This morning I followed Kristina to Raben Tire. She is dropping the Caravan off to have the Air Conditioning serviced, and then I drove her to work. On the way home, I saw some middle school kids walking to Helfrich Park, and for some reason it reminded me of all the goofy fad-like toys and gimmicks we used to play with. Among that list:
- Zingers - Those little green tubes that made a "Zing!" noise when you blew air into them
- Garbage Pail Kid Cards - No explanation needed
- Hypercolor T-Shirts - Changed color depending on bodyheat
- Trapper Keepers - Organizational binders with decorative pictures on them
- Original Nintendo - No explanation needed
- Colorforms - Those reusable plastic sticker/background sets, where you could put people and things in goofy places on the background
- Legos - Everybody has had some Legos at some point
- Rock T-Shirts - This was a big fad, groups included (don't laugh, even though it's funny!): Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Def Leppard, Megadeath, etc. (I could revise the list for high school, but it's funnier to think about middle school kids wearing the shirts)
