>>97872615The early to mid 80s were that horrifically dull era after latch-key childhoods had ended, so no saying "bye mom" and exploring the town unsupervised all day long, but before bottomless media streams for sedentary indoor entertainment (good video games, cable TV in most areas) had become commonplace.
You were trapped indoors with NOTHING to do and childhood was a nonstop, desperate search for any momentary thrill or distraction to get from end of school to bedtime. 2 minute phonecalls to shitty 900 numbers to hear a drunken clown read pages from a knock-knock joke book were part of that.
