Yesterday I was doing some errands after work - doing groceries, buying some new mini-muffin tins, birthday presents, etc. I love being out and about early Friday evenings because on the local radio station, Kiss FM, they have “Freak-Ass Friday”, where they play a whole bunch of old school songs. I was jammin’ in my car (is it cool to say “jammin’”? I don’t think so but I don’t know what the equivalent word kids today would use). Anyway, I was jammin’ in my car to some great oldies like “Yolanda” by Reality, “Spring Love” by Stevie B, “Show Me” by the Cover Girls and “Mentirosa” by Mellow Man Ace. Man, I loved “Mentirosa!”

I love listening to those songs from when I was gradeschool and highschool. I remember watching my older cousins dance and go out to party, I wanted to be so much like them! They were so cool to me.

When I was younger, I didn’t have the money to buy records or cassettes, and we didn’t have a tape player on the radio. So I would buy cheap blank cassettes, sit next to the stereo speakers and tape songs on an old tape recorder. The quality was horrible but I would listen to my personal mix tapes all the time. It got a little easier once we got a stereo with a cassette deck.

We used to have an 80’s station in Chicago, but it got bought out by another company. I don’t know if there’s another one, but I really loved that old station. Then again, it makes me feel old because I remember when I was a little kid and I’d hear my dad singing along with the “oldies” station I would think, “Geez, these songs are ANCIENT!” I wonder what Bentoot will think of me when I start groovin’ to “Dangerous on the Dancefloor” (yes, I know groovin’ makes me sound old!)

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