re: Ages of random people in 1998

Cell phones were becoming a thing but they were still a major novelty item. My mom had a cell phone and so did my grandmother. I was more excited about cordless phones at that age because that meant I could take the phone into my room and talk to my friends or girls rather than be forced to talk to them in the kitchen or my parents' bedroom. You could do that with a cell phone obviously but back then the charges for calls that lasted more than a certain amount of time were absolutely through the roof.

We didn't really have a computer at that time so I spent the majority of my time outside playing with neighborhood kids when I wasn't doing homework or chores.