re: Generation X - Remember when

I had a black pair that looked pretty awesome with my kamikaze t-shirt.

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Not true.... Some say it was 1960...

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And those people are wrong, the US Census Department is the agency that termed the Baby Boom, and set it from 1946-1964.

Everyone one of those were spot on

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I never wore parachute pants or acid washed jeans but I did wear Girbaud Jeans that were tight rolled with penny loafers

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I had some Girbauds, z cavariccis, Skidz. Basically all of the tacky stuff.

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I had some Girbauds, z cavariccis, Skidz. Basically all of the tacky stuff.

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Girbauds with a Coca-Cola shirt, a walkman cassette player and wayfarers?

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the US Census Department is the agency that termed the Baby Boom, and set it from 1946-1964.

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Because they had to pick a beginning and end year and its somewhat arbitrary. I was born in '64 but my parents were boomers and I always had more in common with Gen Xers so that's what I would identify myself as......not that I ever had a reason to articulate this before social media came along.

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Girbauds with a Coca-Cola shirt, a walkman cassette player and wayfarers?

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My mom has a picture of me and my siblings all in our Coca Cola shirts.

Sunbritches were it

I remember when we went out on weekends and didn't want our parents around.

I remember when we use to do shite that would not be possible today because everyone has a camera.

I remember when teachers use to tell the class things that would get them fired today. Had a teacher tell someone in my class "your daddy should have shot his load on the wall".

Had a black teacher who use to hate black people who acted like.. What she would refer to as "plantation n-----". Tell them its people like them that gives black people like her a bad stereotype. If someone said "guuuu" instead of "girl", she would make them get a white poster and fill both sides up writing the word "girl" before she let them back in class.

Had a teacher who would throw chalkboard erasers at people if they were not paying attention. It hurt getting hit in the knuckles with one, some people got hit upside the head with one.

I remember when I used to get slapped by my mom like it was nobody's business, but it was better than her telling my daddy.

I remember my mom telling me that if a teacher calls her, to save my breath trying to make an excuse because she will believe the teacher over me.

I remember the thrill of having to get someone to buy us alcohol. The times when mad dog 20/20 was the only thing we could get our hands on. And a gas station having specials on 40oz OE.. $0.79. Two quarters and a dime got you 40oz of beer..

that gas station on old hammond and Sharp sold us beer and MD 20/20 and we were in middle school