities. Vampires that exist for eternity. 😂

Also the icq uh oh sound.

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cloudshaper@reddit

BUTTERFLY IN THE SKYYYYYYYYY, I CAN GO TWICE AS HIIIIGH

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Sebastian_dudette@reddit

Take a look. It's in a book...

Golly, I hated reading as a child, but I loved this show!

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LiderLi@reddit

Flea markets and garage sales The ‘haunted house’ in your neighborhood WWF Wooden play structures The horror section in the video rental store The ‘beer’ headlight game

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NiceShoesOinker@reddit

I'm also turning 46 this year and honestly 80s childhood years, 90s teen years, and 2000s 20s years was awesome! Making mixed tapes as kids was fun, but also burning cds as young adults and music being a social activity. Going to concerts and dancing the whole time because no phones. Playing Edward 40 hands and not worrying about videos coming back to bite you in the ass. Parties where you spend half the time doing prank calls!

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Sensitive-Button5693@reddit

Falling asleep in your bed and hearing the theme song from Hill Street Blues from the living room.

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_Face@reddit

Terrible plan. You should plan to turn 36 instead.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

I thought about that but then I have to go through the hassle of turning 40 for a second time. It was during covid. not fun at all.

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sixmilesoldier@reddit

RIP to my big 40th bday plans……sigh…

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GivesYouGrief@reddit

Fuck you just reminded me that covid fucked up my 40th. Gonna have to go big for 50.

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sixmilesoldier@reddit

I was going to go to Whistler and bobsled at the former Winter Olympics complex. Oh well, now I’ll never make the Jamaican bobsled team.

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GivesYouGrief@reddit

Thanks for the vivid flashback to seeing Cool Runnings at the mall movie theater with my friend who was visiting from out of state and my little brother. Probably wearing neon green shorts or something.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

I know. We had just booked plane tickets to puerto rico. Ended up having a bonfire in the backyard with 5 people. hahaha

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Frequent_Alfalfa_347@reddit

We planned on camping at the Renaissance Fair for my 40th

Slept in a tent in the backyard a month after my birthday… for half the night.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

Sounds about on par for 1980's folks here! Fucking Forty was a blower.

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ParticularBed6338@reddit

My 40th was 2 days after lockdown started so it was still fresh as to what a pandemic was really about. The reality was just sinking in about NOTHING being open.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

Shiiiiittttt 2 days into the pandemic I still believed we were just flattening the curve for 2 weeks!

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ParticularBed6338@reddit

Right. By May I was a professional alcoholic drinking bourbon at home in my robe with an immaculate clean house with nothing left to do.

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GivesYouGrief@reddit

For me it was scotch! Never had a drinking problem before covid, and have mostly quit since then. But I was a booze hound for about 2 years there from 2020-2022.

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Original-Affect-4560@reddit

I had my 40th in January in New Orleans! Two months(ish) later, everything shut down.

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AnteaterCritical9168@reddit

I just turned 46 yesterday (Tuesday!) so also turned 40 during Covid. I was supposed to being Peru. Alas, I ate sushi on a friend’s porch instead.

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gnomequeen2020@reddit

My 40th fell on a Saturday, and I booked the weekend off work nearly a year in advance (because that is normally a time off blackout).

The upside is I was still off work because I was laid off! Couldn't even get groceries to make a desired meal because the stores were all bare at that time.

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JeffTS@reddit

Every year for me. My cousin and I separately came up with the same number: 36. Since she's 6 months older than me, she was gracious enough to accept 36 1/2.

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2much4meeeeee@reddit

OMG Peace Frogs ❤️

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

right? I loved them! and trolls! hahahaha

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2much4meeeeee@reddit

I was at work and had just gotten screamed at by some vile man for something another company had done. Usually I take that in stride but he had me shaking and when I took a minute to get my head right, I read your post and immediately felt better. Appreciate it!

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ParticularBed6338@reddit

Tornado Drills in the hallway of the elementary school. Everyone head first face down against the wall and the teachers turned the lights out and had flashlights to mimic a power outage. Sounds kinda creepy now that I think about it. 🧐

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darthduder666@reddit

I had a “hurricane drill” once for a tornado that touched down in my town.

I live up in the Northeast where it’s uncommon to get a tornado, and fairly common to get a hurricane occasionally.

I remember it getting super dark, and over the PA system the principal announced we would be doing an exercise that required everyone to remain calm called a hurricane drill.

We were then escorted down to the fallout shelter in the basement where we all stayed there until the storm passed. Shortly after my mom took my brother and I out of school because we were under a tornado warning for the remainder of the day.

At the time I thought it was strange we would have a hurricane drill, because school would have been cancelled if a hurricane was looming. Never thought about the fact it’s common to have a tornado drill in other parts of the country.

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cloudshaper@reddit

We had earthquake drills and nuclear bomb drills. Which were pretty similar, get under the desks, face away from the window, and cover your neck. The difference was not automatically going outside afterwards.

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BigFatBlackCat@reddit

Doesn’t sound like you had a drill, sounds like you had an active weather response.

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darthduder666@reddit

That is why I put it in quotes. It most definitely wasn’t a drill. I think they didn’t want everyone to freak out.

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mist_kaefer@reddit

They do active shooter drills now. ☹️

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Notabagofdrugs@reddit

I didn’t want to upvote you because this fucking depresses me. Both my kids have had to do shooter drills and just what the fuck is wrong with our country?

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GreenEclipz@reddit

Did you and your friends get into rollerblading, or hacky sack? Also in the 90s did all your friends have crappy first cars from the 80's?

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MiniRems@reddit

My dad stopped with his "you don't need elbow/knee/wrist pads and a helmet for biking/rollerblading. Theyre notnl worth the money" after I broke my elbow rollerblading. We had got all the safety gear when I was healed up: Mom decided they were worth the money after the emergency room and orthopedic doctor 😆

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cloudshaper@reddit

My dad was the opposite. If we didn't wear all the pads when rollerblading he would take the blades away.

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cloudshaper@reddit

My car was from the 70's!

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CrazySporkDude@reddit

I sucked at blading and hacky sack, but I drove the shit out of a busted ‘86 Jetta.

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TuckerCarlsonsOhface@reddit

Hey, I passed my driver’s test in my friends 86 Jetta! My first car was a 66 Volvo wagon, which was interesting, but not really considered cool.

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GreenEclipz@reddit

I remember people driving those Jettas forever! Mine was a '86 Mustang that I bought for $975!

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CrazySporkDude@reddit

I’m a lover of all things Mustang. I could only have dreamed of a Fox Body when I was in school.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

I never did the rollerblading thing but I will tell you that an evening at the rollerskating rink was the stuff middle school dreams were made of. I think I held my first hand there. My first car was a 1989 Chrysler Laberon. CONVERTIBLE. I was so cool.

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GreenEclipz@reddit

Awesome car! What color?

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

White. It had maroon cloth interior. LOL the windows didn't completely meet with the roof so it always smelled like mold. It was amazing.

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Original-Affect-4560@reddit

My mom had a black one!

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DisastrousTurn9220@reddit

1986 240 DL Volvo Wagon baby! I wish I still had it, but some idiot ran a red light and totaled it.

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IceCreamVariety@reddit

First car handed down 1987 Pontiac 6000 affectionately referred to a Black Beauty by my friends. Also, hacky sacking was big at my school and fun fact that it is raging again at my son's middle school!

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GreenEclipz@reddit

My buddy had a similar looking car. The '85 Plymouth Reliant.

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sorrymizzjackson@reddit

Oooh, fancy. We had one of those back then. Not sure if it was an 87 though. Probably earlier than that.

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FuckYouChristmas@reddit

Dude, hacky sacks are back somehow. Our huge sports shop sold out of 500 of them just last Saturday.

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Notabagofdrugs@reddit

I just saw some kids playing it when dropping my kids off at school this morning.

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drtyhppi@reddit

Lol I was watching GMA this morning and they talked about this. Apparently Gen Z has discovered hackey sacks 🤣 I still have all of mine from the early 90s.

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DougMasterz@reddit

I inherited my parents’ faded blue Oldsmobile Delta 88. I rocked so much Smashing Pumpkins in that car though the discman to cassette adapter.

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GreenEclipz@reddit

I remember those adapters! The sucky part was trying to find a nice soft spot to lay the discman down flat so the CD wouldn't skip. Teens who upgraded the stereo system to have a disc drive were the coolest!

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DougMasterz@reddit

I definitely couldn’t afford the upgrade and just had to deal with the skips!

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smacfa01@reddit

Did you hear?! Hacky sacks are back, baby!!!

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beatlefreak_1981@reddit

Checking in with my first car, a 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme 2 door in the worst green imaginable.

Those doors were so heavy!!!

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heethersmeether@reddit

Making a mixtape by recording songs on the radio. Better be quick!

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CinnabarToast@reddit

And when the DJ talked over the beginning/end of the song it was so annoying! I still remember some of those DJ interjections word for word to this day, since I listed to my mixtapes so much.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

Omg this. so much. Candy Rain. Poison. A mix tape was the SHIT

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imtooldforthishison@reddit

On movies in class, on of my 8th grade teachers decided that she would show us the movie about The Carpenters in glass and there wasn't a single one of us that was not fully invested in the story/movie, since class obviously wasn't long enough for the whole movie, we didn't get to watch it all and SHE NEVER TURNED IT BACK ON. This was in 1990 and I am still mad about it.

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Cer-rific_43@reddit

Did anyone else have milk bags, instead of cardboard cartons?

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Echterspieler@reddit

Right behind you. Turning 46 in September

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

Arcades. Arcade games everywhere. Every where. And that little uh-oh notification on icq

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ladyvhagar@reddit

I can relate to The Last Unicorn, 90210, Wonder Years and Fresh Prince. Also MacGyver, A-Team and tons of others (I am not from US). Watching analog TVs and going with friends to the mall to do nothing. Turning 46 in a few months too and feeling like past times were better (I know this is not even real, but still).

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EverydayAdventures2x@reddit

Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill

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TheGreat_Powerful_Oz@reddit

I’ll see your co ed naked shirts and raise you a Big Johnson.

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Notabagofdrugs@reddit

Toss in some No Fear shirts and this was peak cool.

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Legal_Scientist5509@reddit

Don’t forget the Spud McKenzie Bud Light shirts.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

She's gonna get wet fast when she sees the size of your hose!

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OkSet1048@reddit

the drugs, FINAL ANSWER

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Delta-IX@reddit

You plan to? Meaning you might not?

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

well I was thinking I'd pick 26 instead... or you know just skip this year!

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Ent_Trip_Newer@reddit

I also turn 46 next week

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MaeONays@reddit

Getting enough money for a couple gallons of gas (to go to the mall) by collecting spare change laying around the house.

Mildly vandalizing neighbors without worry of ring cameras.

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al_m1101@reddit

Lmao, we were alike. I'll raise you...Caller ID not really existing so you could prank call people and get away with it.

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MaeONays@reddit

Ha I almost said prank calling too. We were absolute monsters. My brother randomly dialed a guy one day who must have had mental issues. The guy screamed profanity instead of saying hello. Sooo of course we all had to take turns calling back. “Put your mother in a grave” was his favorite line. We called him The Screamer. Went to a party a town over like a year later and some kid says let’s call the screamer! Poor guy’s number got shared with no telling how many kids.

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DougMasterz@reddit

Gas was 99 cents and so was a Mountain Dew. But the latter had tax, so we had to scrounge the floorboard for the additional 7 cents in change over the dollar.

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MaeONays@reddit

Those were the days

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AbbreviationsGlad833@reddit

Micromachines

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Annhl8rX@reddit

I’m not sure if this will come as good news or bad news to you, but you’ve already been in the later half of your forties for almost a year.

40-44 is five years. 45-49 is five years. You’re experienced at this already…don’t be scared.

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MrPlowThatsTheName@reddit

Came here to say this. Almost everyone gets it wrong!

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

LMAOOOO well I guess I should just be 50. It happening!

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RainbowMage81@reddit

The freedom of not having a phone. No one knew where we were and it was GREAT.

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abbydabbydo@reddit

46 is my lucky number, can’t wait! It is also the GOAT 🐐, Valentino Rossi.

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Steely-Dave@reddit

Oddly enough he just turned 47😂

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abbydabbydo@reddit

No shit? Man, we’re getting old.

Great username. If you’ve never seen them, Steely Dead is the best dollar for dollar I’ve spent on music in the last few years. Waaaay better than some shows 5x the price.

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spek72@reddit

MY PEOPLE

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abbydabbydo@reddit

I wildered if anyone would show up for this in this sub. 🏁

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ReiperXHC@reddit

POGS!

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ylimeenimsaj@reddit

Nobody told you? Once you hit 45, you start counting down. Soon you will be 44. Next year 43. It's very pleasant here at 44 😃

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

THANK GOD you informed me! Happy 44 to me!!!!!

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ylimeenimsaj@reddit

Enjoy, friend! 🧁

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y_u_so_madd@reddit

This is a weird post, not weird content for this sub, but the writing is chatgpt. Why ?

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Notabagofdrugs@reddit

Why you so mad?

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y_u_so_madd@reddit

You're a clever lil guy being able to think that up all by yourself. I hope you didn't get hurt. I'll have to remember that one.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

Not even a little bit but thanks for trolling!

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y_u_so_madd@reddit

I commented on the writing style. I didn't "troll" you, or "claim it was so" as the snowflake below wrote. If I was trolllng youI would have made fun of of you for how bad your poor writing is. Get over yourself.

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MoarFlavor@reddit

The trendy new thing is to claim every post on Reddit is AI. It’s obnoxious. There’s another one for you: there was a time when Reddit was great! Hell, there was a time when Reddit was us just hanging out and shooting the breeze before the internet consumed everything! Good times.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

Christ thank you! So obnoxious. Apologies that I have decent enough grammar to be confused with a bot.

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noronto@reddit

Was going to the mall a suburban or American thing? I grew up in Toronto and while going to the mall was something that happened, it wasn’t something we did. We’d go downtown to go to the arcade and have food at the mall or go see a movie at the Eaton Centre, but we never just went to the mall as a hang out spot.

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Notabagofdrugs@reddit

Going to the mall on a Friday night just to walk around and hang out was 99% of our social lives from like 12-16.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

I am american and live in a very "urban" suburb. We definitely did the mall! at age (almost) 46 I can't tell you the last time I stepped foot in a mall but as an 8th grader? OOOOH yeah.

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odin_the_wiggler@reddit

Tang

Metamucil gang, represent

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

Mine is more Miralax but I'm here for Metamucil too!

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gooddaysir@reddit

You’re in your 40’s now. Upgrade from Tang to Pooty-Tang. Aka Metamucil. It basically tastes like concentrated Tang and you drink it like a shooter.

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big_ringer@reddit

I turn 46 tomorrow. It's also my last work day. I'm going to my first rock concert as a present to myself.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

Happy Birthday fellow May Xennial! What concert? and your last work day until....?

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big_ringer@reddit

Until I officially quit!

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moleculariant@reddit

Many people living now, wish they were living then. You and I got the best of both worlds.

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ShirazGypsy@reddit

Those hyper color shirts that changed color when heat was applied. We always put palm prints on our boobs

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ShirazGypsy@reddit

Parachute day in gym class

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tribbleorlfl@reddit

Happy birthday in advance! I hit 46 back in November, and while I was also a little put back by the mental thought of it, now I really feel no different than I did last year.

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FUWS@reddit

I member Al Bundy offering Tangwich ( two bread and Tang powder inside).

In Living Color, Mad TV, and SNL( with a funny cast).The good times of sketch comedy .

Buying CDs and Tapes and checking out the cover art, pictures ( when pictures meant something) and lyrics from the artists/band.

House parties and field parties in the woods/mountains.

Also peak video games with friends which was a thing to do in person.

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PrettyNobody2342@reddit

Is also turning 46. This Friday. Not impressed.

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Sea_One_6500@reddit

I'm 44 today! My standouts are: Rainbow bright

Jem and the holograms

Skip it

My blue scooter i received for my 6th birthday

Inflatable furniture

Not being constantly reachable.

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harshrealmz@reddit

Hey Just wanted to say, you are the 2nd person I've met in my life, well meet is an exaggeration, that has the exact birthday I do.

Little bit exciting.

Happy Birthday, I hope you have a good one!!

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

I hope you have a good one as well! Cheers to May 26th!

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

It's not too late to run with the Big Dogs

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CallieKitty81@reddit

They still sell the shirts!

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escardigan@reddit

Teen magazines: YM, Seventeen, Sassy.

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Frequent_Alfalfa_347@reddit

Circling all the toys i wanted for Christmas in the Christmas edition of the JC Penney catalog.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

or from the book fair at school for that matter! YES!

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redditydothis@reddit

The sticky octopus thing that you would throw at the wall and then it would “walk” down was pretty cool. Black light and black light posters. Was it teddy Ruskin that had a tape player in it and would move its mouth to the tape? You could put in mix tapes and it looked like it was singing.

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Ok_Bike_369@reddit

say "46" with a Scottish accent... 😏

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MiniRems@reddit

I totally had a moment of "I'm 46, too!" Then I realized my birthday was 2 months ago and I'm now 47... Perimenopause brain sucks!

On the fun side, I got a bunch if Rainbow Brite stickers to put on my composition book cover for my Kindle 😄

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sharkleberryfinn@reddit

Secret Fun Dip in class or just koolaid & sugar in a bag. Starter jackets that pulled over your head with that big pouch. Blue pens with erasers on the caps. Tanning with those playboy bunny stickers to see how tan you got.

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59apache01@reddit

How about spending hours racking up high scores on the Atari or trying to beat that one stubborn world on an NES game?

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

I mean I can play pong for hours.

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DougMasterz@reddit

Like trying to land the plane in Top Gun on NES.

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Shinespark7@reddit

I was just reading a thread where some teachers were saying movie days are dead- at least the enthusiasm for it is.

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DougMasterz@reddit

Movie days were the best days. In our English classes we always watched the movie after reading whatever book was required. Even the 1960’s Romeo and Juliet movie that shockingly for us teenagers had (very tame) nudity. My tiny Bible Belt hometown would never allow that nowadays!

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Undercover_Dave@reddit

I'll disagree with Tang, and I say McDonald's Orange Hi-C still reigns supreme, but I do miss ecto-cooler the most. Man I do also miss just skipping school and going to the mall though. No money, no plans, just a bus pass and a day to waste, lol.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

OH man ecto cooler!

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Smellycatbing@reddit

sticker books, especially puffy stickers

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DougMasterz@reddit

My HS government and geography teacher was a Frogman in the Korean War and supposedly trained the first group of Navy Seals. He was out a lot for some reason, so the TV/VCR cart lived in his classroom. There were two tapes that we watched over and over: a documentary on the Navy Seals training program and the Outsiders.

He would also punish kids that acted out in his class by having them stand in front of the room where he would touch a hidden pressure point to make them fall to the ground in pain. Oh, the ‘90s…

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jaybeau1979@reddit

Rollerblades baby! The way of the future

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Jingoisticbell@reddit

Why would you need nostalgia to “feel good” about not being an eternal child or dead?

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cranberries87@reddit

Saturday morning cartoons, and the commercials for toys

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sweetassassin@reddit

I turn 46 in 25 days. My mind still has hard time catching up with the numbers, it makes no sense.

When I hear things like, oh so and so album or movie 25 years old, I think that’s impossible!! I’m only 28 years old.

But I do appreciate aging, the experience part, not the rickety joints and foggy memory part. Oh and fuck peri-menopause.

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K2sX@reddit

The Last Unicorn has and always will be my favorite book/movie. Still have my original VHS.

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AfternoonNo6827@reddit

Quicksand, every 80’s kid’s biggest fear.

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trainwreckhappening@reddit

Shout out to that time on Jr high when a cheerleader announced the winner, Mike Hunt, for a full three minutes before another cheerleader came out to the middle of the gym to clue her in.

That poor girl. She exclaimed "you people are disgusting" and marched straight out of the gym. I genuinely feel bad fo her to this day (I had nothing to do with it, even had to ask my friend what was so funny about it). But damn if it wasn't funny.

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

LMAO right up there with Seymore Butts or Mike Rotch!

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rainbowtison@reddit

For some reason going through this list I remembered pongs! I had so many of those! Slap bracelets…jelly shoes ! I think I still have a scar on my foot from those.

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Verbull710@reddit

These are the weirdest posts, very bot sounding, even though, apparently, allegedly, they're actual people

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

You should troll elsewhere if you have a problem with my exclamation points and a fun and silly nostalgia post in a sub for xennials with nostalgia. You probably never drank from a hose.

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ConcreteKeys@reddit

Whatever Skynet...

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sctrlk@reddit

They’re probably a younger Millenial or a Gen Z 🫢

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jachildress25@reddit

Nostalgia posts in a nostalgia subreddit are weird?

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Verbull710@reddit

no, but the bot-sounding and expressive! posts with !! and ?? all over it are botty and engagement-farmy are

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username32768@reddit

Carbon based life form or silicon based life form? Live and let live. That's what I say.

The AI bots didn't choose to be "born" any more than I did... As long as they don't create problems they're ok.

Also, as a vaguely human person, I bloody love the em-dash!!!

And triple exclamation marks...

And ellipses...

And Thundercats.

And The Raccoons.

And the theme song to Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.

And starting sentences with "and".

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Confident-Sound-4358@reddit

I am personally a fan of 3 exclamation points!!! I think it gets the message across better, and I'm definitely real. My favorite punctuation is probably: ?!

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Verbull710@reddit

Nobody is perfect and that's ok lol

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DCpurpleTart33@reddit (OP)

I'm a real person! I am just all in my feels about having a birthday 😄

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Verbull710@reddit

It's ok! Happy birthday! I hope you absolutely have a fantabulous day and you get all the presents and colonoscopy-prep stuff you ever wanted!

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snow1868@reddit

I turned 46 on the 9th. It's not that scary. Currently my mid-life crisis is rereading the Marvel run of GI Joe comics which is just fun. Happy early birthday!

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GarciaWolf@reddit

Making bon fires like a mile into the woods smoking weed hearing what was probably a squirrel and yelling ‘COPS!’ And running

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ConcreteKeys@reddit

Going to the "secret spot" that was everyone's secret spot.

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JeffTS@reddit

Miss those long nights on AOL in the chat rooms when the Internet was still new and wild for us.

Also miss those long hours of playing hack at school, in my parent's garage, and just about anywhere. Including in the back room of Dallas Hot Weiners in Kingston and watching a friend (RIP, dude) accidentally kick the serving tray out of the waitress's hands and sending food flying everywhere.