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Does anyone else besides me think of the 1980's as not being long ago? (Original Post) raccoon Sep 2020 OP
It's 40 years. That's half a lifetime. Time slips away. brush Sep 2020 #1
Ain't it funny how time slips away? trof Sep 2020 #30
Yes! Glamrock Sep 2020 #2
Same with appliances KT2000 Sep 2020 #3
It really doesn't seem that long ago Freddie Sep 2020 #4
I graduated HS & University in the 80s. Funny story: CottonBear Sep 2020 #5
It was yesterday! missingthebigdog Sep 2020 #6
Datsun, aren't those the little List left Sep 2020 #16
I had a 1977 Datsun F10 station wagon missingthebigdog Sep 2020 #20
In 1980 I drove a Datsun 710 four door sedan that was 4 different colors until I spray painted Dustlawyer Sep 2020 #26
You're not alone. I talk to my kids and grandkids about things that seem like recent history Arkansas Granny Sep 2020 #7
I work in retail Sophiegirl Sep 2020 #8
when i was a kid List left Sep 2020 #9
This seems true of almost any decade past the 60s. LisaM Sep 2020 #10
I am 72 it's like last week to me. nt doc03 Sep 2020 #11
The 80's seem like a long time ago, but the 90's seem like just happened, pnwest Sep 2020 #12
"Who was James Rockford?" Try that on anyone under 50. PSPS Sep 2020 #13
Even worse, I see shows depicting the 50's and say, 'not where I lived. At my house, we didn't.' Shrike47 Sep 2020 #14
The prime snowybirdie Sep 2020 #15
ME... Timewas Sep 2020 #17
I was watching a Seinfeld the other night. Ohiogal Sep 2020 #18
Yes, I too suffer from that malady! dchill Sep 2020 #19
It seems a lifetime ago to me. luvs2sing Sep 2020 #21
I'll have to look but I am sure that I still have underwear from the '80s Under The Radar Sep 2020 #22
Yes. I retired in the 80's. marybourg Sep 2020 #23
My DU screen name says everything you need to know about me and the 1980s DBoon Sep 2020 #24
👋👋👋👋👋 irisblue Sep 2020 #25
Doesn't seem all that long ago to me. Graduated in 1974, so makes sense time would stand still lettucebe Sep 2020 #27
I feel the same way about the 50s.😃 virgogal Sep 2020 #28
1980 Our daughter was 9. trof Sep 2020 #29
Right here, not that long ago at all. And a very busy decade appalachiablue Sep 2020 #31

trof

(54,255 posts)
30. Ain't it funny how time slips away?
Sat Sep 5, 2020, 07:51 PM
Sep 2020

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Glamrock

(11,771 posts)
2. Yes!
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 02:37 PM
Sep 2020

I just turned 49 a few weeks back. I'm thinking, "how am I 50? How the fuck am I 50? I only graduated high school like 12 years ago....Shit man! That was thirty years ago!"

KT2000

(20,533 posts)
3. Same with appliances
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 02:41 PM
Sep 2020

When they die I always think they this can't be, because I got them a few years ago. Always turns out they are more than 20 years old. Then - when I get the new one I am informed the standard life of the appliance is 8 years!!!

Freddie

(9,225 posts)
4. It really doesn't seem that long ago
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 02:41 PM
Sep 2020

I’m 63. Maybe because my kids are doing the same things I did (getting married, having kids, buying a house) I did in the 80s. My son and his wife are looking to buy their first house and they’re so excited, reminds me so much of doing that myself in 1983. Neither he or his big sister existed yet.

CottonBear

(21,596 posts)
5. I graduated HS & University in the 80s. Funny story:
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 02:42 PM
Sep 2020

A few years ago, my then 9 year old kid & I were discussing something history related. They had a question and asked me “Did that happen back in the olden days? You know, the 1980s.”

missingthebigdog

(1,233 posts)
6. It was yesterday!
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 02:42 PM
Sep 2020

I distinctly remember wearing my red leather high top Reebok’s with a mini skirt to deliver pizzas in my Datsun station wagon.

I can’t seem to find them this morning. My closet is full of black and grey pantsuits and sensible shoes, and my husband tells me there is no such thing as a Datsun.

Damn.

missingthebigdog

(1,233 posts)
20. I had a 1977 Datsun F10 station wagon
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 03:31 PM
Sep 2020

It was the first car I go to choose for myself. It was blue, and had a stripe, a five speed, FRONT WHEEL DRIVE!! (radical concept back then), and was apparently possessed by gremlins. Sometimes it started, sometimes it didn’t. Sometimes the radio worked, and sometimes the headlights- never both. The driver side door only opened from the outside, and the passenger from the inside.

I LOVED that car. Broke my heart when I had to let it go.

It never failed to get me where I was going, and it carried everything my young gypsy soul needed.

I spent many years trying to recapture that car, and finally found one with a similar vibe a few years ago- A 2000 Suzuki Esteem Station Wagon, in a blue that my daughter insists upon calling cerulean. It is my daily driver now, and I’m pretty sure most people just think I’m cheap (& I am, tbh), but its more about the feel of it- the plastic, the truly unfortunate upholstered door panels, way too much glass for such a little car. It gets me where I need to go, and hauls all of the things my aging gypsy soul asks it to.

Now if I could just find those red Reebok’s....

Dustlawyer

(10,489 posts)
26. In 1980 I drove a Datsun 710 four door sedan that was 4 different colors until I spray painted
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 04:17 PM
Sep 2020

it blue. The AM/FM 8 track tape player was in the glove box as I bypassed the AM radio in the dash. If you opened the trunk you saw the ground as that had rusted through. i once drove it for 2 months without a battery. Had to get it rolling and pop the clutch to start it. Broke down and bought a battery after me and my Homecoming date got boxed in on the street and we could not leave for an hour until one car came and moved. I paid $450 for it and sold it 4 years later for $750 during a gas crunch.

Arkansas Granny

(31,476 posts)
7. You're not alone. I talk to my kids and grandkids about things that seem like recent history
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 02:44 PM
Sep 2020

to me and I realize that they've studied these events in high school.

Sophiegirl

(2,338 posts)
8. I work in retail
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 02:46 PM
Sep 2020

We have a music track that is all 80s and we all love it.

I graduated in 1980 and it is much better than the remixes of Adele and some really oldies that make me long for the originals.

List left

(594 posts)
9. when i was a kid
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 02:47 PM
Sep 2020

I thought WWII was something that had happened a long time ago, but it ended barely 7 years before I was born.
The 80's seem like yesterday and several lifetimes ago.

LisaM

(27,748 posts)
10. This seems true of almost any decade past the 60s.
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 02:47 PM
Sep 2020

Maybe it's because we still watch TV shows, listen to music, and have favorite movies from all those eras? I mean, you can watch "Friends" at any time of night or day (in order), and so it's like 1994-2004 is still going on all the time and we're still the same age we were then.

You can get music specific to one decade on Sirius and listen to nothing else. I have friends who watch "Roadhouse" every chance they get. It's like we don't have to let go of those decades, and so I agree, we don't put a lot of space between then and now.

pnwest

(3,263 posts)
12. The 80's seem like a long time ago, but the 90's seem like just happened,
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 02:48 PM
Sep 2020

like, i can't believe Y2K was 20 years ago! The 90's was just a couple of years ago!

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
14. Even worse, I see shows depicting the 50's and say, 'not where I lived. At my house, we didn't.'
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 02:51 PM
Sep 2020

Of course, I grew up in an LA suburb. Maybe we were different.

By the 80’s, I had teenage children. It was just a few minutes ago. I think I’ve still got blazers with shoulders like a linebacker.

Ohiogal

(31,526 posts)
18. I was watching a Seinfeld the other night.
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 03:07 PM
Sep 2020

Damn! I always think of that show being, maybe 10 years ago. They didn’t even have cell phones in the early episodes!

luvs2sing

(2,220 posts)
21. It seems a lifetime ago to me.
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 03:42 PM
Sep 2020

I’m 62. In the 80s, I was in my 20s and getting into and out of an abusive marriage. My two heroes, my father and grandfather, died. In many ways, I don’t really feel like life began for me until the early 90s. And that seems like yesterday ago to me.

Under The Radar

(3,392 posts)
22. I'll have to look but I am sure that I still have underwear from the '80s
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 03:48 PM
Sep 2020

....that I had hope of fitting back into one of these days

marybourg

(12,531 posts)
23. Yes. I retired in the 80's.
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 03:52 PM
Sep 2020

I’m still retired. Of course, I was very active in retirement then, and I’m going more slowly now, and alone, but it still feels pretty much of a piece and like it was yesterday.

DBoon

(22,256 posts)
24. My DU screen name says everything you need to know about me and the 1980s
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 03:54 PM
Sep 2020

went to a punk show a few years ago. Noticed all the gray hair in the audience.

irisblue

(32,793 posts)
25. 👋👋👋👋👋
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 04:04 PM
Sep 2020

I have a large collection of CDs from the mid 80s to today and a Boombox to play them on.

So yeah, seems recent


lettucebe

(2,335 posts)
27. Doesn't seem all that long ago to me. Graduated in 1974, so makes sense time would stand still
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 04:31 PM
Sep 2020

I'm shocked, just shocked when anyone does the math! How can it be?

trof

(54,255 posts)
29. 1980 Our daughter was 9.
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 08:00 PM
Sep 2020

We were in Merrimack, NH.
I was flying Boeing 727s out of Boston and LaGuardia.
Trans World Airlines.
I was 39.

appalachiablue

(40,993 posts)
31. Right here, not that long ago at all. And a very busy decade
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 03:07 AM
Sep 2020

for me. Saw lots of good concerts, Jackson Brown, Bruce Hornsby, Tina Turner, Robert Palmer, Huey Lewis, so many.

Watching Miami Vice Friday nites was a treat, spent a lot of time in So. Fla., the Keyes & Carib. 70s- early 2000s.

I detest seeing so much of this country that I've spent time in deteriorate and decline.

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