Childhood in the 80s

Don't worry, in a few years it will be Kenny G and Virginia Slims.

And eventually XXXTentacion and a Juul

Sex education was a muttered warning about the school janitor

I am in the back of the station wagon, unfettered

Wouldn’t you be listening to Living on the edge by Aerosmith?

This is what I opened the comments for.

Also a reminder that Steven Tyler is a predator in the bad ways.
- Hes not even subtle about it. I cant listen to aerosmith anymore, half the damn song lyrics are about how much they like underage sex
As long as you're not Living on a prayer. I've listen too much of that song.
- You're halfway there

Man I do miss the red velur/velvet whatever people used to put in cars. I thought it was a nice ascetic.

I rode in an older luxury one (I’m not sure how luxury a Chrysler New Yorker was seen at the time, but it had clearly been a premium model) years later as an adult and it was plush and comfy. Kind of annoying to get in and out of because it really grabbed at your clothes, but I can understand why it was once seen as a luxury feature, especially compared to the vinyl in my dad’s pickup truck!

I can smell this meme, and I don't like it 🤢

No special car seats, either, except for babies/toddlers. I know I used a booster seat when very small, and grew out of it when I was “tall enough to see out the window.” Then a few years later (some point in the mid-90s), the law extended the age that required car seats.

Thankfully I was above the age cut off - I’m pretty sure that after being told I’m “a big girl” and that I “grew out” of my booster seat, I would’ve put up a fight over needing to use one again.

Now your mom has to turn her oxygen off before she can light up.

God it seemed like that fucking song was on a neverending loop for about six months. MTV must have played it once an hour.

When you get home, she turns on the TV and it's 3/4 of the way through a rerun of the Beetlejuice animated show premier. You hear your mom cough and light another.