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re: Gen x experience - lost forever.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:17 am to LSURussian
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:17 am to LSURussian
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Been there, done that...
So annoying when the dj would still be talking after the song started. Fn Shadoe Stevens.
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Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:18 am to AlterDWI
if you didn't stand in line in the sweltering La sun for hours waiting to get into The Empire Strikes Back, i have nothing to say to you.
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 10:04 am
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:22 am to CAD703X
My wife and I are Gen X. Life was simpler growing up and more personal than it is today. No cell phones, no internet or tablets. I miss it.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:23 am to Dandaman
Fwiw, and I’m gen x, that’s always going to be the case. Teenagers in the 1940s, whatever generation they were, would have said the same thing in the 70s and 80s.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:24 am to Dandaman
What does this have to do with my beeper?
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:26 am to AlterDWI
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There was a random Friday night in high school where no one had called & asked to hang out or go to a party. Felt like an existential crisis at 16 years old.
No kidding.
Nothing worse than your friend group all doing something with girlfriends when you were in the single life at the moment. Just staying home watching one of 5 channels of TV with the rents or listening to music on a weekend night.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:27 am to Iron Lion
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My wife and I are Gen X. Life was simpler growing up and more personal than it is today. No cell phones, no internet or tablets. I miss it.
the biggest wtf moment for me is we *ALL* walked or rode bikes to school.
everyone.
traffic on the highway in front of the school was extremely busy, always backed up during morning hours and somehow we survived walking across it with NO GROWNUPS IN SIGHT.
i played trumpet in Jr High so i had to balance that big-arse case on my handlebars going to and from school.
in hindsight maybe not such a good idea but the hell if i was going to WALK to school carrying a trumpet. the bike racks were JAMMED with bikes. you were lucky if you could find a place to secure your bike lock.
after school it was like a swarm of locusts; we all wandered off into the neighborhood and woods and 7-11 to get feels from the Playboy pinball machine inside.
now..wtf happened? cars line up for an hour, drop kids off 10 feet from the door and pick them up in the same way.
i can't remember the last time i saw a kid walking or riding a bike to school.
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 9:31 am
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:28 am to Yeti_Chaser
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This fairy shite couldn't have been written by a Gen X
It was written by chat-GPT, and this thread is a bunch of middle aged men reading tokens generated by an algorithm and nodding their heads and saying "yup, thems were the good ol' days."
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:30 am to SquatchDawg
quote:oh man that gets me in the FEELS big time.
Nothing worse than your friend group all doing something with girlfriends when you were in the single life at the moment. Just staying home watching one of 5 channels of TV with the rents or listening to music on a weekend night.
i remember those nights and i would have to sit at home, restless as a willow in a windstorm, forced to watch Love Boat and Fantasy Island with my dad hoping and praying someone would call or come by to pick me up to cruise the McDs/Sonic on Forsythe or hang out on the levee.
felt like my world was ending and everyone in the universe but me was having the time of their lives and laughing at me stuck at home.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:31 am to CAD703X
No car lines, or fenced in schools, but we had metal slides, bullies and the board of education. This was just K-3.
When the bell rang the kids scattered and either walked home, rode their bikes or met their mom wherever it was the convenient for her to get you. Sometimes it was 3 streets away.
When the bell rang the kids scattered and either walked home, rode their bikes or met their mom wherever it was the convenient for her to get you. Sometimes it was 3 streets away.
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 9:32 am
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:33 am to Vood
quote:we had neighborhood bullies (i'm looking at you, Peanut Carson) and there were so many streets and backyard ditches/alleys that sometimes i would find myself riding far away and then suddenly cut off by Peanut and his gang and i was paralyzed with fear i would never get home and they'd find my beat up body in a ditch 2 weeks later.
When the bell rang the kids scattered and either walked home, rode their bikes or met their mom wherever it was the convenient for mom near the school to get you. Some times it meant 3 streets away.
eta i hated that prick. he always had a 6th sense when i was riding a bike by myself and seemed to know exactly where i was.
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 9:35 am
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:35 am to Dandaman
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came of age in a world where nothing was instantly archived. You said things and they drifted away. You made mistakes and they weren't recorded.
And this makes it all worth it.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:35 am to Dandaman
Us Gen X people consider ourselves the best generation ever, but then again so does every generation.
We birthed Gen Y and Gen Z. I feel like Gen Y does not care too much for the past, but the Gen Z kids are far enough removed time wise, they are intrigued by Gen X past. They are so digitized, they are seeking an analog world.
We birthed Gen Y and Gen Z. I feel like Gen Y does not care too much for the past, but the Gen Z kids are far enough removed time wise, they are intrigued by Gen X past. They are so digitized, they are seeking an analog world.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:38 am to Dandaman
Playing Kick-The-Can at night with the lightning bugs flying around.
Drinking out of the water hose
Drinking out of the water hose
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:38 am to CAD703X
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:39 am to Chucktown_Badger
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I wouldn't say we lost anything. I'd say we got to experience a better way of life and most others would be better off if they got to live it as well.
That was my thought. I didn’t miss any of that as I got to experience it all.
Thank goodness there weren’t phones to take pictures or videos back then. I’ve done a lot of stupid shite in my day!
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:40 am to Vood
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He was born on February 3, 1933, in Winchester, VA to the late Nicholas Carson and Verda Violet (Avey) Carson.
definitely not the same one living in Monroe in T&C in the 70s & 80s.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 9:42 am to Suntiger
quote:every once in awhile a forgotten photo of me shows up (i'm looking at you bullfrog!
Thank goodness there weren’t phones to take pictures or videos back then. I’ve done a lot of stupid shite in my day!
) and its always like someone just handed me a doubloon from a sunken ship. its crazy the flood of memories that comes back from seeing a photo of yourself from 40 years ago you had no idea even existed. in other news, my google photos account is 99% full again and i'm going to have to jump to the next higher paid tier.
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 9:43 am
Posted on 6/30/25 at 10:01 am to Ruston Trombone
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People forget how much boredom there was. It’s easy to romanticize now when you’re not the one who has to spend half your day every day just waiting around for something.
I read the same condensed, large print Reader’s Digest stories 455 times in my grandparents’ bathroom over a few summers.
But also fished, hunted, read real stuff, wrote stories, had plum-throwing wars with my brother, rode horses with my cousins, made up games, neighborhood pickup games, explored the woods and bayous, played in creeks, made mud sculptures, built forts, etc.
Devices are the path of least resistance, and our dopamine-seeking brains will choose that quick fix every time without purposeful discipline.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 10:05 am to McLemore
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I read the same condensed, large print Reader’s Digest stories 455 times in my grandparents’ bathroom over a few summers.
my grandmother had all the original hardy boys books from the 1930s at her house.
i read EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. and remember being so desperate i was eyeballing the Nancy Drew series she also had.
i made it about 1/2 through the first one and decided i'd rather die from boredeom.
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 10:06 am
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