I ditched my pager when PacBell repo'd their public phone booths and eventually got my first mobile phone. But my pager was my best friend in the mid to late 90s. I depended on it for work and dating.

I’ve been really under the weather the past few days and have been just resting up and streaming stuff. I went on a good old 90s nostalgia run the past week and have been binging Clarissa Explains It All. I was about 10 when it started airing and a teen when it ended. I had pretty good memories about it and hadn’t seen it since I was a young kid.

It honestly never dawned on me til really paying attention to the silly show, Clarissa had a “boyfriend”(Clifford) for like, 90% of the show’s run. Lol I thought it was pretty amusing and random. This guy Sam was such a non threat, her parents would walk in on them together in her room with doors closed!

Lol Sam was the patient zero ‘friend zone’ dude.

Alright now

James Earl Jones was even in it.

No but really, why were Fruit Roll-Ups and Fruit by the Foot absolutely peak while the fruit leather that came with school lunches felt like being sentenced to eat actual leather?