15 Things Only the Parents in the 1980s Will Remember

9. You were nervous about your kids combining Pop Rocks and Coca-Cola.

Though you were ostensibly older and wiser than your kids in the 1980s, sometimes you could be just as susceptible as they were to urban legends—like the one about Mikey, the Life cereal kid, who purportedly consumed the deadly combo of Pop Rocks and Coca-Cola and then exploded. Was it true? Your logical brain knew that it wasn’t, but that didn’t make you any less nervous that your kids might try to find out for themselves. And for more fallacies you need to stop believing, here are the 40 Biggest Myths About Life After 40—Busted!