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Yes, yes, modern technology has done wonders for hooking up. Yet I can't help but feel happy that I did the majority of my dating in the 80s. Here are five reasons why (with super awesome 80s tunes to back them up):

1. E-stalking didn’t exist. I could flirt with all the guys I wanted without my boyfriend seeing it on Facebook and getting all jelly.

Never felt like Sombody's Watching Me while dating in the 80s

2. Limited communication options meant I could blame not hearing from him on my roommates, who'd been on the phone all day (heaven forbid we cough up $3 a month for the newly-invented call waiting). Of COURSE it wasn’t that he hadn’t bothered to call.

Call Me was the only option when dating in the 80s

3. Oversized tops and flexible-waist stirrup pants made it possible to actually eat the dinner he bought me.

Just Eat It. Alllll of it.

4. Grind dancing hadn’t been invented yet, so I could get to know a guy before he started rubbing his thang all over me.

That's what I call a Safety Dance

5. Guys could do sweet things like open a door for a girl or play her a love song on his boombox without being called a misogynist by the Offended-by-everything Police.