Had a reeeal slow day at work yesterday. It was almost like watching paint dry, but without the excitement(cha ching). I am lucky I don't have a job where people's safety depends on me like an air traffic controller, but i couldn't help thinking of some times I watched 80's movies for the first time, I was thinking too of those guys in high school who seemed to drive around the school all day with the stereo cranked, and never seemed to go to class. I know some Rewinders who check here during work hours, just wanted to know if there were more?
Posted by rocksteadyflamethrower (Member # 1065) on :
I'm out on the Wal-Mart parking lot as a cart-pusher for 8 hours every day. I find myself thinking about all sorts of 80s things...I often do impressions of 80s characters, I quote scenes from 80s movies and I hum or sing various 80s songs. Since I'm on my own for most of the day, nobody can hear my bad singing voice.
Sincerely,
John Kilduff
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I feel for those working class/lone wold types, I am one of them myself. I have the radio at work, and usually the noon hour show has a bunch of 80's tunes on it. And when I get real creative, sometomes I will break out the cardboard and try to attempt some old breakdancing moves fro yesteryear. Bust a move y'all!
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Nobody is home today at my house but me, so I was making candy for my husband's 40th birthday party next weekend, and I play 80's CDs whenever I am doing housework, or baking, and I just love spacing out and remembering stuff from each song that reminds me of something from when I was younger. Today I was listening to the song "Our House"...and I was thinking about my family...my brother, growing up on our street we lived on. Today is the anniversary date of when my grandmother died, and I was talking about her last night with my mom, because it was 19 years ago, and I was 18, and it is hard to believe that it has been more years now that she has been gone, than the years I had spent with her. She died on my Uncle's birthday, so that was quite a bummer, to have your own mom die on your birthday. So, today is kind of a drag, cause I remember I had only been out of highschool one year, and I was in travel school, and I had to leave because she was in intensive care, and my old boyfriend came and picked me up, and brought me back home. I remember going up to the high school in the middle of the day, to get my brother,because they said she was going to die-and my parents wanted him to be able to say good bye...and I walked in the school, and it felt so weird to be back in there after having spent so much time there. And I couldn't find my brother, cause he was in the cafeteria, and the bell rang and they were changing classes, and my senior class English teacher (who I was good friends with) saw me in the hall, and so did a friend of mine's mom who worked at the school as a study hall monitor, they helped me find him, cause when they saw me.. they wondered what was wrong. But, I think about how great it was to see familiar faces, and people I had know for years, and how nice they were to me, and how they knew my whole family, and just the compassion people had for each other was so strong back then.
My neighbor that I had been taking care of over last summer...she died in Novemeber around Thanksgiving, and this girl that had known her...her whole life..she was the one to tell me she died, I didn't know where they had even taken her to, and it was a week after she had died, and she was so mean to me over it, and I thought...what the heck is wrong with you. But, I see that more and more today that people are detached from each other, and death doesn't seem to bother people like it should, like it does to me.
Posted by The Mouse Avenger (Member # 4406) on :
quote:Originally posted by rocksteadyflamethrower: I'm out on the Wal-Mart parking lot as a cart-pusher for 8 hours every day. I find myself thinking about all sorts of 80s things...I often do impressions of 80s characters, I quote scenes from 80s movies and I hum or sing various 80s songs. Since I'm on my own for most of the day, nobody can hear my bad singing voice.
Sincerely,
John Kilduff
Wow, I do all those things, too! Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Jabeen-I still feel that way about my Aunt, and she has been gone almost 7 years, I can't believe it...it is hard to watch video tapes, especially of my son's birthdays when he was younger, cause she's on them. I never thought about it when I was video taping everything, how hard it is to watch it now.. when you see a person you miss.
Does anyone else think it makes it harder to watch a video of a person you loved, or does it comfort you to see them again and hear their voice? Does it help you remember them?
Posted by The Mouse Avenger (Member # 4406) on :
Well, I always cry when I see movies of my Aunt Rose & Uncle Jay. They died a while back.
Posted by Marty McFly (Member # 4403) on :
I quote/reference/discuss that kind of thing all day (I'm at Blockbuster) or at least, say have movie dialogue or songs playing in my head. Heck, when I'm bored, I'll sing and try dancing to '80s songs (I don't like anyone catching me do that, LOL).
On a serious note though: Concerning, say videos or pictures of loved ones who've passed away, I think it's good to revisit them every so often. I'm definitely glad we still have home movies of my grandma on my dad's side (who died in '89 - all my grandparents have been dead for over ten years now--they were older when I was born). Until the day I die, I'll never forget them or the experiences we all had, and I wouldn't want to.
I've found though, that if you spend much time watching or looking at stuff, it can make it even sadder in a way. There's a "realness" to anything you personally experienced (IMO that's why it's a very strange feeling when anyone you know dies), so you almost expect them to still be around and with you, then you have to remind yourself they're not.
Posted by Stitch (Member # 2895) on :
I'm really bad for getting songs stuck in my head, so I try to make sure my Ipod is playing something I really like on the way to work. But it doesn't take much to knock it out and put another one in there. Doesn't matter if it's 80's or whatever. The other day I had The Partyboys version of "He's gonna step on you again" swirling around my head. At least it was better than last Saturday - I had the Hamsterdance stuck in there. Aargh!
The fact that I'm the oldest at work (apart from my boss) means that I'm always bringing up 80's references that no-one has ever heard of.
Posted by AnGeL EyeZ (Member # 4595) on :
well i know i think about the 80's a lot...i visit this site from my job hehe (office)
Posted by Nice Guy Sammy_Hain (Member # 3150) on :
I'm way to busy at work to have time to think about the 80's or any other decade while I'm at work. My job is very time consuming. I do however get a song stuck in my head from time to time but thats about the extent of my thinking about anything real fun while at work.
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