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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What were your summers like in the 80s if you were a kid/teen?  Fun? Boring? Both? I was a kid on the 80s and keep hearing about how boring they were. My summers in the 90s as a teen weren't even boring. So what was it like for you? Was I just lucky?[/quote]

The kids across the street and my siblings and maybe some other kids from the neighborhood always had a backyard campout every Memorial Day weekend. We'd run across the street back and forth to the tents, playing various games -- tag, Smear the Queer, a version of "War" etc. And then on Monday morning we'd all get up at the crack of dawn to go down to the American Legion and watch the cannons shoot a volley in honor of the fallen.

Rest of the summer was a lot of time at the pool, running around playing "Hot Box" in the streets with the older kids (two kids throwing a ball back and forth between two bases while smaller kids ran back and forth.) There were games of Red Rover. Lots more Smear the Queer. The moms would put out watermelon and ice pops. We drank from the hose. And we basically were expected home when the streetlights came on.

There was a fair amount of watching reruns of Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley and Star Trek in the afternoons of peak heat.

Fourth of July parade and carnival every year.

Then August was typically a trip to the grandparents' for three weeks while our parents when off to the Carribean and bonked like rabbits for three weeks. The grandparents' had a forest and their own pool, so we basically enjoyed "Camp Grandma."

It was splendid.[/quote]

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