Does anyone else besides me think of the 1980's as not being long ago?

[raccoon]

Maybe I just think too much, and the isolation is getting to me.

[brush]

1. It's 40 years. That's half a lifetime. Time slips away.

[trof]

30. Ain't it funny how time slips away?

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[Glamrock]

2. Yes!

I just turned 49 a few weeks back. I'm thinking, "how am I 50? How the fuck am I 50? I only graduated high school like 12 years ago....Shit man! That was thirty years ago!"

[KT2000]

3. Same with appliances

When they die I always think they this can't be, because I got them a few years ago. Always turns out they are more than 20 years old. Then - when I get the new one I am informed the standard life of the appliance is 8 years!!!

[Freddie]

4. It really doesn't seem that long ago

I’m 63. Maybe because my kids are doing the same things I did (getting married, having kids, buying a house) I did in the 80s. My son and his wife are looking to buy their first house and they’re so excited, reminds me so much of doing that myself in 1983. Neither he or his big sister existed yet.

[CottonBear]

5. I graduated HS & University in the 80s. Funny story:

A few years ago, my then 9 year old kid & I were discussing something history related. They had a question and asked me “Did that happen back in the olden days? You know, the 1980s.”

[missingthebigdog]

6. It was yesterday!

I distinctly remember wearing my red leather high top Reebok’s with a mini skirt to deliver pizzas in my Datsun station wagon.

I can’t seem to find them this morning. My closet is full of black and grey pantsuits and sensible shoes, and my husband tells me there is no such thing as a Datsun.

Damn.

[List left]

16. Datsun, aren't those the little

long dogs?



My all time favorite car was a Datsun 510 station wagon.

[missingthebigdog]

20. I had a 1977 Datsun F10 station wagon

It was the first car I go to choose for myself. It was blue, and had a stripe, a five speed, FRONT WHEEL DRIVE!! (radical concept back then), and was apparently possessed by gremlins. Sometimes it started, sometimes it didn’t. Sometimes the radio worked, and sometimes the headlights- never both. The driver side door only opened from the outside, and the passenger from the inside.

I LOVED that car. Broke my heart when I had to let it go.

It never failed to get me where I was going, and it carried everything my young gypsy soul needed.

I spent many years trying to recapture that car, and finally found one with a similar vibe a few years ago- A 2000 Suzuki Esteem Station Wagon, in a blue that my daughter insists upon calling cerulean. It is my daily driver now, and I’m pretty sure most people just think I’m cheap (& I am, tbh), but its more about the feel of it- the plastic, the truly unfortunate upholstered door panels, way too much glass for such a little car. It gets me where I need to go, and hauls all of the things my aging gypsy soul asks it to.

Now if I could just find those red Reebok’s....

[Dustlawyer]

26. In 1980 I drove a Datsun 710 four door sedan that was 4 different colors until I spray painted

it blue. The AM/FM 8 track tape player was in the glove box as I bypassed the AM radio in the dash. If you opened the trunk you saw the ground as that had rusted through. i once drove it for 2 months without a battery. Had to get it rolling and pop the clutch to start it. Broke down and bought a battery after me and my Homecoming date got boxed in on the street and we could not leave for an hour until one car came and moved. I paid $450 for it and sold it 4 years later for $750 during a gas crunch.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. You're not alone. I talk to my kids and grandkids about things that seem like recent history

to me and I realize that they've studied these events in high school.

[Sophiegirl]

8. I work in retail

We have a music track that is all 80s and we all love it.

I graduated in 1980 and it is much better than the remixes of Adele and some really oldies that make me long for the originals.

[List left]

9. when i was a kid

I thought WWII was something that had happened a long time ago, but it ended barely 7 years before I was born.
The 80's seem like yesterday and several lifetimes ago.

[LisaM]

10. This seems true of almost any decade past the 60s.

Maybe it's because we still watch TV shows, listen to music, and have favorite movies from all those eras? I mean, you can watch "Friends" at any time of night or day (in order), and so it's like 1994-2004 is still going on all the time and we're still the same age we were then.

You can get music specific to one decade on Sirius and listen to nothing else. I have friends who watch "Roadhouse" every chance they get. It's like we don't have to let go of those decades, and so I agree, we don't put a lot of space between then and now.

[doc03]

11. I am 72 it's like last week to me. nt

[pnwest]

12. The 80's seem like a long time ago, but the 90's seem like just happened,

like, i can't believe Y2K was 20 years ago! The 90's was just a couple of years ago!

[PSPS]

13. "Who was James Rockford?" Try that on anyone under 50.

[Shrike47]

14. Even worse, I see shows depicting the 50's and say, 'not where I lived. At my house, we didn't.'

Of course, I grew up in an LA suburb. Maybe we were different.

By the 80’s, I had teenage children. It was just a few minutes ago. I think I’ve still got blazers with shoulders like a linebacker.

[snowybirdie]

15. The prime

of my life!

[Timewas]

17. ME...

But when I look at it closer I realize I have lived half my life since them....damn

[Ohiogal]

18. I was watching a Seinfeld the other night.

Damn! I always think of that show being, maybe 10 years ago. They didn’t even have cell phones in the early episodes!

[dchill]

19. Yes, I too suffer from that malady!

[luvs2sing]

21. It seems a lifetime ago to me.

I’m 62. In the 80s, I was in my 20s and getting into and out of an abusive marriage. My two heroes, my father and grandfather, died. In many ways, I don’t really feel like life began for me until the early 90s. And that seems like yesterday ago to me.

[Under The Radar]

22. I'll have to look but I am sure that I still have underwear from the '80s

....that I had hope of fitting back into one of these days

[marybourg]

23. Yes. I retired in the 80's.

I’m still retired. Of course, I was very active in retirement then, and I’m going more slowly now, and alone, but it still feels pretty much of a piece and like it was yesterday.

[DBoon]

24. My DU screen name says everything you need to know about me and the 1980s

went to a punk show a few years ago. Noticed all the gray hair in the audience.

[irisblue]

25. 👋👋👋👋👋

I have a large collection of CDs from the mid 80s to today and a Boombox to play them on.

So yeah, seems recent

[lettucebe]

27. Doesn't seem all that long ago to me. Graduated in 1974, so makes sense time would stand still

I'm shocked, just shocked when anyone does the math! How can it be?

[virgogal]

28. I feel the same way about the 50s.😃

[trof]

29. 1980 Our daughter was 9.

We were in Merrimack, NH.
I was flying Boeing 727s out of Boston and LaGuardia.
Trans World Airlines.
I was 39.

[appalachiablue]

31. Right here, not that long ago at all. And a very busy decade

for me. Saw lots of good concerts, Jackson Brown, Bruce Hornsby, Tina Turner, Robert Palmer, Huey Lewis, so many.

Watching Miami Vice Friday nites was a treat, spent a lot of time in So. Fla., the Keyes & Carib. 70s- early 2000s.

I detest seeing so much of this country that I've spent time in deteriorate and decline.