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Ah, the eighties. I forgot all about those crazy times, until I read I Love The 80’s so you don’t have to at JD’s site. If you take a look over there, you can read her list of 80 Things I Did in the 80’s So You Don’t Have To. I would have never guessed that JD was such a wild Eighties chick! I can’t compete with her 80s hair photo, but I did have quite the mullet on me if I do say so myself.

What do I remember about the eighties?

 Crazy Music Videos, like ‘Wild Boys’ by Duran Duran. There was one guy tied to this water wheel, and it was spinning and kept dipping his head in the water, and then that monster came up ….. pure art, man! And how about Thriller?

Awesome Hatchback Cars. Those were so cool, especially if the shock wore out on the hatch and you had to steal your mother’s broom handle to prop the sucker open so you could get the beer in and out. Can you remember the power under those flimsy hoods that you also had to prop open with a little rod? I tried to close mine once but forgot to put the support rod down and put a bend right in the middle of the hood.  Those babies were like riding a speed rocket …. not! It was even more cool when they all broke down and were retired to the auto wreckers.

House Parties! Yeah, I bet there are house parties going on now, but I don’t hear of any parties like these ones. I’m talking those houses that were owned or rented by some animal who liked to fill the joint with people every weekend. The kind of party where everyone takes their shoes off and piles ‘em up outside because there’s no room left inside and you have to force your way into the crowd.  You know you’re at the right house if the cops raid the joint and everyone makes a break for it wearing the wrong shoes cause you didn’t have time to look through the enormous pile for yours so you just grabbed a couple hightop Reeboks and hightailed it outa there.

Arcades Full of Stand Alone Games and Pinball Machines  These were the best. Video games were a social thing mostly. Of course there was the Atari 2600 and a few others, but for the good games you had to go down to the arcade with your friends and hang out with the rest of the punks. Now teenagers (and adults) sit all alone in a dimy lit room and play with themselves, I mean with their games.

Maybe it was the lack of sleep, all the beer I drank or I blocked out a lot of stuff, but a lot of the eighties is really foggy. Between a few heavy metal concerts and the Suzuki GSE 1100 Streetbike, and did I say all that beer, I kept pretty busy.

Anyone else feel like sharing their 80’s memories?