You know you grew up in Burlington in the eighties if....

1. You lived in “Borington”, not Burlington
2. You can remember when Headon Forest was....a forest
3. You remember when Robert Bateman High School was called Lord Elgin
4. You know who Robert Bateman is, and can describe approximately where he lives
5. The food court at Burlington Mall was an Eaton's, and Home Sense was the food court. Zellers was a Robinson's, and Sport Check was the movie theatre.
6. You remember when there were fountains in the Burlington Mall, and it was cool to hang out there.
7. Mapleview was a big field beside the QEW Niagara
8. You know what the Supercentre is and can remember the excitement when it was built.
9. You either had a Birthday Party at, or went to a Birthday Party at Roller Gardens
10. You regularly hung out at Roller Gardens
11. You know what Scooters was
12. You hate what they have done to the public library on New Street
13. You can recall a time when there were less than three Tim Hortons in town
14. You hung out at Club 404 or Stars, depending on who your crowd was.
15. You have heard of or knew Steve Olah, Jamie Ruston or Joseph Fritch
16. You can sadly connect yourself, through a game of Six Degrees of Separation, in some way to Paul Bernardo
17. Warwick Court was the place you did NOT want to live
18. You can remember when the Skyway Bridge was only one bridge, 2 lanes on each side
19. You'll always fondly remember Club 54 as Chuck E. Cheese's
20. You knew Finger Eleven when they were the Rainbow Butt Monkey's
21. You know someone who knows someone who knew Jim Carey
22. You know the name Rolly Bird and giggled whenever you used to hear it
23. Your Mom took you to the Village Square and you got a treat from Grandma Lee's.
24. You have been to a bush party
25. The annual highlight of your social calendar was going to the Sound of Music Festival
26. Calling someone a Skid was not necessarily an insult, although it depended on who was saying it
27. You took great pride in the fact that The Spoons were from Burlington and can sing all the lyrics from Romantic Traffic
28. You can remember when Chaps was a new restaurant
29. You knew where the green bus, the blue bus, the orange bus and the grey bus would take you.
30. You know what it was like to wait to cross the train tracks at Walkers Line and Mainway
31. You know what it means to catch air on #1 Sideroad
32. A Boonie Cruise was going north of Highway 5. Now that's going to Walmart.
33. You can recall a life before IKEA


That's all I can think of for now. If anyone from Burlington reads this and wants to add something, leave me a comment. I'll make sure it makes it to the list.