You Can't Go Back TO the 80's.

[robby]

I stopped by a "Happy Hour" that was promoted on Craig's List. It was a chance to meet new people and have a few drinks. It started at 5 and I strolled in at about 5:40. There seemed to be two tables of about 20 people in the bar. It would be difficult to find 20 uglier people together in the same room anywhere.

I had low expectations, and the gathering was promoted as "Do you remember the eighties?", which I remember as a fun decade, when people did have drinks after work. I'm really not superficial, but the women were all 30-50 lbs overweight, dressed badly, and absolutely torn up, and the men were worse, paunchy, and unshaven, with stringy white hair. I stayed at the bar for a minute, and pretended I hadn't come for the Happy Hour. Then I beat a quick retreat. I'm sorry, but I hope some of you understand the horror I felt.

Comments

Re: The eighties ?

[robby.livejournal.com]

Heroin is more chic now in the US, probably because it's pure, and the debutantes and dilettantes can smoke or snort it. On the other hand, cocaine was "nose candy", and crack was unheard of

The Eurythmics did really suck, and we laughed at boomboxes (we called 'em ghetto blasters). I think that the young kids coming up now are often as dumb as fuck. Look at some random LJ's if you don't believe me.

My eighties, were different than yours, and I probably have a fundamentally different life outlook than you do. I liked the 90's, and even though my knees hurt when I get up at 4:30 in the morning, I like the 00's.