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Loved their clam strips.
Kids these days will never know….
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Flat top Ms. Pac Man and Galaga. Asteroids and Missile Command were early 80s.
Alex.
Yep, that's my childhood right there.
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no, but my mom got into that macrame with wooden beads hanging plant holder schit in the '70's...
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Ceramics...lots of stupid ceramics. lol
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PAUL HARVEY'S LETTER TO HIS GRANDCHILDREN
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better.
I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches.. I really would.
I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.
I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.
And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.
It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.
I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother/sister. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.
When you want to see a movie and your little brother/sister wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him/her.
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.
On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.
If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.
When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.
I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a boy / girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.
May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.
I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it... And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he/she is not your friend.
I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma/Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.
May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.
I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.
These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.
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Waiting to see how many male members of GC admit to this.
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Not in my car! I have one rule when it comes to cars; whoever owns the car picks the music. My daughters were so used to me picking the music that when they got their own cars and would offer to drive, they'd still ask me what music I wanted to listen to. "It's your car, your music!" It took 6 months before daughter #2 finally just started putting on her music and telling me to deal with it. Jokes on her; I'm a music whore
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Driving a State vehicle in the 90's, we still had the antiquated non-magnetic strip gas cards when everything else had been magnetic for years. Clerks would have to ask a store manager how to run it manually - if they could even find the (dust covered) machine stuck under the counter somewhere!
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Always loved the commercials, still say, "Ya! Chuckwagon... Ya!" in "commercial voice" to my kids... they look at me weird...
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Sorry to be the one to tell you this, but that’s not the only reason they look at you weird.
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The call me "weird," "retarded" even straight to my face. Wanna know what I reply with?
"Jokes on you, half your genes are MINE!!!"
