Age yourself.

[TravelingGal]

Finish the below sentence...

"When I was 13..."

When I was 13, we didn''t have cordless phones and I went and bought a long phone jack line so I could drag the phone through the house into my room to talk to people. We had to make emergency breakthroughs if we wanted to talk to someone if the line was busy because we did not have call waiting.

 

[musey]

Hmmm... I guess I''ll follow your phone example!

When I was 13, my family had one cellphone that we all shared (for emergencies only), I seem to remember it being a motorola startac?

 

[iluvcarats]

When I was 13 there were no atm machines. If you needed cash, you had to go to your bank.

 

[bee*]

When I was 13, none of my family had a mobile phone and I used to get 20p for pocket money a week.

 

[zoebartlett]

When I was 13, my family didn''t have a microwave. I think my parents were the last people on Earth to get one.

 

[mimzy]

when i was thirteen, they finally freed willy. no joke!

 

[got2goldens]

when I was 13, I finally got my braces off

 

[Octavia]

When I was 13, my family got our first computer. Pentium (one) processor and 1.2GB hard drive, baby. I was kinda jealous of my friend because a couple months later, her family got the 1.4GB model and it was SO MUCH cooler than ours.

 

[asscherisme]

When I was 13, I would listen to music either on my step fathers 8 track tape player or on my record player. Somewhere around that age, I got a record player that would record onto a casette tape. Kids at school were trading mix tapes. That dates me, I know others on here knew the power of a good mix tape in Jr. High!

When I was 13, cell phones were not around and the internet did not exist. Nobody had computers in their homes. My mother worked as a secretary and had and IBM selectric in our home so she could get overtime work from her boss.

When I was 13, NEON was big. Neon shirts, neon socks, neon anything.

When I was 13 and I wanted to talk on the phone, I had to stay in the kitchen or my mom's bedroom and was attached to the phone by the spiral twisty cord.

When I was 13, my dad still had a rotary phone. And as if that was not enough he did not own it, he rented it from the phone company!!!! My mom was more progressive and had one push button and one rotary. And the phones were hardwired into the wall!

 

[TravelingGal]

Hehehe, fun!

Feel free to do multiples...

When I was 13 (or turned 13), here are the top billboard songs....


1. "We Built This City," Starship
2. "You Belong To The City," Glenn Frey
3. "Miami Vice Theme," Jan Hammer
4. "Separate Lives," Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin
5. "Head Over Heels," Tears For Fears
6. "Part Time Lover," Stevie Wonder
7. "Broken Wings," Mr. MIster
8. "Never," Heart
9. "Lay Your Hands On Me," Thompson Twins
10. "Be Near Me," ABC

 

[asscherisme]

Date: 5/5/2009 6:09:54 PM
Author: TravelingGal
Hehehe, fun!

Feel free to do multiples...

When I was 13 (or turned 13), here are the top billboard songs....


1. ''We Built This City,'' Starship
2. ''You Belong To The City,'' Glenn Frey
3. ''Miami Vice Theme,'' Jan Hammer
4. ''Separate Lives,'' Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin
5. ''Head Over Heels,'' Tears For Fears
6. ''Part Time Lover,'' Stevie Wonder
7. ''Broken Wings,'' Mr. MIster
8. ''Never,'' Heart
9. ''Lay Your Hands On Me,'' Thompson Twins
10. ''Be Near Me,'' ABC

Your song list brought my right back to the 80s and the friends I hung out with then I loved the song we built this city. And that sone by Ah ha but can''t remember the title now.

 

[TravelingGal]

Date: 5/5/2009 6:13:43 PM
Author: asscherisme

Your song list brought my right back to the 80s and the friends I hung out with then I loved the song we built this city. And that sone by Ah ha but can''t remember the title now.

Take on me?

 

[bee*]

Ace of Base "The Sign" was a number one in the year that I turned 13. Now that song brings me back.

 

[CNOS128]

When I was 13 EuroDisney opened.

And Dan Quayle was vice president. (Of the US, not EuroDisney).

 

[TravelingGal]

Date: 5/5/2009 6:17:56 PM
Author: TheBigT
When I was 13 EuroDisney opened.

And Dan Quayle was vice president. (Of the US, not EuroDisney).

Would have been fitting if he were...he has the communication skills of Goofy.

 

[Steel]

When I was 13....

ATM''s did not exist. You had a passbook for the bank. I remember when the bank I had started to refuse to do in store cash withdrawals - to get customers to use the newfangled ATM outside!
No cell phones
No internet
Airfares were something you saved for - no cheap flights
It was not appropriate to have your ta-ta''s or thong on show...ever
Jeans covered your a$$ and navel - at the same time!
Hair straightners did not exist; no GHD
Brown Thomas was Cash''s (I still call it Cash''s

)
You could get in and out of a lingerie store in under 15mins including queuing time - no tee shirt bras, push up this, strap down that, chicken fillets in those days
We had our beloved £IR punt

How I miss it...

I rewound my audio tapes with a pen/pencil and recorded new songs from the radio to save money
The VCR was brought home and I recorded cool movies off the TV - commercials and all

 

[CNOS128]

te:[/b] 5/5/2009 6:19:28 PM
Author: TravelingGal
And Dan Quayle was vice president. (Of the US, not EuroDisney).

Would have been fitting if he were...he has the communication skills of Goofy.[/quote]

Remember when he made a big stink over Murphy Brown's out of wedlock pregnancy? And spelled "potatoe" wrong?
Good. Times.



Oops... my quotiness got all messed up. I dunno how to fix it.

 

[upgrade]

When I was 13 we had a home computer, but no internet- what the heck do you use a computer for if not the internet?!?

 

[Steel]

Date: 5/5/2009 6:09:19 PM
Author: asscherisme
When I was 13, my dad still had a rotary phone. And as if that was not enough he did not own it, he rented it from the phone company!!!! My mom was more progressive and had one push button and one rotary. And the phones were hardwired into the wall!

How could I forget?
Us too. Nobody really owned their own telehones they were all rented from telecom Eireann as it was then....

Ha ha

 

[asscherisme]

Date: 5/5/2009 6:15:18 PM
Author: TravelingGal

Date: 5/5/2009 6:13:43 PM
Author: asscherisme

Your song list brought my right back to the 80s and the friends I hung out with then I loved the song we built this city. And that sone by Ah ha but can''t remember the title now.

Take on me?

Yes, take on me! And it had he corniest video that I thought was so cool at the time.

 

[RubyCharm]

When I was 13 and studying our Solar System in middle school, Pluto was still considered a planet.

 

[bee*]

Date: 5/5/2009 6:25:01 PM
Author: Steel

Date: 5/5/2009 6:09:19 PM

Author: asscherisme

When I was 13, my dad still had a rotary phone. And as if that was not enough he did not own it, he rented it from the phone company!!!! My mom was more progressive and had one push button and one rotary. And the phones were hardwired into the wall!

How could I forget?

Us too. Nobody really owned their own telehones they were all rented from telecom Eireann as it was then....


Ha ha

wow I remember that too. Wish we still had the punt as well. Damn Euro!

 

[asscherisme]

Date: 5/5/2009 6:25:01 PM
Author: Steel

Date: 5/5/2009 6:09:19 PM
Author: asscherisme
When I was 13, my dad still had a rotary phone. And as if that was not enough he did not own it, he rented it from the phone company!!!! My mom was more progressive and had one push button and one rotary. And the phones were hardwired into the wall!

How could I forget?
Us too. Nobody really owned their own telehones they were all rented from telecom Eireann as it was then....

Ha ha

I hated rotary phones. And if you were not sure, you had to start all over again. Come to think of it, people made a lot more wrong number accidental calls.


OH, and no caller ID. Slumber parties and making crank calls were a big thing. Now I can''t imagine not having caller ID

 

[jet2ks]

When I was 13 . . . .

. . . we got cable TV for the first time--a whopping 11 channels! I didn''t know what to do with all the choices!
. . . we were using our first computer--a Commodore 64
. . . cell phones didn''t exist. My dad had a radio phone for emergency medical call.
. . . I finally got my own bedroom!!!!

 

[musey]

Date: 5/5/2009 6:09:54 PM
Author: TravelingGal

When I was 13 (or turned 13), here are the top billboard songs....

Ooh fun!!



Here are the top 15 from the year I turned 13 (had to do those last 5 - man that takes me back!!):

1. Candle In The Wind - Elton John
2. Foolish Games / You Were Meant For Me - Jewel
3. I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy & Faith Evans
4. Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton
5. Can't Nobody Hold Me Down - Puff Daddy
6. I Believe I Can Fly - R. Kelly
7. Don't Let Go (Love) - En Vogue
8. Return Of The Mack - Mark Morrison
9. How Do I Live - LeAnn Rimes
10. Wannabe - Spice Girls
11. Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) - Backstreet Boys
12. MMMBop - Hanson
13. For You I Will - Monica
14. You Make Me Wanna... - Usher
15. Bitch - Meredith Brooks



Top 10 grossing movies that year:

1. Titanic
2. Men in Black
3. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
4. Liar Liar
5. Air Force One
6. As Good as It Gets
7. Good Will Hunting
8. My Best Friend's Wedding
9. Tomorrow Never Dies
10. Face/Off

 

[Steel]

Date: 5/5/2009 6:28:54 PM
Author: RubyCharm
When I was 13 and studying our Solar System in middle school, Pluto was still considered a planet.

...and it always will be in my book.

What would the ''p'' stand for in: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas ?

 

[Efe]

When I was 13, they introduced the first hand-held calculator. Dear God, I''m old.

 

[Steel]

Date: 5/5/2009 6:48:06 PM
Author: BizouMom
When I was 13, they introduced the first hand-held calculator. Dear God, I''m old.

Well..it could get worse.

Did it have sliding beads...or buttons?

 

[iluvcarats]

Date: 5/5/2009 6:48:06 PM
Author: BizouMom
When I was 13, they introduced the first hand-held calculator. Dear God, I'm old.

I was a little younger, but I remember this. And they were EXPENSIVE!
Now you get one free if you order Time Magazine LOL


ETA This is around the same time as the digital watch

 

[LostSapphire]

OMG

here goes...

When I was 13, the one phone in the house was the black rotary dial WALL MOUNTED phone in the kitchen. Very short cord so we had to stay in the room to talk to anyone.....

When I was 13, when I went to the corner store for Maxi Pads, the store lady brought them down from the tallest shelf. They were wrapped in plain brown paper.

LS