Sometimes I really miss being a kid. Maybe not so much the incessant teasing from my peers, but I guess I can’t blame them. I looked like I had a mullet for a few years. Yes, there are pictures. Carefully guarded pictures.
Thankfully the faux-mullet is a thing of the past. But back there with it are a ton of happy memories doing the kind of crap a kid with a pseudo-mullet does.
Like play with a Skip It. I was obsessed with my Skip It. The kinda-mullet flapped wildly behind me as I furiously skipped around the driveway. It was awesome. {my mullet-ish looked really great in a side ponytail too, by the way}
Or maybe I was strutting around with my fake mullet up in a banana clip.
Let’s face it, I didn’t strut anywhere. Unless it was across my room to kiss a poster of Joey McIntyre. I know he would have appreciated a girl with a sorta-mullet. {you got the right stuff, baby}
Most likely I was wearing a pair of L.A. Gear high tops. Because you know, I needed something to detract from Mulletor.
And while normal little girls were watching Care Bears and Rainbow Bright, I had films like Dirty Dancing, The Breakfast Club and Grease on a constant loop. Where were my parents while I got my sex education from Patrick Swayze? Probably trying not to look at Mulletaurus Rex.
You can beg for the pictures. I’ll never give in.
I loved skip it! And Dirty Dancing and Grease are some of my favorites!
haha oh my gosh i totally forgot about those LA Gear shoes…but they take me back
haha
A lot of the pictures from my childhood have mysteriously disappeared. Shame, really. (Not really.)
One thing I miss about the 80s are all those bright colors. It was so much fun!
OMG! My mom swears it wasn’t a mullet, but I so had one too. I also, at some point, had a ‘rat tail’. Banana clips were the bomb, and I used to sport royal blue Reebok high tops. I thought I was allll that
This sums up my childhood perfectly. Except I didn’t have a mullet. BUT, I had a PERM.
I wasn’t lucky enough for a mullet, I had a mushroom cut and them when it grew in, I had teased bangs. Thanks mom. I was friends with this girl named Alexis only because she had a skip it.
ah! I totally ALWAYS WANTED a skip it, but sadly never got one:(
And don’t worry about the mullet… my mom insisted on making most of my clothes, so I always looked like an amish kid – hah!
Oh my gosh, I totally rocked a banana clip! LOL Thanks for the flashback.
hahaha! Hilarious! BTW: Your donut comment on my blog was hilarious… “he knows me so well”… LOLOL!
Haha, you know you want to show us a picture
. And I was obsessed with Skip it, too!! 
OMG> I am hysterical! I wish I had a mullet. I had a boy hair cut. I loved Joe, too uncoordinated for Skip it, Not enough hair for the banana clip and what the hell were my parents thinking letting me watch “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” ALL THE TIME! I love Grease too!
I was in LOVE with Joey!! and I had a purple skip it. I loved how it counted how many times you spun it around! I totally forgot about all of these things. thanks for sharing!
Wow you guys are just kids. when I was young, a mullet was a botched bang trim from your half blind aunt and a skip-it was a rope tied around a rock.
“You can beg for the pictures. I’ll never give in.”
That’s how I feel about my giant mall hair from 1989.
oh my good gravy, i had all those things… in fact, i had TWO skip its. One in hot pink, one in purple… you know, cuz you can’t use two at the same time anyways… whatever. lol AND those LA gear shoes, I swear I had that exactly same pair, and I took the L.A. Gear tag and used it as a key chain on my backpack. Ohhhhh good ol’ days!