Childhood in the 80s

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

Sex education was a muttered warning about the school janitor

I am in the back of the station wagon, unfettered

Living on the Edge is a completely different song.

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

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.

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

Man I'm glad my mom never smoked

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

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.

Lol reminds me of everyone's back seats with all the little (and sometimes not so little) holes melted through from the cigarette embers flying back.

I grew up in the back of a messy station wagon, but at least I wasn’t the kid who grew up in a smelly station wagon.

I can still smell my friend’s car. Was it because of cigarette smoke or did an opossum DIE in there??

lightening

Try the front seat of a single cab. Cruising highway speeds at 5am with only a slightly cracked window.

Those Newports hit

Has anyone, even a child, ever fit in the back seats of a Porsche 928?

Ok boomer