When you were 18 .....

[MissTaken]

How has the world changed since you were 18 years old? Politically, economically, morally, socially or whatever comes to mind.

Feel free to add silly things as well.

As for me, they hadn't invented the vcr or the CD player yet!

Being a virgin, was "cool", at least in my small town!

Reagan was president and his hearing was in tact.

We were all Madonna wannabes, poofy hair with bows and heavy make up. Phew! I am glad she didn't take on that particular style for long!

You were a minor if you were UNDER 18 and could enjoy all the pleasures of adulthood upon your 18th birthday.

You were a drug addict if you used anything other than marijuana.

We were so innocent compared to the 18 year olds of today.

 

[HARDKOREBJ]

yes

kids today are doing stuff a lot younger

 

[sexy-girl]

oh dear i am 18 what do i say to this thread ?

 

[MissTaken]

Just say hello!

And feel free to laugh at what the Dark Ages were like !

 

[~justin]

Hello!

Ahhhh haha hhahahaahhahahaa muhahahaha!



~justin

 

[sarahuk4]

Free love, hippies, pot , music festivals, and just enjoying yourself .........that is 18 !!!!........Whatever happened to Scott Mackenzie ......with his "Are you going to San Fransico".........

 

[Calamity Jane]

it's been a decade since i was 18, (suddenly i feel old ) ummm... i was in college, living on my own for the first time, and partying til i couldn't see straight. i was soooo excited that i was old enough to vote... very politically active on campus... so idealistic it hurts to look back on it... voted for clinton and thought he'd save the world. thought if clinton couldn't, maybe michael stipe could...

since then, i've married, had kids, quit smoking dope (don't know what craziness led me to that decision), held several 'real jobs'... stopped thinking anyone can save the world, so we all have to save our own piece of it... 10 years ago, we were in the gulf, now we're headed there again... i do wish i could get that idealism back sometimes. but there's not much else i miss all that much. except maybe the car i had then... beautiful blue '68 firebird... i'll never have that much car again.

 

[Mistress]

Though it was only a few years ago, I refuse to remember.....

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

When I was 18:

Gas was still 30 cents per gallon.
8 track tapes were being replaced by cassette decks.
The Vietnam war was winding down.
I was working as a VW mechanic making minimum wage.
I drove around in a TR3 and rode a Honda.
My rent was about $110 a month.
I had a Irish setter.
My girlfriend told me she was pregnant.

STG

 

[sigh]

when i was 18 (that would be some 6 years ago) my child turned three and was diagnosed with autism...i was a single mom, going to pharmacy college...working full time

i don't think about those days much anymore...in fact, i have few memories of them...i don't think i was fully awake for most of it...

 

[Willing and Unsure]

i was in high school.. an almost complete burn out.. and that wasnt even 2 years ago.. and then there was the Bill Clinton thing.. bombs on Kosovo.. economy was good.. plenty of jobs.. gas was expensive.. but not like it is right now.. it was easier to get your hands on some good pot now and again (a lot more often than you can now that's for sure)..

 

[Guest]

Nothing much has changed in 6 years (with the exception of 9-11). Summer of '00, though, we had a 5 year HS reunion. Like a lot happens to a bunch of "kids" in 5 friggin' years!! I mean, what do ya say?

"Yeah, I'm still living in the basement of my paretns' house..."

"Yeah, I'm still working at my old high school job. One more year and I'll make McManager!"

lol

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Nothing much has changed in 6 years (with the exception of 9-11). Summer of '00, though, we had a 5 year HS reunion. Like a lot happens to a bunch of "kids" in 5 friggin' years!! I mean, what do ya say?

"Yeah, I'm still living in the basement of my paretns' house..."

"Yeah, I'm still working at my old high school job. One more year and I'll make McManager!"

lol

Wait until you go back for your 20th and they are still working in their nowhere jobs. My 30th is coming up next year - I don't think I will go, too depressing.

STG

 

[Mensa]

AHHH! To be eighteen again

I remember when I was eighteen they had just invented the lightbulb, so now we could see the world as it really was...............so I switched it off

 

[Silverlily]

Re: AHHH! To be eighteen again

I remember when I was eighteen they had just invented the lightbulb, so now we could see the world as it really was...............so I switched it off

Was that back when dirt was new, Mensa?


Don't ask me about 18. For my 19th birthday, I made a point of forgetting the previous year.

 

[La Huesera]

If you can remember when you were 18 you weren't really there...lol

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

If you can remember when you were 18 you weren't really there...lol

No - that was when I was 17

 

[La Huesera]

Hell, might even be 14-24 in my case.

 

[Saturn Return]

I'm turning 30 in four days.

I turned 18 in a space of time that really has no special rememberance, nothing great to put inside the history books.

But the year, nonetheless was filled with a potpourri of wonder, excitement, sex, independence, fear and an awareness past my own nose.

 

[Thumper]

When I was eighteen...

We posted jpg's and gifs....

on cave walls.

The internet was a network of hollow logs and clubs to beat on them....

 

[Silverlily]

Fess up Thumper, you really were a Flock of Seagulls fan.

 

[lavender]

 

[scylis]

durring the time inbetween when i turned 18 and turned 19 the New York City skyline had one helluva change done to it.


course.. i just turned 19 yesterday, so...

 

[Thumper]

And I ran....

ran so far a-way...

From Flock of Seagulls Actually a flock of seagulls meant that maybe a whale had beached itself and the whole tribe would have meat for the winter.

Strangely enough in this age of the Bratney Spears and N'sipid type of music I miss the pop 80's stuff..

Kitten..."You spin me right round baby, right round like a record baby"

 

[Cheyenne]

When I was 18, the whole country celebrated with me the whole year! It was in 1976, and there were celebrations everywhere! I went to Washington D. C. that year for the first time. A lot of those memories have come back in the last 2 weeks.