GenX Memory Unlocked
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Had to share this story. Y'all GenX's reality was hostile but funny thing is that I mostly have fond memories of it. I might have blocked out the more traumatic parts of it mind you. lol
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Definitely agree. Born in 79. And we were more afraid of getting in trouble if we were hit by a car than actually getting hit by a car 🤦🏾♀️.
@@Boots_Alexander 🤣🤣🤣RIGHT?!!!🤣🤣🤣
Ikr!!!!!
I was always more terrified of my parents finding anything out than teachers or anyone else! It was called a "Healthy Fear" and yet I still loved my parents because I knew they loved me!
76 gen x here: I had my ears pierced with a needle and half a potato. I was in 1st grade. 😮
I was born in 1977 as well. My dad had something similar happen to him at work who was a truck driver. He fell out of the trailer and cracked a few ribs and he drove home with cracked ribs.
Ah yes, I'm glad younger generations can communicate better with their parents.
Oh shit!! How do I totally have the same story? We had this great tree at the end of our front porch. I was born 11/22/1977. I am from Chickasaw Alabama.
@@sherrischwartz6844 We all have these stories of sucking in our tears to not get in more trouble. 😂
Ouch! What a bruiser, glad you survived!😆
I would hide on the roof when my mother was angry. Lol she never knew.
Man oh man.. I UNDERSTAND THIS, you HAD to WALK IT OFF!!! When I look back at the WILD and EXTREMELY DANGEROUS( seemed like a good idea at the time) STUFF, that I did as a youthful Gen Xer, I often wonder HOW THE HELL I am still ALIVE or wasn't KIDNAPPED!!!! My house bordered a state park/forest and my friends and I had so many fun adventures, hiking through it! Lakes, Creeks full of critters! Wild life aplenty! That time my little brother sneakedly brought a gallon bucket full of frogs home and they escaped in the forbidden "company only" living room🤭🫣😆 My mom FREAKED OUT ( dad thought it was hilarious but not in front of mom😉) 🤣🤣🤣🤣! Our cloth green army surplus store backpacks were full of supplies,tools and my beloved metal army canteen. We'd be gone all day! I miss those times. Couldn't allow that sort of stuff nowadays. There is a different kind of danger lurking unfortunately. Damn😔.
Right? I sometimes wonder as well. The bicycle jumps ALONE where we would lie down behind the jump and have our friends bike over the ramp was alot. lol
@@artandalchemyparfum Lord..don't get me started on the bike ramps!!!.. Embraced my inner EVEL KNIEVEL with a PASSION!!! I was the only girl and I was the bravest! I have the scars to prove it! Badges of HONOR!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Lilith_Nightshade ‘Battle marks’ my cousins would say. 😹
@@artandalchemyparfum 🤣🤣🤣🤣
1965 here the beginning of GenX 😂
I have a very similar story
@@taniaswain-williams1379 I think all of us have similar stories. I don’t know why some ppl have trouble believing it.
I remember hearing that animals could drink almost any water, however dirty, because they had functioning appendixes and tonsils - so I decided to kickstart mine by drinking out of mud puddles, some of them with a scum of oil on top. My dad caught me and scolded me. Then I explained my process, and he said, "Okay - but if you get sick and die, I don't expect to mourn."
I have the most incredible immune system now. Back in 1989 my tour group was served water from Leningrad (which makes Mexican water seem like Fuji water). Everyone got sick as a dog except for me. I'm pretty proud of that.
@@funtimefoxy6699 I think this wins the GenX stories. Drink from a puddle of mud trigger immune system. Yep! That’s a win! 🏆😂
Yep. I think a lot of us had something like this.
Ill never forget my gym teacher. I broke a bone in my arm. The dude litterly made me do push-ups. True story. He also reduced my grade because he thought i was slacking since i couldn't do them like before. He litterly told me this.
There were other reasons too but shortly after that, i stopped acknowledging any injury. I got impailed when i was around 19. I went to work that evening. I did not go to the hospital. What was the point? They were just going to ask me to leave because i wasn't injured enough.
@@pdxmusl1510 I was such a different time. 😂
Born in 1974. God that sounds like my childhood
@@Arnsteel634 We get each other. 🙌🏽
One of the best arguments against corporal punishment or severe verbal punishments that we used to get. Emotionally intelligent parents know to make their children comfortable enough to come and talk to them about anything. These are the same kinds of parents who get angry at their children for lying instead of asking themselves why their children feel like they have to lie.
I received ONE spanking my whole childhood, yet I never wanted my parents to find out where I was or what I was doing because I knew I would get grounded. That was way worse than the spanking.
This was how I became a compulsive liar for a little bit in my teens. I wasn't even doing anything bad, it just had to do with my acne. My mom would grab me and slam my head against the tiled bathroom wall, and pop all the pimples and it hurt getting your head slammed into a wall on a regular basis, so I started clawing up my own face (despite the dermatologist saying to not poke the pimples at all) and lying about things so that it would stop.
But then I started lying about other things, just random things that wouldn't have gotten me in trouble or anyone would have cared about, and I got scared because I realized I couldn't control what was coming out of my own mouth.
Basically, spent my last two years of high school psychoanalyzing myself to try to get back to normal and trying to be very careful about not lying about anything.
My husband was born in 77. Easy math.😂
@@3ch1dna07 A great vintage 🍷
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we skipped arrows with judo points at each other off the ground at 60lb draw to see if we could get the other person in the shins. If ya cannot dodge a skipped arrow at 100 yds ya kinda deserved it.
He is not a gen x 😂😂😂😂
@@hampusbrokmann8249 Surprising but I am! I’ve been around for a long time. 🙌🏽
We were victims of baby boomer child abuse.
I never wanted my parents to find out the stuff I did because I didn’t want to get grounded. My parents rarely knew where I was or who I was with. I was never beaten, as a matter of fact physical punishment was so rare I literally can remember the ONE time it happened. I wouldn’t call that abuse. I would call that being a kid.
@@kirbyourenthusiasm that’s YOU being a bad kid. Stop with the false equivalencies. WHO cares about your personal experience, I’m referring to the general collective. This was Baby Boomer abuse & would result in legal consequences today. What is WRONG with you?
i cal complete and utter BS. you fell off of a roof so about 15 feet or so "cracked or broke ribs" and you were so tough that you could convince your parents that you were fine. you got out of gym class because you "were sick" and slept on your face for "a few weeks".
as someone who has broken ribs, actually broken ribs, they do not heal in 2 weeks and they are extremely painful. i broke 5,6,7,8 and tore the cartilage off the sternum and 30 years later they still pop every so often. secondly if you are from GEN-X your parents would have told you "to suck it up, it can't hurt that bad" because everyone I know and hung around with that is what our parents said. that is what my mom said when i showed her my ribs. thirdly you would have needed a doctors note to excuse you from gym class.
what a faker trying to show how tough GEN-X was. notice I said was. they grew up and suddenly became softer than melting ice cream. they had their noses stuck to their phones and still are, propped their kids in front of the tv and put ipads in their hands to raise them, cancel everyone, hate everyone, have divided this country.
wow what a great generation. y'all can thank your parents who didn't have to worry about going to war yeah those who were born between 1956-1974 for not understanding giving up of ones self for a greater good. their lives were so easy that they made your lives easier and you have done the same with your kids and so on and so forth. we shall see if the latest generation corrections the BS....
@@endebtedone Call whatever you want. I actually more recently cracked another front rib while on vacation swimming in the ocean 🌊. It was painful but doctors couldn’t do anything. So had to tuff it out and just be careful. Not all injuries are THAT serious. The reason I assumed I cracked a rib when I was a child was because of when it recently happened and got it checked. The sensation and experience was quite similar. Anywho… not even sure why I am answering as I don’t really care about an angry person getting triggered by my content. Thanks for the engagement tho. ;)
@@artandalchemyparfum I find your story believable. This guy sounds like an angry elf 😜and no fun at all! ✌️
A fascinating take. We were born between 1965 and 1980. Our parents fought in Korea and Vietnam. We fought and died in the Middle East. Our kids are more tech savvy and emotionally intelligent than we were because we raised them that way. I’m personally the owner of one broken and healed ankle that I “walked off” in junior high. We skipped out of more school with forged notes and self-placed calls than most kids attend, diplomas and degrees in hand. Our mortgages are paid off. Were well insured. Come at us. We’ll have our noses in our phones. 🥱
@@wendiblount7022 Right? I mean, the point was that I fell off a roof, got hurt and didn’t tell my parents as I should have. Which happened NUMEROUS time. This wasn’t the only time something similar happened. Did I really crack a rib? We will never really know cuz I never got it checked which is the point. But heck I literally fell off everything: a tree twice, the garage, a lounging swing, a treehouse, bikes with no helmets weekly doing jumps, also got smacked in the face with a seesaw and got flung off NUMEROUS times from a playground murder carousel when they were a thing (i mean who didn’t. We would hold on to dear life! lol) How hard is it to believe? I don’t think ppl realize how different times were. Even the playground 🛝 games were a liability,
@@wendiblount7022 There is also that part about parents not having to go to war. Ugh… my mother and her siblings grew up in a war zone in the Philippines. Their father (my grandfather) executed by Japanese soldiers who then occupied part of the home they lived in. Yeah I think that sort of counts in something. Ppl are clueless.