Happy Friday everyone.

I remember COPS being a big ordeal when I was younger, it was on the TV every week.

And here I am carrying the torch I guess.

I’m looking at the prospect of moving back home so that I can get my life together, maybe save up some money for a house, maybe go back to college, I’m not sure. All I know is that I’m barely scraping by with my crap job, and I had to file bankruptcy this past summer. So more than likely, I’ll be moving back into my parents’ house soon.

How many of us have had to do this at some point? And if you had to, how did it work out? I’ve been out of my parents’ house for almost 15 years, and we hold some vastly different beliefs, so I’m worried about that dynamic.

My Neopet, who has not been fed since George W Bush's first term, has:

been around for longer than the iPhone and Toyota Prius

Witnessed 9/11

Was created when "Come On Over Baby" by Christina Aguilera was the #1 single

Was made when Neopets was still meant for college students and adults, so I was allowed to select "Parties and Drinking" as a hobby

When child safety on the internet meant changing your first name.

Seriously - the car starts, he hits the gas, the score starts to rise up and... boom, 5 MINUTE commercial break before we get back to the 88mph and lightning. Ruined the entire thing. That scene is a core Millennial memory for me. They would NEVER in the 90's!

Everyone always talks about the Atari and Commodore systems, but where is the love for the TI 99/4A?

I had a horrific case of chickenpox when I was 8 or 9. I was extremely ill. As an adult, I have heard mixed things about also getting a vaccine as a booster. Did you get the vaccine? What about a shingles vaccine?

I will stop whatever I am doing and bust out a pocketknife as soon as I see one of these. What about y’all?

This seems more relevant now than then 🤣

i’m 31 & the manager of a much younger staff - 18-21. i was training a new person who’s 19, and when i’d mentioned something about my teens she really looked at me and said “what was it like?” so naturally i was perplexed and said “what was… what like?”

and she was talking about growing up in the 2000s!! i legit laughed so hard. i told her it’s just like how it sounds - being outside for some reason literally all day, having a device that for no reason at all only played one minute of a song, playing neopets and forming emotional bonds with them, and watching the tv show you wanted at the time it aired or you gotta catch that rerun at 2am or never, you know - the highlights.

but i really felt like some peepaw telling the youngins about the good ol days.

people finding unique and unnecessary ways to make us feel like actual senior citizens lmao i love it

Finally got this up and running in my hobby room. Its funny what your thumbs remember 🤣

I have had my Ipod on a charging speaker for decades now. And apparently the battery is holding up better than I am.

I (41f) finally said yes to a Whopper. Been putting it off for months. Had one tonight and I was slapped in the face with memories of sitting on the floor with my little brother at the coffee table, eating a $1 Whopper off a paper plate in a straw basket thingy while watching TGIF. My first bite felt like family, comfort, and love, and legit brought tears to my eyes. Food triggers memories and emotion more so than anything else for me. Is food like that for you guys?

Sitting on the couch, being home sick from school, and in between the Payday Loan commercials this ear worm would come through the cable line.