It tells me something about how completely I was wrapped up in my own problems in the late eighties that I completely missed any news about this stock market crash.
The whole decade of the 1980's were black for me, we had the dark Reagan era hovering over us with no jobs, his anti-union policies and soaring debt! The only bright spot was raising my loving kids. (Which was difficult due to Reagan's inept presidency.) I don't miss the EIGHTIES AT ALL!
You know, Terry, I feel that perhaps you need to make your peace with your Past. Good or bad, it's all part of you.
I too completely missed Black Monday. In 1987, we had much closer worries over here. Just going to school wasn't simple at all that specific year. "Hey, it's not much, but it's still my life."
Honestly, it'd be worth telling it in a novel. So many things a Westerner couldn't imagine without being told. In a way, I had an epic youth. :-/
Don't mind the smelly lurking troll, Terry. He's become too boring to even waste sarcasm at. Nobody cares.
Hmm... "Nobody cares." Perhaps that's just it! A lonely, sad soul, trying to exist but afraid to make any friends. Suddenly I feel sympathetic. So much suffering in the world, even right on our doorstep.
Terry, you've got it wrong. It was Maggie Thatcher who was anti union in the late 80's. We were in that limbo land after the Falkland conflict and before the Gulf War, and Maggie was trying to privatize every national industry. The telecommunications division of the post office got spun out, steel got privatized and we started seeing utility companies, water districts etc being parceled up ready for sale.
We had increased race riots due to increased unemployment, we had continuous anti nuclear protests as American nukes were deployed in the UK. There was plenty to make the 80's a scary time.
However as a kid, growing up, my day to day worries seemed to be the dominant factor. Hmm, 87 I was about ready to leave home I believe. I kinda remember it all, but that was ancient history.
The whole decade of the 1980's were black for me, we had the dark Reagan era hovering over us with no jobs, his anti-union policies and soaring debt! The only bright spot was raising my loving kids. (Which was difficult due to Reagan's inept presidency.)
ReplyDeleteI don't miss the EIGHTIES AT ALL!
You know, Terry, I feel that perhaps you need to make your peace with your Past. Good or bad, it's all part of you.
ReplyDeleteI too completely missed Black Monday. In 1987, we had much closer worries over here. Just going to school wasn't simple at all that specific year.
"Hey, it's not much, but it's still my life."
Honestly, it'd be worth telling it in a novel. So many things a Westerner couldn't imagine without being told.
In a way, I had an epic youth. :-/
Terry's psychotic. The 80s was not bad at all.
ReplyDeleteDon't mind the smelly lurking troll, Terry. He's become too boring to even waste sarcasm at. Nobody cares.
ReplyDeleteHmm... "Nobody cares." Perhaps that's just it! A lonely, sad soul, trying to exist but afraid to make any friends. Suddenly I feel sympathetic.
So much suffering in the world, even right on our doorstep.
Terry, you've got it wrong. It was Maggie Thatcher who was anti union in the late 80's. We were in that limbo land after the Falkland conflict and before the Gulf War, and Maggie was trying to privatize every national industry. The telecommunications division of the post office got spun out, steel got privatized and we started seeing utility companies, water districts etc being parceled up ready for sale.
ReplyDeleteWe had increased race riots due to increased unemployment, we had continuous anti nuclear protests as American nukes were deployed in the UK. There was plenty to make the 80's a scary time.
However as a kid, growing up, my day to day worries seemed to be the dominant factor. Hmm, 87 I was about ready to leave home I believe. I kinda remember it all, but that was ancient history.