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You know you're stuck in the 80s if...
...you still wear your old alligator shirt and penny loafers (with the penny still there).
...Around 11am on Saturday mornings you flip through the channels looking for those old Jerry Lewis movies.
...you still look forward to staying up all night on Labor Day weekend to watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon.
...you remember Grimace and Hamburgalar.
...you still hide your Judy Blume books under the bed.
...you're wondering if Melissa Sue Anderson still gives out autographed photos.
...you remember inviting all your friend's over to check out your new VCR.
...you remember when HBO, Showtime and The Movie Channel were the only movie channels, and all they played were movies.
...Simon was hard to play.
...you remember when 2 liter bottles of Coke were made of glass.
...you can't figure out why people aren't wearing multi-colored rabbit fur coats anymore.
...you still think "Soap" was risque.
...you remember when John Lennon was shot.
...you wouldn't be embarrassed to be seen in a Volkswagon Scirrocco with sheepskin seat covers.
...You wish Love Boat was never cancelled.
...You had a crush on Gopher.
...you remember when Tuesday nights were the coolest on TV (Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley and Three's Company).
...you remember when Mount St. Helens blew up.
...you remember the Iran hostages.
...your first 45 was Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life".
...Jeans jackets were the absolute coolest.
...your kids see pictures of you from the eighties and can't believe you actually walked around with your clothes color-coordinated with your lipstick.
...you still think punk rockers are scary.
...you still can't wait until "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman" come on every year. And, you refuse to buy the videos because it's just not the same
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...you remember when every handout you ever got in school was always printed in that bluish-purple color. (mimmograph)
...films in school were shown on a projector, always with a few of those "blobs" that would cover the screen, and you always kinda got a swelled head when the teacher let you run it.
...you and about 20 other people dressed up to go to the Rocky Horror Picture Show every Friday night.
...you get a little sad when you realize your daughter will never be able to sell Girl Scout cookies door-to-door like you did.
...we like short shorts.
...your kids cry for you when you tell them you didn't get cable until you were 12.
...you still have that long, twisted coke bottle you won at the fair.
...you still read Mad Magazine; and it's exactly the same now as it was then.
...you still have an unnatural fear of earwigs from that one episode of "Night Gallery" you watched.
...you remember taping EVERYTHING with your new portable tape recorder that weighed about 20 pounds and had the buttons that always popped off if you hit them too hard. This is the same tape recorder you used to place right next to the radio so you could tape your favorite songs.
...your kids can't believe you know how to make popcorn on the stove.
...there was always a couple of good cartoons you had to race home from school to watch.
...you know that we are the generation that made the Brady Bunch what it is today.
...you remember when you could go to the store and open up a box of Fudgecicles and buy just one.
...you still remember the Woodsy the Owl song ("In the city or in the woods, help keep America looking good...hoot, hoot").
...hermit crabs were really cool pets.
...you always had at least one friend with a ping pong table in their garage or a rec room in their basement.
...your mom had a thousand dollars worth of Tupperware.
...cell phones were HUGE and no one you knew had one.
...you stayed awake on Saturday nights so you could watch "Evening At The Improv" after your parents went to bed.
...you remember having to change the channels on the TV by actually getting up off the couch.
...you wish it was still socially acceptable to use TV tray.s
...you remember your mom expressing her concern that the new microwave Dad gave her for Christmas would give her cancer.
...you lived down the road from a guy who sold Nike's out of his basement for $5 a pair.
...you still have your collection of glassware that started out as jars of grape jelly.
...there were never any better cereals than Frankenberry, Booberry and Count Chocula.
...you remember the Nestea commmercial where the lady fell backwards into the pool.
...you had a Pet Rock, and you took VERY good care of it.
...you remember when all your school supplies cost about $7.00.
...there was a time when you listened to AM radio exclusively.
...you watched princess Dianna get married on live TV.
...you cried when Ryan's Hope went off the air.
...there was only one kind of Macaroni and Cheese.
...before Oprah, there was Donahue.
...Questron was the coolest computer game.
...arcades were everywhere.
..."It's Alive" was the scarriest movie ever made.
...your dad made you watch Hee Haw every Saturday evening.
...there was only one TV in the house, and it had bunny ears.
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