42.That an uncomfortable mask with poor visibility, and a plastic smock that didn't really let you move, was the trade-off for getting a character costume.
43.Having tons of old back issues of this magazine in your classroom or school library:
44.How everyone owned the We Are the World 45 RPM...
45....and Michael Jackson's Thriller.
46.Being more than a little creeped out by animatronic Chuck E. Cheese.
47.Having your mind-blown with this epic cartoon crossover:
48.Somehow, no matter how careful you were, always managing to burn your fingers when making Shrinky Dinks.
49.How you had an at least 80% chance of getting burned whenever you slid down a aluminum slide.
50.How you had to be careful not pinch your fingers when closing your Fisher-Price Little People Tudor house.
51.How all the food at McDonald's used to come in Styrofoam containers.
52.And how smelly it was to climb into one of these McDonald's Officer Big Mac "jail things":
53.How everyone owned a Hands Across America T-shirt, even if they didn’t participate in it.
54.How fun it was to get lost in the world of Sweet Pickles.
55.The fear you felt that you might fall into a well after hearing about Baby Jessica.
56.How traumatizing these scenes from The Land Before Time and An American Tail were:
57.That this was the coolest phone that was ever designed:
58.How you always looked for books that had been "approved" by Reading Rainbow, any time you went to the library.
59.Just how utterly insane Batman-mania was in the summer of 1989.
60.And finally, that seeing this building (with its Bert's sweater looking stripes) was the most joyful thing ever: