1985, where were you?

[Laserman]

It was a pretty crazy year in the United States. A lot of plane crashes, weird music, crappy cars, good bikes, and if you blew the coke dust off everything, you might find something shiny:

I was like 9, just saw Back to the Future in the movie theater, playing with Legos, watching MTV and the above video with wide eyes

 

[fatal]

I got married

 

[Bluestrom13]

Here -

Massif Central - en route to Narbonne

 

[DRugerH]

I was also 9 in 1985, but playing with Hot Wheels cars

My first car was a 1985 Dodge Charger 2.2. Yeah, that pretty much says it all

Dan

 

[Morgan60]

Married two kids and working my butt off. It was the best of times.

 

[johnny42]

I was 2 years away from fathering my first (of 3) children and 2 years into owning my (bought new) Honda Goldwing Interstate.

 

[Robert]

In 85 I was (still am!) the proud owner of a Moto Guzzi V7 Special and working 80 hours a week. Went to uni two year s later to learn a job.

 

[Lost in the 60's]

1985?

Oh Hell No! Don't wanna think about it. I was still married to that bitch of an ex wife to of mine who kept me broke and miserable all the time trying to support her in the style to which she wanted to be accustomed to while she sat at home and read Romance novels and ate Entenmanns pastries and got fat.

Gimmee 1967 when I was 20 years old and had my whole life ahead of me. 1967 was a great year for me. But I was just too young and dumb to realize it.

 

[Andy131]

Married, second son born 1985, working every hour god sent, 7 days a week 12-20 hours a day.
If i knew then what I know now, how that would change, stuff work, spend more time with the family and forget all that "career" bull.

 

[puttbutt]

I got married

thanks for the early chuckle.

 

[Napom]

I finished my freshman year as a Rook at Norwich University, The Military College of Vermont, walked my first beat as a cop that summer and was offered a follow-on part time job with the department, but found out I got a scholarship from the USAF so I could go back and finish my college education and get a commission in the Air Force so I turned down the part time gig and went back to college . . . Actually a pivitol year in my life!

 

[puttbutt]

I finished my freshman year as a Rook at Norwich University, The Military College of Vermont, walked my first beat as a cop that summer and was offered a follow-on part time job with the department, but found out I got a scholarship from the USAF so I could go back and finish my college education and get a commission in the Air Force so I turned down the part time gig and went back to college . . . Actually a pivitol year in my life!

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I 've always wonder why there are private military colleges, when all the military branches have their own academies. plus I thought that by attending one of the academies, you would just have to serve a certain amount of time to pay back your education.

 

[puttbutt]

I was also 9 in 1985, but playing with Hot Wheels cars

I was in my mid 20's and received my paramedic certification. Now I really feel old!

 

[Jon_98]

Turning 30 and restoring colonial homes in Connecticut, riding my '76 Honda CB400F Super Sport.

 

[nmroadrunner]

I remember weird music, garish clothing, and white powdery stuff everywhere

 

[Laserman]

Haha, don't forget the hair! The hair was glorious!

. o O (well, unless it was a mullet)

 

[puttbutt]

white powdery stuff everywhere

you remember the weather forecast?

 

[nmroadrunner]

For downtown Medellin, yes

 

[puttbutt]

ah hah!

 

[Napom]

I 've always wonder why there are private military colleges, when all the military branches have their own academies. plus I thought that by attending one of the academies, you would just have to serve a certain amount of time to pay back your education.

The Private ones like Norwich, VMI, and the Citadel, give you the Military College experience without requiring military service afterwards. Those of us who attended them lovingly refer to them as "Pay for Pain" schools as we got all the pain, and likely had to pay for it (I did for my first year - then the USAF paid for the remaining 3 years of it). Not everyone who attends gets commissioned and goes into the service. Those who accepted an ROTC scholarship do incur a military obligation, just like any other college that they may get an ROTC scholarship to (By the way, Norwich is the birthplace of ROTC). But a lot of the graduates don't go in the service afterwards - they take the Military Discipline they picked up at one of these institutions and apply it to their civilian life afterwards. Personally, after visiting many "civilian" schools during my time at Norwich, there is no way in hell I would have been able to survive and graduate from one of those - Too many . . . shall we say . . . distractions . . . at those schools for a young hormonally charged individual like I was at the time