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Trini Child Of The 80s

Remember this when you were a child in Trinidad?

- fellas got an earring too-just one

- football limes and Intercol

- no matter where you went to school, Trinity College seemed so far away

- your identity was defined by your school, there were girls and then there were 'Convent girls' (be that good, bad or indifferent)

- red band maxis and their hard pong

- you hoarded coloured ink pens

- you stressed about SBAs in Form 4 and 5

- if you travelled home, you had to lime first before you got there

- CXC lessons and the lessons' lime

- boys hitting school desks to start a chanting session

- maxis and maxi conductors were the scourge of Secondary school in these days, parents were always complaining about them

- you knew at least one girl who was 'dealing' with a maxi-man Knight Rider, Street Hawk and Mc Gyver

s The Child Trini

I can't relate with most of these maybe it happened with a certain kind of child of the 80s but not this child .