I have never gone out of business, but boy I have had to create new ones every few years! Still self-employed through all the insanity of one disaster capitalist scheme after another. Truly Gen X. I think i'm about to start my 5th career?
3 pumps maxm Must be a regional thing, 4 pumps where I grew up. Also any scrape, cut or scratch, if brought to a parent's attention, would get the mercurichrome treatment, which hurt more than the original injury and for longer too. With that telltale scarlet dye mark as a reminder of the ordeal.
Also forgotten, riding in the back of a pickup truck. It was common. Trucks could move 20 kids at a time from place to place! And no genXer ever had to sit in a baby seat in a car, and could ride in the front seat at 5 years old!
Brad Upton does a bit about why the younger generations do things like eat tide pods. When they were kids, we babyproofed the home, made sure they didn't hurt each other or themselves. Hand sanitizer and wet wipes were around. So those generations never had the Darwin effect. It wasn't survival of the fittest...all the dumb ones survived. I'm paraphrasing...lol...he is much funnier.
I remember doing some dumb bike trick, falling and getting all bruised up only to have my mother say, "that's what you get". Lol. No ice, no running to my aid. I got heckled lol
@@sniper161718 My dad was similar. His favorite thing to say, other do as I say not as I do, was Well, I told you not to do that didn't I? Bet you don't do that again.
I’m an elder millennial, grew up mostly with friends that were 3-8 years older than myself, so I got the full Gen X childhood experience. I remember my favorite toy was a bow & arrow I made myself from a rusty old knife I found in grandpa’s garage. My arrows were sticks with old nails taped to the ends. We spent most of our free time throwing rocks at hornet nests, wandering the railroad tracks raiding hobo camps, and jumping off huge rocks into swampy ponds so deep in the woods that it would have taken days for anyone to find us if something happened. Fond memories! ❤
As an elder GenXer, I want to say with a story like that, you're more like us than a millennial. Even I never made a bow and poison arrow though I did improvise a slingshot once.
@@jenniferrodriguez5337 I'm solidly GenX and I skipped school that day, so I missed the live shot as well. That changes nothing about my life experience except I was absent that day.
Laughed so hard I cried! My Mother’s favorite was any variation of, “If you break your neck; don’t come running to me!” “If you’re gonna cry, I’ll give you something to cry about!”
Born in 2000....... "If blood ain't gushing, and bones aren't sticking out. Then it cant be bad, get up and go keep playing." How does that make sense when i am a part _that_ generation?🤣
The station wagon bit was me, my sister, and cousins. We weren't waving though. We were flicking people off. This lady followed my mom to the store parking lot to snitch on us. 😂
For those who might be confused, there is a difference between Gen X and all those who came before that had similar growing up experiences. Gen X often had to discover things for themselves and learn from their peers more than the generations before. They really were, even for those with intact parents, mostly left alone unless very specific rules were broken. Secondly, Gen X were both the last manual and the first digital generation. They can easily put one foot in and the other foot out of the computer world.
Yes we can. As a matter of fact, my senior year of vocational school, in Industrial Electronics, was the first year that school taught digital electronics.
🎯 I agree. Until I left automotive repair & had to learn to work from home, I'd never had an office job. But I think that has more to do with being "blue collar" than it does being of a particular generation
I saw a meme about this that hit me right where I live: "I'm Gen X. This means that I adapt to new technology like a millennial, but complain about it like a boomer."
Best description of my Gen X world ever. Brought back lots of memories and it let me know why I never believed in afternoon snacks in school. We had lunch and that's it.
As a Gen X, if you forgot your lunch money (or your parents didn't leave any), you got a cheese sandwich and a half pint of milk. The cheese sandwich was simply a slice of processed American cheese on a hamburger bun. Nothing else. It was enough to get by but you were hungry the rest of the day. It sure taught us not to forget our lunch money.
@rachellefroman6402 Cheese sandwich but on white bread here! LOL and no milk. A reusable thermos of juice that slightly tasted like every other juice that had ever been contained in there LOL
Green pinecone war was actually a thing in my neighborhood. I got smart. I wore a red jacket with a white cross and told everyone I was the medic. I helped out the injured ones. Best decision I took that year.
I'm a young boomer (talk about an oxymoron, young & boomer together -- meaning I was born late in the boomer years actually) and I cannot even begin to count the number of rock fights we had as kids. Summertime it was a near daily happening. It is wild if I remember the stuff we used to do!
@@ramtigerfalcon8387 Yes, and they hurt something fierce. One afternoon around supper time, I came home with a lot of blood on the "medic" jacket I had fashioned for myself. My dad asked me if it was my blood. I said no. All he said was don't get hit in the eyes, and stop taking the supplies out of the first aid kit. He gave me a bunch of clean garage rags to bandage the guys up. Talk about aiding abd abbeting.😂
I went to Penn State in '89. Skip a few boring classes, like AP Physics & AP Calculus, hung out at the arcade for hours, playing mostly pinball machines.
@@benjaminlear1619 See, that's the thing, it's not lost. Between DVD, BluRay, and streaming, it's all there. You just have to go look for it. The media, that is.
As a fellow GenXer, this is on point! I remember the days being in the 6th grade, that’s 10-11 years old, and riding my Diamond Back bike all over the neighborhood with my friend Blanca. We absolutely drank straight from the hose. And I remember getting hit right on the face with a dodge ball in the 5th grade. 😅😅 We are the best 😊
That sounds identical to what we millennials still experienced. Snowball fights with ice, kickball with fights, bike rides around town in heavt rain, blowing up old cars, sledding down hazardous hills, ect. Not all of us were able to afford video games so we still played reckless outside :). I miss that era
The best tasting water was always out of the hose. We’d usually let it run to get rid of the hot water in the hose so we could get the cooler water in the pipes. I also got hit right in the face with a red dodgeball in 5th grade. That hurt like a mother! The teacher let me sit out for the rest of the game but after a few mins I ran back in to keep playing.
OMG...lol. I am Gen X too and this was 100% accurate right down to the hot hose water and mom smoking in the car. Remember coming in for dinner and Mom asking..."Did you wash your hands?" of course not...trudge upstairs to wash them and come back down only to have Dad drop my hot dog on the ground while transferring from grill to bun...pick it up...blow on it (very important...and sanitary)...put it in the bun and say..."A little dirt never hurt anyone." The irony of the 5 second rule.
Accurate. I had asthma and remember my mom blowing her cigarette smoke (off to the side) saying: "I don't know why your so sick baby." Then she gave me a hug and sent me to bed but I'm still here. 😅
I still have a BB lodged against my left cheekbone. Shows up on dental xrays every few years. She described my childhood perfectly and made me laugh at the same time. Got to add her to my list of comedians to see when she comes to town.
The Home Depot parenting stuff was so true. My parents were always at work. No one checked homework,. We really did raise ourselves. Gen X is the coolest most independent, no-BS generation.
I only saw my mom on the weekends during the school year. From 1st grade thru HS graduation, my mom worked 2nd shift at the same job. She was asleep when I got up, and gone to work when I got home in the afternoon. From 2nd grade on, I was responsible for waking myself up, dressing, eating, riding my bike to school and back home, and getting my homework done on my own. We literally communicated via a notepad on the kitchen table Monday-Friday.
Maybe it's because I'm actually a millennial, born right after Gen x was over.... I feel like Gen x but I don't feel strong or independent. Of course, my family members were neglectful. They missed my lifelong condition and I didn't get a diagnosis until I was an adult. They were also abusive and no one really noticed or cared. It didn't make me cooler unless being mentally ill is cool which does seem like every next generation gravitates towards even more than the previous one. Mental illness is cool.
@@jayaom4946 - you might feel like genX, but you definitely aren't. :))) It's not whether something is cool or isn't. GenXers are usually proud we made it through a hardship - we laugh at it. Millennials tend to sound like they are looking for a pity party.. That's the difference.
This is SO dead-on accurate. Stop your crying or I’ll give you something to cry about!! Oh, you’re bored?! Well, there’s dishes to do, laundry, etc. Oh, not so much bored anymore, are ya?
My mom took me and my four older boomer siblings to a "no lifeguard" at your own risk pool. I almost drowned til my sister noticed my black hair floating. My mother was busy setting up on her chaise oblivious.
Yes! 1968 here...and, she's spot on! We are by FAR the best modern- times generation. Although a stretch...I think we could hold our own with the Founding Fathers. Of course, they were the benchmark model, but... the creative thinking, the drive, the discipline, the moxie... they had it... we have it. Best to you, fellow X-er! :)
Yes very late to this but just found it. Born in 1969. Drank from the garden hose, played with lawn darts, ran wild around the neighbourhood until my Dad with his carrying High School teacher voice yelled “Bedtime!”.
Drinking from the garden hose and lawn darts. Just marry me now lol... Yeah it was a different time a better time. :) I love that you referenced drinking from the hose and lawn darts.... I literally made a reference to lawn darts somebody three weeks ago and they had no idea what I was talking about and I had to look down sadly
Not a professional comedian like yourself but I am a musician and I've been on stage and I've had to say funny things and entertain... I was so proud of my lawn dart statement the other day and the person had no idea what I was talking about... Such a wasted opportunity. :)
I broke my arm - compound fracture - at cheerleading practice in high school. My mom showed up to the hospital over 2 hours later, and they could finally give me pain meds and set my arm. My mom said she was finishing up some gardening. I am Gen X.
Respect! We were playing kill the carrier at school during recess and a bigger kid landed on me and drove my face into the ground. At dinner that night, my parents asked why my front teeth were black. Apparently, some of the asphalt had embedded itself. Not a single tear shed, and after a trip to the dentist, everything was fine. Still live with the hairline crack in my front tooth.
LOL. Gen X too. I broke my arm too in elementary school trying to show off on the monkey bars and fell. All the school did was lay my arm on a piece of cardboard and sat me down till my mom could come get me. No pain meds, no nothing. I wore a cast for weeks.
I broke my ankle at school during lunch one day and the principal didn't believe me and sent me to class anyway. At the end of the day i was in so much pain I couldn't walk any, that is when they decided I might not be faking it.
We were the first ones to use computers in school. The big huge ones. But one memory that sticks with me is getting up early on Sat sitting in front of the tv on the floor eating cereal and watching the good cartoons, the ones you cant find now! And me and my brother lived in a small town and we were all over town on Sat and on Saturday night everyone had to take a bath because Sunday was church!
To be fair, some of those shows/cartoons were genuinely bad, even though I loved them as a kid. Sometime in the 90s there was a Sid and Marty Krofft marathon and wow... I don't know what those two were smoking or ingesting but it definitely made them see colors not in the visible spectrum.
Dad took us to a sandpit and filled up the back of the truck, so we could have a sandpile to play in. We rode home on the top of that pile of sand, with the family dog. These new generations have no idea what fun was.
Also, I'm a younger Boomer and we had a lot in common with Gen X. No seat belts, smoking in car and everywhere, told to stop crying or "I'll give you something to cry about. " I was raised by Greatest Gen parents.
Joined the Air Force late (25 in ‘99) and as an immigrant. Didn’t get Mental Health Care for Depression until nearly 30 (what with two wars going on). My cohorts in therapy were all millennials. Developed Anxiety Disorder and OCDs in service which are now part of my VA Disabilities. American GenX childhoods must be harsh because my own age peers in the service seemed to be more resilient (or maybe their duties were easier, being closer to military retirement than I was).
@@SusannaSaundersRight (left😂) there with ya. We totally had to learn how to adjust, adapt, and overcome. Wood school armrest only on the right side us lefties had to hold our arm up all day.
As a Gen X kid we also had Jarts! Our play grounds had steel three story monkey bars with nothing but asphalt and broken glass under it! We also had three story tornado slides that would heat up to 250f and burn off 2 layers of skin as you slid down it. And best of all...we had our MTV! And not the crappy MTV either but when it was good and played music!
Remember those metal merry go rounds that you would push start with your legs until it went so fast he weaker kids would fly off? Our park swings were also really tall, so you could swing really high and then launch yourself as far as you could to beat the last persons jump. Man, that was so painful at times when you'd launch higher than expected and land wrong... or if your arm or shirt got caught in the metal swing chains.
Gee, I don't know. Sure I love the swings. But kids are soft, these days. A mom at school...her daughter stepped off a very low curb crossing the street...and completely blew out her knee. Needed surgery. She was a senior in HS at the time. 😮 must be the sedentary life style. And a school bus driver measured the new bus seat belts. They are 7 feet long, the new federal standard size. 😮
@kH-bv8ix I hate to say it, but I've noticed a "widening" of the population, too. It's hard not to notice. When I was a kid, it was rare to see an obese person. Even chubby kids were rare, and they normally grew out of it.
I'm an older millennial, I remember the late '80s and early '90s well. So what she's describing was my experience too. The kids stayed out all day, but the community was tight and kept an eye on eachothers kids. We rode in the back of the pickup truck, a thrown out mattress was a trampoline, and bopping with your pals and a portable boom box was the life.
@@PWJC45 "Millennial, term used to describe a person born between 1981 and 1996, though different sources can vary by a year or two. It was first used in the book Generations (1991) by William Strauss and Neil Howe, who felt it was an appropriate name for the first generation to reach adulthood in the new millennium." -Britannica "In order to keep the Millennial generation analytically meaningful, and to begin looking at what might be unique about the next cohort, Pew Research Center decided a year ago to use 1996 as the last birth year for Millennials for our future work. Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 23 to 38 in 2019) is considered a Millennial, and anyone born from 1997 onward is part of a new generation". -Pew Research
@@themanifestorsmind I'm also '81 and honestly I consider myself Gen X. My year group was always called Gen X growing up, although not much then since there wasn't so much emphasis placed on generational names. Never even herd the term Millennial until I was a senior in high school and then they applied it to the freshman. Different graphs and charts show diff years, so I figure just go with your gut and what you grew up classified as.
@AvarielBlackwing I had 3 brothers... being the only girl, I didn't have Ken & Barbie so GI Joe's were my favorite ... next to my EZ bake & baby alive LOL.
Hell yes! We made one with an old clothes dryer... It was all fun and games till the oldest brother forgot to tighten the nuts on his front axle. "You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel!". Buried the forks all the way in the ground. He hit the handlebars, then flew an impressive distance! We laughed our asses off, lol. When he could breathe again, he tore that ramp apart in a fit of anger. It STILL comes up, lol.
@@kerryalbritton6532 yeah we would have races/bumper cars with those huge wooden spools also - make them roll by running on top of them like wheels then crash into each other or try to run over anyone who didnt have one!
Hate to admit this be we once used a filthy 50 gallon drum trash can from the park to roll down the hill! And probably didn’t even wash our hands the rest of the day. And we’re still here…
I think you forget that the parents of GenZ is Gen X, the generation, who failed to teach us how to write and read in cursive, the generation that failed to teach us how to write a check, the generation that failed to teach us how to address an envelope, all things that I a Gen-zer know how to do, these very things that are no longer necessary because of the day and age we live in😂
Yup. A summer Saturday morning, my friend would come over and we'd walk in one direction...east, on main streets, neighborhoods and woods. At 4pm, we'd figure out which bus (no maps) to take to bring us close enough and then be back in time for dinner. We were 11 years old.
At the end of last summer, I rode the commuter train home and saw 2 kids, couldn't have been over 12 riding home. They had their bikes and all and likely spent the day somewhere in Miami, as I got on the train just north of the Miami stop. They were headed all the way to west palm beach. As much as the adult in me wanted to be horrified, the GenXer was silently congratulating them on a job well done and a wish that the rest of their trip takes them safely home where the parents will have no clue what they did all day...
Wow.., you 100% nailed Gen X.., I laughed so much. I was born in 1969, and everything you said was way to accurate!!! … You were so fun to listen too.., and it also really made me proud to be from the Gen X crew! We had a GREAT CHILDHOOD!!! Looking back at it…, we were built for survival.., we were independent spirits from a very early age .., we developed all kinds of real life skills and had no idea of how well rounded human beings we were becoming through experience. I swear, I was as mature and responsible like an adult by 10 years old!!!! Just GREAT MEMORIES!!!!
Yup. I tell my step kids that we had the best childhood. We got an analog childhood but when we reached adulthood, the digital world started so we learned how to use computers but we got a normal childhood.
I saw that CNBC graph that didn't mention us... and Twitter exploded with "this is the most GenX thing ever...." I was crying laughing at the Tweets. She really nailed this humor down to my Gen Z kids who literally can't write in cursive or can't address an envelope.... it's so hard to not judge them which then makes teaching them hard when we're dripping in contempt and they get mad. lol
hahaha forget the envelope, try teaching them to dial in an analog phone! Oh and to zen the frustration to do it again and again if the line goes busy...🤣
@@nikan7704 We thought school was teaching them those things, like they did us! As a Gen Xer, I learned it in school. My parentswere too busy out making a living. By the time I found out my Gen Z kids couldn't do those things, it was too late! They just gave me the side eye and said it wasn't important and they didn't need to know it because it was all on their phones anyway.
I just had her on my podcast and she was fantastic! Such a nice and interesting person! It was very gracious of her to take the time to be on our tiny show! Thanks, Karen!
I ran my banana seat bike over a plywood Evel Knievel ramp without a helmet and played with the original lawn darts with the pointed metal tips and I'm still here!
I wondered how far I would have to scroll thru the comments to find banana seat biking jumping. We had an alley behind our house that was perfect for our regular bike jumping contests. When we landed hard and our foot fell off the pedal we definitely wanted the bike to have that banana seat to land on!
Born in 83, apparently the term "Xennial" exists for us. Basically, we went through high school without the internet, then got to college and were expected to know everything about it. I remember writing term papers at the library computer lab, and saving them to floppy disks. I had a laptop but carrying it around was like rucking.
It's crazy how things changed so much in the turn of the century that it was necessary to designate a micro generation because people born 20 years prior would find themselves between two very different worlds.
I can relate...I actually consider myself a XENNIAL - born in 1982, by the way I learned about the Internet in my later high school years (graduated in 2000), had dial-up via AOL & survived it, still used floppy disks - now I have a laptop with wi-fi on it, I just wish that the so-called "micro-generations" were talked about more often
Yes about GenX. I was told by my mom that she doesn't have time to deal with bratty kids who happen to either kick me or push me or do other mean things and if that ever happens I am to kick or push them back so hard, that they would never ever think of doing any mean things to me. 😂
I'm a GenXer, and when I raised my kids, I said do everything right first. Try to resolve the issue in a civil manner. If that fails, fight back, and I won't punish you if the school calls.
That didn't work as well for me, when the bratty kids kicking me were my older, stronger brothers. They're both dead now, both by suicide. Turns out, abandonment and neglect have a mixed track record.
Born in '71, I grew up on a struggling farm in Missouri. As such, we had to learn at an early age to work hard and to fix things. We have a few pictures of us kids on tractors, swathers, combines, and other equipment and I think to myself that my parents must have been insane to let a kid that young on such a powerful and expensive (at least to us) piece of equipment. But, both parents also worked off the farm so we all had to pitch in. I have one memory that they have verified, of me STANDING on the seat of our truck driving through the field in a 2 ton 50's era truck with a bale elevator while my dad was in the back stacking hay. I've always been a tall kid so I don't know how old that would have made me, 4-5 maybe? Those troubleshooting skills learned on the farm have been very valuable during my life off the farm (sold it in '88). I am in I.T. now which seems like a far cry from farming, the steps to evaluate a problem, isolate the cause, and figure out a solution is largely the same. My father passed away this past December (thanks to improper cleaning of hospital surgical equipment). But, before he died, we had some good long talks about the farm. He always joked that if he won the lottery, he'd "buy a farm and farm until the money was all gone". LOL
As a Gen X kid I recall breaking a bone in my foot while playing dodgeball. It was on the asphalt playground at school. I remember limping back to class in an incredible pain. I was in the 5th grade and there was no way I was going to shed a tear. Spent 6 weeks in a cast signed by my classmates. Truly a badge of honor
@@user-dw6xm4io1uwhy are you angry "genious?" Sheesh, calm down little buddy. After Gen X a lot of the old school asphalt was changed into the porous kind, and mulch like material. Don't be so sensitive about someone sharing their memories. Have a laugh. 😂
@@tdm3301yea cause they don’t want elementary schoolers to have growth palette problems and end up getting sued by the parents who are usually gen X or millennials
Oh my God did she nail my Gen X childhood😂. We would leave in the morning and be back at dinner or dark. Dad would complain in the summer that he couldn't secure the hose due to the balloon rubber left in the faucet threads. You could actually make money shoveling driveways or cutting grass without taking business from landscaping services.
I had babysitting jobs when I was 12. It was perfectly normal for people to leave their small baby.... with a 12 year old. Now, a 12-year-old isn't supposed to be home alone.
@revjaybird2 I was babysitting the neighbor's baby and 2 year old at 12. LOL They'd leave me a phone number and tell me to call if there was anything. I was also in charge of feeding them.
I was born in New Zealand in 1985 to an American father and a New Zealand mother. New Zealand was stuck in the 60’s and 70’s so My mother made my clothes. We still had milk from a dairy. Came to the house in glass bottles We walked to school by ourselves every day. Mum locked the door and we came home when the street lights came on. When living in Alabama we lived next to 180,000 acres of Bankhead national forest. I remember finding a waterfall in the backyard, stepping over rattlesnakes and dodging copperheads. We scaled a cliff face often with no ropes and survived it all. We had horses I was thrown off and broke my back at age 13. I rubbed dirt in it haha I work hard for what I have, and expect others to do the same. I will still help whoever needs it as best I can. I resonate more with her generation, than the millennial one. Yet here I am explaining myself, so maybe I am more millennial than I like to think 😂
The generation guides are fliud. I remember the box for the milk man deliveries (aka second base), of course the street light rule, cow patty fights, how many kids can you fit it the back of a truck to get ice cream.....
🙋🏻♀️ Went through windshield. Well, not through. Into. Went into windshield but, luckily, my face stopped the rest of my body from advancing through the glass. No major damage and wasn’t taken to the hospital. I got the tweezer and mercurochrome treatment and was outside playing 3 hours later. True story.
Gen X here. During my childhood, I got two concussions, a cracked front tooth, a broken nose, and a cat bite that got infected so bad that I almost lost my hand. My mother always told me, “You’ll live.” She was right.
GenX here. I got jumped by 6 gang members at school. I got punished for fighting back. Someone stole my jacket and Swatch watch out of my locker. I was told it was my fault because the lock broke. I got into an argument with a coach because he called me a doofus. I got pops, from him. The first time I got arrested was on my 21st birthday for drinking in a bar, the charge Public Intoxication. I could go on and on.
I love this lady. I grew up in the 1970s in rural Mississippi. Rode my bicycle by myself three miles one way on a winding two lane blacktop road starting in the fourth grade. Unless there was a bone sticking out we waited until Monday morning to go see the doctor instead of the emergency room. Me and my cousins swam in the roadside ditch after the rainstorm, drank water from a garden hose, ate food that fell on the floor and to this day I still eat boogers. That's why I never get sick because I have an amazing immune system.
We didn’t have a Home Depot and we didn’t go to the store much but yeah you were on your own and one thing she left out because you had chores and you didn’t whine or moan about it. You did your chores and you didn’t get paid for it I mean maybe some parents were nice enough to give you $1.25 allowance but you were expected to be a part of the family and that requires doing chores and no, our parents didn’t buy us a brand new car. Hey, where do we go after GenZ start back today or are they going to add more letters of the alphabet?
I'm Millennial and what she described from her childhood was actually 90+% of my childhood. Thank you. This was hilarious. And I love that your name is "Karen" haha.
I played this for my kids(2teenage boys), I'm genX. Verbatim,word for word exactly what I've always told them, except we had a Buick, I rode on the back dash😂, and lit my mom's cigarettes and handed them to her for safety
Yes. Of course. Safety first. I also had my best medical training from my mom during this time. "If it's bleeding, put pressure on it and raise it above your head." Lady saved my and my buddies lives😅
As a GenXer, I used to help my dad roll his cigarettes after dinnertime. He had this little tubing machine and so I'd take some of the tobacco, fill up the roller, toss an empty cigarette on the end and push to squeeze it into the hollow cigarette tube . Two taps, roll the tip, next! He needed three packs ready for the next day. They really did master the art of smoking LOL
My mom had me (age 7) run into Hubba Bubba (stationary store) & buy her 3 packs of Winston 100 lites... and candy cigarettes for myself & My younger sister 😂
I’m 52. She’s so funny because it’s true. 😂 We played with bb guns, bows and arrows, no bike helmet and we would go out all day and the only instructions we got were, “come back before it’s dark” 😂. And everything else she said.
These comments are accurate and have me cracking up.😂😊 Some of y'all are reminding me of things we did that I had forgotten about. We were tough little people weren't we?
Boomer here - was a single dad from 1980 until 1991. Somehow, my two tough resilient Gen-X kids, with the help of my steady, relentless Greatest Generation parents, survived and thrived. I’m still a bit hazy on how that all turned out well.
That ain't easy, Dad. Hats off. I had a dear friend years ago who was left a single dad to two little girls under 5 years old when their deadbeat mom skipped out. He had to navigate everything from nail polish to French braids to training bras to "sanitary products" by himself. There should be public honors for this sort of thing, kind of like the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The people that are alive in their middle 90's and 100's belong to "The greatest generation", and they are our oldest generation. The silent comes after them.
Nope, the Greatest Generation was born in the late 1890s to the 1910s. They fought in WWI. Very few, if any, are still alive. She was right about the Silent Generation.
Your thinking the progressive generation or lost generation. The greatest generation or depression generation generally runs from 1901-1927. Those are the ones who would have served in WW2. The progressive generation were the ones that served in WW1. There might have been a few that might have served in WW1 but they would be exceptions since the U.S. didn't enter WW1 until 1917.
YEP! I carried a Partridge Family (cause I loved David Cassidy) metal lunchbox from August 1973 through May or June 1979 (when I loved Shaun Cassidy), and aaaalllll the edges were rusty by 1977, but did I get a new one, like Star Wars, or the Bionic Woman? NO! It was metal, it was still fine, and I carried it loooong past the Partridge Family's popularity!! Started junior high, and it went in the trash.
Ditto.... this brought back a lot of memories. I remember riding on the handle bars of a friend's bike at 5 in the morning to help deliver papers. I would be gone 8 to 10 hours a day riding my bike with friends from the neighborhood. Many times, we would end up 30 miles away. Great times!!
Gen X here. So spot on! My Dad would fill the back of our ancient Pontiac station wagon - fondly named Beast - with big black trashbags full of leaves for mulch. We'd ride home just laying on top of the bags. 😁 And my brother would make obstacle courses for us out of rusted wire tomato cages that we'd have to crawl through. 😂 OH! And let's not forget having to go to the library and use card catalogs and microfiche for schoolwork!!! 😖 And making copies of a gazillion encyclopedia pages on the printer 'cause you couldn't check them out. 😭 BUT!!! There are many happy memories of sparklers on 4th of July, and catching lightning bugs in the evening all lazy summer long! Cheers, everybody! 😊
GenX here. Definitely stayed out all day in the summer and on weekends with no parental supervision. We'd eat at whichever home we happened to be near when lunchtime came. LOL
Our station wagon didn’t have a back seat, and yet I still shared my space in the back of the station wagon with about five or six of my mother’s daycare kids.
Not really , she is gloating about how terrible her parenting skills are. Any generation after yours is a reflection of the one before it. She’s not wise but she is smart because people actually can’t comprehend the truth of the matter
Yup! Gen X here. The middle seat in the back was the best, you could see the road and wouldn't puke so often, but you would also fly more easily towards the front window. Or you would just be lying on the hat shelf in the Volvo Amazon, by the back window, pressing your feet against the small side window, the small side window was the AC and would open an inch. They taught me to drive when I was 8.
Our mom would let us back in for lunch, and then kick us back out. And we had to be close enough that we could hear her if she started yelling for us around dinner time. She could yell pretty loud, so that was about 2 or 3 blocks. BTW, the hose water got cool if we let it run for a while, also didn't taste as rubbery.
PREACH!!! Im gen x and my parents were immigrants and we were poor in NYC. I remember waking up, 2nd grade, with no parents. They got home at six. Me and my sis raised ourselves. Gen X, you can't take us out.
My dad always told us, when we would be crying from playing basketball and having the breath knocked out of us by older brothers, that as long as there was no blood, no foul 😂😂😂. . . Loved this bit!!!😅😅😅
I'm absolutely glad to be a Gen X'er. Learned how to fend for ourselves and our self worth comes from surviving our childhood and not from what others think about us. We aren't the forgotten generation the millennials tried to dog pile us and were immediately met with a resounding "whatever" followed with a healthy amount of ignoring them. If there is one thing on this earth to put millennials and gen z into hysterics is ignoring them they absolutely can't deal with it.
Hey....it's good to use Millennials and Gen Z as your flying monkeys to irritate people stuck in their ways - get back at the Lundbergs who want to send everyone back into the office by organizing the youngins against them.
100% agree! It is truly sad how so many people receive their value by “likes” and followers”. Furthermore the lack of resiliency such that anyone who dares to disagree or challenge is met with hysterics and/or the “I have social anxiety and cannot advocate for myself although I have no problem making a video and publicly humiliating someone.”
That’s good for you but you learned that because someone taught you whether it be directly or indirectly. That’s what your generation fails to understand. You guys failed at teaching the concepts you preach about gen z not knowing.
*Thanks so much for all of your great comments!! Much appreciated! 😍I was born the first year of Gen X, so a lot of these apply to Boomers & Gen Jones.* Thanks to Dry Bar Comedy & all y'all who survived the 70s with me
Thanks for mentioning GenJones! I was born in 1959 and found myself relating more to your GenX stories. I was the kid riding in the way back of the station wagon without seatbelts and it was my parents' contemporaries who smoked everywhere, including the waiting room of the doctor's office.
I think we are the best of all gens.. we are independent, hard working & know tough love.. after our gen.. ppl seem to have let the children start ruling everything.. 🤷🏻♀️ love your sense of humor.. great laughs!
Gen Xer from Indiana and you had every bit of that correct even down to trying to kill each other. In the summer we used to throw knives and hackets at the tree in the front yard, make wooden spears and throw em at each other, bottle rocket and Roman candle fights, throw rocks at everything and everyone throw mud balls at everything and everyone now in Indiana even we had crab apple wars teams of 3 to 5 and played hide n seek tag - if you found someone they weren't safe until they got back to base ans out if you were hit by a crab apple, no intentional crab apples to the face, beebee guns went everywhere with you in the summer and I remember walking up across the creek from another set of kids who we didn't know and we had a shoot out as kids one kid on each side got hit and crying so we went our separate ways, we all lived to tell the tale. Sneaking up into yards for boiling hot lava water hose water was a thing. I match your enthusiasm with alot of things today in that I really don't care either. I raised myself from 4rth grade on latch key kid, single mom got home anywhere from 6 to 9pm every night. I think that's why we are different than other generations who are more inclusive and want to be around a group of people whereas I prefer one on one or family and friends time. One of the most brilliant sets on this channel and on YT, should have millions of views 👏 You should come to Louisville KY sometime and plot your way on JRE, again congratulations. I'd like to use this video for a team builder on how to understand people of a different generation at the workplace.
Oh my god, you had me and my husband in tears over this - remember clearly running back home when some bigger kids seconded us kid's bikes at the park - "well go back and get them back" - used to be sent down to the Dairy to buy the ciggies for Dad, and get a 10C bag of lollies - would play in the river at the back of a friend's place, catching guppies - good times!
I always thought of myself as a late boomer but I identified with everything she said. Nice to be a gen Xer. We made a lot of our own meals and had skateboards that were metal skates nailed to 2'x4's.
Dude no lie my father in law is just like this. He electrified the vegetable garden and trees that surround it. We drink an watch him shock squirrels. We raised ourselves in my house. We grew up with 9 kids in the house so both of my parents worked and we basically lived the hunger games. 😂
Even as a baby genX, "we're never going out of business" is perfect and will be part of my lexicon in perpetuity.
I have never gone out of business, but boy I have had to create new ones every few years! Still self-employed through all the insanity of one disaster capitalist scheme after another. Truly Gen X. I think i'm about to start my 5th career?
"Are you bleeding?! Stay outside. I don't want you getting blood on the floor." - Gen X childhood
It's 10 pm Do you know where your children are??
Don’t forget to play with the chemistry set and the wood burning kit or maybe just play with the lawn darts!
3 pumps maxm
Must be a regional thing, 4 pumps where I grew up.
Also any scrape, cut or scratch, if brought to a parent's attention, would get the mercurichrome treatment, which hurt more than the original injury and for longer too.
With that telltale scarlet dye mark as a reminder of the ordeal.
Also forgotten, riding in the back of a pickup truck.
It was common.
Trucks could move 20 kids at a time from place to place!
And no genXer ever had to sit in a baby seat in a car, and could ride in the front seat at 5 years old!
And how could I forget, being smuggled into a drive-in theater in the trunk of a car.
“I bet you won’t do that again” and “this is how we learn” we’re said to me (Gen X) by my boomer dad
Did you do it again?
@@studleyjb3172 lol usually
Brad Upton does a bit about why the younger generations do things like eat tide pods. When they were kids, we babyproofed the home, made sure they didn't hurt each other or themselves. Hand sanitizer and wet wipes were around. So those generations never had the Darwin effect. It wasn't survival of the fittest...all the dumb ones survived. I'm paraphrasing...lol...he is much funnier.
I remember doing some dumb bike trick, falling and getting all bruised up only to have my mother say, "that's what you get". Lol. No ice, no running to my aid. I got heckled lol
@@sniper161718 My dad was similar. His favorite thing to say, other do as I say not as I do, was Well, I told you not to do that didn't I? Bet you don't do that again.
I’m an elder millennial, grew up mostly with friends that were 3-8 years older than myself, so I got the full Gen X childhood experience. I remember my favorite toy was a bow & arrow I made myself from a rusty old knife I found in grandpa’s garage. My arrows were sticks with old nails taped to the ends. We spent most of our free time throwing rocks at hornet nests, wandering the railroad tracks raiding hobo camps, and jumping off huge rocks into swampy ponds so deep in the woods that it would have taken days for anyone to find us if something happened. Fond memories! ❤
As an elder GenXer, I want to say with a story like that, you're more like us than a millennial. Even I never made a bow and poison arrow though I did improvise a slingshot once.
For me this is a typical millennial childhood? What's gen x childhood about it ?
@@monakeulen5622 IYKYK
Did you watch the Challenger explode on live TV? No? Then you do not have the full GenX experience.
@@jenniferrodriguez5337 I'm solidly GenX and I skipped school that day, so I missed the live shot as well. That changes nothing about my life experience except I was absent that day.
Laughed so hard I cried! My Mother’s favorite was any variation of, “If you break your neck; don’t come running to me!” “If you’re gonna cry, I’ll give you something to cry about!”
And the always famous, why?? Because I SAID so, that’s why!
And "When you die because you are stupid, you get a last butt whooping. "
Born in 2000.......
"If blood ain't gushing, and bones aren't sticking out. Then it cant be bad, get up and go keep playing."
How does that make sense when i am a part _that_ generation?🤣
@@koekiemonster5723 it doesn’t!! But welcome to our world of how we grew up!
GenX we amused ourselves, now y’all are our amusement
The gen-x portion of the show brings back memories.🤓
Memories = trauma response
@@genxmum5569 Maybe 4 u, not 4 me.
The station wagon bit was me, my sister, and cousins. We weren't waving though. We were flicking people off. This lady followed my mom to the store parking lot to snitch on us. 😂
For those who might be confused, there is a difference between Gen X and all those who came before that had similar growing up experiences. Gen X often had to discover things for themselves and learn from their peers more than the generations before. They really were, even for those with intact parents, mostly left alone unless very specific rules were broken. Secondly, Gen X were both the last manual and the first digital generation. They can easily put one foot in and the other foot out of the computer world.
Yes we can. As a matter of fact, my senior year of vocational school, in Industrial Electronics, was the first year that school taught digital electronics.
BB guns and plywood ramps. I still have the scars.
...but I'm still here.
🎯 I agree. Until I left automotive repair & had to learn to work from home, I'd never had an office job. But I think that has more to do with being "blue collar" than it does being of a particular generation
@@erics9869 The more falls you take, the harder headed you become 😊!
I saw a meme about this that hit me right where I live: "I'm Gen X. This means that I adapt to new technology like a millennial, but complain about it like a boomer."
Gen X here, best childhood ever...yes, we don't care and is amusing to see this new generations! Love your Special, thanks!
Best description of my Gen X world ever. Brought back lots of memories and it let me know why I never believed in afternoon snacks in school. We had lunch and that's it.
That’s right! Nobody needs to eat all day! That’s why everyone’s fat!
And not a water bottle in sight! Anywhere!
Yeah, and we didn't grow up with dessert. Neither did my own kids because it's just not a habit I learned. If you wanted a snack, have an apple.
As a Gen X, if you forgot your lunch money (or your parents didn't leave any), you got a cheese sandwich and a half pint of milk. The cheese sandwich was simply a slice of processed American cheese on a hamburger bun. Nothing else. It was enough to get by but you were hungry the rest of the day. It sure taught us not to forget our lunch money.
@rachellefroman6402 Cheese sandwich but on white bread here! LOL and no milk. A reusable thermos of juice that slightly tasted like every other juice that had ever been contained in there LOL
Green pinecone war was actually a thing in my neighborhood. I got smart. I wore a red jacket with a white cross and told everyone I was the medic. I helped out the injured ones. Best decision I took that year.
I'm a young boomer (talk about an oxymoron, young & boomer together -- meaning I was born late in the boomer years actually) and I cannot even begin to count the number of rock fights we had as kids. Summertime it was a near daily happening. It is wild if I remember the stuff we used to do!
😂😂😂
Yo. The green pine cones had the best aerodynamics and weren't as spiky . 😅
Wow. Very smart.
@@ramtigerfalcon8387 Yes, and they hurt something fierce. One afternoon around supper time, I came home with a lot of blood on the "medic" jacket I had fashioned for myself. My dad asked me if it was my blood. I said no. All he said was don't get hit in the eyes, and stop taking the supplies out of the first aid kit. He gave me a bunch of clean garage rags to bandage the guys up. Talk about aiding abd abbeting.😂
And our pop culture, movies, music, Saturday morning cartoons, it was a golden age.
Don't forget about Arcades...real arcades with arcade machines...that was social gaming in our time. I miss all of it.
I went to Penn State in '89. Skip a few boring classes, like AP Physics & AP Calculus, hung out at the arcade for hours, playing mostly pinball machines.
Stop. Stop reminding of great things forever lost.
@@benjaminlear1619 See, that's the thing, it's not lost. Between DVD, BluRay, and streaming, it's all there. You just have to go look for it. The media, that is.
As a fellow GenXer, this is on point! I remember the days being in the 6th grade, that’s 10-11 years old, and riding my Diamond Back bike all over the neighborhood with my friend Blanca. We absolutely drank straight from the hose. And I remember getting hit right on the face with a dodge ball in the 5th grade. 😅😅 We are the best 😊
We were tough sobs!
Such good times! Right there with ya! BMX bikes, dodge ball in the face, forts, sleep overs, record players... great times! Blessings!
That sounds identical to what we millennials still experienced. Snowball fights with ice, kickball with fights, bike rides around town in heavt rain, blowing up old cars, sledding down hazardous hills, ect. Not all of us were able to afford video games so we still played reckless outside :). I miss that era
The best tasting water was always out of the hose. We’d usually let it run to get rid of the hot water in the hose so we could get the cooler water in the pipes. I also got hit right in the face with a red dodgeball in 5th grade. That hurt like a mother! The teacher let me sit out for the rest of the game but after a few mins I ran back in to keep playing.
I loved my Diamond back!!!
OMG...lol. I am Gen X too and this was 100% accurate right down to the hot hose water and mom smoking in the car. Remember coming in for dinner and Mom asking..."Did you wash your hands?" of course not...trudge upstairs to wash them and come back down only to have Dad drop my hot dog on the ground while transferring from grill to bun...pick it up...blow on it (very important...and sanitary)...put it in the bun and say..."A little dirt never hurt anyone." The irony of the 5 second rule.
🤣🤣🤣 Sooo true! ❤
Accurate. I had asthma and remember my mom blowing her cigarette smoke (off to the side) saying: "I don't know why your so sick baby." Then she gave me a hug and sent me to bed but I'm still here. 😅
Five seconds?
*Puts on Topper Hat*
We didn't get five. It was the 3 second rule in my house. Five? You musta been rich... ;)
😂😂😂😂
My mom
Smoked in the car. I’m early Millennial so I still have Gen X life memories. We were outside with the neighborhood kids all day long.
I still have a BB lodged against my left cheekbone. Shows up on dental xrays every few years. She described my childhood perfectly and made me laugh at the same time. Got to add her to my list of comedians to see when she comes to town.
I would watch a lot of 80s commercials here on TH-cam and wonder " how come I've never seen these before?" Then i realized i was always outside...
The Home Depot parenting stuff was so true. My parents were always at work. No one checked homework,. We really did raise ourselves. Gen X is the coolest most independent, no-BS generation.
They were working every day but my mom checked and helped with homework at night. It's the one thing they paid attention to.
I only saw my mom on the weekends during the school year. From 1st grade thru HS graduation, my mom worked 2nd shift at the same job. She was asleep when I got up, and gone to work when I got home in the afternoon. From 2nd grade on, I was responsible for waking myself up, dressing, eating, riding my bike to school and back home, and getting my homework done on my own. We literally communicated via a notepad on the kitchen table Monday-Friday.
Maybe it's because I'm actually a millennial, born right after Gen x was over.... I feel like Gen x but I don't feel strong or independent. Of course, my family members were neglectful. They missed my lifelong condition and I didn't get a diagnosis until I was an adult. They were also abusive and no one really noticed or cared. It didn't make me cooler unless being mentally ill is cool which does seem like every next generation gravitates towards even more than the previous one. Mental illness is cool.
@@jayaom4946 - you might feel like genX, but you definitely aren't. :))) It's not whether something is cool or isn't. GenXers are usually proud we made it through a hardship - we laugh at it. Millennials tend to sound like they are looking for a pity party.. That's the difference.
This is SO dead-on accurate. Stop your crying or I’ll give you something to cry about!!
Oh, you’re bored?! Well, there’s dishes to do, laundry, etc. Oh, not so much bored anymore, are ya?
We must have the same parents lol
@@syrenasketches6902 right?! Ah, memories….
Sounds familiar 😂
Mow the lawn.
My mom took me and my four older boomer siblings to a "no lifeguard" at your own risk pool. I almost drowned til my sister noticed my black hair floating. My mother was busy setting up on her chaise oblivious.
Born in 1970 it is so true everything she said. It was a beautiful time
Yes! 1968 here...and, she's spot on! We are by FAR the best modern- times generation. Although a stretch...I think we could hold our own with the Founding Fathers. Of course, they were the benchmark model, but... the creative thinking, the drive, the discipline, the moxie... they had it... we have it. Best to you, fellow X-er! :)
Yes very late to this but just found it. Born in 1969. Drank from the garden hose, played with lawn darts, ran wild around the neighbourhood until my Dad with his carrying High School teacher voice yelled “Bedtime!”.
Drinking from the garden hose and lawn darts. Just marry me now lol... Yeah it was a different time a better time. :)
I love that you referenced drinking from the hose and lawn darts.... I literally made a reference to lawn darts somebody three weeks ago and they had no idea what I was talking about and I had to look down sadly
Not a professional comedian like yourself but I am a musician and I've been on stage and I've had to say funny things and entertain... I was so proud of my lawn dart statement the other day and the person had no idea what I was talking about... Such a wasted opportunity. :)
I broke my arm - compound fracture - at cheerleading practice in high school. My mom showed up to the hospital over 2 hours later, and they could finally give me pain meds and set my arm. My mom said she was finishing up some gardening. I am Gen X.
Respect! We were playing kill the carrier at school during recess and a bigger kid landed on me and drove my face into the ground. At dinner that night, my parents asked why my front teeth were black. Apparently, some of the asphalt had embedded itself.
Not a single tear shed, and after a trip to the dentist, everything was fine. Still live with the hairline crack in my front tooth.
LOL. Gen X too. I broke my arm too in elementary school trying to show off on the monkey bars and fell. All the school did was lay my arm on a piece of cardboard and sat me down till my mom could come get me. No pain meds, no nothing. I wore a cast for weeks.
@@aljirou29"kill the carrier" That's a lot easier to say than "kill the man with the ball"; like we did.
I broke my arm on a Sunday and my mom sent me to school the next day before she took me the doctor. We didn't even go to the hospital. lol.
I broke my ankle at school during lunch one day and the principal didn't believe me and sent me to class anyway. At the end of the day i was in so much pain I couldn't walk any, that is when they decided I might not be faking it.
We were the first ones to use computers in school. The big huge ones. But one memory that sticks with me is getting up early on Sat sitting in front of the tv on the floor eating cereal and watching the good cartoons, the ones you cant find now! And me and my brother lived in a small town and we were all over town on Sat and on Saturday night everyone had to take a bath because Sunday was church!
To be fair, some of those shows/cartoons were genuinely bad, even though I loved them as a kid. Sometime in the 90s there was a Sid and Marty Krofft marathon and wow... I don't know what those two were smoking or ingesting but it definitely made them see colors not in the visible spectrum.
@@MarkArness I miss the good ole days
Commodore Pet 64.
I found those cartoons. Will not show my own kids 😅
Dad took us to a sandpit and filled up the back of the truck, so we could have a sandpile to play in. We rode home on the top of that pile of sand, with the family dog. These new generations have no idea what fun was.
100%
Nice!!!
That sounds like the most lamest/most boring thing to do for “fun”💀💀💀💀
@@juniorfuentes2584 Probably because there's not an app for it. Get off my lawn. 🙄
@@joeday4293 you’re so lame😂😂😂
Also, I'm a younger Boomer and we had a lot in common with Gen X. No seat belts, smoking in car and everywhere, told to stop crying or "I'll give you something to cry about. " I was raised by Greatest Gen parents.
same here. A lot of what she said about Gen x applied to my childhood, despite being near the tail end of the boomers.
Same here and I was born in 53. Things don’t change that fast, I guess.
Yeah, I was born in 1960, so I'm technically a Boomer, but I've always identified with Gen X's
That’s sad …
Born the same year. This is my childhood to a ‘T’
Well said. I'm one of the free-ranging kids from Gen X
This was so funny. Also one of the generation who weren’t diagnosed with autism, OCD or ADHD. We just had to find that out later on in our 40s.
You missed out dyslexia and being left handed.
Joined the Air Force late (25 in ‘99) and as an immigrant. Didn’t get Mental Health Care for Depression until nearly 30 (what with two wars going on). My cohorts in therapy were all millennials.
Developed Anxiety Disorder and OCDs in service which are now part of my VA Disabilities. American GenX childhoods must be harsh because my own age peers in the service seemed to be more resilient (or maybe their duties were easier, being closer to military retirement than I was).
Nobody had peanut allergies. Maybe the warm hose water and spaghettioos cured that?
Diagnosed at 43. Lol
@@SusannaSaundersRight (left😂) there with ya. We totally had to learn how to adjust, adapt, and overcome. Wood school armrest only on the right side us lefties had to hold our arm up all day.
As a Gen X kid we also had Jarts! Our play grounds had steel three story monkey bars with nothing but asphalt and broken glass under it! We also had three story tornado slides that would heat up to 250f and burn off 2 layers of skin as you slid down it. And best of all...we had our MTV! And not the crappy MTV either but when it was good and played music!
Remember those metal merry go rounds that you would push start with your legs until it went so fast he weaker kids would fly off? Our park swings were also really tall, so you could swing really high and then launch yourself as far as you could to beat the last persons jump. Man, that was so painful at times when you'd launch higher than expected and land wrong... or if your arm or shirt got caught in the metal swing chains.
Gee, I don't know. Sure I love the swings. But kids are soft, these days. A mom at school...her daughter stepped off a very low curb crossing the street...and completely blew out her knee. Needed surgery. She was a senior in HS at the time. 😮 must be the sedentary life style. And a school bus driver measured the new bus seat belts. They are 7 feet long, the new federal standard size. 😮
@kH-bv8ix I hate to say it, but I've noticed a "widening" of the population, too. It's hard not to notice. When I was a kid, it was rare to see an obese person. Even chubby kids were rare, and they normally grew out of it.
It's the garbage food... It's deadly!!
Metal slides on a hot day!
Omg. You perfectly described my childhood with GenX. Home depot reference is killer.
I'm an older millennial, I remember the late '80s and early '90s well. So what she's describing was my experience too. The kids stayed out all day, but the community was tight and kept an eye on eachothers kids. We rode in the back of the pickup truck, a thrown out mattress was a trampoline, and bopping with your pals and a portable boom box was the life.
@@PWJC45 "Millennial, term used to describe a person born between 1981 and 1996, though different sources can vary by a year or two. It was first used in the book Generations (1991) by William Strauss and Neil Howe, who felt it was an appropriate name for the first generation to reach adulthood in the new millennium." -Britannica
"In order to keep the Millennial generation analytically meaningful, and to begin looking at what might be unique about the next cohort, Pew Research Center decided a year ago to use 1996 as the last birth year for Millennials for our future work. Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 23 to 38 in 2019) is considered a Millennial, and anyone born from 1997 onward is part of a new generation". -Pew Research
I’m 1982, and I identify much more with Gen X, I’d say it’s largely because I have two older brothers.
@@joeyree22you are at the very tail end of Gen X 😊
Same. Born in 81. I was a year ahead in school so all my classmates were the last of the Gen Xers. I thought I was Gen X until the mid 90s lol.
@@themanifestorsmind I'm also '81 and honestly I consider myself Gen X. My year group was always called Gen X growing up, although not much then since there wasn't so much emphasis placed on generational names. Never even herd the term Millennial until I was a senior in high school and then they applied it to the freshman. Different graphs and charts show diff years, so I figure just go with your gut and what you grew up classified as.
She's not even telling jokes. She's just straight up spitting facts LOL I'm also a forgotten Gen Xer. We are the Tonka truck tough generation.
Tonka trucks, Big Jim, and GI Joe... who all got off on torturing Barbie & Ken and wrecking their playhouse.
We had so much freedom.
We are going to be the only survivors in the upcoming holocaust!
@AvarielBlackwing I had 3 brothers... being the only girl, I didn't have Ken & Barbie so GI Joe's were my favorite ... next to my EZ bake & baby alive LOL.
@@notme2day 😎 cool
"What? You don't know how to swim yet?" *Uncle Dave chucks me in the pool like a sack of potatoes...Gen x right here. I had the bike ramps.🤣
What is it up with Uncles doing that? I didn't learn to swim, I just got traumatized. lol
Hell yes! We made one with an old clothes dryer... It was all fun and games till the oldest brother forgot to tighten the nuts on his front axle.
"You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel!". Buried the forks all the way in the ground. He hit the handlebars, then flew an impressive distance!
We laughed our asses off, lol. When he could breathe again, he tore that ramp apart in a fit of anger. It STILL comes up, lol.
Thats how my dad taught me. Deep end as well
My boomer dad tried to take our bike ramp with his motorcycle once lol...
She totally nails gen X. I can remember getting rolled down a hill in a dryer drum by older kids. Great stuff!! 😂
We rolled each other in a wooden thing used for electric cables.. 😂😂
@@kerryalbritton6532 yeah we would have races/bumper cars with those huge wooden spools also - make them roll by running on top of them like wheels then crash into each other or try to run over anyone who didnt have one!
Tire!❤❤❤😂
Hate to admit this be we once used a filthy 50 gallon drum trash can from the park to roll down the hill! And probably didn’t even wash our hands the rest of the day. And we’re still here…
I think you forget that the parents of GenZ is Gen X, the generation, who failed to teach us how to write and read in cursive, the generation that failed to teach us how to write a check, the generation that failed to teach us how to address an envelope, all things that I a Gen-zer know how to do, these very things that are no longer necessary because of the day and age we live in😂
A wonderful addition to my Mother's Day ❤️ As a gen X with a boomer mom and millennial, Gen z kids I so relate 😃
Yup. A summer Saturday morning, my friend would come over and we'd walk in one direction...east, on main streets, neighborhoods and woods. At 4pm, we'd figure out which bus (no maps) to take to bring us close enough and then be back in time for dinner. We were 11 years old.
At the end of last summer, I rode the commuter train home and saw 2 kids, couldn't have been over 12 riding home. They had their bikes and all and likely spent the day somewhere in Miami, as I got on the train just north of the Miami stop. They were headed all the way to west palm beach. As much as the adult in me wanted to be horrified, the GenXer was silently congratulating them on a job well done and a wish that the rest of their trip takes them safely home where the parents will have no clue what they did all day...
Gen X is the forgotten generation and we like it that way.
We’re the best
@@sevendegrees 👍🏻👍🏻
Right, just leave us alone…😂😂😂
Be glad you don't get blamed for all the problems like Baby Boomers are. We get accused of keeping money for ourselves that many of us have never had.
That's why we're called Generation X.
Wow.., you 100% nailed Gen X.., I laughed so much. I was born in 1969, and everything you said was way to accurate!!!
… You were so fun to listen too.., and it also really made me proud to be from the Gen X crew! We had a GREAT CHILDHOOD!!! Looking back at it…, we were built for survival.., we were independent spirits from a very early age .., we developed all kinds of real life skills and had no idea of how well rounded human beings we were becoming through experience. I swear, I was as mature and responsible like an adult by 10 years old!!!! Just GREAT MEMORIES!!!!
You know it!!! '68 here. Great times indeed!
I am Gen X and I approve this message! So spot on. WE ARE NEVER GOING OUT OF BUSINESS!!!
Gen X'er here! That was a really hilarious way to reminisce growing up and realize how different things are now in the present compared to before. 😅
Yup. I tell my step kids that we had the best childhood. We got an analog childhood but when we reached adulthood, the digital world started so we learned how to use computers but we got a normal childhood.
@@martinsmith5520 What's a "normal" childhood? Also, I'm glad digital started in my childhood because otherwise it would've been boring AF.
I saw that CNBC graph that didn't mention us... and Twitter exploded with "this is the most GenX thing ever...." I was crying laughing at the Tweets. She really nailed this humor down to my Gen Z kids who literally can't write in cursive or can't address an envelope.... it's so hard to not judge them which then makes teaching them hard when we're dripping in contempt and they get mad. lol
You forgot can't read the time on a clock that's not digital!
You realize it's you who should have taught your kids those things, right? Just pointing out the irony😂
hahaha forget the envelope, try teaching them to dial in an analog phone! Oh and to zen the frustration to do it again and again if the line goes busy...🤣
@@nikan7704 We thought school was teaching them those things, like they did us! As a Gen Xer, I learned it in school. My parentswere too busy out making a living. By the time I found out my Gen Z kids couldn't do those things, it was too late! They just gave me the side eye and said it wasn't important and they didn't need to know it because it was all on their phones anyway.
@@boomerbristol3774they teach that in 1st grade and there are no analog clocks in school they only have real clocks
I just had her on my podcast and she was fantastic! Such a nice and interesting person! It was very gracious of her to take the time to be on our tiny show! Thanks, Karen!
I ran my banana seat bike over a plywood Evel Knievel ramp without a helmet and played with the original lawn darts with the pointed metal tips and I'm still here!
I wondered how far I would have to scroll thru the comments to find banana seat biking jumping. We had an alley behind our house that was perfect for our regular bike jumping contests. When we landed hard and our foot fell off the pedal we definitely wanted the bike to have that banana seat to land on!
I ran my HONDA EXPRESS moped over a ramp and caught serious air. Scared the bejeezus out of me!
@@JB-ti7bl ouchy for the bike
Heh. I rode my 10-speed Raleigh over ramps - had the racing handlebars so I could duck low
riding a big wheel in a public street with no helmet, the life🤣
She is just amazing. Couldn't stop myself from watching it again and again.
Spot on with the GenX description! We're never going out of business! 🤣
We're not *all* still here, we lost some along the way, but I salute to their sacrifice!
We’re never going out of business should be the name of her Netflix special!!!!
Born in 83, apparently the term "Xennial" exists for us. Basically, we went through high school without the internet, then got to college and were expected to know everything about it. I remember writing term papers at the library computer lab, and saving them to floppy disks. I had a laptop but carrying it around was like rucking.
Back when the first computer system, after the Trash80's, was Magic Windows, learned in DOS
the Oregon Trail generation
It's crazy how things changed so much in the turn of the century that it was necessary to designate a micro generation because people born 20 years prior would find themselves between two very different worlds.
I can relate...I actually consider myself a XENNIAL - born in 1982, by the way
I learned about the Internet in my later high school years (graduated in 2000), had dial-up via AOL & survived it, still used floppy disks - now I have a laptop with wi-fi on it, I just wish that the so-called "micro-generations" were talked about more often
We have digital knowledge of millenial with gen X's raring method parenting. A.ka latchkey and "walk it off" treatment😂
Yes about GenX. I was told by my mom that she doesn't have time to deal with bratty kids who happen to either kick me or push me or do other mean things and if that ever happens I am to kick or push them back so hard, that they would never ever think of doing any mean things to me. 😂
I'm a GenXer, and when I raised my kids, I said do everything right first. Try to resolve the issue in a civil manner. If that fails, fight back, and I won't punish you if the school calls.
That didn't work as well for me, when the bratty kids kicking me were my older, stronger brothers.
They're both dead now, both by suicide.
Turns out, abandonment and neglect have a mixed track record.
😂 She speaks the truth! If, "But did you die though?" was a generation, it would be Gen-X.
I have the shirt😂
Some of us did die though...
@@dbaargosy4062Survival of the fittest.
@dbaargosy4064
Boomer here.
Neighbor kid age 12 got killed with a gun because his cousin and he were hunting rabbits. Yeah, some of them did die.
Both my older brothers died. It's only funny until the answer is yes. Then it's still funny, but in a very grim way.
Born in '71, I grew up on a struggling farm in Missouri. As such, we had to learn at an early age to work hard and to fix things. We have a few pictures of us kids on tractors, swathers, combines, and other equipment and I think to myself that my parents must have been insane to let a kid that young on such a powerful and expensive (at least to us) piece of equipment. But, both parents also worked off the farm so we all had to pitch in. I have one memory that they have verified, of me STANDING on the seat of our truck driving through the field in a 2 ton 50's era truck with a bale elevator while my dad was in the back stacking hay. I've always been a tall kid so I don't know how old that would have made me, 4-5 maybe?
Those troubleshooting skills learned on the farm have been very valuable during my life off the farm (sold it in '88). I am in I.T. now which seems like a far cry from farming, the steps to evaluate a problem, isolate the cause, and figure out a solution is largely the same. My father passed away this past December (thanks to improper cleaning of hospital surgical equipment). But, before he died, we had some good long talks about the farm. He always joked that if he won the lottery, he'd "buy a farm and farm until the money was all gone". LOL
Yup, we were tough as nails, and still are.🇺🇸👍🏻
I’m a Gen Boomer… and this was a highly accurate description of every day of my childhood. Literally spot on about everything.
As a Gen X kid I recall breaking a bone in my foot while playing dodgeball. It was on the asphalt playground at school. I remember limping back to class in an incredible pain. I was in the 5th grade and there was no way I was going to shed a tear. Spent 6 weeks in a cast signed by my classmates. Truly a badge of honor
We still have asphalt playgrounds and broken bones in the 00's+, genius. Like, what exactly about that do you think it is unique to Gen X 💀
There's always a whiner in the crowd...
B just announcing to everyone that he's Gen Z lol 😆
@@user-dw6xm4io1uwhy are you angry "genious?" Sheesh, calm down little buddy. After Gen X a lot of the old school asphalt was changed into the porous kind, and mulch like material. Don't be so sensitive about someone sharing their memories. Have a laugh. 😂
@@tdm3301yea cause they don’t want elementary schoolers to have growth palette problems and end up getting sued by the parents who are usually gen X or millennials
Thanks!
Oh my God did she nail my Gen X childhood😂. We would leave in the morning and be back at dinner or dark. Dad would complain in the summer that he couldn't secure the hose due to the balloon rubber left in the faucet threads. You could actually make money shoveling driveways or cutting grass without taking business from landscaping services.
I had babysitting jobs when I was 12. It was perfectly normal for people to leave their small baby.... with a 12 year old. Now, a 12-year-old isn't supposed to be home alone.
Or you could make money by picking up all of the Pepsi and Coca Cola bottles and turn them in for a nickel or a dime (depending on where you lived).
Preach
@revjaybird2 I was babysitting the neighbor's baby and 2 year old at 12. LOL They'd leave me a phone number and tell me to call if there was anything. I was also in charge of feeding them.
@@davidharris8444 That's how I afforded the public swimming pool!! 😂😂
I didn't think there would be a better bit than when she dried out the snow from the shopping cart at Target, but she nailed it. Awesome.
My mouth fell open the first time I heard the Target bit. And I was hooked to hear the rest of what she had to say on her first Drybar
Thank you!!
I think of her every time I see a wet cart!
This lady is really good and gets the crowd going because of how relatable her comedy is. Would love to see her more.
I was born in New Zealand in 1985 to an American father and a New Zealand mother. New Zealand was stuck in the 60’s and 70’s so My mother made my clothes. We still had milk from a dairy. Came to the house in glass bottles
We walked to school by ourselves every day. Mum locked the door and we came home when the street lights came on. When living in Alabama we lived next to 180,000 acres of Bankhead national forest. I remember finding a waterfall in the backyard, stepping over rattlesnakes and dodging copperheads. We scaled a cliff face often with no ropes and survived it all.
We had horses I was thrown off and broke my back at age 13. I rubbed dirt in it haha
I work hard for what I have, and expect others to do the same. I will still help whoever needs it as best I can. I resonate more with her generation, than the millennial one.
Yet here I am explaining myself, so maybe I am more millennial than I like to think 😂
The generation guides are fliud. I remember the box for the milk man deliveries (aka second base), of course the street light rule, cow patty fights, how many kids can you fit it the back of a truck to get ice cream.....
As an Elder Millennial with two Gen X older sisters I relate to so much of this. She tells no lies 😂
She is exceedingly talented and has great insights and perfect timing. Many thanks for this fabulous 11 minutes.
Gen X baby!💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾" if your mom arm wasn't strong enough you deserve to go through that window"😂😂😂😂
Im GenX ...My first car seat was a laundry basket.
🤣
My wife still does that every time she has to brake hard.
My head cracked the front windshield, might explain a few things.
Mama didn't have "wipes" in her purse. She had a Kleenex, and spit.
🙋🏻♀️ Went through windshield. Well, not through. Into. Went into windshield but, luckily, my face stopped the rest of my body from advancing through the glass. No major damage and wasn’t taken to the hospital. I got the tweezer and mercurochrome treatment and was outside playing 3 hours later. True story.
Gen X here. During my childhood, I got two concussions, a cracked front tooth, a broken nose, and a cat bite that got infected so bad that I almost lost my hand. My mother always told me, “You’ll live.” She was right.
GenX here. I got jumped by 6 gang members at school. I got punished for fighting back.
Someone stole my jacket and Swatch watch out of my locker. I was told it was my fault because the lock broke.
I got into an argument with a coach because he called me a doofus. I got pops, from him.
The first time I got arrested was on my 21st birthday for drinking in a bar, the charge Public Intoxication.
I could go on and on.
I love this lady. I grew up in the 1970s in rural Mississippi. Rode my bicycle by myself three miles one way on a winding two lane blacktop road starting in the fourth grade. Unless there was a bone sticking out we waited until Monday morning to go see the doctor instead of the emergency room. Me and my cousins swam in the roadside ditch after the rainstorm, drank water from a garden hose, ate food that fell on the floor and to this day I still eat boogers. That's why I never get sick because I have an amazing immune system.
You had me right up to the nasal snacking
@@kitty10141 I am my own petri dish!
😂😂😂
😍Thanks!
@@edithdlp8045 Jesus turned water into wine. But He can't turn whining into anything!
I'm Gen X too. She describe my childhood to a tee. LOL
We didn’t have a Home Depot and we didn’t go to the store much but yeah you were on your own and one thing she left out because you had chores and you didn’t whine or moan about it. You did your chores and you didn’t get paid for it I mean maybe some parents were nice enough to give you $1.25 allowance but you were expected to be a part of the family and that requires doing chores and no, our parents didn’t buy us a brand new car.
Hey, where do we go after GenZ start back today or are they going to add more letters of the alphabet?
I'm Millennial and what she described from her childhood was actually 90+% of my childhood. Thank you. This was hilarious. And I love that your name is "Karen" haha.
I played this for my kids(2teenage boys), I'm genX. Verbatim,word for word exactly what I've always told them, except we had a Buick, I rode on the back dash😂, and lit my mom's cigarettes and handed them to her for safety
Yes. Of course. Safety first.
I also had my best medical training from my mom during this time.
"If it's bleeding, put pressure on it and raise it above your head."
Lady saved my and my buddies lives😅
Love that last detail. 😆
As a GenXer, I used to help my dad roll his cigarettes after dinnertime. He had this little tubing machine and so I'd take some of the tobacco, fill up the roller, toss an empty cigarette on the end and push to squeeze it into the hollow cigarette tube . Two taps, roll the tip, next! He needed three packs ready for the next day. They really did master the art of smoking LOL
My mom had me (age 7) run into Hubba Bubba (stationary store) & buy her 3 packs of Winston 100 lites... and candy cigarettes for myself & My younger sister 😂
I rode my bike to the store to buy my dad's cigarettes when I was 10....
I’m 52. She’s so funny because it’s true. 😂
We played with bb guns, bows and arrows, no bike helmet and we would go out all day and the only instructions we got were, “come back before it’s dark” 😂. And everything else she said.
once the steet lights came on it was " get your asses home" time
Y'all think ur the main characters
She forgot to mention lawn darts. 🤣
When we cried, our parents said: "Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about."
Because we are. You can't even spell 'you're'. I'm certain you can't even read cursive. @@joerelish2789
Totally can relate. You left off riding three kids on banana bikes and sliding down icy hills with cardboard boxes😂 and screen doors with no screens 😮
3 pumps max and no head shots. Spot on precision! I can't believe it. Described my childhood to the t! Gen X baby!!!!!
Omg 👀.... We ABSOLUTELY sat in the station wagon backwards, waving to people 😂😂😂... Lol I almost died when she said that 🤦🏽♀️
In the 50s, with a Plymouth Fury III station wagon, we fought for the back seat. The Basset Hound fit perfectly in the space right behind us.
I remember my uncle and aunt had a mint green 3 seater wagon. That thing was AWESOME
These comments are accurate and have me cracking up.😂😊 Some of y'all are reminding me of things we did that I had forgotten about. We were tough little people weren't we?
She's spittin' facts! Gave me a history lesson and a good laugh all together!
Boomer here - was a single dad from 1980 until 1991. Somehow, my two tough resilient Gen-X kids, with the help of my steady, relentless Greatest Generation parents, survived and thrived. I’m still a bit hazy on how that all turned out well.
That ain't easy, Dad. Hats off. I had a dear friend years ago who was left a single dad to two little girls under 5 years old when their deadbeat mom skipped out. He had to navigate everything from nail polish to French braids to training bras to "sanitary products" by himself. There should be public honors for this sort of thing, kind of like the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Yet, single mums navigate wet dreams, p0rn and shaving without such honours...@@joeday4293
The people that are alive in their middle 90's and 100's belong to "The greatest generation", and they are our oldest generation. The silent comes after them.
Nope, the Greatest Generation was born in the late 1890s to the 1910s. They fought in WWI. Very few, if any, are still alive. She was right about the Silent Generation.
Your thinking the progressive generation or lost generation. The greatest generation or depression generation generally runs from 1901-1927. Those are the ones who would have served in WW2. The progressive generation were the ones that served in WW1. There might have been a few that might have served in WW1 but they would be exceptions since the U.S. didn't enter WW1 until 1917.
That rusty lunchbox was how we got our iron intake 😂
Brilliant!!!
That, and our Flintstones chewables.
YEP! I carried a Partridge Family (cause I loved David Cassidy) metal lunchbox from August 1973 through May or June 1979 (when I loved Shaun Cassidy), and aaaalllll the edges were rusty by 1977, but did I get a new one, like Star Wars, or the Bionic Woman? NO! It was metal, it was still fine, and I carried it loooong past the Partridge Family's popularity!! Started junior high, and it went in the trash.
"Happy Days" lunchbox full of rust. lol
I remember my dad saying stuff like “it’s good for you. It’s iron!”
Ditto.... this brought back a lot of memories.
I remember riding on the handle bars of a friend's bike at 5 in the morning to help deliver papers.
I would be gone 8 to 10 hours a day riding my bike with friends from the neighborhood. Many times, we would end up 30 miles away.
Great times!!
Gen x. For food we would pick apples from tree and sometimes cook them in Easy bake oven in shed.
“You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit” ~ my GenX life ❤
Don't like it, don't look.
Gen X here. So spot on! My Dad would fill the back of our ancient Pontiac station wagon - fondly named Beast - with big black trashbags full of leaves for mulch. We'd ride home just laying on top of the bags. 😁 And my brother would make obstacle courses for us out of rusted wire tomato cages that we'd have to crawl through. 😂 OH! And let's not forget having to go to the library and use card catalogs and microfiche for schoolwork!!! 😖 And making copies of a gazillion encyclopedia pages on the printer 'cause you couldn't check them out. 😭 BUT!!! There are many happy memories of sparklers on 4th of July, and catching lightning bugs in the evening all lazy summer long! Cheers, everybody! 😊
GenX here. Definitely stayed out all day in the summer and on weekends with no parental supervision. We'd eat at whichever home we happened to be near when lunchtime came. LOL
Anybody who's Gen X knows she's telling the truth! 😆
Our station wagon didn’t have a back seat, and yet I still shared my space in the back of the station wagon with about five or six of my mother’s daycare kids.
Evidently Gen x is the best generation.
10-12 people in a station wagon at a time. If my grandma came with her little Honda, only 7 people in it. We had clown cars and lawn darts😂
We had a pick up we rode in the back of, with the dog. Good weather of course!
@@flamingpieherman9822 Got that right.
This woman is very wise, and HILARIOUS!!
Not really , she is gloating about how terrible her parenting skills are. Any generation after yours is a reflection of the one before it. She’s not wise but she is smart because people actually can’t comprehend the truth of the matter
@@noompsieOG Bingo
Yup! Gen X here. The middle seat in the back was the best, you could see the road and wouldn't puke so often, but you would also fly more easily towards the front window. Or you would just be lying on the hat shelf in the Volvo Amazon, by the back window, pressing your feet against the small side window, the small side window was the AC and would open an inch. They taught me to drive when I was 8.
This is SOOO SPOT ON about Gen X and I love it!! Best childhood ever!! 🙌😂
Our mom would let us back in for lunch, and then kick us back out. And we had to be close enough that we could hear her if she started yelling for us around dinner time. She could yell pretty loud, so that was about 2 or 3 blocks. BTW, the hose water got cool if we let it run for a while, also didn't taste as rubbery.
And always be back inside before the street lights came on at sundown.
bike on the lawn,still there in the morning........back by dark,@@radolfkalis4041
Is it broken?
Is it GUSHING blood ?
Is it hanging off ?
No ,go away😂
And if it was gushing...
Hold this on it.
Raise it up.
It's not that close to the heart. You'll live!
@@MjDeen217 word !!! Im a Gen X er too .
Fire, flood or blood? None, go away
PREACH!!! Im gen x and my parents were immigrants and we were poor in NYC. I remember waking up, 2nd grade, with no parents. They got home at six. Me and my sis raised ourselves. Gen X, you can't take us out.
My dad always told us, when we would be crying from playing basketball and having the breath knocked out of us by older brothers, that as long as there was no blood, no foul 😂😂😂. . . Loved this bit!!!😅😅😅
I needed this. We're never going outta of business. My brother still has a BB in his hand...
I'm millennial and I died where she mentioned we invented avocado toast cuz I was eating one as I watched the video 😂
Oh my, thanks for being a good sport. I have some very fun friends who are millennials :)
@@KarenMorganComedy o my gosh what a pleasure in getting a response from you! You're great 👍 please don't stop making comedy ❤️
I love avocado toast, and I'm a Boomer -- thanks for this!
She forgot to mention that us millennials invented the internet too! 😂
@@gdawgpaveng15 Well, no, that was a Boomer. We certainly were the first generation to pioneer it for the use it has today, though!
I'm absolutely glad to be a Gen X'er. Learned how to fend for ourselves and our self worth comes from surviving our childhood and not from what others think about us. We aren't the forgotten generation the millennials tried to dog pile us and were immediately met with a resounding "whatever" followed with a healthy amount of ignoring them. If there is one thing on this earth to put millennials and gen z into hysterics is ignoring them they absolutely can't deal with it.
Hey....it's good to use Millennials and Gen Z as your flying monkeys to irritate people stuck in their ways - get back at the Lundbergs who want to send everyone back into the office by organizing the youngins against them.
This.
100% agree! It is truly sad how so many people receive their value by “likes” and followers”. Furthermore the lack of resiliency such that anyone who dares to disagree or challenge is met with hysterics and/or the “I have social anxiety and cannot advocate for myself although I have no problem making a video and publicly humiliating someone.”
That’s good for you but you learned that because someone taught you whether it be directly or indirectly. That’s what your generation fails to understand. You guys failed at teaching the concepts you preach about gen z not knowing.
This will never get old. I feel so seen.
*Thanks so much for all of your great comments!! Much appreciated! 😍I was born the first year of Gen X, so a lot of these apply to Boomers & Gen Jones.* Thanks to Dry Bar Comedy & all y'all who survived the 70s with me
Thanks for mentioning GenJones! I was born in 1959 and found myself relating more to your GenX stories. I was the kid riding in the way back of the station wagon without seatbelts and it was my parents' contemporaries who smoked everywhere, including the waiting room of the doctor's office.
You described my entire childhood. Vintage ‘67 baby!
I think we are the best of all gens.. we are independent, hard working & know tough love.. after our gen.. ppl seem to have let the children start ruling everything.. 🤷🏻♀️ love your sense of humor.. great laughs!
Loved your previous stand up about the T shirts at Target!
Gen Xer from Indiana and you had every bit of that correct even down to trying to kill each other. In the summer we used to throw knives and hackets at the tree in the front yard, make wooden spears and throw em at each other, bottle rocket and Roman candle fights, throw rocks at everything and everyone throw mud balls at everything and everyone now in Indiana even we had crab apple wars teams of 3 to 5 and played hide n seek tag - if you found someone they weren't safe until they got back to base ans out if you were hit by a crab apple, no intentional crab apples to the face, beebee guns went everywhere with you in the summer and I remember walking up across the creek from another set of kids who we didn't know and we had a shoot out as kids one kid on each side got hit and crying so we went our separate ways, we all lived to tell the tale. Sneaking up into yards for boiling hot lava water hose water was a thing. I match your enthusiasm with alot of things today in that I really don't care either. I raised myself from 4rth grade on latch key kid, single mom got home anywhere from 6 to 9pm every night. I think that's why we are different than other generations who are more inclusive and want to be around a group of people whereas I prefer one on one or family and friends time. One of the most brilliant sets on this channel and on YT, should have millions of views 👏 You should come to Louisville KY sometime and plot your way on JRE, again congratulations. I'd like to use this video for a team builder on how to understand people of a different generation at the workplace.
Oh my god, you had me and my husband in tears over this - remember clearly running back home when some bigger kids seconded us kid's bikes at the park - "well go back and get them back" - used to be sent down to the Dairy to buy the ciggies for Dad, and get a 10C bag of lollies - would play in the river at the back of a friend's place, catching guppies - good times!
Dear Merchant ,
Please sell Bobby a pack of Marlboro reds.
Thanks,
Bobby's dad.
I was born in 1965, and my childhood was exactly how she described, in every way.
I always thought of myself as a late boomer but I identified with everything she said. Nice to be a gen Xer. We made a lot of our own meals and had skateboards that were metal skates nailed to 2'x4's.
Gen x is so accurate!😂 We're never going out of business!
you did when you crashed the stock market lmfao
I think the 10:00 pm government announcement sums it up pretty well "Its 10:00, do you know where your children are?"
Dude no lie my father in law is just like this. He electrified the vegetable garden and trees that surround it. We drink an watch him shock squirrels.
We raised ourselves in my house. We grew up with 9 kids in the house so both of my parents worked and we basically lived the hunger games. 😂
Your father in law would love mine! :)
Very true about Gen X.
I was always told go play outside and fight bullies if they give you a hard time.
Ah yes, great times on my block🙂👍
So glad I'm a Gen x. My childhood was worth going back in time and reliving. Again and again.
"We're never going out of business" love it