With all of this additional free time, parents and their children (with much protest) have found themselves getting out their good ol\u2019 dust rags, mops, and vacuums and going to new cleaning heights (or rather depths) in their homes that they never had the time or patience for pre-quarantine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s be honest, we all have that place in our home that we haven\u2019t touched in a good decade, whether it be a basement, closet, or storage room. The place where we find ourselves throwing the items that we don\u2019t want to get rid of, but also don\u2019t care to look at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that our lives are filled with quarantine boredom, people are reopening those doors. But instead of just finding dust bunnies and trash, people are coming out with the childhood and young adulthood that they tried hard to forget, but couldn\u2019t get rid of. And it\u2019s taking over their lives, once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFanny packs and parachute pants are going to be the next big thing,\u201d parent Matt Chiorini said confidently after finding a box of old clothes from his teenage years. \u201cI\u2019m over boring tee-shirts, jeans, and sweatpants. Remember how free we were to be stylish back in the day? I\u2019m going to bring it all back. I may even grow back a mullet. It looked rad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, teachers have been showing up to Zoom meetings decked out in the old fashion they rediscovered from their childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cMr. Yanchuk came to a meeting wearing neon Spandex and leg warmers and taught class while rolling around his house on roller skates,\u201d freshman, Connie Zhang, told us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cInstead of giving us educational videos to watch, they\u2019re assigning us their favorite childhood movies and TV shows,\u201d <\/strong>senior, Maggie Frank, stated angrily. \u201cI\u2019ve already been forced to watch The Breakfast Club<\/em>, Saved by the Bell<\/em>, and all ten seasons of Beverly Hills 91210<\/em> with my parents. What\u2019s next?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But students aren\u2019t innocent. Remember Silly Bandz and Rainbow Loom? Nintendo DS and Beyblades? They\u2019re back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn order not to lose my status, I\u2019ve been forced to pull out my old Atari because my students are showing up to class playing Mario Kart <\/em>and taking care of their Nintendogs,\u201d said Ms. Groman. \u201cThanks for at least showing up, but it would be nice if I was more important than some fake dog.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019re still dealing with that one. It\u2019s all part of the job, we keep reminding ourselves and our totally real<\/em> <\/em><\/strong>dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, these old items aren\u2019t just bringing back happy memories, but also memories of freedom and actually being able to go out into the world and have human contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen I found my Pokemon cards, I was suddenly hit with all the memories of trading cards with other people,\u201d sophomore David Scibilia explained to us. \u201cThe feeling of bargaining for a good trade, face to face. Shaking hands. Cards being exchanged. You just can\u2019t beat that adrenaline in isolation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI found an old mixtape buried in my bedroom closet made by one of my old boyfriends back in the 80s. I had totally forgotten about it,\u201d parent Anne Dov\u010diak told us. \u201cRemembering him handing it to me that day in the hallway of my high school, listening to it with all of my best friends in my bedroom. \u201cI Want to Know What Love Is.\u201d \u201c(I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight.\u201d So beautiful\u2026 Sorry. I\u2019m tearing up. All of those memories and the freedom we had back then, it\u2019s all gone. You never truly realize how great something is until it\u2019s gone.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n What will come out of this? We have yet to find out. All we can say is that these fads have come back and they aren\u2019t going to disappear anytime soon. No matter how much you wish for it not to happen, somebody you know is going to get a mullet or a perm. It\u2019s a fact of life now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cInstead of giving us educational videos to watch, they\u2019re assigning us their favorite childhood movies and TV shows,\u201d senior, Maggie Frank, stated angrily. \u201cI\u2019ve already been forced to watch The Breakfast Club, Saved by the Bell, and all ten seasons of Beverly Hills 91210 with my parents. What\u2019s next?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":11712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdrampage.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}