Ah, the 80's...

Prescription drugs were only very rarely prescribed for mood disorders (Prozac was JUST coming on the scene), school shootings weren't yet on anyone's radar, email, Facebook, and Twitter were yet to be invented, you could smoke cigarettes in shopping malls and cocaine was still cool...

Marijuana was called grass, you could purchase trucker speed from the ads on the back pages of 'girly' magazines (as they were called), and the Church was more concerned with kids playing Dungeons & Dragons than with Priests playing with kids.

No dubstep, hardly any AIDS, and Princess Diana was a real life fairytale...

Cell phones were the size of bricks; brightly colored neon clothes lit by shiny disco balls.

So glad to have been there and enjoyed a small slice of that culture 😊