50 Posts About The 80s And 90s That Today’s Kids Probably Won’t Get, As Shared On This Facebook Group

Perfect

This is the BEST cartoon film Disney made. Yes, I will die on that hill.

Ahhhh, these actually had 2 uses in my country lol, 1st to keep the film, 2nd to keep my great grandmother's powder tobaco ( snuff, i think its how its called on English)

I want them all

There was never enough room to write most of the titles on one line, mine always ended up with tiny text I could barely read 😁

God I hate this

I used to listen to the list of school closings on the radio from my bed. I think the parents in our school also had a "phone tree" but someone always dropped the ball on making calls so listening for the announcement was safer

Or go to school, sit down in a freezing classroom and told you can go home.

when I was little, I remember that you had to go to school to see if there was a sign outside saying it was closed

It was so much fun! The anticipation! Excitement! And then either crushing defeat or mind-numbing exhilaration.

And, then find out your school was closed and dive back into bed. Such joy.

My family and I did that when I was a kid and, as I got older, I would be checking my local News stations and websites through my phone!! Having a day off was always nice!

Or the radio.

"KWY News Radio...1060...." my father listened to the news as soon as he got up so I'd lie in bed down the hall hoping to hear "All public and parochial schools will be closed."

This person was living in the future, we had to get up and listen to a certain radio station

Haha, if only...in fact, my mom had to call the school principal hoping that the person made it to work on that day, otherwise it was 50/50 chance the school is closed.

Our headmaster called us. Every single one of us and the first he called might’ve even still be in bed.

ha or listen to the automated voice on the weather radio. u better be quiet and listen so u don't miss it

That's cool, school via Teams!

Memories

we had to listen to one certain radio station

Now I feel old.... we had a telephone tree

Go to the bus stop anyways...no matter what or how much snow there is.

Never failed whenever I turned in the TV for the announcement they were at the other end of the alphabet. So waited, glancing over at the TV to see where they were in the alphabet. If it was a long wait then I knew we were cancelled, if it was short then it was a coin toss of our City was cancelled. Most often it was due to all the hills. One year a bus filled with kids slid off a street and that panicked everyone.

Pathetic. We didn't have this on tv. We either got a call or we walked anyway.

As one of the countless technicians who helped make remote-study possible: So sorry... :D

i mean, im 2000's and i had to watch that, straight till highschool. arguments invalid

Snow days march on where I live.

My school started with a W and they always went in alphabetical order. Life was so unfair then.

AND Hope, hope, hope my school was closed!!!

I remember walking through 2 or 3 inches that had turned to slush. Now days it's there's a inch of snow so school is cancelled!! So I remember watching the TV school closure and finding out school was not cancelled!!

We had to listen to the radio. My school never closed though, even if there was a blizzard.

Or in my small a*s town the firehouse had certain alarms to let us know

Growing up, we had no bus service until high school. All the other years were moms doing car pool on their day of the week. Depending which mom was supposed to drive that day determined if it was a snow day. Tommy's mom won't drive in the snow so that made it a snow day for us. My favorite thing was waking up and hearing the absolute silence when it had snowed overnight.

There was no real snow days in Canada LOL. Unless it was dangerously cold, -45C or lower and you have to walk longer than 5 minutes to get to school, then it would be up to the discretion of your parents. Recess would still be outside in -30C. Some parents with cars would be encouraged to carpool other kids. I remember one brutally cold day with a strong wind chill factor a kid showed up to the school with 3rd degree frost bite on his face. When we get big snowfalls the snow clearers are out there all night. You'd be up at night listening to the plows and seeing the lights flashing through your curtains. At that point you knew you were getting up in the early morning. Even during ice storms, schools are still open.

TV??!!! We had to listen to the radio! ( I lived in a town too small to have its own TV station. )

I did both ;-;

I'd hear it on the radio.

I know this is besides the point, but most schools don't go virtual... Only during Covid they did. They stopped that😂

We listened to the radio for snow days

My parents would've had a mental breakdown if they had me during covid. I miss the 90s. Stayed home from school? Forge my parents signature on a "please excuse my kid" note and voila! Day off.

Whereas my generation had to hear it on their local AM radio station.

RIP Snow days 😞

It was like this in the early 2000 (I’m an 04 baby). I’d have to wait until I heard the name of my school district called on the radio

And dad's having no idea what "THEY" bought us 😂

I'd expect that was about as far as we rode in the 60's and 70's. We were glad to have you out of our hair while we still had some.

Typing should be taught in schools now because everyone types, but most not very well.

I used to think houses like this was the norm for USAvian families. Ha ha, we used to be jealous of people living in the USA!

Wilson!

Never found mine🙋🏻‍♀️

Either that or she's running for office.

How did this slip through BP censorship lol!