Imagine waking up in the 80s

Hey everyone imagine you woke up in 1986 in summer. You wake up and a nice relaxing 80s song is playing through your Sony radio cassette player. The beautiful yellow sun has filled the room. And you wake realising you live in the 80s a golden age for western civilization you realise that all the crazy stuff happening in 2025 was all a big crazy dream. So you wake up joyful ready to go for a walk. You leave your apartment and walk down the stairs which are clean and fresh smelling. Out on the street there are children playing with a ball. There is 2 men standing on a street corner smoking reefer. And a couple sit on a bench and talk. Interestingly every one looks very healthy and fit. There isn't an obese person or a drug addict in sight. The roads are newly paved and well maintained. Tower blocks built in the 60s and 70s litter the skyline. Pubs are busy and crowded and people are socialising and smiling. You walk down the street and a young man greets you and asks how you are? It's a lovely day! You wonder if you are dreaming as everything seems so alien.

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  • Um, I did wake up in 1986, I lived it. The two men on the corner would have catcalled me, in a threatening way, without a second thought. The area I grew up in was not well maintained. A young man greets you politely? Never happened here, only on holiday in Spain where people were warmer. Don't reply to the young man anyway, in case you invite rape -- all your fault, of course! Take today's sexism and racism and times it by god knows how many times. Properly worried the bomb might drop. Oh, and autism and mental health issues an even bigger taboo than now. Unthinkable to broach them. Social conformism was rife (the bad kind). 

    Music was great, though.

  • That's a shame. Obviously catcalling is not okay. 

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