Challenge
September 2024 Drabble Challenge: A Day in the Eighties
Using exactly 100 words, tell me a story inspired by the phrase, "A Day in the Eighties." You don't need to use the exact words, just launch into a flash fiction piece that goes wherever your imagination leads. I ask that you use standard spelling, punctuation, grammar, and prose construction to spin this yarn. Are we talking about a decade? Temperatures? Old age? You decide. Please don't tag me, I'll read all the entries and pick a winner sometime in early October. Winner gets two whole dollars!
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Raised by the 80s
No one believes me when I tell them I am intimately familiar with VHS and Cassettes. They look at me with disbelieving eyes when I tell them I was allowed to walk 2 miles to the lake when I was a child so long as I had my chores done properly; checked- with bias- by my older siblings.
I was bullied horrifically for wearing hand-me-downs from my older sisters. Do you all remember "crazy pants"? I do, because I wore them when all my other pants were dirty.
I know more about my older siblings time than mine, the 90s.