Well sometimes people need to hear shit, and another thing is that we just want to see what the effects are on the person while we smile and laugh on the inside. :) hehe
Our parents were also versed in reminding us every time we messed up or thought we were big and bad "I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it" and yes, we knew they absolutely could. 😂
@@nayd.7979 omgosh, yes, Vicks and take a nap🤣🤣🤣 We used mercurochrome and iodine interchangeably, you knew the sting was coming but painting it on was so fun😂😂😂 especially as you were trying to make all the sides smooth and even. The area would just get bigger and bigger until the adult would come to find you b/c it was “taking too long”🤣🤣🤣
I'm part of,generation X and when I was growing up you didn't get in someone's face and insult them without getting punched in the face the younger generations will say crap to you and have the nerve to look shocked when they get knocked out.
GEN X: the last adventurous, freethinking, critical thinking, tough talking, no nonsense, down to earth, risk taking, aspirational, inspirational and independent generation with a backbone.😎
Maybe so, but Gen X doesn’t end at 1980. I know that because I’m born 1984 and every trait listed are traits instilled in me since I was born. I was pre-internet so I remember all the card catalog at libraries. Reference sections and encyclopedias and hard cover books, soft cover books, I remember playing dodge ball in school (banned now) spending days locked outside the house not inside the house, walking to school from 1st grade on…….. the list goes on.
Hey! I’m not sure if I’m a boomer or not. Born in 1960, so y’all tell me. Thing here is I love these youngs! They brighten my days as a lowly substitute teacher. They give me the impetus to go back every day.
Gen X kid here. My dad would say to me, "Why are you involving me? I have enough of my own problems. Do not make your problems my problems." And critical thought form was the best gift he gave me.
I’m at the very tail end of gen x so I still have kids at home. My niece was trying to tattle on one of my boys. I looked that girl strait in the eye and said, “I don’t care.” The shock on her face🤣 And that’s why my kids can fix their own cars, and mind their own business. That and they were homeschooled.
As a millennial I have much respect for Gen X. They can literally do anything. They know how to drive stick. They can cook and fight. They can hold a conversation with anyone and don't get triggered by anything. If we had tribes I would only vote for a Gen X as chief.
Smart man, I didn't learn to drive an automatic till I was 19. I was driving a stick shift at 11 years old. We have done so much with so little for so long, that now we can do everything with nothing
I remember the rather disturbing things that my Grandfather told me of many things that he went through during WWII. Very sadly he is long gone and living it up in heaven. I doubt that I shall ever be able to measure up to his level.
Yeah but we actually listened. Having wisdom given to you at a young age really helps you along your life. Kids don't hear a damn thing these days. I'm in construction than teaching youngsters for years they're getting dumber every year
Here's my favorite GenX story: I was 5 yo watching Saturday Morning Cartoons and my older sisters asked if I wanted to help them make yarn. So I agree and follow them to the vacant field behind our house. There's a DEAD SHEEP back there, and my sisters start pulling wool off the dead sheep and tossing it into a paper grocery bag. When the bag was full, we went into our garage and washed the wool in a large coffee can (that's how our parents consumed coffee back then). Our mother breezed through with her white wine on the rocks (it was a thing) asking, "what are you kids up to?" And I was like, "We're making yarn, mom!" And she would smile and say, "That's nice, kids!" and off she'd go, icecubes tinkling. After we washed the wool, my sisters combed it through some nails they pounded into a scrap 2X4. They had me gather pollen from the day lilies that grew in our back yard which I was instructed to crush with a rock in another coffee can. That was mixed with water, salt and vinegar and the wool was dyed in this concoction. "What did you kids say you are making?" my mother appeared again in a vision of Marlboro Lights smoke and tinkling ice cubes. "We're dying our yarn!" Mother walked over to the coffee can cauldron and inspected the 2X4 comb. "Where did you get the wool?" "From a dead sheep in the back field." Next thing we knew, being dunked in a hot bleach bath. And yes, we shared the bathwater, because waste not, want not. Good times
Playing with any chemicals we learned would go boom. MRI's mixed with water in a 2L bottle. had to get the cap on tight & fast. Ouch, those were the days.
My teacher had us hide behind picnic benches When he blew up Coke bottles in Chem 12. The glass shards would inbed themselves in the benches. We mostly didnt bleed. Unbelievable.
Or, they were on a "party line" with up to four families sharing a line. 1972 in rural Canada. Yes, we shared with three other families. Two were silent, and the other party had one ring as their call, and ours was two rings. The neighbour lady would listen in on our calls! I would tell my friend "I think somebody is listening in" and we'd hear a soft 'click'. 😂
My friend had a mulberry tree in his backyard.. big black berries.. i used to climb up and eat them until i popped 😂😂😂😂 went pool hopping in the summer.. played with fireworks… Dad bought me a keg of beer for my birthday party at 19… all my friends came over and we drank Responsibly 😂😂😂😂 … he would go to jail today.. born 1962… the 80’s-90’s were a total bar blast.. we all had Fake ID’s by 19… now it’s a Felony….
@@angelapastorius2377I got busted throwing crabapples at a cop car. Well not so much throwing as dropping them from the tree that went over the road. We were collecting a bunch in our shirts to eat them and just as the cop came thru I dropped them. Of course the cop didn’t believe it was an accident. We used to have Crabapple battles all the time. Does anybody know why they called them crabapples?
Was born in 1966, grew up on a dairy farm, graduated in 1984, went to boot camp that same year. Served in the military until 2005. Drank in bars that you needed a Tetanus shot to get into and a Rabies Shot to get out of. Drank in countries most people only read about in NatGeo or see on TV. Developed malaria (Hella worse than CoVid) while in The Phillipines. Had my first child at 27, 2nd at 30, got married at 30. Raised my kids the same way I was, with chores and responsibilities. My kids grew with respect for their country, their elders, there friends. They joined the military as well and are like Mom and Dad.
Wish my wife would have let me raise her sons like that. Instead i have a 26 year old step-son with no work ethic. A 16 year old step-son with no initiative and 21 year old step-daugther who's a mental case.
@@sbyrstallSo sad. It’s crazy that they will marry you, say they love you, sleep with you and let you spend money on their kids but you’re not allowed to raise them.
Born in '77. Walked/biked by myself to the arcade, bowling alley, mall - never once felt scared or worried about what could happen. Never had a cell phone until after college. Got my drivers license the day I turned 16. Those were the absolute best fucking days
Same here, the day I turned 16. Before that we would throw rocks at the van guys with puppies or candy, yes they were out in force, still didn't stop us from the mall & arcade. Peace
@@amydawn2730 sounds like the parents issue if they cant raise their kids well enough to take them seriously. I personally take my parents words very serious so i would disagree with you
Yep! Most of us were “latch key” kids after school. We did our homework and chores, then watched “After school specials” on TV until our parents got home.
We learned to pick locks because our mom wouldn't give us a key to share among 4 kids. After all the after school crap, we would get home, pick the lock, and fight over which video made top 10 list on MTV.
Let's not forget that GenX was the "smallest", only 15 yrs. But only because they kept shaving years off. It's really from about '60 to '80 or '65 to '85. Those extra years on either end were raised more like GenX than Boomers or Milliennals😂My uncle born in '60 would be highly offended to be called a Boomer
So proud to be a Gen Xer. We were told to be home before the street lights came on, fight your bully, and respect ALL the elders or we get our ass whooped...by the the elders because it literally took a village. We were also told to do your job at 100% with a smile or don't work at all. Shout out to ALL of my fellow Gen Xers. Yes, we are survivors! ❤❤
Two boys picked on my brother, in grade school. My Dad told my brother, to punch them, and he would back him up with the principle. They were his friends after that.
Gen X here and I’m proud of our generation because a lot of us were kids of Vietnam veterans and learned to be tough and resilient but also appreciate the little things in life too, that’s why it’s important to share that joy💖💖💖
Proud to be hot and sweaty? Okay. I’m grateful to have AC. The beer tastes the same and the music sounds the same. I’m just not sweating for the sake of sweating.
Born in the 70's , I used to do lots of homework, loved my school and teachers, I dealt with ugly bullies, they did not defeat me, proud to be X generation ! 🎉
I am born in 1971, so I can relate to lot of this. TV's only had a maximum of 6 channels, no mobile phones, there was a dial for a number selection on a landline phone, there was no internet and didn't rely on many of things we rely on these days. When we got hurt we were left to sort it out ourselves, played outside in the dirt, got wet when it rained and so am so proud to be a Gen X and a survivor.
1976 Gen X er 🇺🇲 ♥️ I used to call myself and others the "in between" generation. When I started H.S. we were using rolodex cards to find books and materials in the library. By Senior, it was all put on the computer system and our principal said we're getting the "World Wide Web" 😂 now. All the web pages looked like default pages back then. Lol We had to do research papers by hand, learned the dewey decimal system, latch key kids, learn how to take city buses system, spelling , grammar and punctuation checked, listen and repeat directions, learn to write a check and balance checkbook in school and bill paying, learn customer service and phone skills. I can't emphasize the last one. I'm amazed how many people don't understand how to speak on the phone. To the point where when I do it now in my job, I've had people tell me they were impressed by it because nobody knows how to speak on the phone anymore. Imagine being impressed by the fact that I know who, what, where and why in 15 seconds and retrieve an answer to questions that quickly. One of the biggest complaints I hear from employers and friends people don't "follow directions".
I am a 1974 Gen X and compared to what society is like today I can say we had the best childhood. Playgrounds were actually fun and dangerous, no helicopter parenting and encouraged to go out play and explore. Gen X also had to be very creative since there was no internet or cell phone or pc's to distract us. What an awesome simple time that is gone forever 🖖.
Our school playground was awesome. There were 2 story high monkey bars, swings with wooden seats and super long chains, hot metal slides you had to climb forever, seesaws and one of those rotating things ( the kind you run to make spin and then jump onto), all on asphalt and concrete. Oddly enough, without supervision, our little 7 year old asses figured out how to navigate this kick-ass equipment with just the occasional skinned knee. Remember skinned knees? I had a perpetual scab on both knees until puberty. I am so grateful for having grown up then, it was fantastic.
@@lacm64 skinned knees and you still had a blast and asked for more. Those hot metal slides felt like a branding iron yet we still kept sliding. I bet the monkey bars had no paint left on the grips from all the use, the monkey bars at the parks now look brand new because kids are not using them. One has to wonder how physically weaker kids are in comparison to back in our day.
Older X were raised by the silent generation. With grandparents that lived through the Great Depression. It puts a whole lot of things into perspective. Those older generations were the ones that really saw change……like indoor plumbing and the polio vaccine.
@@magoo9279 Are we though?? I mean, we really had to raise ourselves, and our younger siblings. We couldn't really be selfish. We were self-sufficient.
@@magoo9279 Interesting. We've had how many generation over the past 10000 years, yet you have the confidence to make that statement. You might be the first omniscient person I've encountered.
79 brother! Best time of my life! Getting hurt and then getting hurt again by my mother when I got home, because I got hurt! Wash rinse repeat lol The biggest difference back then to today is people loved each other, regardless of their political or religion. Such a great time to be alive in the 80’s and 90’s
Vintage 1968 here. We ran the streets and nobody really cared! We had a blast and learned from our own mistakes at the same time. My mom's advice was to just get over it whenever I had a problem. We learned to take care of ourselves and that's a fact! Team GEN X
We also rode our bikes, big wheels, skateboards, roller skates without helmets. I grew up in a small town by a military Mother, she taught us how to hunt, drive, and cook.... My Grandma was the one who raised us until my mom got out of the military.
1965 here....we lived before "teenage angst". To my Mama you just had your ass on your shoulders and she was more than prepared to knock it off your shoulders if you didn't straighten up.
As a baby boomer I can attest I’ve had zero problem with Gen Xers at all. Great people. The media tried to label them mall rats and MTV generation basement dwellers. “Clerks” was their movie. But Surprise! They grew up, got jobs, worked hard and did fine. Most importantly they didn’t complained n about every little thing and feel like the world owed them anything. Gen X is great. Music was great too.
The 80's was a magical time! I remember being outside all day during the summer and playing games that would be considered "Unsafe" these days. We also knew how to get into fights and be friends the next day.
@@dedeborya9015 OMG remember UFO'ss? Yes lets take rockets and Place it on a cut out of a soda can and bend the blades so this razor blade can Now fly . But you can't steal it. We used them Like Russian roulette stand around and light it. Points if you get hit
Most of my Good friends when I grew up i scrapped with. Once I fought 6 at a time in Garson Ontario, someone suckered kicked me. His brother found out as an adult and knocked him out 15 years later. Hahaha. Our generation had a code.
@@dakkerrins6344 Whatever you reckon! One thing Gen X hates are labels. You know those numbers are originally from the Pew RC? They since have revised them. I'll leave you to believe what you want. I'll remember my punk rock youth during the mid/late 70s that was def not a boomer thing unlike the sad hippie hang ons from then that were boomer through & through. Where u there then? If not F*(+ Off!
Mine, too. BEST PARENTS EVER !!! And we were never allowed to have a calculator, even if the Math teacher said """You can use a calculator in my class."" My Daddy said, """Hell no. You won't learn anything using a calculator, that's cheating, and you're cheating yourself math skills Dumbass""" DOB 01-22-1966😂😂😂 PROUD TO BE INTELLIGENT AND ACKNOWLEDGE REALITY 😂😂
I remember playing outside as a kid from sun up to sun down then going back out after dinner. Didn’t matter what the weather was. Walking everywhere including elementary school that was a 35 min walk one way. Being home alone after school, starting in elementary, because my mom worked and I was mature enough to take care of myself. Plus, the neighbors were all friends and would help me if I needed anything. Soooo many memories of a different world. Thanks for this!
And we were taught how to make some basic meals for ourselves at a very young age. Thus it wasn’t unusual to get hungry sometime during the day, and go into a friend’s house, or your house to make something to eat, potentially throw it into a paper lunch bag, and head out again. We just had to be home either when it got dark or the curfew siren sounded.
We came home from school, ate a quick snack and headed out to play with the neighbors. In cool and warm weather, on non school nights we all met outside to play hide and seek. We had street lights. Or catch firefly’s n the back yard.
Man I want that world. I heard my little cousin begging her mom not to post anymore pictures of her online because the "bad people" will find her and sell her. She is 7.
As a Gen Xer(1970), this is 100% true. Our parents were busy working or running a household, so we had to figure out a TON of stuff ourselves. We can "MacGyver" our way out of most situations. 😁
#PRRRRREEEEEEACH_IT !!! (1972 Baby) MacGyver, A-Team, Mission: Impossible and The Equalizer taught a lot of "DIY and Make It Work!" classes on TV.... for real.
Knowing if we acted up we got a cane to the hand at school, a tanned butt at home, and being grounded was a prison sentence. So, all that being said we respected our elders by keeping away from them as much as possible, both parties were happy with this arrangement, and we became independent, resourceful, street smart and were very happy. I miss the freedom of being a kid in the 70/80s. Good times.
When you did something real bad like play with fire and burn yourself thinking she's going to feel bad she's gives you a option to pick your own switch to beat your ass
@@Meisha-san that is true. I do feel very comfortable in my own skin personally, but I thought the "needing to be left alone" was a reaction to subsequent trauma, which is partly true, also. Although I don't really belong to "groups" of any kind , being part of the Generation X community is a group I do relate to and of which I am happy to be a member.🙂🙂
Being a latchkey kid and only child I was so used to being alone I could never break the cycle. I’m at the point now where I’ve opted for good long term care insurance instead of a partner.
And this is because we were told SO often “kids should be seen and not heard” Boomers were all drinkers- in my family there were anyway…. Drinking away their booming lives so often they forgot they had kids….. that is UNTIL…. Kids dared do something stupid enough to result in school calling our boomer parents.
I’m 1971 what I find fascinating about my generation is how inventive we are. The best inventors and creators . WHY ? Because when we were “ thrown” outside to play we didn’t have all the fancy toys to keep kids busy today. We had hop scotch ,skipping ropes ,balls , chalk ,a bike and a hose !!!!! We figured it out and managed to stay outside from morning until the street lights came on. The best inventions happened. Building forts, adventures, discoveries and making up and creating games. We were tough. There was a neighborhood problem you fought it out. We played on concrete and stones and had the meanest playground equipment. We didn’t have a soft ground to land on and I have plenty of scars to prove it !!!!
I’m very uncomfortable with all this GenX self praising. It feels very inauthentic for us. I liked it better when we ignored ourselves as much as the other generations ignored us.
my god my gen x friend ( I'm 14 yrs older) say why would you care? All they care about is racing cars jet aircraft jet boats yachts stuff they can never own oh and most importantly themselves
My father says he doesn't have a clue if he is Gen X or a Baby Boomer. He said he has seen no less than 20 different dates as to when Gen X starts and the Baby Boomers end. So I took a look and I see what he means. Just doing a simple Google search (I noticed even different dates came up on different Google search days LOL), and that search showed me tons of different days when Gen X started and Baby Boomers ended.
@@thomasjoseph5876 It is kinda muddy. Born in 58 , I'm technically Boomer. But don't see a whole lotta difference ... In attitude ... Music ... Values etc. I think it's mostly in the way we're raised and raise our own.
It’s true. But we are also so used to it all that we just keep working. We don’t look for praise. We just feel lucky to be alive and working. But we are tired!
We do It's called kids run their parents lives, and it's our grandchildren that we are talking about. Somehow our values and toughness didn't transfer to our kids to make the little whining brats of today
Correct. I don't know where he gets '60 thru '80 from. That's not accurate. I like that I myself am Gen X but I do still feel like I missed out on the best of Boomer culture. I'm glad I'm not a Millennial or Gen Z. But...I can't say I don't miss my younger body, even though I love my Gen-X brain. And we weren't all raised by Boomers. LOTS of us early Gen-Xers were raised by the Silent Generation, because Boomers would be too young still to have had kids yet.
A week try an hour especially without their precious phones. I saw a kid the other day throwing a fit bc he didn't understand why he couldn't have his phone after he was arrested and going to jail😅
Because no one thinks of them. My Dad was of that generation. I'm in that little gap between genx and millennial so I keep thinking I'm in a tiny second silent generation.
I'm the youngest of 7 ..I'm turning 50 March 3rd. Both my parents are from the silent generation. I lost my father at 26 and my mom has late stage Alzheimer's. I believe most of us came from that generation ❤️
My parents are part of the Silent Generation. I'm 55. I thought they were strict hell when I was growing up. Now I appreciate all they did. I can handle most anything.
They must have really been silent because I never heard of that generation. I thought it was "the greatest generation" then the Baby boomers then "gen x" - is the one I thought was called the great generation actually called "the silent gen" -or is there a gen between the great and the boomers? If so, that's my mom, you're right.
Gen X here too. I don’t need to use the F-word to convey how strong I am. I am literate, learned young that I didn’t want to be like my parents, and raised up with high standards. You should try it. ✌🏼 Set a higher example for the next generation.
My favorite was, Stupid hurts for a reason. It teaches you what not to do." Followed by, "So, did ya learn anything?" I closely associate this with the smell of band-aids and Bactine.
We Gen-Xers drove to work and/or school in bad traffic-hated it but did it. We took crap off of employers and stayed on jobs. Walked to school in all weather conditions! Celebrated Christmas and Valentines day at school! Our religious and sexual beliefs was our business! Sat thru work and school, went to parties and clubs without sharing it with world! We rock! ✊🏾
And if some millenial or Gen Z'er has a problem with us or wants us to fix their own messes, I will paraphrase another video about Gen X they should consider: Some of our methodologies don't exactly align with the Geneva Convention.
We lived outside, drank from hoses, pee'd outside, walked to and from school from kindergarten. "Playdate?" WTF? We just ran the neighborhood. Feared our teachers and our parents.
@@Cv227a Everything you wrote: We lived outside, drank from hoses, pee'd outside, walked to and from school from kindergarten. "Playdate?" WTF? We just ran the neighborhood. Feared our teachers and our parents. Describes me and my buddies 3-5 years before you.
Um. Millennials did all of that minus fearing teachers. Half and half on the fearing parents part. 1995 here. Internet still wasn’t big till around my teenage years but still not massive till the 2010s.
My daughter is the same age as you. I raised her the way I was, with values, kindness and the ability to use analytical thinking. She turned out great!!
Born in 69 and I was a latch key kid.... I lost my key so many times my mother took me to a hardware type store and had a guy weld a short ass chain around my neck so it would not come off!!! I had to kiss that door knob basically!!! I remember the guy saying okayyyyy..... I had green patina all over my neck!! Lol!! Good times good times!!!
@@user-zr6pl6nb6z it was like a lite Guage lattice chain and the dude at the store spot welded it so I could not take it off. I will Never forget it. Side note .... I did not loose my key anymore!! Lol!!
I am right there with you, man!! I was born in 1965. From the second grade, BOTH parents worked. We all woke up together and got ready - them for work, my younger brother and I for school. They would leave about 30 minutes before we had to leave for the bus. We walked out, locked the door, went up to the bus stop together, went to school. We'd get back on the bus at the end of the day. I made sure my brother was on the bus. We'd go home, I'd unlock the door with the key that I had safety pinned to my pocket, turn on the TV, make a sandwich, wait for mom's call at promptly 4:00, then for the next 75 minutes LIFE! HAPPENED!! HAHAHAH!!! As a result, I am VORACIOUSLY independent!! I can pretty much do ANYTHING, but I CHOSE to do the hard things. I am an electrical engineering manager today, in charge of 23 people and a $25 million capital budget and an $11 million O&M budget. I am 57 and will retire at age 59 in December 2024. Will it be over?? HELL! NO!! I still got lots of sh!t I plan to do, and I am SO looking forward to it!! Survivor?? Me? YOU BET YOUR ASS!!
Bro also must be the stupidest generation...i was born in 86 an was outside thru all that.had no cell phones or internet till late 90s Had to be home before street lights came on I dont get why all these stupid gen x vids are popn up an they all claim they the last with out internet etc its like no you aint By the way im from new Zealand so we are also along way behind rest of world
Excuse me, WE Boomer's are not dead yet!!! PS Daycare for US was go outside and work. Both ways, Uphill (Oh sorry got lost there for a second. But I AM old right?).
@@OldMovieFan1973 NO SHIT? ME TOO! Could you time them so you could get every minute before running in the house? He is one, "Just wait till your Father comes home" (and it was only noon).
Yep, true story from a fellow gen X-er. We were told things like: Pick YOURSELF up, dust YOURSELF off, and KEEP WALKING. We figured it out, and learned from our friends mistakes. 😅
Born in 1966. Raised my two sons, the same way I was raised! One is a soldier, the other is a Marine… They don’t bitch and whine and they don’t need safe spaces!! To all the other servicemen and women out there… Thank you for your service!
Was born in 1948, graduated high school the year you were born. Can still relate. Parents were 49 and 45 when i was born. Knew the perspective of people born at the end of 19th century and in the early part of the 20th century. Didn't come in the house til evening. Made up games with the neighbor kids. Neighborhood adults raised us all. We do something wrong, got spanked, then neighbors called the parents, and we got spanked again. We do not suffer fools lightly!😂😂
I Identify so much with this. I think our most valuable trait is self-reliance, and that tends to be accompanied by healthy self-esteem. I just went to a big Labor Day party thrown by a radio station and it just happened to be mostly Gen X-rs.I know because the MC thought it was a good idea to call out age groups. The roar that went up when she asked who was in their fifties! I was amazed, everyone looked so good, at least a decade younger than their 50's/60's. A time was had!
As a Millennial 87 raised by Boomer parents 49 & 64. Suck it up buttercup and fake it till you make it were some of my Moms fave sayings. Dad on the other hand liked you wanna cry? I can give you something to cry about. But I was lucky to have parents who weren't weird about saying I Love You and showing it.
Feral. That is the best, all-encompassing description I've heard for Gen X. I was born in 1966 to older parents, both born in the 1920s. I didn't dare complain about anything because I'd be lectured about growing up in The Great Depression and WW2. If I didn't like what food we had, they'd tell me to make something else or go hungry. If I said I was bored, I'd get tossed outside and told to come home after dark. I don't think the words "anxious" or "depressed" were part of our vocabulary. If I got a whooping at school, I didn't DARE tell my dad. He'd say I must have done something to deserve it, and I'd get another whooping at home. You took your lumps and kept your mouth shut about it. That's how kids my age were raised. We figured stuff out, and if we didn't, too bad. Whining about it just got you ignored or slapped. We were left alone a lot. Feral is perfect. I know it seems harsh by today's standards but here I am, a somewhat normal functioning member of society. I stayed out of jail and the mental institutions.
October '66 and same story. Older parents who had lived through tough times. We grew up to be tough and resilient. We wasted nothing and looked after ourselves. I cringe when I see how soft, weak, and wasteful the current crop are.
I'm a '68 born to Depression Babies. Dad was a WW2 Marine. I was an inner city latchkey kid. Definitely feral & a survivor. But no mistake, "... (I) do it with compassion & don't believe in hate." ;) As a kid, I thought those who came before us were odd, and they thought we were hopeless. Assuming the world lasts that long, Gen Z will be the butts of their own kids' jokes. It's just the natural order of things. I do hope that they can accept it with good humor!
I just finished commenting on the fact that my parents were born in the 20's! 1925 and 1928. I told my mom once that I was bored and she said, "well, there's always the army?!" That was the last time I ever complained about being bored. If I didn't like the food, id scrape it into the napkin on my lap and flush it after dinner, otherwise I'd be sitting at the table until I finished it...or until they were sick of seeing me sitting there still not eating the food. :D
So true! I remember a boy fancy me at school and my response was p@@@ off! ;) I didnt know how to handle affection as a kid and I certainly wasn't gonna be the butt of someones joke either! :) hehe.
I’m a baby boomer who was a single mother with 3 children 2 of them are generation x children who have been through it all and are survivors! I am so proud of them for who they are today. The respect levels are something else.. hands down!
Definitely! :) parents practically pushed us to stay outside... walk miles unaccompanied and getting lost was both what they insisted but we soon realised getting lost in the wild was heaven sent! ;)
Proud Gen Xer here....1974. We had real family back then. Life was fun and even if you were poor they found a way and we felt rich. School was fun and we loved to play outdoors. Awesome music with meaning and words you can understand!
We are very furtonate to have grown up with such good meaningful music that had a profound effect on us. Gen Z wants to know how music was so advanced from the 70's and 80's. It's not that it was so advanced, it's that their music is so un-advanced and sucks.
As someone married to a Gen Xer, I can confirm this is true. My hubby is the strongest, mentally tough person I know and beautifully kind and respectful.
😂 My Dad had an iron hand. As a 6 year old Gen X kid my Dad threw me in the pool and told me to swim 🤣 I sank to the bottom and my sister had to get from the bottom 😭 My introduction to "Life" My Dad taught me if you don't try, you'll stay at the bottom for the rest of your life 😅 Thanks Dad!!! 🤙🏽
As a gen X member, my dad was so southern, the bastard imported a willow tree to the west coast so he could have us kids pick a switch for him to beat us with. I'll never forget being 12 when he told me to pick a switch and I dragged back a fallen 15' pine tree and said "here, this'll ACTUALLY hurt you more than it will me". I never caught another whoopin, and we laughed about that until the day he died. R.I.P Dad.
I remember having to pick a willow tree branch. I remember it well, because being raised by Air Force boomers, I knew better than to FAAFO with them. It's called respecting your parents! I'm proud of how I was raised too!
We moved a lot and fortunately there was only one yard with a Willow tree and my brother and I hated it. We used to pick thicker sticks that were brittle so they would break when you were hit with them but that wasn’t possible with a Willow.
First rule about GenX, we don't talk about what we used to get away with. The kids wouldn't understand, and it would probably scare them. Gen X - Been there, done that, and got the T-shirt.
We were practically feral children. We had Baby Boomers as parental figures who we lived with but we pretty much raised ourselves. The majority of us were latchkey kids and had no choice but to grow up really quick and take care of ourselves.
Almost none of our parents were boers though, i dont understand why everyone keeps saying we were raised by boomers, that was the millennials and it truly shows. The boomers were too busy doing blow and switching from slacker hippies to sellout yuppies to be having kids . Majority of gen x parents were from the silent generation. I was born in 73 😅
tell your dad, a fellow gen x replied to your comment: i used to come in late every night and take the lit cigarette out of my mom's hand who was nodded out on the couch. the roles were reversed. i was playing parent, my parents played being the child.
I’m Gen X. No military, no rehab and no jail. However, I was taken from my parents and spent more than half my childhood in foster care. I was emancipated at 16. Had a job and an apartment at 16. You didn’t get coddled, you just grew the f up with no other choice.
Gen Xers also have super powers. We can fix everything ourselves, don’t need a smart phone, read paper maps, can make a game out of anything, know cursive & count real money!💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Please get a life and stop pushing your beliefs on people that don’t care. I’m telling you I don’t care about gen x or gen z or gen what the duck ever. Gen x need to leave people alone
I’m a Xennial (1982), and yes, I was playing OUTSIDE with the other kids on my street. I was the Asian kid among the black, white, brown, and all the colors. We all played together. And it was fuxxin BEAUTIFUL! C’mon millennials, let your Gen Alpha play outside!
I keep hearing the word "feral" in these videos and it makes me smile and laugh each time because that one word is so accurate and descriptive of us as a whole. We were on our own, we took care of ourselves. NOT because our parents didn't care, it was because they were working to make a better life for us. They trusted us to not get ourselves dead and to take care of any problems we created. Latch Key for Life!
Working to make a better life for us. I like that! My husband, a baby boomer, worked his butt off on a swing shift. I’d kick my kids, now 50-48and 46 out of the house so he could sleep. The payoff? We had some nice vacations and the three have a hefty trust fund and they turned out pretty good.
@@ritaroad... Yeah, they turned out pretty good!! But what happened to their kids and the next 5 decades of kids after them??? What went wrong?? Of course not with all of them, but every generation after seemed to have a bigger percentage of "yuck" people!!!
Such a brilliant observation... That's why they call us X... No one-word actually or any words together, ever ever ever put us into one category. we are a medley of a whole bunch of stuff cuz we did a whole bunch of things and loved every minute of it.
Manners! That's another thing. Bad manners & mouthing off got you slapped in the face, mouth literally washed out with soap for swearing and getting whipped on the a$$ by one or both parents. Respect for our elders: hearing how my Grandfather survived the depression, how our parents were raised. Respect at one's friends house when visiting. Any reports of bad behavior from friends parents got us grounded....or belt spanked.
Facts. Not only are we fully capable of earning respect, we show ours first. At that point the only thing you can do is lose the respect of someone from a typical Gen Xer. We show it and earn it without most people ever realizing that they had our respect from day one. The choice of what to do with that, is exactly what your pain in the ass boss is really looking for. Someone who doesn’t need to be hand held through how to motivate those in their department. Start getting a little too comfy in that new seat, it’s a 50/50 split as to how long you last. Pro Tip: We actually give many more Fs about how you treat those under you. That’s what will get you noticed. How you motivate/defend those around or under you. For a generation that has many monikers one of which is ‘the least parented’, for a good reason, means how you treat others is important. We had to depend on one another. The one thing a Gen Xers will notice is if you are standing right next to someone in your department and defending with them why we are wrong. That, and that alone will be noted. Even if you lost. It doesn’t matter. You just got yourself on our radar, know that and soar, without saying a word. That promotion just might come sooner than expected.
@@jbrubin8274 you must be a gen X because I buy 90 % of your comment. Now I'm 1952 boomer and let me give you an example of genX workplace. There was a monsoon earlier in the day and while at my genX friends place he got a call to come to his bosses property because the boss fell of the ladder trying to clear the gutters. We headed over there and the boss was back from the doctor and he ordered my friend and myself to get on the roofs and clear all the scuppers and sweep the water. The businesses below were getting leaks in the ceiling.v we worked till dark and got everything draining nicely I went home and you know I never got paid. I waited vs couple of weeks and finally mentioned it. He told hey go find the boss and get your money. I didn't know where his office was or what or how I was to be paid that's not how things work in my world. I personally take care of stuff like that not just blow it off. Would you let a helper get in that situation? He was such a hypocrite another genX trait l
1975 here and I grew up with 2 great grandmother's, 1 great grandfather, 3 grandmother's and 2 grandfathers, and Peppermint & butterscotch in church, oh, and you had to go. We walked home alone and stayed there alone (you better not open that door) we cooked for ourselves ( unless we were with the grandparents). We spent the weekends and summers with grandparents. We stayed outside all day, our punishment was having to stay inside. We made up games (kick the can, rolling in a cardboard box). We were not afraid of anything or anyone other than our parents. We were grateful for what we had. We respected our elders. We were disciplined by teachers and neighbors and then our parents when we got home. We were creative, used our imaginations, and enjoyed ourselves. There will never be another generation like ours, we are the last generation that actually had to use the common sense we were born with 😂😂
Gen X took the book title "You Can't Go Home Again" literally. We hustled hard to be financially independent of our parents even if it meant working multiple jobs, going to night school to learn a new trade, working at a job where a boss wasn't nice to you, etc. We did what we had to do to establish financial independence. Drove second and third hand cars, ate Ramen soup, etc.
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As a Gen-X kid, the mottos we grew up with are "The world owes you nothing" and "Think before you open your mouth".
Well sometimes people need to hear shit, and another thing is that we just want to see what the effects are on the person while we smile and laugh on the inside. :) hehe
That and team work makes the dream work 💪🏾
Our parents were also versed in reminding us every time we messed up or thought we were big and bad "I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it" and yes, we knew they absolutely could. 😂
Not mottos. Both of those are just solid wisdom.
@@jreyman 💪🏾FACTS🐲
"Walk it off" was the cure for most ailments
Omgosh YESSSS, along w/you’re fine I’m not taking you to the ER, put some iodine on it and it’ll be fine🤣🤣🤣
So true. This went for girls too. My parents, aunts and uncles would say it all the time. 😁
GIIIIIIIIIIIIRL, don't get me started 🤦🏾♀️
@@michelemiktus2312Iodine?!?! 😂😂😂 Not to mention alcohol, vicks or just take a nap🤷🏾♀️😅
@@nayd.7979 omgosh, yes, Vicks and take a nap🤣🤣🤣 We used mercurochrome and iodine interchangeably, you knew the sting was coming but painting it on was so fun😂😂😂 especially as you were trying to make all the sides smooth and even. The area would just get bigger and bigger until the adult would come to find you b/c it was “taking too long”🤣🤣🤣
At 56, this message cannot be overstated we didn't live our childhoods we survived them most of us anyway
Truth
So true.
So true.🎉🎉
"Dito" that
100% the truth!
I'm part of,generation X and when I was growing up you didn't get in someone's face and insult them without getting punched in the face the younger generations will say crap to you and have the nerve to look shocked when they get knocked out.
Personal space was respected or taught the hard way. You learned not to get in people's faces unless you could fight/hold your own.
GEN X: the last adventurous, freethinking, critical thinking, tough talking, no nonsense, down to earth, risk taking, aspirational, inspirational and independent generation with a backbone.😎
Love this!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 that about sums it up. Last of a dying breed
Amen!
Amen
A to the motherfucking MEN!!! WE ARE PRETTY AWESOME, AREN'T WE!!
Maybe so, but Gen X doesn’t end at 1980. I know that because I’m born 1984 and every trait listed are traits instilled in me since I was born. I was pre-internet so I remember all the card catalog at libraries. Reference sections and encyclopedias and hard cover books, soft cover books, I remember playing dodge ball in school (banned now) spending days locked outside the house not inside the house, walking to school from 1st grade on…….. the list goes on.
This gen is old enough to appreciate and know the old days and young enough to adapt to all of the change. I'm grateful for this
Generally grateful over-all.
Got to be honest....
Don't feel like my I'm adapting all too well anymore. This newest generation is killing me.
As a Gen X'er, I approve this message.
Same here.
Ditto
IKR 😂
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Hey! I’m not sure if I’m a boomer or not. Born in 1960, so y’all tell me. Thing here is I love these youngs! They brighten my days as a lowly substitute teacher. They give me the impetus to go back every day.
Gen X kid here. My dad would say to me, "Why are you involving me? I have enough of my own problems. Do not make your problems my problems." And critical thought form was the best gift he gave me.
I had that same conversation or something like it with both adult caretakers
I’m at the very tail end of gen x so I still have kids at home. My niece was trying to tattle on one of my boys. I looked that girl strait in the eye and said, “I don’t care.” The shock on her face🤣 And that’s why my kids can fix their own cars, and mind their own business. That and they were homeschooled.
We raised ourselves. I used to walk home from kindergarten, by myself.
It was a 10 minute walk for me to school but on the bus it would take an hour. I had really good calf muscles back in the day 😂
I rode my bike, LOL.
That’s why they’re were lots of missing children…….
Me too!
Yes! My elementary school was 2 blocks away and from kindergarten i walked!
As a millennial I have much respect for Gen X. They can literally do anything. They know how to drive stick. They can cook and fight. They can hold a conversation with anyone and don't get triggered by anything. If we had tribes I would only vote for a Gen X as chief.
As a Gen X'r born in 74, thank you kind sir. My husband and I will gladly kick someone's ass for you and then cook you dinner anytime. 😉
So true...I can drive a stick...I can cook anything, take 65 wpm...work an old typewriter as well as a computer.
I can run a booking system with no computer. Can do long division. Can change a tyre. Can navigate with no gps. I worked in the police yep.
You're awesome! Thank you ❤
Smart man, I didn't learn to drive an automatic till I was 19. I was driving a stick shift at 11 years old. We have done so much with so little for so long, that now we can do everything with nothing
Don't forget our grandparents were part of the greatest generation. Their knowledge and stories were top notch
I got mostly the depression stories..
I remember the rather disturbing things that my Grandfather told me of many things that he went through during WWII. Very sadly he is long gone and living it up in heaven. I doubt that I shall ever be able to measure up to his level.
My parents were Silent Generation. Both of their fathers were born in 1901. Their mothers were born in 1920.
My grandmother is 100. She is tougher than nails.❤
Yeah but we actually listened. Having wisdom given to you at a young age really helps you along your life. Kids don't hear a damn thing these days. I'm in construction than teaching youngsters for years they're getting dumber every year
Here's my favorite GenX story: I was 5 yo watching Saturday Morning Cartoons and my older sisters asked if I wanted to help them make yarn. So I agree and follow them to the vacant field behind our house. There's a DEAD SHEEP back there, and my sisters start pulling wool off the dead sheep and tossing it into a paper grocery bag. When the bag was full, we went into our garage and washed the wool in a large coffee can (that's how our parents consumed coffee back then). Our mother breezed through with her white wine on the rocks (it was a thing) asking, "what are you kids up to?" And I was like, "We're making yarn, mom!" And she would smile and say, "That's nice, kids!" and off she'd go, icecubes tinkling. After we washed the wool, my sisters combed it through some nails they pounded into a scrap 2X4. They had me gather pollen from the day lilies that grew in our back yard which I was instructed to crush with a rock in another coffee can. That was mixed with water, salt and vinegar and the wool was dyed in this concoction. "What did you kids say you are making?" my mother appeared again in a vision of Marlboro Lights smoke and tinkling ice cubes. "We're dying our yarn!" Mother walked over to the coffee can cauldron and inspected the 2X4 comb. "Where did you get the wool?" "From a dead sheep in the back field." Next thing we knew, being dunked in a hot bleach bath. And yes, we shared the bathwater, because waste not, want not. Good times
This is such a hilarious story. Please keep telling it to all your families generations
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Playing with any chemicals we learned would go boom. MRI's mixed with water in a 2L bottle. had to get the cap on tight & fast. Ouch, those were the days.
My teacher had us hide behind picnic benches When he blew up Coke bottles in Chem 12. The glass shards would inbed themselves in the benches. We mostly didnt bleed. Unbelievable.
Truly awesome story. This shows intelligence and ingenuity. Great job guys. I say this with absolutely no sarcasm. Born 1978
When you phoned a friend and got a busy signal, you knew somebody was home!!!
No… you had to call a couple of times just to make sure that it wasn’t busy because someone else was calling them at the same time. 😂
Or the phone was knocked off the hook
@@G00gLe_was_my_idea989 - "Blocking" technique
Or, they were on a "party line" with up to four families sharing a line. 1972 in rural Canada. Yes, we shared with three other families. Two were silent, and the other party had one ring as their call, and ours was two rings. The neighbour lady would listen in on our calls! I would tell my friend "I think somebody is listening in" and we'd hear a soft 'click'. 😂
we were the last feral generation of people....we went out and played...drank from hoses...ate berries from bushes...and settled disputes with hands
Yup, that is me! And I am a woman😂
... ate crabapples while sitting up in the tree (look out for those worms!)
@@angelapastorius2377 awwww crabapples, those were the days
My friend had a mulberry tree in his backyard.. big black berries.. i used to climb up and eat them until i popped 😂😂😂😂 went pool hopping in the summer.. played with fireworks… Dad bought me a keg of beer for my birthday party at 19… all my friends came over and we drank Responsibly 😂😂😂😂 … he would go to jail today.. born 1962… the 80’s-90’s were a total bar blast.. we all had Fake ID’s by 19… now it’s a Felony….
@@angelapastorius2377I got busted throwing crabapples at a cop car. Well not so much throwing as dropping them from the tree that went over the road. We were collecting a bunch in our shirts to eat them and just as the cop came thru I dropped them. Of course the cop didn’t believe it was an accident. We used to have Crabapple battles all the time. Does anybody know why they called them crabapples?
Was born in 1966, grew up on a dairy farm, graduated in 1984, went to boot camp that same year. Served in the military until 2005. Drank in bars that you needed a Tetanus shot to get into and a Rabies Shot to get out of. Drank in countries most people only read about in NatGeo or see on TV. Developed malaria (Hella worse than CoVid) while in The Phillipines.
Had my first child at 27, 2nd at 30, got married at 30. Raised my kids the same way I was, with chores and responsibilities. My kids grew with respect for their country, their elders, there friends. They joined the military as well and are like Mom and Dad.
That is so awesome papa. Raising gen x babies wooo gen X.
Same here got out in 87 born in 66 and turned 57 today....thanks for your service!
Wish my wife would have let me raise her sons like that. Instead i have a 26 year old step-son with no work ethic. A 16 year old step-son with no initiative and 21 year old step-daugther who's a mental case.
@@sbyrstallSo sad. It’s crazy that they will marry you, say they love you, sleep with you and let you spend money on their kids but you’re not allowed to raise them.
Thank you for working hard to raise great kids. Those of us who have to deal with them as adults are so very appreciative of your efforts!
Born in '77. Walked/biked by myself to the arcade, bowling alley, mall - never once felt scared or worried about what could happen. Never had a cell phone until after college. Got my drivers license the day I turned 16. Those were the absolute best fucking days
Same here I got my drivers license literally the minute I turn 16 .
Same here, the day I turned 16. Before that we would throw rocks at the van guys with puppies or candy, yes they were out in force, still didn't stop us from the mall & arcade. Peace
didnt gen X raise gen Z so why are they starting this whole one-sided war
@@bobdabob780That would require Gen Z taking their Gen X parents seriously. No generation takes their parents seriously.
@@amydawn2730 sounds like the parents issue if they cant raise their kids well enough to take them seriously. I personally take my parents words very serious so i would disagree with you
Yep! Most of us were “latch key” kids after school. We did our homework and chores, then watched “After school specials” on TV until our parents got home.
Only tv we got to watch was Saturday morning cartoons and Sunday night disney....other than that we weren't allowed in the house for any reason.
We learned to pick locks because our mom wouldn't give us a key to share among 4 kids. After all the after school crap, we would get home, pick the lock, and fight over which video made top 10 list on MTV.
That was me with a gen x dad as a millennial kid from age 8!! (Born in 93). Both parents had to work so it is what it is!
My father left a window in the back being unlocked, so we kids could climb through it if need be.
Let's not forget that GenX was the "smallest", only 15 yrs. But only because they kept shaving years off. It's really from about '60 to '80 or '65 to '85. Those extra years on either end were raised more like GenX than Boomers or Milliennals😂My uncle born in '60 would be highly offended to be called a Boomer
"F off" is the Gen X motto.
We have a problem with BS.
Truest Statement. My Motto is I won’t be bothered. …… Do it and you will find out…X
That's my motto and I was born in 83
My entire back is tattooed to that theme.
Born in 67 will give you the shirt of my back , however, I don't tolerate or take BS from know body
I live in a town where almost everyone seems to be full of bs. Born in 68, just sitting back watching all the tomfoolery
So proud to be a Gen Xer. We were told to be home before the street lights came on, fight your bully, and respect ALL the elders or we get our ass whooped...by the the elders because it literally took a village. We were also told to do your job at 100% with a smile or don't work at all. Shout out to ALL of my fellow Gen Xers. Yes, we are survivors! ❤❤
I didn't come home for days at a time.
@bernetheaworrell6258 ALL FACTS! We were latchkey kids who knew how to fend for ourselves and show proper respect PERIOD!!!!
I’m an 85 millennial and we still had the same. Kinda stupid
Two boys picked on my brother, in grade school. My Dad told my brother, to punch them, and he would back him up with the principle. They were his friends after that.
Right On!
Gen X here and I’m proud of our generation because a lot of us were kids of Vietnam veterans and learned to be tough and resilient but also appreciate the little things in life too, that’s why it’s important to share that joy💖💖💖
Im sitting on my patio , 100 degrees out listening to Pearl Jam and drinking a beer. Proud Gen X Saturday
Proud to be hot and sweaty? Okay. I’m grateful to have AC. The beer tastes the same and the music sounds the same. I’m just not sweating for the sake of sweating.
Hell ya that's where it's at !!
I hear that!!! 😂
@@dennisjohnsen7297so you're not a gen X then?
Nobody said they were sweaty or suffering
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Born in the 70's , I used to do lots of homework, loved my school and teachers, I dealt with ugly bullies, they did not defeat me, proud to be X generation ! 🎉
I am born in 1971, so I can relate to lot of this.
TV's only had a maximum of 6 channels, no mobile phones, there was a dial for a number selection on a landline phone, there was no internet and didn't rely on many of things we rely on these days.
When we got hurt we were left to sort it out ourselves, played outside in the dirt, got wet when it rained and so am so proud to be a Gen X and a survivor.
I went through the same dam thing and happy to survive it. 😅
1976 Gen X er 🇺🇲 ♥️ I used to call myself and others the "in between" generation. When I started H.S. we were using rolodex cards to find books and materials in the library. By Senior, it was all put on the computer system and our principal said we're getting the "World Wide Web" 😂 now. All the web pages looked like default pages back then. Lol We had to do research papers by hand, learned the dewey decimal system, latch key kids, learn how to take city buses system, spelling , grammar and punctuation checked, listen and repeat directions, learn to write a check and balance checkbook in school and bill paying, learn customer service and phone skills. I can't emphasize the last one. I'm amazed how many people don't understand how to speak on the phone. To the point where when I do it now in my job, I've had people tell me they were impressed by it because nobody knows how to speak on the phone anymore. Imagine being impressed by the fact that I know who, what, where and why in 15 seconds and retrieve an answer to questions that quickly. One of the biggest complaints I hear from employers and friends people don't "follow directions".
I am a 1974 Gen X and compared to what society is like today I can say we had the best childhood. Playgrounds were actually fun and dangerous, no helicopter parenting and encouraged to go out play and explore. Gen X also had to be very creative since there was no internet or cell phone or pc's to distract us. What an awesome simple time that is gone forever 🖖.
Our school playground was awesome. There were 2 story high monkey bars, swings with wooden seats and super long chains, hot metal slides you had to climb forever, seesaws and one of those rotating things ( the kind you run to make spin and then jump onto), all on asphalt and concrete. Oddly enough, without supervision, our little 7 year old asses figured out how to navigate this kick-ass equipment with just the occasional skinned knee. Remember skinned knees? I had a perpetual scab on both knees until puberty. I am so grateful for having grown up then, it was fantastic.
@@lacm64 skinned knees and you still had a blast and asked for more. Those hot metal slides felt like a branding iron yet we still kept sliding. I bet the monkey bars had no paint left on the grips from all the use, the monkey bars at the parks now look brand new because kids are not using them. One has to wonder how physically weaker kids are in comparison to back in our day.
Yep im with you on that,i was born 1969,we had the best childhood
It’s only gone forever if we choose. The world needs parents who are willing to take responsibility for their kids and not baby them
Gen Y is also like that.
Well i guess some
Older X were raised by the silent generation. With grandparents that lived through the Great Depression. It puts a whole lot of things into perspective. Those older generations were the ones that really saw change……like indoor plumbing and the polio vaccine.
That's why Gen x generation is the most selfish generation. Their motto what do I get out of it.
@@magoo9279 Are we though?? I mean, we really had to raise ourselves, and our younger siblings. We couldn't really be selfish. We were self-sufficient.
@@magoo9279 Interesting. We've had how many generation over the past 10000 years, yet you have the confidence to make that statement. You might be the first omniscient person I've encountered.
@@magoo9279 Have you not seen the sense of entitlement and victim mentality coming out of Millennials and especially Gen Z?
I was born in 1978, and my parents are the silent generation.
We fought our own battles. We solved our own problems. We worked hard. We played hard. We stood up for ourselves. We still do. We're still here.
Rightly said. GenX here. We get things done without complaining. We were built TOUGH!!!
damn straight
79 brother! Best time of my life! Getting hurt and then getting hurt again by my mother when I got home, because I got hurt! Wash rinse repeat lol The biggest difference back then to today is people loved each other, regardless of their political or religion. Such a great time to be alive in the 80’s and 90’s
Vintage 1968 here. We ran the streets and nobody really cared! We had a blast and learned from our own mistakes at the same time. My mom's advice was to just get over it whenever I had a problem. We learned to take care of ourselves and that's a fact! Team GEN X
I'm a 1978, and my husband is a vintage 1968. 😁
We all learn from our mistakes, if you don't your an idiot that likes to repeat them.😂 1958 till present 🤔
We also rode our bikes, big wheels, skateboards, roller skates without helmets. I grew up in a small town by a military Mother, she taught us how to hunt, drive, and cook.... My Grandma was the one who raised us until my mom got out of the military.
1965 here....we lived before "teenage angst". To my Mama you just had your ass on your shoulders and she was more than prepared to knock it off your shoulders if you didn't straighten up.
I'm 7/68. I'm right there with you! 😁 Hubby's '72. Yeah, I robbed the cradle, and I don't apologize! 😁
As a baby boomer I can attest I’ve had zero problem with Gen Xers at all. Great people. The media tried to label them mall rats and MTV generation basement dwellers. “Clerks” was their movie. But Surprise! They grew up, got jobs, worked hard and did fine. Most importantly they didn’t complained n about every little thing and feel like the world owed them anything. Gen X is great. Music was great too.
The 80's was a magical time! I remember being outside all day during the summer and playing games that would be considered "Unsafe" these days. We also knew how to get into fights and be friends the next day.
This generation needs an afternoon of lawn darts and bottle rockets.
Yup, that is also how Boomers were raised.
@@dedeborya9015 OMG remember UFO'ss? Yes lets take rockets and Place it on a cut out of a soda can and bend the blades so this razor blade can Now fly . But you can't steal it.
We used them Like Russian roulette stand around and light it. Points if you get hit
Most of my Good friends when I grew up i scrapped with. Once I fought 6 at a time in Garson Ontario, someone suckered kicked me. His brother found out as an adult and knocked him out 15 years later. Hahaha. Our generation had a code.
That how we all grew up. So who's the dumb ass that screwed up the millilems
1976 - me, 1979 - my husband. Him-military, me- FU*CKN SURVIVOR!!!
1965-1980 ... My dad's favorite saying says it all, "Figure it out."
@@originalsusser 60-65 are boomers.
@@dakkerrins6344 Whatever you reckon! One thing Gen X hates are labels. You know those numbers are originally from the Pew RC? They since have revised them. I'll leave you to believe what you want. I'll remember my punk rock youth during the mid/late 70s that was def not a boomer thing unlike the sad hippie hang ons from then that were boomer through & through. Where u there then? If not F*(+ Off!
I say that a lot to people under my generation 😂😂
Mine, too. BEST PARENTS EVER !!!
And we were never allowed to have a calculator, even if the Math teacher said """You can use a calculator in my class.""
My Daddy said, """Hell no. You won't learn anything using a calculator, that's cheating, and you're cheating yourself math skills Dumbass"""
DOB 01-22-1966😂😂😂
PROUD TO BE INTELLIGENT AND ACKNOWLEDGE REALITY 😂😂
@dakkerrins6344
1966 baby, great childhood 😂
I'm practically a baby boomer
DOB January 22 1966
Proud of my baby boomer!!
I remember playing outside as a kid from sun up to sun down then going back out after dinner. Didn’t matter what the weather was. Walking everywhere including elementary school that was a 35 min walk one way. Being home alone after school, starting in elementary, because my mom worked and I was mature enough to take care of myself. Plus, the neighbors were all friends and would help me if I needed anything. Soooo many memories of a different world. Thanks for this!
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And we were taught how to make some basic meals for ourselves at a very young age. Thus it wasn’t unusual to get hungry sometime during the day, and go into a friend’s house, or your house to make something to eat, potentially throw it into a paper lunch bag, and head out again. We just had to be home either when it got dark or the curfew siren sounded.
We came home from school, ate a quick snack and headed out to play with the neighbors. In cool and warm weather, on non school nights we all met outside to play hide and seek. We had street lights. Or catch firefly’s n the back yard.
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Man I want that world. I heard my little cousin begging her mom not to post anymore pictures of her online because the "bad people" will find her and sell her. She is 7.
As a Gen Xer(1970), this is 100% true. Our parents were busy working or running a household, so we had to figure out a TON of stuff ourselves. We can "MacGyver" our way out of most situations. 😁
#PRRRRREEEEEEACH_IT !!! (1972 Baby)
MacGyver, A-Team, Mission: Impossible and The Equalizer taught a lot of "DIY and Make It Work!" classes on TV.... for real.
So true!
(1975)
If I can't fix it with duct tape or a hammer, I set it on fire and walk away.
FIXED.
70 baby and still live by the same rules.👍🏽😊
@@elizlikethequeenlmaooooo😂😂
Knowing if we acted up we got a cane to the hand at school, a tanned butt at home, and being grounded was a prison sentence.
So, all that being said we respected our elders by keeping away from them as much as possible, both parties were happy with this arrangement, and we became independent, resourceful, street smart and were very happy.
I miss the freedom of being a kid in the 70/80s. Good times.
Told to play outside, be home before dark, and got beat with a belt. The good old days.
I know exactly what you’re talking about.
i remember the luxury of being able to pick the belt I would get it with. I only picked the thin one once! :)
With me it was "the strap" and " I"ll give you something to really cry about."
When you did something real bad like play with fire and burn yourself thinking she's going to feel bad she's gives you a option to pick your own switch to beat your ass
Anyone ever get beat with a Hot wheels track? If you haven't, you missed out.
Gen X Catch phrase growing up I'll give you something to cry about.😂😂😂 We didn't get a time out we were knocked out.
😂😂😂 So true!!
One time, I sassed my mom. Took me three days to find my mouth, it was buried in the wall in the next room.
We also didn't get bull shit participation trophies. Ww tried hard, did our best, learned & hopefully had more success next time.
I got "I'll give you something to cry about" or "If I have to stop this car" 🤣
My Dad's exact words, stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about! Would strike the fear in ya, and make you shut up.
This is so very true. Mostly we just want to be left alone. ✌🏽
So good to hear I'm not alone in feeling like that!
I wonder why the need for our own space?
@@Sandra-bx6yy I think it's because we're the ones most comfortable in our own skin.
@@Meisha-san that is true.
I do feel very comfortable in my own skin personally, but I thought the "needing to be left alone" was a reaction to subsequent trauma, which is partly true, also.
Although I don't really belong to "groups" of any kind , being part of the Generation X community is a group I do relate to and of which I am happy to be a member.🙂🙂
Being a latchkey kid and only child I was so used to being alone I could never break the cycle. I’m at the point now where I’ve opted for good long term care insurance instead of a partner.
And this is because we were told SO often “kids should be seen and not heard”
Boomers were all drinkers- in my family there were anyway…. Drinking away their booming lives so often they forgot they had kids….. that is UNTIL…. Kids dared do something stupid enough to result in school calling our boomer parents.
I’m 1971 what I find fascinating about my generation is how inventive we are. The best inventors and creators . WHY ? Because when we were “ thrown” outside to play we didn’t have all the fancy toys to keep kids busy today. We had hop scotch ,skipping ropes ,balls , chalk ,a bike and a hose !!!!! We figured it out and managed to stay outside from morning until the street lights came on. The best inventions happened. Building forts, adventures, discoveries and making up and creating games. We were tough. There was a neighborhood problem you fought it out. We played on concrete and stones and had the meanest playground equipment. We didn’t have a soft ground to land on and I have plenty of scars to prove it !!!!
"Get yourself a GenX friend, but they'll probably just tell you to fuck off." True 🤣
Yes, yes we will
Only people we care about get told to fuck off.
Everybody else it's punched first and asked questions later.
I’m very uncomfortable with all this GenX self praising. It feels very inauthentic for us. I liked it better when we ignored ourselves as much as the other generations ignored us.
So True!!
@@tpkdm71 I think it's more about nostalgia. You know, we really don't care.
I'm so proud of being a Gen X , We can relate to all other generations...we understand...but we don't care.
😂...yep another genx here from across the pond!...we just got on with it...we grew some nuts..
The don't care lol
my god my gen x friend ( I'm 14 yrs older) say why would you care? All they care about is racing cars jet aircraft jet boats yachts stuff they can never own oh and most importantly themselves
My father says he doesn't have a clue if he is Gen X or a Baby Boomer. He said he has seen no less than 20 different dates as to when Gen X starts and the Baby Boomers end. So I took a look and I see what he means. Just doing a simple Google search (I noticed even different dates came up on different Google search days LOL), and that search showed me tons of different days when Gen X started and Baby Boomers ended.
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It is kinda muddy. Born in 58 , I'm technically Boomer. But don't see a whole lotta difference ... In attitude ... Music ... Values etc.
I think it's mostly in the way we're raised and raise our own.
I'm SO damm proud to be amongst the Gen X survivors! We're amazing!!😁🇺🇸👊🏻
GenX didnt happen only in US.
GenX is amazing everywhere.
It’s true. But we are also so used to it all that we just keep working. We don’t look for praise. We just feel lucky to be alive and working. But we are tired!
Just so wonderfully true. This GenXers approves. Raw and unvarnished. Outstanding. Thanks.
Lawn jarts, lead paint, cars without seat belts, outside until the streetlights came on and no cell phones or internet. Best of times!
And 15 foot tall metal jungle gyms on pavement!
You left out click clacks 2 billard balls tied to a string 😉
Jarts brand lawn darts! Yes!!!
Lead paint? That wasn't Gen X. Pretty sure that's what retarded the Boomers.
Absolutely
I miss the 70s and 80s. I feel like I live on another planet now.
We do
It's called kids run their parents lives, and it's our grandchildren that we are talking about. Somehow our values and toughness didn't transfer to our kids to make the little whining brats of today
I miss those decades every day 😑
I also miss the 90s
@@susannpatton2893 sorry you failed to indoctrinate your children with your values and beliefs.
@@susannpatton2893that's because mom's work and dad's work and you got the indoctrination of schools raising kids to be sissys
Our punishment back then.....making us stay inside the house....if we were told "get in the house", we knew we did something wrong LOLOLOL
Yup! We had chores and the kitchen phone inside. The fun stuff was in the neighborhood!
😂😂😂😂Riiiight
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house arrest was a nightmare
Yuppers. 😂😂
Gen X starts 1965. Ends 1979-80
Correct. I don't know where he gets '60 thru '80 from. That's not accurate. I like that I myself am Gen X but I do still feel like I missed out on the best of Boomer culture. I'm glad I'm not a Millennial or Gen Z. But...I can't say I don't miss my younger body, even though I love my Gen-X brain. And we weren't all raised by Boomers. LOTS of us early Gen-Xers were raised by the Silent Generation, because Boomers would be too young still to have had kids yet.
@@user-ze9jw8zu2xI'm a Gen-Xer born to Silent Generation parents. 5 of my siblings are Boomers out my mom's 8 kids (I'm next to the youngest)
56 year old Gen X here, kids today wouldn’t survive a week in our childhood 😂
A week try an hour especially without their precious phones. I saw a kid the other day throwing a fit bc he didn't understand why he couldn't have his phone after he was arrested and going to jail😅
Most of them would die over a peanut or opinion they disagreed with.
I would because I was raised by Baby Boomers.
Absolutely!!!
Not one day, rode a Scwinn bike 8 miles to the “hood” with a Swiss Army knife, one dollar and grit, all while having on the best outfit, matching.🤣🥰
Him smiling thru this whole video is how we had to smile thru our childhood!!!! 😂
Yep. Like smiling like nutcases.
Oof.
YOU SAID IT. ✊😅
Hell yes!😂😂😂
@@ThingsILike12 🤞🏾😜🤪🤣
Why do people always seem to forget that Gen Xers were raised by the Silent Generation as well?
Because no one thinks of them. My Dad was of that generation.
I'm in that little gap between genx and millennial so I keep thinking I'm in a tiny second silent generation.
I'm the youngest of 7 ..I'm turning 50 March 3rd. Both my parents are from the silent generation. I lost my father at 26 and my mom has late stage Alzheimer's. I believe most of us came from that generation ❤️
My parents are part of the Silent Generation. I'm 55. I thought they were strict hell when I was growing up. Now I appreciate all they did. I can handle most anything.
Turned 50 this past November, and both my parents are/were Silents. Dad is approaching 82, and Mom would be approaching 81 were she still with us.
They must have really been silent because I never heard of that generation. I thought it was "the greatest generation" then the Baby boomers then "gen x" - is the one I thought was called the great generation actually called "the silent gen" -or is there a gen between the great and the boomers? If so, that's my mom, you're right.
Gen X here too. I don’t need to use the F-word to convey how strong I am. I am literate, learned young that I didn’t want to be like my parents, and raised up with high standards. You should try it. ✌🏼
Set a higher example for the next generation.
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a few favorites I learned as a Gen X…
“Don’t speak on things you know nothing about.” & “don’t let your mouth write checks your ass can’t cash.”
Two of the most valuable lessons you can learn in life, honestly...
Yep!!! ❤❤❤❤
Sounds like something I’ve heard my dad say a time or two.. 😂
My favorite was, Stupid hurts for a reason. It teaches you what not to do."
Followed by, "So, did ya learn anything?"
I closely associate this with the smell of band-aids and Bactine.
We held the light for our dad's, learned the hard way, and had common sense
Damn, I was born in the mid 50's and still had a blast thru the 60's 70's and 80's. A great time to be alive ...... not so much now ....
"Nodody is gonna do it for ya" was a good one
I am proud to be a Gen Xer. I was a latchkey kid, took care of myself while my mother worked. I know what it means to be self-sufficient.😊
We Gen-Xers drove to work and/or school in bad traffic-hated it but did it. We took crap off of employers and stayed on jobs. Walked to school in all weather conditions! Celebrated Christmas and Valentines day at school! Our religious and sexual beliefs was our business! Sat thru work and school, went to parties and clubs without sharing it with world! We rock! ✊🏾
Ummmm, drove?
@@nikkic83 past tense for me, i’m retired now😃
"We took crap off of employers and stayed on jobs." GenX are famous for not taking _ANY_ crap from employers.
GenX has a message for you: NO ONE CARES, HELP IS NOT COMING, DEAL WITH YOUR OWN MESS
Say it louder! Truth!!
Holy cow, this right here is truth. This mentality is probably why I'm such a loner and keep away from people 😆
@@demonicastar Same, Brother.
And if some millenial or Gen Z'er has a problem with us or wants us to fix their own messes, I will paraphrase another video about Gen X they should consider:
Some of our methodologies don't exactly align with the Geneva Convention.
No one listened to them. Generations never listen to the previous. It's amazing human civilization has gone on as long as it ha.
All of sudden here lately I've been seeing Gen X 1960 to 1980, as long as I can remember it was 1965 to 1985. Born in 67.
We lived outside, drank from hoses, pee'd outside, walked to and from school from kindergarten. "Playdate?" WTF? We just ran the neighborhood. Feared our teachers and our parents.
Heck, I still pee outside. 😂
Yeah, us later boomers showed you all that ;)
@StudioDaVeed No, both parents worked. We were on our own till 5:30pm M-F. Weekends I stayed away from the house for fear of my mom's cleaning rages.
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Everything you wrote:
We lived outside, drank from hoses, pee'd outside, walked to and from school from kindergarten. "Playdate?" WTF? We just ran the neighborhood. Feared our teachers and our parents.
Describes me and my buddies 3-5 years before you.
Um. Millennials did all of that minus fearing teachers. Half and half on the fearing parents part. 1995 here. Internet still wasn’t big till around my teenage years but still not massive till the 2010s.
My daughter is the same age as you. I raised her the way I was, with values, kindness and the ability to use analytical thinking. She turned out great!!
❤thank you! I raised my kids and grandkids that way.
Same here.
So you taught them to be kind analytically, nice robot you raised there. Congrats.
Tyler Durden nailed it. " We are the middle children of history"
Being a latchkey kid had the upside of making me capable of handling a lot of situations independently. You also learn not to snitch.
Who learned not to snitch? I'm part of Gen X and I'll point the finger if I have to.
Born in 69 and I was a latch key kid....
I lost my key so many times my mother took me to a hardware type store and had a guy weld a short ass chain around my neck so it would not come off!!! I had to kiss that door knob basically!!! I remember the guy saying okayyyyy..... I had green patina all over my neck!! Lol!! Good times good times!!!
@@abitoffblacksmithing9985 Exactly what substance is a "short ass" chain made of?
@@user-zr6pl6nb6z it was like a lite Guage lattice chain and the dude at the store spot welded it so I could not take it off. I will Never forget it. Side note .... I did not loose my key anymore!! Lol!!
I am right there with you, man!! I was born in 1965. From the second grade, BOTH parents worked. We all woke up together and got ready - them for work, my younger brother and I for school. They would leave about 30 minutes before we had to leave for the bus. We walked out, locked the door, went up to the bus stop together, went to school. We'd get back on the bus at the end of the day. I made sure my brother was on the bus. We'd go home, I'd unlock the door with the key that I had safety pinned to my pocket, turn on the TV, make a sandwich, wait for mom's call at promptly 4:00, then for the next 75 minutes LIFE! HAPPENED!! HAHAHAH!!!
As a result, I am VORACIOUSLY independent!! I can pretty much do ANYTHING, but I CHOSE to do the hard things. I am an electrical engineering manager today, in charge of 23 people and a $25 million capital budget and an $11 million O&M budget. I am 57 and will retire at age 59 in December 2024. Will it be over?? HELL! NO!! I still got lots of sh!t I plan to do, and I am SO looking forward to it!!
Survivor?? Me? YOU BET YOUR ASS!!
Gen X is the last generation with real social skills. Daycare for us was going outside & playing.
Bro also must be the stupidest generation...i was born in 86 an was outside thru all that.had no cell phones or internet till late 90s
Had to be home before street lights came on
I dont get why all these stupid gen x vids are popn up an they all claim they the last with out internet etc its like no you aint
By the way im from new Zealand so we are also along way behind rest of world
That's Millennials too. The only problem is the first round of millennials are crack babies 😅
Excuse me, WE Boomer's are not dead yet!!! PS Daycare for US was go outside and work. Both ways, Uphill (Oh sorry got lost there for a second. But I AM old right?).
Always remember getting booted out of the house I'm the summer....and being told okay come home when street lights come on....LOL
@@OldMovieFan1973 NO SHIT? ME TOO! Could you time them so you could get every minute before running in the house? He is one, "Just wait till your Father comes home" (and it was only noon).
X marks the spot...if we are still here, we EARNED that ish!
Yep, true story from a fellow gen X-er. We were told things like: Pick YOURSELF up, dust YOURSELF off, and KEEP WALKING. We figured it out, and learned from our friends mistakes. 😅
Born in 1966. Raised my two sons, the same way I was raised! One is a soldier, the other is a Marine… They don’t bitch and whine and they don’t need safe spaces!!
To all the other servicemen and women out there… Thank you for your service!
Was born in 1948, graduated high school the year you were born. Can still relate. Parents were 49 and 45 when i was born. Knew the perspective of people born at the end of 19th century and in the early part of the 20th century. Didn't come in the house til evening. Made up games with the neighbor kids. Neighborhood adults raised us all. We do something wrong, got spanked, then neighbors called the parents, and we got spanked again. We do not suffer fools lightly!😂😂
@@marysmith-ps7uj when was the last time you saw kids, climbing trees? We were like monkeys! Always climbing the trees, and having fun…
Climbed trees myself when I was young. Oh the good Ole days!
I Identify so much with this. I think our most valuable trait is self-reliance, and that tends to be accompanied by healthy self-esteem. I just went to a big Labor Day party thrown by a radio station and it just happened to be mostly Gen X-rs.I know because the MC thought it was a good idea to call out age groups. The roar that went up when she asked who was in their fifties! I was amazed, everyone looked so good, at least a decade younger than their 50's/60's. A time was had!
We also had to cope with everyone else’s mental illnesses.
And that includes our parents...
Dealt with traumatic events without counseling/therapy...brutal...
yep!
My Folks said i caused their mental illness.. so did the teachers, bus drivers & baby sitters.
That sucks, hopefully, if you guys do/plan to have kids, y'all won't continue it.
I wish you guys the best.
As a Millennial 87 raised by Boomer parents 49 & 64. Suck it up buttercup and fake it till you make it were some of my Moms fave sayings. Dad on the other hand liked you wanna cry? I can give you something to cry about. But I was lucky to have parents who weren't weird about saying I Love You and showing it.
We are a tough breed our values will stick around. I'm proud to be a gen x
Feral. That is the best, all-encompassing description I've heard for Gen X. I was born in 1966 to older parents, both born in the 1920s. I didn't dare complain about anything because I'd be lectured about growing up in The Great Depression and WW2. If I didn't like what food we had, they'd tell me to make something else or go hungry. If I said I was bored, I'd get tossed outside and told to come home after dark. I don't think the words "anxious" or "depressed" were part of our vocabulary. If I got a whooping at school, I didn't DARE tell my dad. He'd say I must have done something to deserve it, and I'd get another whooping at home. You took your lumps and kept your mouth shut about it. That's how kids my age were raised. We figured stuff out, and if we didn't, too bad. Whining about it just got you ignored or slapped. We were left alone a lot. Feral is perfect. I know it seems harsh by today's standards but here I am, a somewhat normal functioning member of society. I stayed out of jail and the mental institutions.
October 1966 for me & you are speaking my truth! We went through it all!!! By ourselves..
October '66 and same story. Older parents who had lived through tough times. We grew up to be tough and resilient. We wasted nothing and looked after ourselves. I cringe when I see how soft, weak, and wasteful the current crop are.
I'm a '68 born to Depression Babies. Dad was a WW2 Marine. I was an inner city latchkey kid. Definitely feral & a survivor. But no mistake, "... (I) do it with compassion & don't believe in hate." ;)
As a kid, I thought those who came before us were odd, and they thought we were hopeless. Assuming the world lasts that long, Gen Z will be the butts of their own kids' jokes. It's just the natural order of things. I do hope that they can accept it with good humor!
Feral is a good word. Raised by wolves. Turned out into the woods to play. Sink or swim.
I just finished commenting on the fact that my parents were born in the 20's! 1925 and 1928. I told my mom once that I was bored and she said, "well, there's always the army?!" That was the last time I ever complained about being bored. If I didn't like the food, id scrape it into the napkin on my lap and flush it after dinner, otherwise I'd be sitting at the table until I finished it...or until they were sick of seeing me sitting there still not eating the food. :D
"Get yourself a gen X friend....but they'll probably just tell you to fuck off"....😂😂😂😂😂😂 i almost died. '76 Gen X here!! ❤
Hells yeah! Fellow Bicentennial Baby here! '76. 👍
So true! I remember a boy fancy me at school and my response was p@@@ off! ;) I didnt know how to handle affection as a kid and I certainly wasn't gonna be the butt of someones joke either! :) hehe.
If we told our parents we where depressed they would have told us to shut up and go lay in the backyard. You need some sunshine.
And if we told them we were bored they wouldn't try to find something to amuse us. They find us a job to do.
or they would tell you they will give you something to be depressed about.
I’m a survivor 😂😂😂😂
Im a milenial and it was the same. I dont live in the West tho, thankfully.
lmao ya
I’m a baby boomer who was a single mother with 3 children 2 of them are generation x children who have been through it all and are survivors! I am so proud of them for who they are today. The respect levels are something else.. hands down!
Just curious what happened to the third kid?! 🤔
@@Samanthamoemoes lol not so proud it him
Free range children...( My brother was killed ...1976)
So on point! Power hugs to all my fellow Gen Xers’! Proud of you! ❤
💕xoxoxoxox 💕 back at'cha 😊
Back to you tenfold!
Hugs and love back to you and all Gen X'ers as well!!! #genx#wearethebest#staydangerous ❤️👏🏾✊🏾💪🏾💯
Always good to find a fellow ‘78
Clackers, riding bikes w/o helmets, trampolines with out screens, coming home to an empty house after school... we lived dangerously. 😂
Definitely! :) parents practically pushed us to stay outside... walk miles unaccompanied and getting lost was both what they insisted but we soon realised getting lost in the wild was heaven sent! ;)
Don’t forget the original yard jarts. 🤣
We wers told as children to play with the traffic maybe thats an Irish thing.😂
Proud Gen Xer here....1974. We had real family back then. Life was fun and even if you were poor they found a way and we felt rich. School was fun and we loved to play outdoors. Awesome music with meaning and words you can understand!
Proud 1974 Gen X here 😊
Gen z here 13
We are very furtonate to have grown up with such good meaningful music that had a profound effect on us. Gen Z wants to know how music was so advanced from the 70's and 80's. It's not that it was so advanced, it's that their music is so un-advanced and sucks.
YIP BORN 1974 ❤❤❤👍👍👍👍
My wife is a Gen Xers 1977 and I'm a Gen Zers 2000.
As someone married to a Gen Xer, I can confirm this is true. My hubby is the strongest, mentally tough person I know and beautifully kind and respectful.
😂 My Dad had an iron hand. As a 6 year old Gen X kid my Dad threw me in the pool and told me to swim 🤣 I sank to the bottom and my sister had to get from the bottom 😭 My introduction to "Life" My Dad taught me if you don't try, you'll stay at the bottom for the rest of your life 😅 Thanks Dad!!! 🤙🏽
The self taught generation and the hustling generation
As a gen X member, my dad was so southern, the bastard imported a willow tree to the west coast so he could have us kids pick a switch for him to beat us with. I'll never forget being 12 when he told me to pick a switch and I dragged back a fallen 15' pine tree and said "here, this'll ACTUALLY hurt you more than it will me". I never caught another whoopin, and we laughed about that until the day he died. R.I.P Dad.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely gross
It always hurt them more than us. I beat my brother with a fishing rod & my mum broke a hairbrush on my legs. I didn't do that again 😂
I remember having to pick a willow tree branch. I remember it well, because being raised by Air Force boomers, I knew better than to FAAFO with them. It's called respecting your parents! I'm proud of how I was raised too!
We moved a lot and fortunately there was only one yard with a Willow tree and my brother and I hated it. We used to pick thicker sticks that were brittle so they would break when you were hit with them but that wasn’t possible with a Willow.
First rule about GenX, we don't talk about what we used to get away with. The kids wouldn't understand, and it would probably scare them.
Gen X - Been there, done that, and got the T-shirt.
Buying cigarettes for parents
@@Andipendergraft You too? lol
..and the scars!!😂
@@wheels-n-tires1846 Damn straight.
…and wore that tshirt out, dry rotted, and used it for rags
I would tell my parents that I was going to hang out with Charles Manson and they would say "okay, but be back by 9"
We were practically feral children. We had Baby Boomers as parental figures who we lived with but we pretty much raised ourselves. The majority of us were latchkey kids and had no choice but to grow up really quick and take care of ourselves.
Almost none of our parents were boers though, i dont understand why everyone keeps saying we were raised by boomers, that was the millennials and it truly shows. The boomers were too busy doing blow and switching from slacker hippies to sellout yuppies to be having kids . Majority of gen x parents were from the silent generation. I was born in 73 😅
Right? We shared a home with old people😂
Latchkey? I crawled through the dang basement window to get inside after school! I wasn't lucky enough to get a key!😂
And some of us are still feral in muddle age :)
@@raverbunniaz😂👍
No truer words have ever been spoken. I’m an X and damn proud of it
My father is generation x, this made me laugh. He explained his generation had to raise themselves because their parents were partying all the time
tell your dad, a fellow gen x replied to your comment:
i used to come in late every night and take the lit cigarette out of my mom's hand who was nodded out on the couch. the roles were reversed. i was playing parent, my parents played being the child.
True
Or fighting
Or working
Or Working millions of hours.
I’m Gen X. No military, no rehab and no jail. However, I was taken from my parents and spent more than half my childhood in foster care. I was emancipated at 16. Had a job and an apartment at 16. You didn’t get coddled, you just grew the f up with no other choice.
Gen Xers also have super powers. We can fix everything ourselves, don’t need a smart phone, read paper maps, can make a game out of anything, know cursive & count real money!💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
And read analog time pieces ☺️
Please get a life and stop pushing your beliefs on people that don’t care. I’m telling you I don’t care about gen x or gen z or gen what the duck ever. Gen x need to leave people alone
Yaassss! Damn right !
So true. Way before Garmin and Wave existed I was using paper maps driving across country to go home on vacation
And can drive a standard
And scars were cool, you showed them off like a warrior badge. The more scars you had the cooler and more looked up to you were.
My mom was a hippie, finding herself, so yes, I had to figure stuff out for myself and often parent myself. Thank God for my grandparents ❤
Did she ever find herself? 🎉
@@camouflagejumpsuit she grew up in some ways, but has stayed immature in other ways.
I’m a Xennial (1982), and yes, I was playing OUTSIDE with the other kids on my street. I was the Asian kid among the black, white, brown, and all the colors. We all played together. And it was fuxxin BEAUTIFUL! C’mon millennials, let your Gen Alpha play outside!
I keep hearing the word "feral" in these videos and it makes me smile and laugh each time because that one word is so accurate and descriptive of us as a whole. We were on our own, we took care of ourselves. NOT because our parents didn't care, it was because they were working to make a better life for us. They trusted us to not get ourselves dead and to take care of any problems we created. Latch Key for Life!
Working to make a better life for us. I like that! My husband, a baby boomer, worked his butt off on a swing shift. I’d kick my kids, now 50-48and 46 out of the house so he could sleep. The payoff? We had some nice vacations and the three have a hefty trust fund and they turned out pretty good.
@@ritaroad... Yeah, they turned out pretty good!! But what happened to their kids and the next 5 decades of kids after them??? What went wrong?? Of course not with all of them, but every generation after seemed to have a bigger percentage of "yuck" people!!!
Such a brilliant observation... That's why they call us X... No one-word actually or any words together, ever ever ever put us into one category. we are a medley of a whole bunch of stuff cuz we did a whole bunch of things and loved every minute of it.
We give respect, but we don’t demand it because we earn it!
Manners! That's another thing. Bad manners & mouthing off got you slapped in the face, mouth literally washed out with soap for swearing and getting whipped on the a$$ by one or both parents.
Respect for our elders: hearing how my Grandfather survived the depression, how our parents were raised. Respect at one's friends house when visiting. Any reports of bad behavior from friends parents got us grounded....or belt spanked.
maybe but they have a lot of fake heroics if you know what that means.
@@markr.devereux3385 I call BS man!
Facts. Not only are we fully capable of earning respect, we show ours first. At that point the only thing you can do is lose the respect of someone from a typical Gen Xer. We show it and earn it without most people ever realizing that they had our respect from day one. The choice of what to do with that, is exactly what your pain in the ass boss is really looking for. Someone who doesn’t need to be hand held through how to motivate those in their department.
Start getting a little too comfy in that new seat, it’s a 50/50 split as to how long you last.
Pro Tip: We actually give many more Fs about how you treat those under you. That’s what will get you noticed. How you motivate/defend those around or under you. For a generation that has many monikers one of which is ‘the least parented’, for a good reason, means how you treat others is important. We had to depend on one another. The one thing a Gen Xers will notice is if you are standing right next to someone in your department and defending with them why we are wrong. That, and that alone will be noted. Even if you lost. It doesn’t matter. You just got yourself on our radar, know that and soar, without saying a word. That promotion just might come sooner than expected.
@@jbrubin8274 you must be a gen X because I buy 90 % of your comment. Now I'm 1952 boomer and let me give you an example of genX workplace. There was a monsoon earlier in the day and while at my genX friends place he got a call to come to his bosses property because the boss fell of the ladder trying to clear the gutters. We headed over there and the boss was back from the doctor and he ordered my friend and myself to get on the roofs and clear all the scuppers and sweep the water. The businesses below were getting leaks in the ceiling.v we worked till dark and got everything draining nicely
I went home and you know I never got paid. I waited vs couple of weeks and finally mentioned it. He told hey go find the boss and get your money. I didn't know where his office was or what or how I was to be paid that's not how things work in my world. I personally take care of stuff like that not just blow it off. Would you let a helper get in that situation? He was such a hypocrite another genX trait
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My mothers favorite saying:" Don't get blood on my carpet!"
1975 here and I grew up with 2 great grandmother's, 1 great grandfather, 3 grandmother's and 2 grandfathers, and Peppermint & butterscotch in church, oh, and you had to go. We walked home alone and stayed there alone (you better not open that door) we cooked for ourselves ( unless we were with the grandparents). We spent the weekends and summers with grandparents. We stayed outside all day, our punishment was having to stay inside. We made up games (kick the can, rolling in a cardboard box). We were not afraid of anything or anyone other than our parents. We were grateful for what we had. We respected our elders. We were disciplined by teachers and neighbors and then our parents when we got home. We were creative, used our imaginations, and enjoyed ourselves. There will never be another generation like ours, we are the last generation that actually had to use the common sense we were born with 😂😂
Gen X took the book title "You Can't Go Home Again" literally. We hustled hard to be financially independent of our parents even if it meant working multiple jobs, going to night school to learn a new trade, working at a job where a boss wasn't nice to you, etc. We did what we had to do to establish financial independence. Drove second and third hand cars, ate Ramen soup, etc.
As a Gen X, latchkey kid, I went through a lot. It was a hell of a ride
Yes! You don’t hear of latchkey kids anymore! I took care of myself and my sister after school.