De Paul University
Writing from the Inside
Teacher: Zoe Keithley
Remember when …
Your mom was pregnant with you? Talk about cramped quarters! Absolutely no running room. Even just passing gas in here is a little scary – I wonder where it goes. I can’t even tell if I am a boy or a girl.
Remember when …
The Bears won the Super Bowl?
There were Bee-hive hair-dos?
It was cool to smoke?
We held hands?
Milk was 50 cents a gallon?
We were cool?
The thing to do was just what everyone else did? You had to wear your coat pulled back off your shoulders? You had to wear just exactly what our friends wore? We used the same cool language. Girls had bucket bag purses. Boys had to roll up the sleeves of their t-shirts even though they were already short-sleeved. No wonder they call it an Identity Crisis!
Remember when…
-We had to be cool.
-Which meant doing everything just like everyone else.
-All the girls had to have bucket bag purses.
-Boys HAD to roll up the sleeves of short sleeve shirts.
-We just had to chew gum.
-A 57 Chevy was the nuts, either to drive or to be seen in.
-The greaser look was in.
-Parents absolutely were uncool.
-A mortal sin would be watching Lawrence Welk.
-Girls had to wrap Angora around a boy’s ring.
-They call this the “Identity Crisis”!
-You know who you are by looking at the person next to you.