show your age... if you dare

[Balaam]

i often wax nostalgic
today i helped a kid who had a bit of bingle on his bicycle
he was twelve
when i dropped him off at his house he said "thanks sir"
polite? yes.... but also disturbing
i know i'm old.... but sir?
i still have long hair... well what's left of it.... no! not a pony tail with a bald head... shut up!
i know, he was just being polite... i'm just not used to that!!

anywho, i started thinking
how different was the world when i was twelve?

well....
marvin gaye was still alive and had a song in the top 10
pete rose wasn't banned from baseball he was MVP
larry csonka was the shisnit of all full backs EVER!!!!
sky lab was about to launch
oh yeah, there was some conflict in the middle east (some things never change)

what was happening when you were twelve?

[Mati2]

Unfortunately the major event that happened when I was 12 was Sept. 11th. But, it was also the year when Enrique got huge and we all started realizing how stupid the Y2K scare was. Oh, and Harry Potter became a movie.

[Boleslav]

some say im 15...it veries.

Please read the opening post, not just the thread title. He's not actually asking for your age. He's asking for a memory from when you are 12. Like this one, for example.

[Flemsta]

i remember...... nothing

[The Luda]

I remember, the spice girls. Oh.. the horror.
even went to their concerts..
I knew there mustve been a reason why i couldn't come up with anything for that age faster.
Guess it was necessary to block it.

[acer5200]

Only thing I can really remember from when I was 12 was the Indian Ocean Earthquake and the following tsunami, as well as hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne; and tropical storm Bonnie.

Oh and Facebook was created.

[Boleslav]

Hmm... a great world cup, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of communism in Eastern Europe.

[Morgan le Fay]

The Tiananmen Square Rallies. The San Fransisco Earthquake, The Russians pull out of Afghanistan.

How times change :/.

[Richie_B]

When I was 12: Italy won their 4th World Cup (soccer), Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging and direct rule from Westminster is ended as the Northern Ireland Executive takes control of the affairs of Northern Ireland.

[Revoltion]

A brush with the popo.