1.The anticipation of finally getting to your "computer time" day and thinking, This will be the time that I beat The Oregon Trail:
2.Not being able to get enough of the scent of a scratch-and-sniff sticker that you liked and being worried that if you scratched too much the scent would fade away sooner:
3.Having to decide after school whether you wanted to get a Pink Panther bar (for the bubble gum, of course) from the ice cream truck...
4....or a sugary but refreshing Mickey's Parade popsicle:
5.Wanting a My Buddy and/or Kid Sister...
...because the commercial (mainly the infectious jingle for it) sold it to you!!!
6.Knowing better than to touch your Shrinky Dinks for a good long while after taking them out of the oven, because they took FOREVER to cool down (seriously, those things burned if you touched them too soon):
7.Realizing that 75% of the fun of playing with Colorforms was sniffing them:
8.Loving your Popple, but always having an absolute struggle to get it back into its ball shape:
9.The absolute joy you got watching Muppet Babies (even if it was just a rerun):
10.And the pure bliss and excitement you got at just hearing the theme song for it:
11.Yet always wondering what the hell Nanny looked like:
12.Thoroughly enjoying Square One, even though you knew it was educational:
13.But mainly watching Square One just for "Mathnet":
14.Trying to recite along as fast as the Micro Machine Man during the Micro Machine commercials — and if you couldn't, just settling for shouting out-loud the ending: "Remember if it doesn't say Micro Machines, it's not the real thing!"
15.Browsing your local mom-and-pop video store, and usually having to settle for renting something else because they typically only carried a copy or two (at most) of a particular movie:
16.And always trying to peek into the adult section in the back of the video store that was hidden behind the swinging café doors:
17.How using one of these was the only way to make popcorn on a movie night:
18.Owning a Rubik's Cube and having no idea how you got it:
19.Also having your family own a copy of the Flashdance soundtrack (which you listened to whether you saw the movie or not)...
20....Thriller (which, like, EVERYONE you knew owned a copy of)...
21....and We Are the World 45:
22.How nobody could convince you that Kenner's Family Tree House wasn't part of Fisher-Price's Little People collection. And just how much fun you had playing with it:
23.Going to several birthday parties where they served a character cake that was 85% frosting:
24.Every once in a while, being grossed out by one of your Garbage Pail Kids cards:
25.Being more than a little freaked out by The Dark Crystal (especially by the "life essence" stealing scene):
26.And being freaked out by everything in The NeverEnding Story (but especially the scene where Artax died in the Swamp of Sadness):
27.Having these McDonald's glasses...
...and Burger King Return of the Jedi glasses as your go-to juice or milk glass — even as the paint on them faded:
28.Having one of these country goose cookie jars in your family's kitchen, which usually had matching glasses, dish towels, and plates:
29.Wanting a waterbed because they were the coolest thing ever. Also, they were the funnest things to jump on:
30.Knowing that any good battery-operated toy required at least half a dozen C or D batteries:
31.Seeing cigarette ads everywhere and not even thinking twice about it:
32.And there being unsupervised cigarette machines everywhere and not even thinking twice about it:
33.The huge confusion over there being two cartoons called Ghostbusters — it just did not make sense in your mind:
But, of course, knowing The Real Ghostbusters was the superior one 'cause it was the one based on the movie. Plus, it even had the theme song for the intro:
34.Being inspired to draw by just looking at the cover of a Mead Académie Sketch Pad:
35.Being irrationally scared when playing outside that you might fall down a well like Baby Jessica:
36.Being very tempted to eat Crest Sparkle because it tasted like minty candy. Oh so, so sweet:
37.How the illustrations from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark were actually more frightening than the stories. Okay, yes the stories were very creepy too, FTR:
38.Watching Gremlins and thinking you were going to watch a cute movie about a rabbit-chinchilla creature and not a frightening horror movie about monsters that terrorize a small town during Christmas:
39.Having a collection of Disney Read-Along Storybook and cassette books, which you'd sometimes play just for the songs they included in them:
40.That every kid owned these rainbow flip-flops — that were also super painful, since the nylon on the straps would rub against your toes:
41.That every kid owned a pair of these Fisher-Price roller skates that were actually impossible to skate in:
42.That either you owned or knew someone who owned a Cabbage Patch doll whose name was immediately changed after they "adopted" it:
43.And that either you owned or knew someone who owned a Rainbow Brite doll that ended up covered in crayon marks and with the yarn hair all undone:
44.Collecting shiny Sandylion stickers that you'd get from a craft store or stationery shop:
And, of course, displaying your collection in sticker books:
45.Getting a little magical feeling whenever you watched the Disney Sunday Night Movie intro:
50.And getting hungry whenever you played the Pizza Party game:
51.Playing with those sliding puzzles and eventually getting frustrated with it and just pulling out all the pieces and putting them back together correctly:
52.The absolute disappointment you felt anytime you made shaved ice with the Snoopy Sno Cone Maker and only ended up with a slushy mess:
53.Knowing the only solution for getting your Nintendo cartridge to work was to blow into it:
54.And knowing that if you went to the store with your parents, they'd nine times out of ten give you a quarter to get a prize from the lucky eggs machine:
55.Finally, being completely traumatized by that episode of Punky Brewster where Cherie almost died after being locked in the abandoned fridge:
