Finish this sentence: When I Was A Kid...

[Candy]

we could play outside all day and never get bored because there was just too many different games that you could find to play! Gosh how I miss those days!

[Lyndon]

Saturday morning cartoons were awesome!! Not like the stuff they try to pass off as entertainment today...

[Leslie]

It was safe to ride your bike all over the neighborhood for hours. You didn't worry so much that someone was going to steal you.

[steve]

i couldn't download a song whenever i wanted. i had to call the radio station like 59 times to get through, request a song, and wait another hour and a half for the song to come on and have a blank tape ready to record it.

[kperfetto]

I used to tape songs off the radio. I call it "old school downloading."

When I was a kid our VCR cost $800 and weighed a ton.

... Bret Michaels and Flavor Flav were rock stars, not reality tv stars.
... We wore "jellies" on our feet and "jams" on our rears.
... Our phone was plugged into the wall

[Karla]

I miss:
collecting plastic charms for my charm necklace
Saturday morning cartoons
Showbiz Pizza (Chuck E Cheese is aight, but he ain't got nuthin on Billy Bob)

[Glamour Girl]

Karla - where did you grow up? I have tried to explain the plastic charm necklaces to so many people who think I am nuts! We also had a Showbiz Pizza!

[ErinSlick]

I made friendship pins out of beads and safety pins and bracelets out of cross-stitching thread and gave them to all my friends. Oh and we made cinnamon toothpicks. Not sure why, but we loved them.

[thecoconutdiaries]

There was no reality TV to make me feel better about myself.

[celticbuffy]

the only video games around were in the arcade or on the Atari.

[WriterJax]

...my parents told me m&ms were happy pills. I wonder how this has shaped my attitude toward modern pharmaceuticals?

[Sandra Fernandez]

...staying in the sun was a good thing.

[MoodyMeow]

I loved the Smurfs and didn't wonder why there was only one girl.