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When you tried to play your Gameboy during a car trip at night (which was basically impossible):
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When your siblings or parents would record something using a VHS tape you specifically said NOT to use:
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When you'd launch your Sky Dancer, only to have it come back down and hit you directly in the face:
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When you'd miscalculate your ratio of graham cracker to frosting when eating Dunkaroos, and were left with too many graham crackers and no frosting:
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When someone (usually your sibling) accidentally kicked out the cord to the controller just as you were about to beat a level:
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When you’d forget to bring your money on Scholastic Book Fair day, and you just had to watch as everyone went on a ~shopping spree~:
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When you'd run out of batteries to your Walkman during a long car trip:
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When the sharp corner of your slap bracelet would poke and scratch you ‘cause the fabric had ripped:
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When the lights would burnout on just ONE of your light up shoes:
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When someone didn't rewind a movie and you were forced to close your eyes (while rewinding it), 'cause you didn't want to ruin any scenes from it:
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When you had to watch a TV that only had an antenna, and the reception looked like this no matter how much you tried to fix it:
12.
Whenever this disaster would happen to you while trying to put your straw into your Capri Sun:
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Or when you’d try to open your milk carton and this would happen:
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When you'd use your fancy erasers to correct something, but instead it would just make it a smudgy mess:
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When the VCR would destroy your favorite VHS tape:
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When you'd use a marker without realizing the felt tip was damaged and it would ruin whatever you were coloring:
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When you'd accidentally pull the home phone off the table, while trying to answer it, because the receiver cord was tangled:
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When you were forced to get off the internet 'cause someone needed to make a call or was expecting a call:
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When you'd play with your Skip-It without tall socks or pants and it'd destroy your ankle:
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When you were beholden to whatever TV stations aired and had to wait for your shows:
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When you wanted to take a picture of something but your/or your parents' camera was out film:
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When the DJ would talk over a song you were waiting to record off the radio:
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When you'd turn on the TV Guide channel and the ONE channel listing you wanted to see had just scrolled by:
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When you'd run out of AOL monthly minutes and had no AOL free trial CDs to replenish them with:
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When your Hypercolor T-shirt would stop changing colors and just became a splotchy mess:
26.
When your inflatable furniture would start deflating after you'd only been sitting on it for like 10 minutes:
27.
When you'd step barefoot on an open Polly Pocket or Mighty Max case and it would sending a shooting pain all over your body:
28.
When you'd go trick-or-treating using these buckets, only to realize about a quarter way through your night that they hold ZERO candy:
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When your Furby would randomly wake you up in the middle of the night 'cause it was ~screaming~ in its creepy language:
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And finally, whenever this happened (especially during a test):
