I was just listening to some Veruca Salt and feeling a little nostalgic after I read an article on teens in the 90s - some of it made no sense to me, I was totally in my 20s when I cried over Dawson, Joey and that other dude with the big head.
Then I realised I was a cusp child! I straddled the 80s and the 90s! Plus I lived in Hobart which was technically 16 years behind the mainland and 24 behind the rest of the world (except New Zealand....)
Brain started clicking over and the hazy memories came back to me
So here is my list;
You know you're a cusp 80s/90s Teenager of Hobart if;
1. You stopped using Impulse 'Captivation' deodorant and switched to the pump spray 'Norsca' because of CFCs and the ozone layer
2. You ate chips with strawberry chili sauce at Salamanca Market every Saturday you could
3. You spent time at Aeroplane Records thumbing through the vinyl even though you didn't have a record player
4. You bought your clothes mainly at Myer Miss Shop, Sportsgirl or Cherry Lane because there really wasn't anywhere else
5. You didn't ever go down the water slide at the Clarence Pool because someone told you a pissed off person had stuck razor blades in the joins
6. You tried to get in to Phantom every Saturday night, or at least that's what you told people when you weren't there
7. You are of the generation that went from paper based MTT bus passes to the plastic tickets that got sucked into a machine that made a weird regurgitating noice
8. Unless you lived past the flannel curtain you never went further north than Creek Road without your parents for fear of being accosted by a chigger
9. There was more than one Parthenon Souvlaki bar and you ate at all of them
10. You had no idea which was City Hall and which was Town Hall so you just followed to crowd to see RatCat (you still don't know which is which, so you followed the crowd to take your kid to the Play School Concert.....)
Amirite or Amirite!
Feel free to add more Hobartians!
From Teen Emmely....
