I found this quiz a long time ago and scored very well I might add. Give it a try, but heed my warning that it is entirely pop culture and entertainment driven...
I am a true child of the 80's. I have always been a pop culture junkie and my recollections of that era are centered around, well, mostly pop culture. I can't tell you about Reagan's foreign policies and what the price of gas was then, but I can tell you what the first song played on MTV was, how to solve a Rubik's cube, and all the words to the theme song to the television show "One Day at a Time". You know, lots of very useful things like that. But I have a fondness for that era, when my primary mode of transportation was still a bike, when a trip to the movies was a good Saturday night, when rollerskating was innocent and fun. I was stylin' in my Dippity-Do hair gel; dayglo, fingerless gloves; and oversize shirt and stirrup pants. My life centered around my friend Dee, our love of MTV, the bands INXS, Duran Duran, and Wham, and writing really bad poetry about boys whose names we can hardly remember now. Of course, there was all the drama that goes with an adolescent to teen girl and a family life I often edit and re-edit in my head, but those memories, and the sensation of simple, schoolgirl joys, are like precious jems to me. It's just this great little place I go to in my head and often get lost in.
Maybe I am feeling this way or thinking about these things because its fall and school has just started and we just had that first cool day, the kind when the wind is just slightly more chilled and the air smells like crumbled up leaves, but I found myself revisiting some good memories from 8th grade. It must have been touched off by Clare investigating the jewelry box in the closet and opening a tiny drawer that houses my old Swatch Watch and an *original* black rubber bracelet--the only one I have left (most of the stack of them have been given to undeserving boyfriends over the years). I started to wonder what Clare's adolescent memories will consist of, what world events will have shaped her youth, which friends were the center of her world, what family events impacted her life forever, what singer or movie star she plastered her walls with, and most importantly, whether she remembers feeling loved and happy and cherished as she is now.
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I don't know what Jerry remembers of the 80s. As a mother and wife it was such a busy time. Kids graduating from high school and going off to college. What I remember best were the Saturday mornings with Jerry when he was in middle school. We would go to McDonalds for Bacon,Egg and Cheese buiscuits, then go grocery shopping or other kinds of shopping. Then I would often drop him off at his friend Kurt's house. As a mom, these were such precious times for me. He probably doesn't remember them, but I do. It was also a sad time. He lost a close friend to cancer, the mom of his high school classmate to cancer and the sister of a neighbor to a fatal accident. There was also a terrible fatal accident when he was in middle school involving neighbor girls and a fire which took a neighborhood child. No matter how close any of us were to these people, it was part of their teen years and had an effect at the time. Hopefully we can all look back on those times with a little nostalgia and move on to happier times. Times like meeting our new daughters-in-law and marriages and grandchildren.
Not entirely fluff... alas, though, only a 76. Amazingly, I got tripped up on the sit-com questions...
I scored a 74. Not too bad. You taught your brother well! :-)
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