Comments | surrey_sucks: Flashback to the 80s: Erasers

surrey_sucks

Flashback to the 80s: Erasers

Mar 25, 2009 10:51

I'm doing some studying right now (yes, despite making this post, I am actually studying), and I have accumulated a small pile of eraser shavings because I have been erasing the rough answers I have written in pencil and re-writing the better answers in pen. Anyway, the pile of eraser shavings reminded me of something stupid that several kids ( Read more... )

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robbat2 March 25 2009, 18:54:17 UTC

Also the 80s, same grades, that means 1988/89/90 for me, I had a crazy fascination with quartz rock that was prevalent in one of the embankments of the playground, enough so that I would dig at the embankment with sticks (the soil was very dry, bright red, high iron content) to find more of them.

surrey_sucks March 25 2009, 22:50:13 UTC

Ha ha ha. Your story reminds me of something else we did as kids. My siblings, neighbourhood kids, and I would pick at the stucco on the side of houses because some houses had colored pieces of glass mixed in, and we'd collect the glass pieces.

luvszoe March 25 2009, 19:03:20 UTC

OMG..eraser shavings??
That's crazy!!
I can't think off the top of my head right now about things like that when I was in elementary school. I'm sure there were some things, though!

surrey_sucks March 25 2009, 22:24:32 UTC

Kids do the weirdest things. I wonder who starts the trends. I mean, who in my school started the eraser shavings thing?

lechiro March 25 2009, 19:11:38 UTC

I totally remember erasers being a big deal. Scented ones were especially coveted.

In highschool some people were into making tiny bubbles on the tips of their tongues and then blowing so them around. Kind of gross now in retrospect.

surrey_sucks March 25 2009, 22:23:04 UTC

I don't recall scented erasers, but scratch and sniff stickers were popular.

In highschool some people were into making tiny bubbles on the tips of their tongues and then blowing so them around.

Ewwwww!

gustavolacerda March 26 2009, 07:42:46 UTC

Saliva bubbles? I've never managed to make them airborne! Maybe I just never tried!

rogue_priestess March 25 2009, 20:10:53 UTC

I liked those really large rectangular erasers that said "for BIG mistakes". They came in fun colours.

And yes I totally had some of the pretty little erasers. I still squee when I see them in dollar stores. I have a red dice in my desk drawer right now.

surrey_sucks March 25 2009, 22:23:53 UTC

I've had some big erasers before, but they always broke, got too dirty, or got lost before you actually used it up.

snooze March 25 2009, 21:56:29 UTC

POGS... all the kids were obsessed with POGS... :/

surrey_sucks March 25 2009, 22:46:08 UTC

As stupid as POGS were, I think eraser shavings are stupider!

POGS came out just as I was getting too old for that sort of crap, so I never got into them, luckily.