Do you determine an event's date by the year, how old you were, its relation to other events, or...?

[Becky2844]

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[Ponch8]

@Athena

For teenage/kid things, I can usually narrow it down by what grade I was in, who my friends were at the time, etc.

Older than that, I tend to go a lot with where I was living at the time. I moved around a lot in my 20s, so I can usually correlate with “I was in Minneapolis, living on <X> St when I saw that movie because I remember the shower broke before we left” or “It must have been between 93 and 95, because I was living on <Y> street with my friend Jane, who was only there from late summer 93 and then she moved to Washington in the winter of 94…” that kind of thing.

I tend to remember stuff the same way (i.e., grade in school or place of residence). Now that I’ve been in the same condo for almost 4 1/2 years, it’s becoming harder to remember exactly when fairly recent events happened.

Slightly off-topic: yesterday I did pub trivia. One question asked the year that McDonald’s introduced Chicken McNuggets, among a couple other events. I somehow remember that I was in first grade when McNuggets were introduced! This narrowed down the possibilities to 1983 or 1984, and we picked the right one (1983).

[Ellen_Cherry]

@Ponch8

Slightly off-topic: yesterday I did pub trivia. One question asked the year that McDonald’s introduced Chicken McNuggets, among a couple other events. I somehow remember that I was in first grade when McNuggets were introduced! This narrowed down the possibilities to 1983 or 1984, and we picked the right one (1983).

Ha! I could’ve gotten that one too, except I was in college. :shakes cane: