Late '66 and class of '85 here, and it is all true, we did that plus much much worse. Our Mom worked till 5:30pm and our Dad worked the 2nd shift. Woo Hoo! Fun times but also boring at times but mostly great!
Don't you guys find it funny our kids think we're nuts, but they are so freakin' soft? One was lipping off to my wife while in the pool and she jumped in after them with all her good work outfit on. They were shocked.. I laughed and said don't mess with your mom, I couldn't stop if I wanted to, and I don't want to anyways! You guys need to toughen up, it's a cruel world out there. They were about 12 and 14.
Did they really? I think their parents did. Millennials were destroyed by their parents, who I guess were boomers and older gen xers. As annoying as they are, you can't really blame them for being raised that way.
Yeah, but you kept your clothes on. At Woodstock and other festivals of that era, we did all that stark, raving naked --- and we loved it!! [of course now if you'd see our generation do that, you'd probably vomit at the bar.] Unlike the Who song, we didn't die before we got old.
I remember: TV dinners, Outer Limits, Nestle’s Quick, Pixie Sticks, skateboards, Etch-A-Sketches, 64-Crayons, Archie comics, climbing trees, transistor radios, knee socks, saddle shoes, swinging by our knees upside down on the playground bars, galoshes, digging to China, Five and Dime stores, water balloon fights, penny gum-ball machines, reading past bedtime under the covers with a flashlight, Red Rover, tetherball, mini skirts, Poorboys, President Kennedy assignation, Twiggie, saving up my allowance to buy Rubber Soul…how very lucky my childhood was.
As a Gen-X guy, I can confirm she is absolutely right on the money. She brings back so many memories of growing up in the 80's. The younger generations have NO idea what they missed out on. This is pure nostalgia. Thank you.
We have things in common (beyond our taste in avatars) 😉...late Boomer gal here and growing up in the '60s and '70s was pretty much everything she described about Gen X! No helmets, parents-arm as seat belt, drinking from a hose, staying out 'til dark, etc. I had one of those red rubber balls.
I was born in 1963 and let me tell you this when she is talking about us she’s got us she’s got us. I am right at the tail end of baby boomers 2 months later I I’d be a Gen X… I think that’s how it goes… But when somebody was raised in the 80s says oh yeah this is actually true OK I raise my kids in the 80s I see it but as mid 60s oh man everything she says is true. I think most of us should be able to sue the cigarette companies they didn’t even have a warning labels on cigarettes I could buy a couple packs of cigarettes when I was 10 years old and take them home to my parents it was ridiculous
I have never found that taste ever, but I never did drink from the hose. Snakes would crawl up the hoses in Southeast Texas . We would disconnect the hose from the faucet and drink from that. It’s that strong iron taste I guess…The other thing is the smell of rain on the road. The best smell ever when I was a child.
Boomer here. One of my most treasured memory is my dad placing me on his lap while he was driving and letting me steer the car and he would work the pedals. I did this with all four of my Gen X godsons, earning me favorite “aunt” status for life
My dad did too. Of course, he was copilot with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. I don’t think the car had seatbelts and even if it did they were decorations.
lol right? I remember that, I remember driving 2 beer drinking uncles around back roads when I was 13 and I remember driving 3 on tree truck in hayfield at 9/10. Had to slide seat all way back and stand on floor to push clutch in. Good times 😂
I remember doing this, then when I was 9 or 10 I graduated to putting the car in the garage when my dad wasn’t home because mom didn’t like doing it 😂 Happy days!
Cut my knuckle to the bone, no doctor required, apparently. Just bleed over the sink, wrap it with toilet paper and an Ace bandage and the bleeding will stop, eventually.
@@BBMc107 My dad only took me to get stitches if he didn’t think superglue would work… The only time I had to get stitches was a slingshot projectile to the head, the rest was home triage ending with bandages and/or superglue… I got so used to pain I spent most of my senior year playing football with a broken wrist as I didn’t want a cast as I wouldn’t have been able to play…
Boomer here. I ran into a car on my bike. My knee was gushing blood, running down to my ankles. I washed off in the basement and threw my socks away so my parents wouldn't know. Lol.
The Silent Generation or the Greatest Generation was actually the best. lived through the Great Depression, Polio, W W II, no anti biotics, fighting Communism, went to the moon, fought for integration, invented the computer, Star Trek, tried to end world hunger, equal rights for women, and in some African and Asian countries fought to colonialism and gain independence from Europe, ended child labor in some countries, and developed labor laws the U N, and NATO
Younger generations thinks she making this up..... NOPE. This is the truth, this is gen X. I'm so thankful to be able to raise myself during this time. 😂
I’m a late Boomer, and raised myself along w/my 3 younger brothers. As long as my parents didn’t get a call from the hospital or police it was all good.
First year of Gen X here…… everything she said is 100% legit…… that’s really how it was! She didn’t embellish one word for the sake of comedy. That was all true 🤣😭😂
@aw4724Born in 69", I was the youngest so, I rode up front with mom and dad a lot, I remember the arm as my seatbelt and airbag well. When I was 5 or 6 we hit someone who pulled out in front of us and mom wasn't quick enough. Wasn't too bad though, the heater had been on because it was cold out which made the vinyl so slick I just went sliding off into a heap under the dash instead of flying. Took a chunk out of my chin on the way down and bruised it, but other than that I was fine. Ahhh the 70's.
Our neighbors drove 4 kids from Chicago to Florida. 3 in the back and the youngest in the front passenger floor. True story - noted at the father’s funeral.
Born in 68 and Karen Morgan's description is spot on also in Norway. At the time we never even reflected over those things. It was awesome. A helmet was something most sensible people put on only when going far on a motorbike.
You should've said no other gen After gen-X... Earlier than gen-X generations were stronger. Having to live through WW2, The Depression & previous tough living of the past. Rougher childhood, stronger in long run as adults.
I am 65....Gen Jones...You must be REALLY full of yourself to make a statement like that. I was working by the time I was in the 4th grade...morning/evening paper route...365 days a year until I was a jr in hs. Bought my own school cloths out of the Sears catalog. We grew up wondering if we would have to go to Vietman....we watched our freinds and cousins go and not come back. WE gave the world HEAVY METAL......We were having firecracker and BB gun fights in 1967....WE gave you the Stingray bike..... EVERYTHING YOU HAD WAS HANDED DOWN FROM MY GENERATION CUPCAKE.
"Go outside and play!" 😂😂 That still echos in my brain to this day. God forbid ya have to come inside for ANYTHING. Us kids had lived off the land in those days. We, literally, knew where every single apple tree, and tomato plant was in town. 😂
@@ZFern9390 Yes, we did the same thing. I couldn't believe people were throwing bottles away when they could get two pennies for them. I would pick 12 of them up and take them to the grocery store, put them in the wooden crate, and then I could buy a 16 oz Barqs red cream soda and a pack of Twinkies. And that was living!😂😂
Gen X is so much more scrappy and resourceful. We came up on Red #40 in everything, drinking straight from the hose, and being totally MIA all day after school (with no cell phones- gasp!) until the street lights came on. There were no "playdates." If we got a beatdown nobody came to save us. Then we let ourselves in the house and ate Cap'n Crunch for dinner in front of MTV. The Challenger blew up in front of us on live TV when I was in 1st grade and our teachers sent us to lunch like nothing happened. We took our Halloween candy to the supermarket to have it scanned for needles and razor blades and that was NORMAL. Adults thought all of us were either becoming satanists or joining gangs depending on which Parental Advisory music we were into. People can say what they want about us, but if any generation is most likely to survive a nuclear holocaust it's definitely gonna be Gen X. Just listen to our music. We're the "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" generation. Kids coming up now don't even know how to sign a credit card receipt and their icons are (gag) Taylor Swift and random people on Instagram that open boxes and expect you to send them money..
Till the street lights came on… We would play till mom came out at 8 or 9 screaming that the food was cold and she was going to throw it away if we didn’t come in and eat… Speaking of food, when we got in trouble we would get hit with the belt and be sent to bed without dinner - today parents would be charged with child abuse for that…
Boomer here. First day of summer to the day before school started in the fall, the kids on my street did the same thing. Out the door in the morning, called to dinner, ate, then back outside and left to our own devices until nightfall. It was a world kids today could not imagine. No cell phones, no social media, only three channels on the tv ... and our Halloween haul didn't need to be x-rayed, nor did we have to go to retail stores for candy. We went to real houses because we knew the neighborhood residents.
@@KarenMorganComedy also the generation of reattached limbs, digits and adult teeth before they came of age to join the military... everybody knows, at the very least, someone that lost a toenail, if not a toe, to a backyard swingset.
We had a mini-bike, with the long-throw brake lever on the left side. Make sure that return spring isn't stretched, or the brake pedal might dig into the ground and flip the bike over. Happened to a friend of mine. Good times. 🙂
Shoot, my mama cared so little I moved out and into my own apartment 6 weeks before graduating high school! My child didn't move out til junior in college.
Moment that says it all for gen X: The space shuttle Challenger blew up on our lunch hour in high school (w/ a female teacher on board) and we were told to go back to class. 😮
5th grade and we were there for the rest of the day ofc. Honestly though I could tell our teachers had no idea what to do. So they let us go outside. The entire school was on the playground (we had a HUGE playground). And we were fine by the time we got on the bus.
I remember that day our parents where called and said well what had happened was.. and my Dad picked me up early and was like wtf I have to explain this to him damn it
Krista McAuliffe was the teacher's name on the Challenger. We were all excited that an ordinary teacher was going to space. So sad and shocking was the explosion.
Same. I played on a softball league in the summer months. I can't remember anyone even bringing water to practices or games, just our gloves. We played in t-shirts and jeans. So we could slide, no one was gonna fix a scraped up knee, and we kept score. 😂 Dad taught his girls how to play. ❤
@@tammirn1516 Yep, funny but true. I grew up playing outside from dawn to dusk (and sometimes darkness) with absolutely no supervision. The only time I was reminded I had parents was when my mother came outside and yelled for me and my sisters to come in for dinner. We all survived.
Hi fellow Gen Xers! All of this is so accurate and eerily identical to my childhood as well. Great memories! Glad we are all still here to reminisce together 😂
Proud Gen X here! Don't forget about the rusty metal playgrounds with the gravel, concrete or asphalt for landing on. I should be dead all times I flew off the merry-go-round or fell off the monkey bars!!
I remember our monkey bars were up to 25 feet high ,i nearly died at least two times, but I could swing on them and could walk the highest part like a tightrope walker when I was about 9 , im happy to be here
We would go sledding in Wis with zero adult supervision. I hit a tree, got a bloody nose, lost a tooth, and broke one of my lenses from my glasses. My mom made me go to school for a week with one lens before she made an appointment to replace it. She smoked three packs a day of Marlboro 100s. I miss her.
Broke my collarbone playing tackle football after school walked 4 blocks home told my mom she said watch some cartoons til your dad gets home and let him look at it…. Yep gen x the indestructible generation and proud of it
road my bmx waved a friend didnt saw the car stopped in front of me banged with my face on trunk lid. had a very big blue lip. my mum said. the kids will really laugh at you tomorrow at school. boy what an emotional support and yes the kids laughed. and yep no day off. boy was i mad;)))
I've had every limb in a plaster cast at some point in my Gen-X life. I once walked 2 miles with two broken arms and on another occasion spent half a day at school (including a one mile walk home) with a broken leg. Young bones heal easy! 😀
Yep, boomer here. Mid/late 60s play outside kid. She, as an X'er was describing a lot of my generation. Rules were simple: Don't cross the main streets, come home when the streetlights came on. Phone (if there was one) home if we were going to be late. We still broke the rules, of course; sometimes got away with it, sometimes got in trouble for it. Weren't no bubble wrap in them days. Monkey bars, swings and all other playground equipment were over concrete. We swung and climbed as high as we could, fell and hurt ourselves, and no one got sued. If pain and injury didn't teach us to be more careful, nothing would. And school had real "Sports Day" with real 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes. The real world doesn't always reward you for just participating. The BB gun, pellet gun fights were real, too. Our school had a blacktop play area and then a steep grade down to the gravel playing field. It was always a competition to see who could race their bike down the blacktop before launching off the the edge to get as much air-time and distance before finishing with the longest fish-tail skid down in the field. On rainy days us boys became engineers, digging rivers and streams with our boot-heels in the gravel field, and building dams and reservoirs before it all drained down the grating at the end of the field. In the winter we'd team up to roll the world's biggest snowballs.
someday, when the world is coming to an end, they'll survive for another day. did ya tell 'em about waiting for the cold water to push out the warm water and the bugs n stuff?
My daughter used to 'try' to tell me about my granddaughter " You can't let her be outside without shoes,and do not not teach her how to pee behind a tree and she can't wear 'That to the Store" ....Granny gonna do Granny lol
It was 1980, and i was 11 yrs old. My grandma would give me a note that was an IOU to buy her cigarettes and a six pack of empty Dr. pepper bottles to buy candy as my reward. I miss you, Gma ❤
@@terihall1974 L.A. Boomer here, too. Helms Bakery was near my childhood home! I remember their little navy and yellow delivery vans. Never heard of them selling anything but bread, but I remember cigarette machines in restaurants and (later) bars. I got my mom to quit smoking when I was little, but my uncle tried to bribe us kids to get him a pack from 7-11 (in the '70s) and I don't think we needed a note. (I hated cig smoke and by then we knew it was bad for you, so I refused.)
I'm a Gen-X, proud to say. I remember standing on the front seat of the car, holding on to the head rest, when I was a toddler, while my Mom drove. No seat belt or car seats were used. I remember walking 8 blocks home, at age 5 and letting myself in the house until one of my parents came home after work. At age 11 I was actually allowed to babysit 3 younger neighbor kids or my other neighbors 1.5yr old, AT NIGHT, ALONE!!! Me and my brothers were also locked out of the house during the day when my Mom needed a break. We had a gang of kids in the neighborhood that hung out, ages 3 to 12. It was like that old show "Our Gang". I can't believe we didn't all end up dead or missing. Two of us (including myself) from the gang ended up as Registered Nurses and one a social worker, who knew!?!
Love this 😂😂😂 I nearly choked when she said “stood there with candy jewellery on” I remember those necklaces and bracelets with cheap really sweet candy…… and a bag of rainbow drops 😂😂
Proud to be a Gen X kid. This is spot on. We can climb trees, over walls, go over the handle bars of our bikes and still not get sent to Hospital (lol) and get a cold dinner if you stayed out later than the street lights going on. We are still here ( lool)
The big difference between the generations and gen X is we grew up between wars and there was no pressing social issues to fight against. We were never ideologically driven the way early boomer and the other subsequent generations are. In simple terms, we make for great grifters and think twice if your movement is lead by a Gen Xer. The saying used to be, to never trust a person over 40. I'd modify that.
Me too and I am an old Millennial with older Boomers who had kids late. Pretty much neglected growing up… unless I made too much noise or did something she didn’t like…. Then I got it bad. Feral childhood.
Holy crap, I used to buy Pall Malls for my grandparents when I was 10 years old in 1975, in Arizona. No problem. I did all their grocery shopping for them. I even sometimes bought brandy for my grandpa, if I knew the secret word.
@@akiram6609 The best way I can describe my generation is lack of gratitude and perspective. Too many have burned down the whole as a solution to "fix" the problems instead of being the big person and confront a lot of issues stem from their immaturity. Meanwhile, I admire the generations before the Boomers cause they understood the value of doing their part to actually fix things that needed to be fixed without destroying everything in the process. There is a moral fabric of doing their part for both themselves and the community, my generation is spoiled by pleasures they were gifted to not understand the hard work it took to get to small things taken for granted. Now there are some hard working millennials that are WAY ahead the curb, but I'm honestly revolved how many barely understand simple principles that has contributed to, imo, hindering our society. I speak as someone who wants something BETTER to be a part of, I just can't relate to a lot of those in my generation.
😂 it's hard to want to fix anything with the scraps we've been given. Almost all of my milenial friends are extremely hard working and still drowning in debt, unable to get to the surface because of inflation. The boomers left us with nothing and honestly? Most of us are just fucking burnt out. We have nothing left to give, but we're forced to treck on anyway while getting shot at from every angle. You should look at where the problem started instead of blaming the generation it got dumped on.
When I was 10, I went to the corner drug store to get cigarettes for my mom. The guy behind the counter was new and said "how do I know these aren't for you?" I replied "if I was going to smoke, would I be smoking Virginia Slim Light menthol 120s?" He said "good point" and sold me the carton. Ah, the early 80s.
First year Gen X here. My older siblings would put me in a large box and slide me down the basement stairs to see what happened. Folks would just ask "is she hurt -no,,,well ok then knock it off", which they did not.
I didn't even have to have a note to pickup mom's cancer sticks. And with the change I got the candy cigarettes, Now Or Laters, and the wax lips among other things, lol! 💃🏽
A few extra Gen-X activities: If it was more or less vertical and over three stores in height, we'd try to climb it. Trees, fire towers, those big power line poles, grain silos, smoke stacks with little ladders on the side. Unsupervised fun with power tools. Sometimes we were even building things. Chemistry sets that did more than just make stuff in your test tube change color. Chasing tornadoes on our bikes (fortunately never caught one). Spear fishing while dodging the game warden patrols. Good times. At the same time, I much prefer being an adult. Lots of things about being a kid in the 70s were really rough.
The roughest thing I remember is the feeling of wanting my ma's love There were 10 of us kids and as an adult I mostly understand but dang where were the grown-ups idk it may have been the disfuctional alcoholism crap too..anyways aside from that life was good, families hung out played cards,baseball camping holiday suppers We had it all really GenX Rocks
Boomer, but much the same. I can still remember the folks looking on proudly as I showed them the gunpowder I made following the instructions in the chemistry set.
Noughies (90s kid) Millennial here. Man....she is taking me back to my childhood. Almost everything I once knew I gone and now it is one one of those ''things of the past''. Memory lane is quite a bummer sometimes. I never thought I would see it all as an antique or the thing of the past. The world can change pretty quickly....like, the world has changed a lot in 7 years and sometimes it has me swayed. What was ''IT'' at the time, is now an old relic from the historical times. Yes, 80s, 90 and early 00s are classed as historical history now and some of the stuff are now in museums. It is hard to believe how fast things change. I miss the old days.
"Nobody came to our athletic practices" That's so true. Now all the parents are hovering over their kids and analyzing the practices. Bottle rocket wars and roman candle wars been there done that. No helmets for sure. I bought cigarettes for my neighbor when I was 7 on a regular basis. Now if the electricity goes out and my mobile data goes down and I can't search for something on my phone I don't know what to do except maybe find some neighbors to have a bottle rocket fight with.
I lived in a neighborhood where the transformer blew during bad thunderstorms. It South Carolina. Most of them are bad thunderstorms. After the second time, I put together our candle kit. We spread lit emergency candles from Dollar Tree throughout the kitchen, bathroom, and living room. Then we’d pull out a boardgame.
@@adeleennis2255 Heck, I live in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, and we still do that. We lose power when the wind changes direction. And we always upgrade our hurricane kits.
I still keep an atlas in our cars, just in case the GPS goes down/out. I bought atlases for my two youngest kids' (Gen Z'ers) vehicles and they said they couldn't read an atlas. My wife & I had homeschooled our two youngest ... and I failed to teach them about reading an atlas. What is the world coming to? 🤔
Mine too, especially could relate to the Dodge Ball reference, I still have a forehead scar from my head bouncing off a brick wall after being slammed in the face with a Red Dodge ball 😆
Me and my friends were hose drinkers and we were also the ones that would play a game knowing that you might lose knowing that you're going to get hurt
@@kathyfritz9962 I’ll take that error any day over all the people who incorrectly use the term phobia… Go correct all those woke idiots and then lecture people on the proper use of possessive determiners…
Same here. We’re actually Gen Jones - supposedly enjoying life like the boomers did, but living in Gen X reality as adults in the workplace. Every decade (1980s to present) has had an economic downturn; struggling to survive. I hope to make it to retirement & maybe have some fun before I die…
Very nicely done. We ‘silents’ were kids of people who were kids during the depression and adults during WWII. They didn’t want to hear us complain, and could top any gripe we had by a lot. “Suck it up, Buttercup”. They had no vaccines, no novocaine, no smoke detectors, no CPSC, so tits in wringers were real unfortunate events when electric washers came along. Our dads and uncles were the GI’s of WWII. Our moms were Rosie the riveter. Our older brothers went to Korea, and when Viet Nam came along, off we went.
Thank you so much! Our lives are much, much better because of your work! Way way better cars, so many medications, so many conveniences, the beginning of the STRONG push towards equality, better homes in every way, I could go on and on. Your generation made my generation's lives great. Thank you!
OMG! My dad would call the liquor store from work, and I'd pick up Cutty Sark and Newports after school. The leftover change was mine to spend how I liked or to save for something else. This was a frequent occurrence. I also did the grocery shopping on my bicycle with our house key hanging on a chain around my neck.
*Karen you only overlooked the chocolate cigarettes. A special treat from my wooden-spoon wielding German mom was 20 chocolate sticks wrapped in white cigarette paper in a Marlboro-like plastic box. Love ya'!*
Hahaha!!! Write it in cursive. Gen X is the one legged, red headed, orphaned step child of the generations, and we appreciate that. We learned a long time ago that if attention was on us, bad things followed. We were feral and we loved it.
This is so true about not being taken to the doctor unless bones were visible poking out of your skin. 😂 I was age 14 and I just suffered a foot long burn on my leg from my mini bike muffler. My dad calls me out of the bathroom "come out here and eat your dinner! It's not going to stop hurting anytime soon!" Finally after a week I got taken to the ER because it was oozing liquid. Classic "walk it off" mentality.
So funny and so true. When I was 13/14 I had a mini bike as well. I got pulled over by the cops trying to take it to the dirt trail a couple blocks away. They made me do traffic school 2 years before I even had a license. I remember hanging with the adults at traffic school and drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes, I thought I was so cool.😂🤣😇
I held the record in my neighborhood on the plywood ramp with blocks propping it up bike jump. 18’ jump on a 26” ten speed with a 24” tire in the front. Go genx
Same here, Gen X… I used to go to the corner store to buy my mom cigs, rode BMX and Diamond Back bikes all over the neighborhood with my friend Blanca all day until dusk, we climed trees and fell just dusting ourselves off, played dodgeball, had water balloon 🎈 fights (L.A. always summer) and came home fried from the sun, zero sunscreen… had quad skates, played baseball in the middle of the street as cars drive by etc etc.
The generation lines are blurry. I was born end of '57 and my childhood in L.A. was the same as you describe. Except we played kickball in the street, I didn't like dodgeball, and I hated cigarette smoke so my mom quit when I was 5.
I loved your comment about drinking out of the hose!!! That was totally the truth! I also remember being outside all day. I remember those bike ramps and throwing mudpies at one another too!
OMG! I am from Athens, Ga. Just realized you were, too. Did you ever go to Five Points and get dime ice cream from the pharmacy? Cut my knuckle to the bone, no doctor required, apparently. “Just bleed over the sink”. Wrapped it with toilet paper and an Ace bandage, myself, to stop the bleeding. Mom was busy doing needlepoint and could not be bothered. At 3yo, mom would send me out to play with the dog as my protector. She would whistle the dog home and I would follow.
Yes! I spent a lot of time at Hodgson’s for ice cream and Add Drugs for grilled cheese at the counter 😍 I may need to add “Bleed over the sink” to the list 🤣
Born in 73 and yes every single word she said is true, we did all that shit, when she started talking about the "wars" we fought, I literally pointed at the TV, and screamed hell yes!
70's UK. Playgrounds with 5m high slides, 2 ton roundabouts made of girders, and seesaws built of tree trunk, all bolted into good sturdy solid concrete :-) And the rules for brotherly fights "no grabbing round the throat". Rock fights, "no big stones". And of course two boys aged 7 and 5 would be off to the apartment pool by themselves, often the only people there, trusted not to drown. When older "off travelling, see you in a few weeks" and if I'd phoned home at all they would have assumed I was in hospital or prison.
Most of what was said about Gen X applies to Boomers as well, certainly mid to late Boomers. Same treatment by parents, same amuse yourselves, same stay outside all day, etc etc.
'59er. We had neighborhood hide and seek, crab apple fights with wrist rockets (sling shots) and set up our plastic army men on opposite sides of the creek and threw firecrackers and launched bottle rockets at them without worry. One day we even added a poorly built model destroyer, doused in lighter fluid with firecrackers attached to float through the battlefield. No adults involved at any point.
Yep. Born 1951. Was a hose drinker. Sent to the store for mom's cigarettes. Bottle rocket fights. Parents did not care what your school life was like. They just wanted the report card. Never worried about where we were or what we were doing. No seatbelts. And parents smoked all the time. Boomers and Gen X sound the same to me
Guess I'll join in on the comments. She is a jewel. The way she told everything was amazing. Hell I still drink out of the house. When my granddaughter was 5 or 6 she saw me came over took a big drink also. She thought that was so cool. I enjoy teaching them all the silly things we did. We home school then today. I really miss all the old days. Neighborhood kids were all like family, to a point lol
Wow, there is so much truth to her act! We kids would roam blocks and miles from home during the summer months. Do that today and Child Services would take you away!
I loved that game whenever we would go to the computer class once a week and finish our assignment everyone would go straight to Oregon trail and play until the bell rang I actually only made it to the end once and never got there again don't remember what I did differently but I remember it was an amazing feeling having your whole class cheer you on as you crossed the finish line what an amazing time it was back then
It's like you grew up in my neighborhood.! This is the most accurate description of my childhood I've ever heard...from the bottle rocket fights to my mom watching "Dark Shadows" 🤣
I've seen here and there where they cut off at 1960, which I agree with. '63 here. My life very different than someone born 51. NOT the same generation. For one, they went to Vietnam. It was over before we were 18. They had hippies. Dressing as a hippie was literally nostalgia day at my high school.
In cultural, economic and technological terms, "generations" are really about 5 years apart, not the 15 to 20 that we're led to believe. @@helloDobson3259
1965 here.. we played all over the neighborhood and if caught doing something wrong a neighbor could scold you and you knew you were in trouble when you got home. No one knew where we were all day if we stayed out of trouble. Fruit trees and blackberry bushes throughout the neighborhood were our snacks. Injuries from attempted bike stunts and climbing trees that didn’t result in broken bones were rinsed, mercurochrome and bandaged with something. We kept right on playing up until the street light started to flicker and high tailed it home to at least be in the yard.
My brother and I created a game called “Dodge Darts” where we invited friends over to our garage and much like today’s paint ball, broke into teams, grabbed the metal darts normally thrown at a board with a wood backdrop and started throwing at each other. We only stopped playing when my brother ended up with a dart sticking out the side of his head.
I'm glad I'm a Gen X. Growing up we were explorers wandering the neighborhood and if there was an abandoned building we were going in we climbed trees until we reached the top. Sometimes were able to climb down other times we would fall down breaking every branch on the way down. I remember lightning firecrackers around a fire anthill and calling it Gilligan's Island. Why still dont know.
Everything she said is true. I grew up in that generation. I miss the 70's. We will never see that again.😢
@@erichyney6287my favorite decade! It was magical😍 born in '67 , played hard in the seventies. We were so blessed to have lived it.
Late '66 and class of '85 here, and it is all true, we did that plus much much worse. Our Mom worked till 5:30pm and our Dad worked the 2nd shift. Woo Hoo! Fun times but also boring at times but mostly great!
Don't you guys find it funny our kids think we're nuts, but they are so freakin' soft? One was lipping off to my wife while in the pool and she jumped in after them with all her good work outfit on. They were shocked.. I laughed and said don't mess with your mom, I couldn't stop if I wanted to, and I don't want to anyways! You guys need to toughen up, it's a cruel world out there. They were about 12 and 14.
Millenials invented safe spaces. We (Gen X) invented mosh pits.
And Bamboo bongs 😂
And raves
Did they really? I think their parents did. Millennials were destroyed by their parents, who I guess were boomers and older gen xers. As annoying as they are, you can't really blame them for being raised that way.
Yeah, but you kept your clothes on. At Woodstock and other festivals of that era, we did all that stark, raving naked --- and we loved it!!
[of course now if you'd see our generation do that, you'd probably vomit at the bar.] Unlike the Who song, we didn't die before we got old.
Hell yeah!! 🤘😈
I remember: TV dinners, Outer Limits, Nestle’s Quick, Pixie Sticks, skateboards, Etch-A-Sketches, 64-Crayons, Archie comics, climbing trees, transistor radios, knee socks, saddle shoes, swinging by our knees upside down on the playground bars, galoshes, digging to China, Five and Dime stores, water balloon fights, penny gum-ball machines, reading past bedtime under the covers with a flashlight, Red Rover, tetherball, mini skirts, Poorboys, President Kennedy assignation, Twiggie, saving up my allowance to buy Rubber Soul…how very lucky my childhood was.
I'm a boomer and I did all that stuff too!
Ditto ditto
President Kennedy "assignation"? Well, he had those too....
If you remember the assassination of President Kennedy, you're a boomer.
You forgot about playing "kick the can"
As a Gen-X guy, I can confirm she is absolutely right on the money. She brings back so many memories of growing up in the 80's. The younger generations have NO idea what they missed out on. This is pure nostalgia. Thank you.
We have things in common (beyond our taste in avatars) 😉...late Boomer gal here and growing up in the '60s and '70s was pretty much everything she described about Gen X! No helmets, parents-arm as seat belt, drinking from a hose, staying out 'til dark, etc. I had one of those red rubber balls.
@@nodoboho it's all been done before. Nothing exclusive about Gen x. Revolting generation. Stomach churning. Wars??? I don't think so
I was born in 1963 and let me tell you this when she is talking about us she’s got us she’s got us. I am right at the tail end of baby boomers 2 months later I I’d be a Gen X… I think that’s how it goes… But when somebody was raised in the 80s says oh yeah this is actually true OK I raise my kids in the 80s I see it but as mid 60s oh man everything she says is true. I think most of us should be able to sue the cigarette companies they didn’t even have a warning labels on cigarettes I could buy a couple packs of cigarettes when I was 10 years old and take them home to my parents it was ridiculous
@@paulinerulon2230 Dear Snowflake, do you always talk to your elders like that?
HOSE DRINKERS UNITE!!!😂
we lived...
I have never found that taste ever, but I never did drink from the hose. Snakes would crawl up the hoses in Southeast Texas . We would disconnect the hose from the faucet and drink from that. It’s that strong iron taste I guess…The other thing is the smell of rain on the road. The best smell ever when I was a child.
We sure did! I was watching my DVD of "Chips" the other day and Poncherello was drinking from the hose! LOL
Nothing like a big drink of cold water from a new vinyl hose!
Still the best water I've ever had!
when we were thursty in winter, my dad (born in 1934) was making us eat snow and that's it. No complaints alowed 😅
Boomer here. One of my most treasured memory is my dad placing me on his lap while he was driving and letting me steer the car and he would work the pedals. I did this with all four of my Gen X godsons, earning me favorite “aunt” status for life
Learning to drive like that was precious memories
oooh, I remember doing this as a (genX) kid!
My dad did too. Of course, he was copilot with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. I don’t think the car had seatbelts and even if it did they were decorations.
lol right? I remember that, I remember driving 2 beer drinking uncles around back roads when I was 13 and I remember driving 3 on tree truck in hayfield at 9/10. Had to slide seat all way back and stand on floor to push clutch in. Good times 😂
I remember doing this, then when I was 9 or 10 I graduated to putting the car in the garage when my dad wasn’t home because mom didn’t like doing it 😂
Happy days!
Gen X here. Came home with blood gushing out of my knee and my mom actually said to me “don’t bleed on the carpet !” 😮😅
Cut my knuckle to the bone, no doctor required, apparently. Just bleed over the sink, wrap it with toilet paper and an Ace bandage and the bleeding will stop, eventually.
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My mom who was a nurse had seen worse but she did take me to the ER… eventually. I needed about 10-12 stitches
@@BBMc107 My dad only took me to get stitches if he didn’t think superglue would work… The only time I had to get stitches was a slingshot projectile to the head, the rest was home triage ending with bandages and/or superglue… I got so used to pain I spent most of my senior year playing football with a broken wrist as I didn’t want a cast as I wouldn’t have been able to play…
... and let's put some BACTINE on it!
Boomer here. I ran into a car on my bike. My knee was gushing blood, running down to my ankles. I washed off in the basement and threw my socks away so my parents wouldn't know. Lol.
Born in 65 My parents were silent generation and they had the furniture with the plastic on it.... Remember that?
The Silent Generation or the Greatest Generation was actually the best. lived through the Great Depression, Polio, W W II, no anti biotics, fighting Communism, went to the moon, fought for integration, invented the computer, Star Trek, tried to end world hunger, equal rights for women, and in some African and Asian countries fought to colonialism and gain independence from Europe, ended child labor in some countries, and developed labor laws the U N, and NATO
Younger generations thinks she making this up..... NOPE. This is the truth, this is gen X. I'm so thankful to be able to raise myself during this time. 😂
Gen x'rs are the most hard core people on the Earth. We don't take 💩 from no one!!! We were the pioneers of childhood. 😎🤣🤣🤣
The only things she got wrong was the gen X was way earlier… born in 60 not 65.
Exactly like that for us 70;s babies .. here in Australia, it was exactly as she describes it …
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@@peggyhawkinson3061 Gen X is 1965-1980
Gen X here. I'm proud to say we are the last generation of feral children. Great stuff, Ms. Morgan! 😂 ❤
Thank you! GenX rocks!
Feral, lol you nailed it!! 😅😂
I've also heard "free range children" which I like. It was a great time to be a kid. We learn best by doing and thats what we got to do.
I grew up in the 60's - We were the last of the feral children. Get a grip
And the last generation to remember the old America
I’m a late Boomer, and raised myself along w/my 3 younger brothers. As long as my parents didn’t get a call from the hospital or police it was all good.
@bevalexander5897 I think I'm a BoomerX myself. Same story but way too many calls from the police.
Hell yes! I loved my childhood, born in ‘71🤘🏻
💜 to all ya Gen-Xer’s
Also '71...best time.
Yep fellow '71, rock on.
First year of Gen X here…… everything she said is 100% legit…… that’s really how it was! She didn’t embellish one word for the sake of comedy. That was all true 🤣😭😂
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cinder block and plywood ramps with nails sticking out of it childhood. yep.
100 % truth 👍
I was born in 65 during the race riots and remember the Watergate the oil embargo president Ford election.
@aw4724Born in 69", I was the youngest so, I rode up front with mom and dad a lot, I remember the arm as my seatbelt and airbag well. When I was 5 or 6 we hit someone who pulled out in front of us and mom wasn't quick enough. Wasn't too bad though, the heater had been on because it was cold out which made the vinyl so slick I just went sliding off into a heap under the dash instead of flying. Took a chunk out of my chin on the way down and bruised it, but other than that I was fine. Ahhh the 70's.
Our neighbors drove 4 kids from Chicago to Florida. 3 in the back and the youngest in the front passenger floor. True story - noted at the father’s funeral.
Gen X here! She speaks the truth. It was a wild fun time with no adults around to watch us.😂
@aw4724 My grandparents had it and that was so dangerous but the best when young. My twin, My two cousins and me use to squeeze into the back
Was fun until you came home late, and you're left, locked out of the house until "after" dinner
People want to protect todays ‘freedoms’. Their freedoms are already gone. No one could be as free as a 70s kid
@@izodman LOL! Looking back, it wasn't all bad. Sort of like whatever doesn't kill you, made you tougher.
Born in 68 and Karen Morgan's description is spot on also in Norway. At the time we never even reflected over those things. It was awesome. A helmet was something most sensible people put on only when going far on a motorbike.
OMG!! My favorite line. "We don't care!" Gen X 😂😂😂
So true. I care, but not enough to get but so ruffled about stuff.
We don’t !!! 😂😂😂
then shut up
@@queenreg7 best answer
Loved it. Gen-X is the shit. No other generation will ever live as we did and have to be as strong as we are.
You should've said no other gen After gen-X... Earlier than gen-X generations were stronger. Having to live through WW2, The Depression & previous tough living of the past. Rougher childhood, stronger in long run as adults.
Absolutely! Being proud aside, I think we Gen X lot also have a well earned ego and swag!
and programming a VCR to record a show next Monday at 10pm was next level shit that no other generation could do, even today.
I am 65....Gen Jones...You must be REALLY full of yourself to make a statement like that. I was working by the time I was in the 4th grade...morning/evening paper route...365 days a year until I was a jr in hs. Bought my own school cloths out of the Sears catalog. We grew up wondering if we would have to go to Vietman....we watched our freinds and cousins go and not come back. WE gave the world HEAVY METAL......We were having firecracker and BB gun fights in 1967....WE gave you the Stingray bike.....
EVERYTHING YOU HAD WAS HANDED DOWN FROM MY GENERATION CUPCAKE.
Boomers lived the exact same way as she stated Gen Z did. But we were all Marcia's.
I am technically a Boomer, but everything she said about Gen X was my childhood.
Same here. Those were the days, my friend. ❤
Me too. Blurred lines.
same here. 1963 but definitely Gen X
me too Coolest generation Ever!!
Exactly. Gen acts like they invented all these things that were Boomer things. It's weird.
"Go outside and play!"
😂😂 That still echos in my brain to this day. God forbid ya have to come inside for ANYTHING. Us kids had lived off the land in those days. We, literally, knew where every single apple tree, and tomato plant was in town. 😂
Me and my best friend knew the best tasting weeds to eat. We would put them in a bucket with salt and pepper and call it soup.
Yes yes we did indeed lol
We Collected bottles and bought a big slurpee to share and two bazooka gum!
@@ZFern9390 Yes, we did the same thing. I couldn't believe people were throwing bottles away when they could get two pennies for them. I would pick 12 of them up and take them to the grocery store, put them in the wooden crate, and then I could buy a 16 oz Barqs red cream soda and a pack of Twinkies. And that was living!😂😂
@@DERISNER Hahah damn right! I remember my little cousin and I doing that!
Gen X is so much more scrappy and resourceful. We came up on Red #40 in everything, drinking straight from the hose, and being totally MIA all day after school (with no cell phones- gasp!) until the street lights came on. There were no "playdates." If we got a beatdown nobody came to save us. Then we let ourselves in the house and ate Cap'n Crunch for dinner in front of MTV. The Challenger blew up in front of us on live TV when I was in 1st grade and our teachers sent us to lunch like nothing happened. We took our Halloween candy to the supermarket to have it scanned for needles and razor blades and that was NORMAL. Adults thought all of us were either becoming satanists or joining gangs depending on which Parental Advisory music we were into. People can say what they want about us, but if any generation is most likely to survive a nuclear holocaust it's definitely gonna be Gen X. Just listen to our music. We're the "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" generation. Kids coming up now don't even know how to sign a credit card receipt and their icons are (gag) Taylor Swift and random people on Instagram that open boxes and expect you to send them money..
You took your Halloween candy to be scanned? No, never ever. We just ate it. What kind of padded cushy nerf life were you living? 😂
Till the street lights came on… We would play till mom came out at 8 or 9 screaming that the food was cold and she was going to throw it away if we didn’t come in and eat… Speaking of food, when we got in trouble we would get hit with the belt and be sent to bed without dinner - today parents would be charged with child abuse for that…
Scanned? Lol….& don’t be knocking TT..
Boomer here. First day of summer to the day before school started in the fall, the kids on my street did the same thing. Out the door in the morning, called to dinner, ate, then back outside and left to our own devices until nightfall. It was a world kids today could not imagine. No cell phones, no social media, only three channels on the tv ... and our Halloween haul didn't need to be x-rayed, nor did we have to go to retail stores for candy. We went to real houses because we knew the neighborhood residents.
haha yeah we were just told to bite down slowly in case there was a needle or razor blade.@@danieljasonhanf
I'm gen x and I truly believe this was the best generation. The last generation to learn manners, and how to build their own dirtbike!
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Right on! You damn well bet is!! 😎 👍
Yea buddy
@@KarenMorganComedy also the generation of reattached limbs, digits and adult teeth before they came of age to join the military... everybody knows, at the very least, someone that lost a toenail, if not a toe, to a backyard swingset.
We had a mini-bike, with the long-throw brake lever on the left side. Make sure that return spring isn't stretched, or the brake pedal might dig into the ground and flip the bike over. Happened to a friend of mine. Good times. 🙂
“Your Star Wars has Jar Jar Binks in it and there’s no coming back from that.” Lol!!!
She really nailed Gen X, described my whole childhood
Me too!
Shoot, my mama cared so little I moved out and into my own apartment 6 weeks before graduating high school! My child didn't move out til junior in college.
Right?! SO exactly what my childhood was like, right down to the metal skates. 🤣🤣🤣
I saw the candy cigarettes coming, but she surprised me with "candy jewelry." Nice reminder. Lester Lace, anyone?
Moment that says it all for gen X: The space shuttle Challenger blew up on our lunch hour in high school (w/ a female teacher on board) and we were told to go back to class. 😮
lol I was in middle school and watched it, our teacher straight up said "wow looks like they blew up" and then we went on with class.
5th grade and we were there for the rest of the day ofc. Honestly though I could tell our teachers had no idea what to do. So they let us go outside. The entire school was on the playground (we had a HUGE playground). And we were fine by the time we got on the bus.
I remember that day our parents where called and said well what had happened was.. and my Dad picked me up early and was like wtf I have to explain this to him damn it
I was in grade school and remember it well.
Krista McAuliffe was the teacher's name on the Challenger. We were all excited that an ordinary teacher was going to space. So sad and shocking was the explosion.
I’m a proud mid-60s baby and ya, she’s spot-on!!! “Home Depot parents” …. Too funny!!
"nobody brought sliced oranges" ... I laughed out loud!
Same. I played on a softball league in the summer months. I can't remember anyone even bringing water to practices or games, just our gloves. We played in t-shirts and jeans. So we could slide, no one was gonna fix a scraped up knee, and we kept score. 😂 Dad taught his girls how to play. ❤
@@tammirn1516 Yep, funny but true. I grew up playing outside from dawn to dusk (and sometimes darkness) with absolutely no supervision. The only time I was reminded I had parents was when my mother came outside and yelled for me and my sisters to come in for dinner. We all survived.
You drank out of the hose
@@paulcolburn3855 Yes! That too. We also ran through the hose, with a sprinkler attached.
Hi fellow Gen Xers! All of this is so accurate and eerily identical to my childhood as well. Great memories! Glad we are all still here to reminisce together 😂
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I don't care what anyone says: coming home to that 80's hose water after a long bike ride just hit different.
That tasted just like the rubber in the hose after sitting out in the sun all day. Ahh yes
We drank from a storm drain.
Yes it did
@@jbm0866I learned to let it run a couple minutes first. You can't forget that taste
No one from that era would or should use the expression “hit different.”
Proud Gen X here! Don't forget about the rusty metal playgrounds with the gravel, concrete or asphalt for landing on. I should be dead all times I flew off the merry-go-round or fell off the monkey bars!!
I remember our monkey bars were up to 25 feet high ,i nearly died at least two times, but I could swing on them and could walk the highest part like a tightrope walker when I was about 9 , im happy to be here
We would go sledding in Wis with zero adult supervision. I hit a tree, got a bloody nose, lost a tooth, and broke one of my lenses from my glasses. My mom made me go to school for a week with one lens before she made an appointment to replace it. She smoked three packs a day of Marlboro 100s. I miss her.
That's awesome dude. I would for sure be a running buddy of yours.
The cost of battle....Priceless!
I didn’t get eyeglasses until I was 12 because my mother was sure I wanted them only because my friend had them. I am sooo nearsighted.
My mom insisted I only wanted eyeglasses because my best friend had them. I was blind as a bat. I miss her too
Broke my collarbone playing tackle football after school walked 4 blocks home told my mom she said watch some cartoons til your dad gets home and let him look at it…. Yep gen x the indestructible generation and proud of it
road my bmx waved a friend didnt saw the car stopped in front of me banged with my face on trunk lid. had a very big blue lip. my mum said. the kids will really laugh at you tomorrow at school. boy what an emotional support and yes the kids laughed. and yep no day off. boy was i mad;)))
I've had every limb in a plaster cast at some point in my Gen-X life. I once walked 2 miles with two broken arms and on another occasion spent half a day at school (including a one mile walk home) with a broken leg. Young bones heal easy! 😀
I broke my collar bone
Gen X here...born in '71. Thanks for the memories and laughs!
I'm a boomer but her description of gen x was my childhood.
Yep, boomer here. Mid/late 60s play outside kid. She, as an X'er was describing a lot of my generation. Rules were simple: Don't cross the main streets, come home when the streetlights came on. Phone (if there was one) home if we were going to be late. We still broke the rules, of course; sometimes got away with it, sometimes got in trouble for it. Weren't no bubble wrap in them days. Monkey bars, swings and all other playground equipment were over concrete. We swung and climbed as high as we could, fell and hurt ourselves, and no one got sued. If pain and injury didn't teach us to be more careful, nothing would. And school had real "Sports Day" with real 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes. The real world doesn't always reward you for just participating. The BB gun, pellet gun fights were real, too. Our school had a blacktop play area and then a steep grade down to the gravel playing field. It was always a competition to see who could race their bike down the blacktop before launching off the the edge to get as much air-time and distance before finishing with the longest fish-tail skid down in the field. On rainy days us boys became engineers, digging rivers and streams with our boot-heels in the gravel field, and building dams and reservoirs before it all drained down the grating at the end of the field. In the winter we'd team up to roll the world's biggest snowballs.
I just taught my 4 year old granddaughter how to drink from a hose. It was hilarious. Especially her parents asking "Why would you do that?"
🤣🤣🤣 “Why would you do that?” LOL!
someday, when the world is coming to an end, they'll survive for another day. did ya tell 'em about waiting for the cold water to push out the warm water and the bugs n stuff?
Hose water was delicious and convenient.
My daughter used to 'try' to tell me about my granddaughter " You can't let her be outside without shoes,and do not not teach her how to pee behind a tree and she can't wear 'That to the Store" ....Granny gonna do Granny lol
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It was 1980, and i was 11 yrs old. My grandma would give me a note that was an IOU to buy her cigarettes and a six pack of empty Dr. pepper bottles to buy candy as my reward.
I miss you, Gma ❤
I'm a Boomer, in Los Angeles. In the 60s you could buy cigarettes from the Helms man. Gave him the same note. Great stuff Ms Morgan.
@@terihall1974 L.A. Boomer here, too. Helms Bakery was near my childhood home! I remember their little navy and yellow delivery vans. Never heard of them selling anything but bread, but I remember cigarette machines in restaurants and (later) bars. I got my mom to quit smoking when I was little, but my uncle tried to bribe us kids to get him a pack from 7-11 (in the '70s) and I don't think we needed a note. (I hated cig smoke and by then we knew it was bad for you, so I refused.)
I died laughing omg. Battle plans in cursive almost made me fall from my seat. And the home depot comparison omg rofl
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😭😭🤣🤣🤣 true!
Too bad I Can actually read cursive, and I’m Gen z 😂😂😂😂
I'm a Gen-X, proud to say. I remember standing on the front seat of the car, holding on to the head rest, when I was a toddler, while my Mom drove. No seat belt or car seats were used. I remember walking 8 blocks home, at age 5 and letting myself in the house until one of my parents came home after work. At age 11 I was actually allowed to babysit 3 younger neighbor kids or my other neighbors 1.5yr old, AT NIGHT, ALONE!!! Me and my brothers were also locked out of the house during the day when my Mom needed a break. We had a gang of kids in the neighborhood that hung out, ages 3 to 12. It was like that old show "Our Gang". I can't believe we didn't all end up dead or missing. Two of us (including myself) from the gang ended up as Registered Nurses and one a social worker, who knew!?!
I'm GenX and still alive! That was my childhood.
"We will write out our battle plans in cursive, and mail it to ourselves on envelopes" Words of wisdom! Gen X rules!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘
I love intelligent humor. This is a classic example.
Thank you!
"We'll just write our battle plans in cursive!" EPIC! Yes!!!!
I'm a boomer. Everything your saying is funny as hell because it's true. I like how you can make people laugh at themselves.
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No, you can't fucking scam into X, Boomer. There is no transgenerational. You are who you fucking are.
Boomers are my favourite generation! I have many friends that fall into that category.
@@emmanuelraylive The generation as a whole has absolutely fucked our country.
I didn't hear her tell one single lie 😂 those were the days!
Love this 😂😂😂 I nearly choked when she said “stood there with candy jewellery on” I remember those necklaces and bracelets with cheap really sweet candy…… and a bag of rainbow drops 😂😂
Smoking our candy cigarettes 😂
Don't forget candy raisins my grandma's favorite 😁
@aw4724YES!!! Someone else who remembers these!!!
Proud to be a Gen X kid. This is spot on. We can climb trees, over walls, go over the handle bars of our bikes and still not get sent to Hospital (lol) and get a cold dinner if you stayed out later than the street lights going on. We are still here ( lool)
Gen X isn't fighting with anyone, we just want to be left alone but we will set you straight if you want to include us in your silliness.
The big difference between the generations and gen X is we grew up between wars and there was no pressing social issues to fight against. We were never ideologically driven the way early boomer and the other subsequent generations are. In simple terms, we make for great grifters and think twice if your movement is lead by a Gen Xer. The saying used to be, to never trust a person over 40. I'd modify that.
This!!
Amen to that. We are a scrappy bunch all involved are afraid of.
Boggles the mind. Lol
Amen
Word! 😂
I literally use to buy my dad beer and cigarettes 😂😂😂
It was so ridiculous 😂😂😂!
I loved it!
"We were trying to kill each other" omg it's true 😂
Battle plans in cursive on paper and mail it. I am Gen x and I died laughing!
Everyone of your Gen-X jokes landed with me.
Me too and I am an old Millennial with older Boomers who had kids late.
Pretty much neglected growing up… unless I made too much noise or did something she didn’t like…. Then I got it bad.
Feral childhood.
Holy crap, I used to buy Pall Malls for my grandparents when I was 10 years old in 1975, in Arizona. No problem. I did all their grocery shopping for them. I even sometimes bought brandy for my grandpa, if I knew the secret word.
As a millennial myself, I hate my generation too! I demand a refund lol 😂
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Why would you hate your generation? Millennials are fine. I’m Gen X by the way. No one should hate anyone based on what generation they were born in.
@@akiram6609 The best way I can describe my generation is lack of gratitude and perspective. Too many have burned down the whole as a solution to "fix" the problems instead of being the big person and confront a lot of issues stem from their immaturity. Meanwhile, I admire the generations before the Boomers cause they understood the value of doing their part to actually fix things that needed to be fixed without destroying everything in the process. There is a moral fabric of doing their part for both themselves and the community, my generation is spoiled by pleasures they were gifted to not understand the hard work it took to get to small things taken for granted.
Now there are some hard working millennials that are WAY ahead the curb, but I'm honestly revolved how many barely understand simple principles that has contributed to, imo, hindering our society. I speak as someone who wants something BETTER to be a part of, I just can't relate to a lot of those in my generation.
Traitor! 😂😂
😂 it's hard to want to fix anything with the scraps we've been given. Almost all of my milenial friends are extremely hard working and still drowning in debt, unable to get to the surface because of inflation. The boomers left us with nothing and honestly? Most of us are just fucking burnt out. We have nothing left to give, but we're forced to treck on anyway while getting shot at from every angle. You should look at where the problem started instead of blaming the generation it got dumped on.
When I was 10, I went to the corner drug store to get cigarettes for my mom. The guy behind the counter was new and said "how do I know these aren't for you?" I replied "if I was going to smoke, would I be smoking Virginia Slim Light menthol 120s?" He said "good point" and sold me the carton. Ah, the early 80s.
First year Gen X here. My older siblings would put me in a large box and slide me down the basement stairs to see what happened. Folks would just ask "is she hurt -no,,,well ok then knock it off", which they did not.
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To see what happened…Hilarious! Experimentation and observation teach so much!
Gen X from Brazil here. Even being far from the US, I relate to almost 100% of what was said. Congratulations on this, very good.
Thank you very much!
I always wonder how gen x outside of the US grew up.
Those were the days huh? Man those of us that survived have lots of great memories🤪😇💃
Still have PTSD but on the right side of the grass 😂
I didn't even have to have a note to pickup mom's cancer sticks. And with the change I got the candy cigarettes, Now Or Laters, and the wax lips among other things, lol! 💃🏽
A few extra Gen-X activities: If it was more or less vertical and over three stores in height, we'd try to climb it. Trees, fire towers, those big power line poles, grain silos, smoke stacks with little ladders on the side. Unsupervised fun with power tools. Sometimes we were even building things. Chemistry sets that did more than just make stuff in your test tube change color. Chasing tornadoes on our bikes (fortunately never caught one). Spear fishing while dodging the game warden patrols. Good times. At the same time, I much prefer being an adult. Lots of things about being a kid in the 70s were really rough.
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The roughest thing I remember is the feeling of wanting my ma's love There were 10 of us kids and as an adult I mostly understand but dang where were the grown-ups idk it may have been the disfuctional alcoholism crap too..anyways aside from that life was good, families hung out played cards,baseball camping holiday suppers We had it all really GenX Rocks
Boomer, but much the same. I can still remember the folks looking on proudly as I showed them the gunpowder I made following the instructions in the chemistry set.
Noughies (90s kid) Millennial here. Man....she is taking me back to my childhood. Almost everything I once knew I gone and now it is one one of those ''things of the past''. Memory lane is quite a bummer sometimes. I never thought I would see it all as an antique or the thing of the past. The world can change pretty quickly....like, the world has changed a lot in 7 years and sometimes it has me swayed. What was ''IT'' at the time, is now an old relic from the historical times. Yes, 80s, 90 and early 00s are classed as historical history now and some of the stuff are now in museums. It is hard to believe how fast things change. I miss the old days.
"Nobody came to our athletic practices" That's so true. Now all the parents are hovering over their kids and analyzing the practices. Bottle rocket wars and roman candle wars been there done that. No helmets for sure. I bought cigarettes for my neighbor when I was 7 on a regular basis.
Now if the electricity goes out and my mobile data goes down and I can't search for something on my phone I don't know what to do except maybe find some neighbors to have a bottle rocket fight with.
I lived in a neighborhood where the transformer blew during bad thunderstorms. It South Carolina. Most of them are bad thunderstorms. After the second time, I put together our candle kit. We spread lit emergency candles from Dollar Tree throughout the kitchen, bathroom, and living room. Then we’d pull out a boardgame.
@@adeleennis2255 Heck, I live in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, and we still do that. We lose power when the wind changes direction.
And we always upgrade our hurricane kits.
I still keep an atlas in our cars, just in case the GPS goes down/out. I bought atlases for my two youngest kids' (Gen Z'ers) vehicles and they said they couldn't read an atlas.
My wife & I had homeschooled our two youngest ... and I failed to teach them about reading an atlas. What is the world coming to? 🤔
And putting lady fingers in metal garbage cans to make them louder.
@@cathy1775 Anyone ever flush an M-80 down a dormitory toilet - it really makes a mess 😁
I can’t stop laughing!! The note for cigarettes. I did that soooo many times. Penny candy and smokes.
Totally my childhood😂
My late mom too 😂🎉❤😢😮. I am a millennial.
I've always felt this way too.
Mine too, especially could relate to the Dodge Ball reference, I still have a forehead scar from my head bouncing off a brick wall after being slammed in the face with a Red Dodge ball 😆
Brilliant. Clever. A voice for our generation….thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Me and my friends were hose drinkers and we were also the ones that would play a game knowing that you might lose knowing that you're going to get hurt
My friends and I
Truth or Dare.
@@kathyfritz9962 I’ll take that error any day over all the people who incorrectly use the term phobia… Go correct all those woke idiots and then lecture people on the proper use of possessive determiners…
We would also put peoples in our mouths to get the saliva going if there was no hose available like in the woods.
@@joannejoannerodemer0769dang 😂
Late boomer (1962) and all of this definitely applies to me.
Same here. We’re actually Gen Jones - supposedly enjoying life like the boomers did, but living in Gen X reality as adults in the workplace. Every decade (1980s to present) has had an economic downturn; struggling to survive. I hope to make it to retirement & maybe have some fun before I die…
Very nicely done. We ‘silents’ were kids of people who were kids during the depression and adults during WWII. They didn’t want to hear us complain, and could top any gripe we had by a lot. “Suck it up, Buttercup”. They had no vaccines, no novocaine, no smoke detectors, no CPSC, so tits in wringers were real unfortunate events when electric washers came along. Our dads and uncles were the GI’s of WWII. Our moms were Rosie the riveter. Our older brothers went to Korea, and when Viet Nam came along, off we went.
Bless you - we stand on your shoulders ♥️
"If I have seen further than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants." - Sir Isaac Newton
Thank you so much! Our lives are much, much better because of your work! Way way better cars, so many medications, so many conveniences, the beginning of the STRONG push towards equality, better homes in every way, I could go on and on. Your generation made my generation's lives great. Thank you!
My mom would yell " don't rock the boat"!!!
OMG! My dad would call the liquor store from work, and I'd pick up Cutty Sark and Newports after school. The leftover change was mine to spend how I liked or to save for something else. This was a frequent occurrence. I also did the grocery shopping on my bicycle with our house key hanging on a chain around my neck.
Apparently,if silent gen are celebrating 63 years married, the lard hasn't hurt much.... just saying!😅
@@Rayvn7 Exactly.
the reason they survived is cause they did exercise to counter the lard....unlike the youth today who are allergic to exercise.
My silent gen mom used to make chicken soup, skim off the fat, and use it to make chocolate chip cookies.
Love this woman!! Maybe it's because we grew up in the same era!!!
I have to say, I’ve been a fan of many comedians who work blue, but you are genuinely funny without the need to curse. That is no easy task. Thanks.
Thank you!
*Karen you only overlooked the chocolate cigarettes. A special treat from my wooden-spoon wielding German mom was 20 chocolate sticks wrapped in white cigarette paper in a Marlboro-like plastic box. Love ya'!*
I'm from the quiet generation. She is right on when it comes to my gen and boomers lol
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Hahaha!!! Write it in cursive. Gen X is the one legged, red headed, orphaned step child of the generations, and we appreciate that. We learned a long time ago that if attention was on us, bad things followed. We were feral and we loved it.
Ahhh Generation X . This lady is spot on 😂
This is so true about not being taken to the doctor unless bones were visible poking out of your skin. 😂
I was age 14 and I just suffered a foot long burn on my leg from my mini bike muffler. My dad calls me out of the bathroom "come out here and eat your dinner! It's not going to stop hurting anytime soon!" Finally after a week I got taken to the ER because it was oozing liquid. Classic "walk it off" mentality.
So funny and so true. When I was 13/14 I had a mini bike as well. I got pulled over by the cops trying to take it to the dirt trail a couple blocks away. They made me do traffic school 2 years before I even had a license. I remember hanging with the adults at traffic school and drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes, I thought I was so cool.😂🤣😇
yep I feel ya I used to get horrible earaches No doctor I'd wrap a towel around a nice hot iron keep it pressed to my ear for relief
I held the record in my neighborhood on the plywood ramp with blocks propping it up bike jump. 18’ jump on a 26” ten speed with a 24” tire in the front. Go genx
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Same here, Gen X… I used to go to the corner store to buy my mom cigs, rode BMX and Diamond Back bikes all over the neighborhood with my friend Blanca all day until dusk, we climed trees and fell just dusting ourselves off, played dodgeball, had water balloon 🎈 fights (L.A. always summer) and came home fried from the sun, zero sunscreen… had quad skates, played baseball in the middle of the street as cars drive by etc etc.
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The generation lines are blurry. I was born end of '57 and my childhood in L.A. was the same as you describe. Except we played kickball in the street, I didn't like dodgeball, and I hated cigarette smoke so my mom quit when I was 5.
And that's what makes us from Gen Z so scary! We're all still feral.
I loved your comment about drinking out of the hose!!! That was totally the truth! I also remember being outside all day. I remember those bike ramps and throwing mudpies at one another too!
OMG! I am from Athens, Ga. Just realized you were, too. Did you ever go to Five Points and get dime ice cream from the pharmacy?
Cut my knuckle to the bone, no doctor required, apparently. “Just bleed over the sink”. Wrapped it with toilet paper and an Ace bandage, myself, to stop the bleeding. Mom was busy doing needlepoint and could not be bothered.
At 3yo, mom would send me out to play with the dog as my protector. She would whistle the dog home and I would follow.
Yes! I spent a lot of time at Hodgson’s for ice cream and Add Drugs for grilled cheese at the counter 😍 I may need to add “Bleed over the sink” to the list 🤣
Born in 73 and yes every single word she said is true, we did all that shit, when she started talking about the "wars" we fought, I literally pointed at the TV, and screamed hell yes!
OMFG this was Literally my childhood! Every single thing and then some!!! 😅😂
70's UK. Playgrounds with 5m high slides, 2 ton roundabouts made of girders, and seesaws built of tree trunk, all bolted into good sturdy solid concrete :-) And the rules for brotherly fights "no grabbing round the throat". Rock fights, "no big stones". And of course two boys aged 7 and 5 would be off to the apartment pool by themselves, often the only people there, trusted not to drown. When older "off travelling, see you in a few weeks" and if I'd phoned home at all they would have assumed I was in hospital or prison.
Most of what was said about Gen X applies to Boomers as well, certainly mid to late Boomers. Same treatment by parents, same amuse yourselves, same stay outside all day, etc etc.
Yup... born in '59, and everything she said about boomers & gen x rings true!
'59er. We had neighborhood hide and seek, crab apple fights with wrist rockets (sling shots) and set up our plastic army men on opposite sides of the creek and threw firecrackers and launched bottle rockets at them without worry. One day we even added a poorly built model destroyer, doused in lighter fluid with firecrackers attached to float through the battlefield. No adults involved at any point.
Agreed. She is describing Boomers to a T!
Yep. Born 1951. Was a hose drinker. Sent to the store for mom's cigarettes. Bottle rocket fights. Parents did not care what your school life was like. They just wanted the report card. Never worried about where we were or what we were doing. No seatbelts. And parents smoked all the time. Boomers and Gen X sound the same to me
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You brought back so many wonderful memories of the 70s and 80s. ❤
Guess I'll join in on the comments. She is a jewel. The way she told everything was amazing. Hell I still drink out of the house. When my granddaughter was 5 or 6 she saw me came over took a big drink also. She thought that was so cool. I enjoy teaching them all the silly things we did. We home school then today. I really miss all the old days. Neighborhood kids were all like family, to a point lol
Wow, there is so much truth to her act! We kids would roam blocks and miles from home during the summer months. Do that today and Child Services would take you away!
I'm GenX and can confirm. But, I mean, I don't really care... 😅
"Whatever" 🙄
There's a reason we Gen X are generally surprised to still be alive 😂😂😂
I'm the Oregon Trail generation. We never get any love because no one else knows we exist.
I loved that game lol
I always died of dysentery 😂
@@DepDawg was there a different way the game ended? 😂
We had the one or two computers at school that we sometimes got to play that on, and I was so terrible, I hated computers for the longest time.
I loved that game whenever we would go to the computer class once a week and finish our assignment everyone would go straight to Oregon trail and play until the bell rang I actually only made it to the end once and never got there again don't remember what I did differently but I remember it was an amazing feeling having your whole class cheer you on as you crossed the finish line what an amazing time it was back then
OMG ... I've never heard my entire childhood summed up in one sweep. First year GenX here, too.
Every word is true 😂😂😂😂
It's like you grew up in my neighborhood.! This is the most accurate description of my childhood I've ever heard...from the bottle rocket fights to my mom watching "Dark Shadows" 🤣
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Super funny!! She’s spot on with the childhood memories, so true!! 😂
Thanks! Very funny 😂
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Thank you so very much! I appreciate you watching and the support. You rock!
I was born in '64. I have no idea how I can be a boomer. I am Gen X all the way.
I've seen here and there where they cut off at 1960, which I agree with. '63 here. My life very different than someone born 51. NOT the same generation. For one, they went to Vietnam. It was over before we were 18. They had hippies. Dressing as a hippie was literally nostalgia day at my high school.
Same here, latchkey kid and all. Born in 64 and for sure a gen X’er.🤗
In cultural, economic and technological terms, "generations" are really about 5 years apart, not the 15 to 20 that we're led to believe. @@helloDobson3259
64 here, I’m gen x for sure. Our elementary teachers were hippies.
Gen X starts in 65.
Hysterical... memories...😂😂😂😂😂🤗🤗🤗👏
Love this. I thought the second type of candy cigarettes was going to be the chocolate ones
LOL, me too!
1965 here.. we played all over the neighborhood and if caught doing something wrong a neighbor could scold you and you knew you were in trouble when you got home. No one knew where we were all day if we stayed out of trouble. Fruit trees and blackberry bushes throughout the neighborhood were our snacks. Injuries from attempted bike stunts and climbing trees that didn’t result in broken bones were rinsed, mercurochrome and bandaged with something. We kept right on playing up until the street light started to flicker and high tailed it home to at least be in the yard.
My brother and I created a game called “Dodge Darts” where we invited friends over to our garage and much like today’s paint ball, broke into teams, grabbed the metal darts normally thrown at a board with a wood backdrop and started throwing at each other. We only stopped playing when my brother ended up with a dart sticking out the side of his head.
Crying 😂
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I'm glad I'm a Gen X. Growing up we were explorers wandering the neighborhood and if there was an abandoned building we were going in we climbed trees until we reached the top. Sometimes were able to climb down other times we would fall down breaking every branch on the way down. I remember lightning firecrackers around a fire anthill and calling it Gilligan's Island. Why still dont know.
Buying cigarettes at nine with a note from mom. That was exactly me also!
I did same at 6 had that note and cash, travel 1/4 mile to grocery store to get Salem lights for mom, 1968.
By bicycle. Alone.
@@JefferyAshmore Winston 100's!