Dammit! I forgot! It's not covering up those 2 spaces to re-record over, cuz you just needed tape for that. OR.. if the tape got all funky you'd stick a pencil or anything (finger) in the middle holes to wind them back up again. UHG! Now it's killing me.
I'm so glad I wasn't the only Gen x who had this kinda childhood LMFAO. Don't forget about the swingset that came off the ground when you would swing too high haha
Ours would turn over on you, and we found this out when my middle sister did NOT take note and stubbornly continued to swing too high, thus giving it the moment to launch itself with her still in the swing off the ground and land on top of her. Natural consequences are sometimes the only teacher necessary.
That's why, when you see the front legs come up off the ground a few inches on the back swing, you prepare to jump out of the swing as it reaches its peak on your trip back forward. It was the 8 year old version of Russian Roulette. Just be careful you don't catch too much air and land on the merry go round.
On behalf of my fellow early 1980's applicants I'd like to add: We learned to use actual card catalogs because the digital ones didn't exist yet. We know how to adjust rabbit ears and dials to get cartoons to tune in. Also wire hangers, and aluminum foil. We know how cool walkie talkies were before cell phones were a thing. (And if you hold down the morse code button too close to the old tv, some of the tubes in it blow up... or so I'm told... I was nowhere nearby when the TV died.) We flew kites. Clothes were more likely to be thrown out due to being too shredded, burned, blood stained, or gummed up with tree sap than us actually growing out of them. Many of us used 8 tracks and record players when we were kids (at least i don't think that was just me). I could go on. Our non-millenial resumes are extensive.
Lol. My first car had an 8 track, that I had an adapter to play cassettes in. Later on when the Discman came out, I had the cassette adapter to play it in the car, but I had to put the cassette adapter into my 8 track adapter. 😂
my dad would be so angry if I was sick. And he drag me to family events anyways. He would send me to school too and get upset when the nurse sent me back home.
Yeah, my parents went to work and left me home if I was sick. They would bring me a stack of books (usually encyclopedias) though, and then take the Atari controllers with them. "If you're sick, you won't feel like playing games anyway." That said, I rarely got away with being sick, even actually sick. My mom was a nurse, so I had to have the flu to get out of school. If it was the common cold or a sore throat, I was still going to class. They'd just stick a tin of cough drops in my bag and send me on my way
Mine stayed home with me one time when I was sick. Of course, I was throwing up and passing out simultaneously and they were wrapping me up to rush me to the hospital because ambulances cost too much.
@@tracymoore9044 my step sister had a deathly allergic reaction to peanuts and my dad just stayed on his computer the entire time. Step mom had to call the ambulance as my step sister almost died. My step sister hates him since then. The hospital said it was a miracle she survived and that next time she would probably die.
@@kjc7388Damn ! Your "Father" was a seriously Fu**ed up in the head Psychopath. No child or anyone for that matter should endure that kind of irresponsible negligent treatment. This is coming from a Gen Xer myself, also I'm a Cancer 🦀 ♋️
1987, still the same, except streetlights. My town was smalller, and when I was in 2nd grade, we upgraded from typewriters to the 6” disc, and yes Oregon trail was basically unbeatable. Was recently reminiscing about the giant steel merry go round, getting several kids on there, and one or two would get it spinning as fast as they could manage, and the goal was to hold on the end. The best memory I have is an old riding lawn mower my brother and I converted to direct drive after removing the deck that was rust welded into a useless state.
Yeah, but it's she trauma-bonded by the experience of sitting down as a child to enjoy a nice cartoon about some little bunny rabbits... only to discover the horrors of _Watership Down?!?!_
It was really about that distinct plastic flavoring that all water hoses had when the water got hot. I can still taste it 50 years later...it was what gave us the magic ability to fly in our Superman Underoos.
My elementary teachers told my class we were Gen X. I was born in 1983 and I grew up believing I was Gen X and Pluto was a planet. I’m not giving up being Gen X anymore than I’m giving up Pluto being a planet. No.
This stuff is hilarious. As a true Xer, I think we should start issuing "Honorary Gen X Certificates" to people on the cusp who can actually remember "Gen X'ey things." lol.
'80 to '85 is kind of considered transitional. Not actually Gen X, but ample exposure to older siblings and neighborhood kids that were, gives them some connection to the period. I was born literally at the end of '79, and I can attest the cultural shift between those born in '78 and '79 to those born in '80 and '81is fairly noticeable. That said, the shared trauma is there and a lot of transitionals are Gen X enough. At least until they try showing it off as a badge of honor or accomplishment in the presence of an actual Xer, who will promptly check them.
@@Samael1113I honestly don’t consider any generation better than another. It’s the fact that I was told by my teachers that I was Gen X and decades later they(whoever “they” are) changed the years of the generations. In my 30s, the internet informed me that my generation was changed from Gen X to Millennial and Pluto was no longer a planet. Bullshit.
@@JohnB-dr8skI was born in 1971. How about if we call them GenX wannabes! 🤣🤣🤣 As one person commented they were born in 1983. I was 12 when they were born. Think back to when you were 12.
Ahhh… the good old days of “accidentally” breaking the giant mercury thermometers in high-school science class while the teacher was “out”, and then throwing palmfuls of the mysterious liquid marvel at your friends with everyone laughing their arses off….. I do believe it was the inspiration for the new-model T1000 Terminator some years later.
I had a bottle with a blob of mercy in it that I use to play with all of the time. I often wonder if it will ultimately be the cause my death or some other serious condition or if it will be the lead (BB gun) pellets or fishing sinkers I use to chew on. Though I worry most about the gasoline I swallowed siphoning gas out someones car so me and some friends could cruise around.
@@mattfoltz7752 even better… when I was in the Army during the height of the (not so) “Cold War“ we had these little mini glow sticks (more like glow -pellets actually) that we would hold betwixt our clenched front teeth (and being the toxic chemical geniuses we were back then) we would rapidly open and close our lips while going, “meep meep meep meep”…. while in the darkness of night. It was hilarious until one of them broke and leaked is chemical goodness into my mouth…. I had a murderous migraine for no less than 18 hours after that while praying for death the entire time. Dreaming of those grade-school pizza squares kept me goin none the less. Lessons learned, I regret nothing!
@@mattfoltz7752no, but my friend was swinging around when the end came off and it went directly and promptly into my eyes. My parents took me to the hospital. On the way there, my stepdad went to flick ashes out his window and they went flying right in to my damn eyes! 😂 it was a bad night for my eyes! 😂
I approve of her joining the ranks of the gen x. She survived the metal slides on hot days and the playgrounds at McDonalds. Plus, she wrote her list on paper.
@@juanitadudley4788Would’ve loved some wood chips on the playground… my school put gravel at the bottom of the massive steel slide to fill in the muddy hole!😂😂
@@juanitadudley4788Or, if you had “padding”, it was the black rubber that was hardened by the elements, and was almost as hot as the metal slides 😂 Bonus points if you walked/ran on it barefoot 😂
‘77 baby here…I’ve always told my ‘83 sister that she’s an honorary Gen X’r, especially because she grew up liking a lot of things I liked by default & with the same parenting style. I vote for your application to be approved.
I ('83) had a chat with my brother ('78) and I said I may not be full-fledged gen x but I'll be damned if I'm stuck with the tickle me Elmo/furby generation. He said "nah, ur just a gen Xer's annoying shadow"
I vote her in. Anybody who has ironed their shorts while wearing them on a metal slide mid-summer and doesn't snivel on about their trauma or subsequent PTSD qualifies as a hardened Gen X. Welcome aboard sister.
@@engmed4400I did that last year and the year before at my old elementary school. It's the same set that they had in the 70s; just replaced chains and seats. BTW, I'm 52, but yea I was playing on the swings and swung high enough that I could see the roof of the building. Lol. (I just won't jump off; I drag my feet; I'm not a stupid 50+ year old. Lol.)
We will take her as Gen X. She seems Gen X material. She speaks and relates to enough changes we experienced. We're still very selective about who gets in for Gen X. We don't accept everyone you have to know our struggles and our ways to be a member of our Gen X crew. You can always tell a Gen-Xer by the way they talk and by their approach. We got sarcasm, we're independent, we're tech-savvy, not tech-dependent, and we lived through so many changes nothing surprises us. Adapting and overcoming is our motto. We take an I could care less approach to a lot of things. In our careers, we appreciate being left alone just let us do our work drink our coffee stay out of her way and let us get on with it. That's been our most productive way. Well, that's Gen- Xer do we let her in?
‘81 here. Had a black and white tv with rabbit ears on top of the floor model that didn’t work. Walked to school. Was fed breakfast in the summer, then told get out. Knew how to fix a bike chain and replace the inner tube. And remember thinking the internet was invented in the late 90’s.
She’s considered only if the greatest movie of the era are as follows: The Goonies, and/or The Breakfast Club. And she must know the difference between GoBots and Transformers. 😂😊
I also would have allowed watching the first season of Buck Rodgers. The second season was an abomination and does not count as suitable TV for humans.
I remember the taste of hot hose water, it was nasty. After that lesson, you let the hot water run out before putting your mouth to the hose. Another thing that people forget is how we didn't need much food as kids because we were unknowingly earthing as we played outside.
I also learned when running the hose to get it cool enough to never, ever do that one vital thing. "TURN THE HOSE OFF! WE ARE NOT WATERING THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD!" And that was the tip of the iceberg if we did forget. My father was pissed when I soaked the entire patch where the hose was coiled just so. I never did that again.😂 EDIT: Keep in mind the hose running too long was my mother yelling from the front door because she heard the water running from the kitchen for what she thought was too long. In my reality of the time 5 minutes wasn't that long.
@@seamuszharper That first scare from your parents was all it took to never do it again. My punishment was getting the belt on my bare butt at least ten times or until I cried. Today, that kind of punishment is seen as inhumane.
I was born in 85 but I miss riding around town with my siblings in the bed of my dad’s truck. Nobody really cared. Or we’d squeeze all of us kids on the floor of the van. There just weren’t enough seatbelts or seats so we didn’t bother.
Yeah but did you grow up and finish your schooling entirely without ever using the internet? I think that's gotta be the essential Gen-X entry criterion!
As a member of Gen X 1976, I vote her application be approved. All the evidence she presented is Gen X experience. She even wrote it all down on paper and knows how to use rotary phones. 😂
I approve. The dividing line is always been somewhat nebulous. I've heard it as late as 1984. As someone else pointed out, she made her list on paper. This 1968 Gen-Xer says yes.
Agreed, but only if they lead with Gen-X experiences instead of complaining about the dates; a true Gen-X wouldn't whine about a date (entitlement is the hallmark of Millennials), rather they would reminisce about the freedoms and responsibilities inherent in our generation... as well as some John Hughes movies. I miss watching the "Horror Hosts" on TV every Friday and Saturday night, and the smell of the 8-tracks at Musicland in the mall.
@@SiriusMined didn't mean to imply she was; she clearly led with examples of growing up with Gen-X experiences. I say that in reference to those that would or do
Uk gen X here... we used to pile into the phone booths on the high streets with one coin to listen to the song of the moment on "dial-a-disk." We loved space dust and sherbert full of colourants and additives that used to pop in your mouth and, 9 times out of 10, left you with mouth ulcers. We had one antibiotic/cough medicine/pain killer and they all came in a brown bottle and tasted the same. AND ... we knew all the words of "The Message" . We laughed at Not The Nine O'Clock News, The Two Ronnies, The Goodies, Are You Being Served and Fawlty Towers and if you wanted to call someone stupid, he'd be a Benny. (Thanks Crossroads) You had trifle and a bath on Sunday nights.
Sounds about right to me but don't forget Benny Hill, Bless this house, The good life etc, Drinking from streams/rivers and eating "Japanese knock weed", tastes a bit like rhubarb. Making Go-carts (soap box cars) and racing downhill with no brakes. Making home made flame throwers using lighter gas & plastic tubing with a match soaked in wax for the ignition. Or Blow darts from sewing machine needles and cotton wool and a plastic tube. P.S. '60's kid here.
Not a UK Gen Xer (from across the pond) but the best thing about British TV to me was, in this order: Dr Who, Are You Being Served and Waiting on God. Those three played here on Saturday evening on PBS.
I have to say, I'm shocked by the gatekeeping by my fellow Gen-Xers. I agree it's about attitude/mentality over birth year. I also have found many veterans to have the Gen-X mentality regardless of age. I was born in '78, my BF in '69...we very much see eye to eye, and have a similar view on life.
@MaryDunford I can't disagree with your statement...lol. Mostly speaking to the fact that Gen-X doesn't gatekeep...that's a trait of later generations. Your statement sounds like you agree that it's more about attitude than age.
@@MaryDunfordes, we should avoid a weak mentality from dividing our ranks. We feral few that survived life as latch key kids don't want any pansy attitude folks to weaken our resolve. That is something other generations will be okay with. Not us. We, the few, the proud, aren't okay with that in our playhouse. We are Toys R Us kids and we don't respond well to being told what to do.
I actually found a metal slide the other day in a park. I let my daughter slide down it (after warning her about the surface) and she was thrilled about how fast it went. Exactly, I told her, that's why they beat those plastic slides any day. I wouldn't change my childhood for anything.
They were even faster when one of us swiped wax paper from home and rubbed down the entire slide. As a 1963 kid with three sibs 16, 10 and 9 years older than me (definitely boomers), I claim Gen X citizenship 😊.
We have a park here where I am that still has them. 5 of them. 2 are a meter wide. New zealands still pretty much the same as back then. We age slower then America standards
1972 here. So many rookie comments. Rural Ontario with a 4 digit phone number. Splitting firewood at 6, chainsaw skills at 10., tractor at 12. It was a beautifully tough upbringing
there a subgroups in every generation you definitely have the difference between farm and rural raised living inside small towns are growing up and decent size or big cities. I believe it's the collective memory of a generation. If any of us went to the library Dewey decimal system. 95% of us had chores and that's how you earned your money. Most of us were told better seen that heard buy an adult at some point in our life. Most of our parents attitude towards things were let them try it if they get hurt go learn. Most of us are fiercely independent smart and savvy in Farrell (some Italy may be a little bit more feral than others). I meant to say this because I was born in 1982. I too at a very young age was chopping firewood enough for camping so this but to actually keep warm in the winter. Learn how to hunt and fish by the age of 10. Immediately I'm from the US so not quite sure about the four or five digit number thing. But I did live in a place with a party line. Track country mile to get to the school bus. I am proud that most of my friends are Gen x where is millennials.
My youngest brother is technically a millenial that has six older GenX siblings. He had the same upbringing as the rest of us, same tastes in music because he had to listen to ours, had to watch the same TV and movies we liked, was subjected to the same technological changes as us because our household was always lagging well behind the cutting edge, was forced to listen to us rant about the issues we cared about instead of his peers, and generally was marinated in the same cynical irony and seared in the same "shit happens, so better get yours together" pan of reality as the rest of us. He in fact cannot stand or even understand most other millenials, and by all rights qualifies as an honorary Gen-Xer.
@@jonas000111 They keep changing it on us. I was born in 79. I thought they called us millennials around 2000ish but then it seemed like they kept dropping millennials' birth year down. I feel like I'm a bit of both though cause it's so close.
My town is trying to recreate the Gen X kid by putting in a long slide made of metal and concrete for the kids to play on in the summer, where it averages upper 90s on a good day. Ahhh cant wait to teach those little bastards.
@@timrankin8737 I remember dirt at the landings. But it was SO compacted from being slammed into that it had worn down to the rocks that were way underneath the soil. 😂 good times.
1984 Here - always considered myself an honorary Gen X because I'm the youngest of 4, and my siblings were all Gen Xers. I had all their hand-me-downs, drank from hoses, played until called home / street lights were on, earned all my money from picking weeds, mowing lawns, etc., did dangerous shit without our parents knowledge, had a black and white TV.... And so much more. Honestly, Millenials that grew up poor (Poor, not broke) are basically Gen Xers, in my opinion.
Yes yes yes. Poor older millennials grew up like gen-x’rs. Same here. I even had to let myself in from school cuz my mom had to work and I had to help cook dinner… and this was 1994 🤣
1985 here and I don’t consider myself a millennial at all. I didn’t even have a cell phone until after I graduated. I was given a pager my senior year in case my nephew was born while I was at school. What about made a crap load of mix tapes from waiting for a song to come on the radio and recording it or I road everywhere on my bike, from down the street to several towns over. I never hear those things being brought up but I don’t think millennials ever had to do them.
1986 here. Drank from the hose, our first house phone was rotary, played outside till the sun was down, played in an actual forest, used floppy disks (I still have some I bought from my high school library), slid down burning hot slides a time or 2, even got sent to school once with bloody knees, played Oregon Trail and died of dysentery EVERY time, and never owned a cell phone till my mid twenties. Oh and had hand me downs from my brother.
I don't know the GIJoe or She-ra songs?? HOWEVER I do know the Land of the Lost, & HR Puffnstuff songs. 😉 I guess it all depends on when you were allowed to watch tv. Lol.
I’m 36 now and I relate with the gen xer. Oregon trail was amazing and yes I had floppy disks too. Gosh the memories. I remember getting tapes for Christmas not cds even yet.
@@tizzas1232 I was born in June of 80 and I've always considered myself Gen X. I was out of high school before it became common for high schoolers to have cell phones, much less the little kiddies.
1968 here. I don't acknowledge a gatekeeper for any generation, you don't need to apply. I don't care what year you were born, what year you graduated or what year you became an adult. You know it in your gut, if you are Gen X. But the humor and subtle clues in the video are endearing.
While I adore the fact she put actual pen to paper, as a GenX'er, I think 3 follow up interview questions are in order. Maybe ask for question ideas from us, the fellow GenX'ers, then pick the top 3 of your choosing Dadbod. Might be fun. After all, we are a GenX family.
I mean I figured out pretty early on how to beat the Oregon Trail... and that I was a bit of a sociopath. The trick is to make sure you have doubles of the necessary parts, little food, and a metric f*ckton of bullets. You hunt until you have enough food for a week or so, you set the pace to Grueling and the food to the best possible. Leave in April. Expect 1 person to die and make your peace with that. For me it's usually snake bites. Then just go on your merry way.
Ah, but in addition to dying of dysentery, almost no one finished Oregon Trail because it was on the school computer. So few of us had our own computers. So we just didn't have enough time to win even if we didn't die.
@@jenniferhanses which is where I first beat it. I didn't even get my first computer until like 94. Just gotta have that ruthless aggression. Although in Jr. High we could play on our lunch break so I'm sure that helped lol
@jamiewalker8772 the Oregon trail is real and one can still take it today. Though, if I'm understanding your comment, I would highly suggest not walking it as it is 2170mi and goes through six states.
Thank you! Another 1983 kid here. I have lumped myself in with Gen X my whole life due to growing up with a Gen X older sister and identifying more with them as a result.
Elder Gen X here. Did she ever make a bike ramp out of half rotten plywood? Bonus if it had a rusty nail or two. Honestly we need to come up with an initiation like when we were but young children. Can't join unless you do something that lets you shake hands with Death and you come out the other side alive.
I beat oregon trail easily in 6th grade. I found a bug in it. You could buy items for a negative amount and get the item and the money. So lets say you had a wagon wheel that was 50 bucks minimum. If you offered 25 they would say no. If you say 50 or above, they would sell it. So, I'd buy it for -500 and get the wheel and 500 bucks. It was a cool bug that I only showed a couple friends.
First of all, love your channel and your message. Keep doing what you do ✊🏽 Hi, 1981 GEN X applicant here IMHO, Being GEN X was about the attitude and how you confronted life, thinking for yourself and by yourself and being resourceful.. I can go on… anyway, I Love punk, metal, rap, grunge, even early 2000s electronic music. Ordered my music by mail when I was a teenager back in the 90s so imagine my excitement of getting a new Danzig or Sonic Youth CD after 3 months (I live outside the US) it was like christmas in july. I skipped school frequently to drink and smoke with my friends I connected to the Internet via 64kbps dialup modem and took 1 day to download a single nuddy pic 👙 Used a pencil to rewind my lowfi cassettes which most were recorded from originals (to avoid wasting batteries of my walkman of course) Broke my nose skating and fixed it myself to avoid dealing with my parents (I did an ok job all things considered) Always had a don’t give a phuck attitude and still do 🤘🏽 Edit Forgot to mention I would vote the lady in, she def qualifies
@@ForestGreen88She's of age. They had those up into the 90s and even the early 00s. Especially at the ones in the inner cities. Before they started remodeling a lot of the McDonald's.
@@jeffreekoch9298 I'm just a small town girl and I had no idea those stayed up for that long in some places. The ones I remember seeing were taken down by about 1984. I can't be sure though because I only saw McDonald's when we drove into the "big city" for something and that wasn't very often. I was just trying to be funny though, of course she can join us.
I was born in 1983 and, like many people who have commented here, I was told my whole childhood that I was Gen X. We used cassettes, VCRs, had paper Toys R Us and JCPenney catalogs we would go through to make our Christmas lists (but we never got anything on the list because our presents came from Walmart). I've never owned a bike helmet, I remember using the pencil sharpeners you hand cranked, and trapper keepers were the coolest thing you could own in elementary school. We didn't tell our parents about our siblings, we "worked it out" ourselves and no one asked me what I wanted to do, they told me what I was doing and I did it. I refuse to be grouped in with anyone other than Gen X!
To be fair, she does fall within the lines of being a Xennial. Oxford has defined a Xennial of having the analog childhood that Gen X have and a digital young adulthood of later generations.
In other words, some commercial buffoon changed the GenX deadline from 1985 to 1980, and then realized the most terrifying combination possible are GenX children with Y2K educations, and made up a “micro-generation” of Xennials from 1980-1985 so they could try to control that particular groups with capitalism. Neither GenX or Xennials give a fuck either way, unless it is fun, like these stitch vids. We will all stick together if the shit really hits the fan. I mean, we will probably be the only survivors, soooo…..
This was excellent. Brought back a lot of great memories from the '80s and '90s. I would give anything, even my left and right nuts, to go back to either of those Decades right now, especially with how bad, and ridiculous, everything has gotten in 2023.
The world was pretty fucked up in the 80s and 90s too. It's just that no one had 24-hour news access in the palm of their hand and the ability to instantly connect with millions of poorly-educated people with nonsensical opinions and bad attitudes. Our mindset was far more local, and what happened on the TV news felt far, far away.
Most of us 80s babies were raised that way. The ones I know, at least. I'm more Gen X than Millennial even though I was brought into this world in 1987. I resonate a WHOLE LOT more with Gen X than I do millennials.
I'm '84 and I'm definitely more Gen X than Millennial. Talking to Millennials that actually act like Millennials, drives me nuts. I feel like I'm talking to children and some of those Millennials are the same age as me.
Yeah, these 'trendy' microculture things never really accounts for the pocket areas that were behind the times. When New York or Los Angeles did a new thing, it took 5-10 years to trickle down into less developed areas whether or not it urban or rural. I was introduced to 8 1/2 floppy IBM, atari, nes, kicked outside & had mass stick fight wars, mud fights, catching wildlife bare handed, built sketchy as fuck ramps & ripped apart & rebuilt bicycles, sleds dragged by pickup trucks, rode in the back & had to hold on tight & god forbid they hit a bump & you fell out (dust off & hop back in w/no tears), bart simpson toys & transformers to tonka trucks of cast metal -that became bludgeoning weapons against siblings, old pump action airsoft rifles, hell my grandpa had me fetch his Coors light beer at 7 while he taught me automechanics, fuck my 1st tv was black n white tube with (i think it was labelled) uhf & vhf toggle knobs that rotated with a hard click, rigging paperclips to extend rabbit ears, had to help shingle a roof at 10, have too many scars & had too many tetanus shots to count - a dumb ass story of 'what did you learn?', oh don't get me on firecrackers near 4th of july season... the fine art of flat palm & a cherry bomb... let alone the ass whoopings -principles office at school, plus grandpas' switch, & moms' paddle.... so much more shit, especially the rolodex of numbers was all by memory lol...
Yeah I'm 88 and the millenials portrayed on here are not like me at all. I'm 35 and more like this video then anything else. I'm in New zealand so we were a little behind in technology so I guess its that. I raise my kids the same
"you even played with liquid mercury". Can confirm. We broke one of those thermometers in 7th grade science class and played with it. The whole class was shut down afterwards, but none of us died.
As an ‘83 er, I’d also like to be on the list. Parents let us walk blocks and black to the gas station or even the grocery store with no parents at 9 and 10 years of age. Also went to the fair without adults and the mall and we didn’t get kicked out along with basically the same list she said, drank from a hose, got the hot burns from the slides, and let’s not forget that marry-go-round of death. You either hung on, puked, or went flying off and prayed you didn’t break an arm lol.
Approved😂 I think there was a kid who might have come close to winning that famous Oregon Trail but we were only allowed one class period at a time every Thursday. We will never know if he actual passed and won that trail!😉😄
I used MS-DOS and windows for workgroups v3.11.... also took home ec, woodshop, tech ed, and had to balance a check book because my parents wouldn't let me get a debit card at the time...
We had to take woodshop and metal shop. Only the girls took home ec. I also took technical drawing which was blueprint drawing / draftsman type of course. Ended up career carpenter but could read all drawings for whatever they wanted built.
I know I'm late by a year, but this is too funny. What hit home for me was "playing with liquid mercury". I am an OG GenX (1/65) and in my grandfather's shop there was a 6oz glass jar of mercury he had collected from replacing heating thermostats. I never touched it directly, buy I would dip dimes into it with needle nose pliers (it would "clean" them). That little jar was super heavy for it's size.
@@steelrain79they ended that in 1985, where I lived, starting my 6th grade year. Thank God! I hated getting paddled at school, cuz it always meant a another round would be waiting for me when I got home. 😅
@@steelrain79 My 2nd grade teacher had one of those giant wooden rulers that she nicknamed the bodybender. The threads in this video are bringing back so many memories.
The late Gen-Xers might try push you out of Gen X and off to the Boomers, then! 😅 You only missed the Boomers by 2 years, and both my and your experiences show the strict generation cutoffs are pretty meaningless. You're as different from late Gen-X as I (1981, Millenial who missed Gen-X by 1 year) am from late Millenials. You probably have many things in common with late Boomers, but few in common with early Boomers. I have nearly identical average upbringing with late Gen-X, but possibly much less in common with your upbringing as early Gen-X.
1983 here. I was raised as gen x and I wholeheartedly agree that maybe not all of us, but those of us who's parents were born in or before 1950 qualify.
Yes, but, was she her parents remote control? Does she remember not being able to watch a movie at home without it being on one of the 7 channels we had to choose from? Does she remember not being able to watch TV in her room, because they weren't allowed? Sure, She played Oregon Trail as we did, but what does she truly remember of the times before home entertainment?
😂😂😂 OhMyGosh! My first Belly laugh in a long time! Seriously.. tears! "But was she her parents remote control?"... I can't even.. It took me almost 5 minutes to read the rest of your comment.
1982 here. I can't believe I played with mercury as a child. Still a xellenial though. We weren't forced into the outdoors until the street lights came on. We chose the outside. Indoors was fine when the weather didn't suit us. I feel for the younglings who will never know the joy of a collaborative effort of children to chop down trees and build forts in the wood storage shed. The hyper masculinity of our neighborhood kids would make youngsters nowadays tremble in their boots. Wrestling was a way of life. Jumping from a roof onto a trampoline holding a sheet so you could see if it would function as a parachute was a dismal failure, but I can tell you that as you first experience the drop and hopes that your "chute" would work is an exhileration almost unparalleled at that age. No need to apply to genX We xellenials are right where we need to be. A wonderful bridge generation.
As a genXer, I say fast-track her application and have a 2nd interview with 3 follow-up questions....she also has my vote because she WROTE down her list.
Commodore 64??? Fancy! I had to settle for the Commodore Vic 20 and borrow a tape drive from a guy I knew who had the 64. He also had a modem, but I can’t imagine what he would do with it. I did have one or two games for it, though I can’t remember the names. I think one was called Mars Lander or Jupiter Lander? It’s been too long.
Richie Rich! I had to settle for a Vic 20 too. I’ll never forget sitting there punching in endless numbers of machine language from a magazine to get a very, very, very basic word processor, then trying to figure out which of the page after page of numbers I transcribed wrong. And the cartridges for the back! That satisfying “thunk” as it seated and you had a new application ready to go.
Fellow '83er here. As someone asked below I even know the relationship between a pencil and cassette. Had a record player and a pile of vinyl in the house as well. My mix tapes were songs of me waiting for the radio to play the right song and hitting record haha.
I was born in '72. Comfortably gen x. The remark about walking to school as soon as you could cross a street reminded me of something I had heard a few years back. I drove a taxi for several years. One morning I had a young mom in the car, and we were talking about schools today. I mentioned how I don't see kids walking to school anymore like we did. She told me they aren't allowed! If a child walks to school without an adult it is considered neglect! Even if the child is age appropriate and walks in a group it still isn't allowed. When I was in grammar school we had patrols with patrol leaders from the 5th graders. I didn't walk in them as I liked to be on my own, but it was a great way for the older kids to learn responsibility. The younger ones learned to navigate safely. I was about 7 when I would walk downtown by myself. I live in Massachusetts. We jay walked everywhere, and we still do. So you had to learn to cross without a light most times. These kids do not play outside anymore. They probably got an app for that too! They will never understand the world we mastered as children, and they are weaker for it!
Wish I could say kids didn’t play outside anymore, but judging from the noise levels from 4pm to 9pm and on weekends in my neighborhood, I don’t think that’s entirely true.
@@TheGraduate702 I'm speaking in general terms as I'm sure there are exceptions. I'm sorry you seem to be dealing with some right now. Where I live it looks vastly different from when I was growing up. You couldn't get us inside. I've heard others in different parts of the country say the same. They are busy with their phones and social media I suppose. Glad I was raised in the 70s and 80s.
@@scorpio-mh1np that’s horrible! It makes me feel less annoyed knowing that at least they are outside running around, though I would prefer a quiet evening here and there .
1965 here. Grew up on a small horse ranch. If I got a cut or scrape, my mom (and later myself) would grab the iodine out of the barn...I was lucky if I got a band-aid. My childhood consisted of orange stains on my body! 🤣
@@Modine.Maybe, the person that posted 58 and proud meant 58 as being 58 years old which makes them a part of Gen X, not born in the year 1958 which would then make them a Boomer. Just wanted to clear that up for you, so now you understand.
@@BeverageGuzzler I may have stuck my foot in my mouth but at the same time let's no go correcting people just based on assumptions, it's not really the best thing to do. Just so you know.
I say expedite her application for approval. The playing with liquid mercury had me....remember taking apart old light switches and swirling the mercury around in a jar lid. Anyone else remember when there were less than ten television channels to choose from and half of them required changing the direction of the roof antenna or rabbit ears to minimize the "snow"?
Anyone else still fix their car by themselves even though not a qualified mechanic? 👀 I’m feeling a hella lot older than I am these days. I just had a 19 year old girl shout at me. I had to walk away because my “toxic masculinity” might have gotten out. Danm. Actually as I write this I realise it was much worse than I am explaining. We are doomed aren’t we?
@@jamiewalker8772 I still change my own oil & filter but getting too old to do much from beneath the car... most things under the hood that call for removing less than 5 bolts, I can still fix.
Born in 1974. So from 6-16(1980-1989)…pure blood genX’er. I did everything on that list and more. No helmets while riding my bike…and jumping the ramp we made out of a wood plank and cinder block, in the middle of the street of course. 👍🏻
@@ryanthompsonthompson820maybe a plastic army helmet I got at Toys r us because an hour before we were running around the neighborhood with toy guys that looked real playing army.
1970 here, and I cast a yes vote for the young lady. I remember when Fruit Loops and Trix cereal were only 3 colors, there were actually toys in the cereal and Cracker Jack boxes, and the smell of fresh vinyl from the Camelot record store... the 1st thing you did when you got home with your new album was pull out your pocket knife, carefully cut a slit in the cellophane, and take a DEEP sniff of the new album. Then you packed your one-hitter, grabbed a returnable bottle of Mountain Dew, got out the liner notes, and read along with the lyrics as you listened to your record while laying on the (bed, couch, shag carpet) in a dimly lit smokey room. Life was SOOO good!!!
I’m her age. We had all the important phone numbers written down on a piece of paper next to the phone. We memorized our friend’s numbers. The library was our google. Being confined to our room was a punishment. We had to literally be there at a certain time to watch our favorite show.
I was born in 81 and have always considered myself GenX. I used a typewriter for my college essays as we had no conputer. The typewriter was avacado green ( to match the kitchen) and weighed 75 lbs. Our wall mount rotary phone was yellow with a 30 ft long cord.
Ma’am we are elder Millennials. Old enough to remember the wise ways of those that came before us , but with only half the trauma and abandonment issues . Be proud!!!
@@richardthomas598 nah no overly protective parenting here lol . I was told early “no one picks a man up when he falls” and “no prize in being a victim”. So I see my struggles as stepping stones to them not being a struggle…most days
Born 1977 here, in the prime time of Gen X, so to say, in West Germany, in the middle of the Cold War. Played outside in the rain after Chernobyl blew up in what we found out later was nuclear fallout. I believe it's fine that you've made this distinction with "Elder Millennials", as we have a lot in common, get along pretty well, generally speaking, you've still got a lot to be proud of on your own merits, and yeah, we'll sit together one day in the same retirement homes anyway. I imagine that we're the ones running the show then, while the younger generations are either dead already or still working to pay off useless student loans.
As a fellow GenXer, I approve. We also had a stereo console the length of the wall, and all it did was play the radio and spin records (33 1/3 or 45s). Anyone else use a tape recorder and put it next to the radio hoping to record their favorite songs from the radio airplay - while trying to keep my siblings quiet so they wouldn’t ruin the recording? I must have played the Star Wars theme and Funkytown (Lipps, Inc.) a million times from my tape recorder. Such great memories ❤
I've seen Conan the Barbarian ('83 Arnie version) over 100 times. I can name every member of the A Team. Duran Duran is my favorite band. I used to buy cigarettes for my mom at the corner store.
When I ordered something in the mail, I had to wait 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. Saturday mornings were for cartoons, and they were actually entertaining. I was taught to be quiet, polite, and respectful to my elders. I recorded songs off the radio with cassette tapes. The first computer games I played were on floppy disks. The 5 1/4 inch ones. Before owning a computer, I played an Atari, and later a brand new NES. I know what a VHS tape is. I have had to wait for film to be developed.
Shes right. The early 80s kids are Xenials. On the cusp. My younger brother is also of this range. Grew up the same as me and other siblings (GenX). Share same parents (Boomers).
As a man born in 83 , i consider myself gen x , i played outside all day with the dog, climbed trees, drank from the hose, and learned to build things at a early age( thanks dad ❤) , i can cook, and while i do enjoy video games, i have to have time outside and go for walks, the goonies was an awesome movie, and die hard is a Christmas movie!!!, i have used a rotary phone, And enjoy a nice swim in a creek or pond
@@kevincopeland5044You're still not Gen X though. The time period for Gen X is 1965 - 1980. The time period for Millennials is 1981 - 1996. So, you're a Millennial, not a Gen Xer.
I still have the bottle of mercury we played with. It has an eye dropper style cap that worked great for sucking up the puddle when done playing. I also still have the asbestos tile we used as a fire prevention backer when doing plumbing repairs with lead based solder. Don't even want to think about the chemicals I used in the military as cleaning agents.
the best thing i liked about being a Gen-xr was,,,, the endless stream of CRAPPY, part time, no benefits, minimum wage, jobs that I had to work until i was in my 40's. THANK YOU BOOMERS.
Dried my clothes on a line in the sun, and crunchy towels felt so amazing. I would collect the static from my TV screen and use it to shock my siblings unless I accidentally touched a door knock and shocked myself.
Are you talking about the 7 digit number that started w 2 letters? 😉 Cuz rotary phones will work w any landline number! I still had 2 of them plugged in til my house burned down in the NCalif wildfire in 2017. One had my grandparents number inserted in the middle 'space'. & I still remember it. They have the best sound. Clear w zero background noise.👍
@@davidmitchell6873 A lot of these older millennials, who have used their generation for all its worth, think they are going to magically join a different generation. It's ridiculous!
I submit that if one or more of your grandparents/great grandparents/grand aunts or uncles/relatives that lived through the great depression and were still alive and you spent time with them (years of your life not just a weekend especially if they lived in the country/on a farm/ranch) you are automatically GenX.... That time with mine changed my whole world view and made me well suited for life in current times.
1984 Millinnial from Brazil. We were raised as tough as the lost generation were. We get automatically the Gen X batch. But was 10x harder than for an American GenX
1983 here.. I may not remember the challenger blowing up, but I remember a working Atari with 7 or 8 games at grandmas house, cheap squirt guns that give you scars on your fingers, uncles always had frisbees in their car for some reason, and I drank from the hose until the street lights came on 🤣🤣
That is exactly why I find that age grouping for gen x ridiculously stupid. I remember one time some “expert” was qualifying millennials as those kids who never knew life without home computers or the interwebs, and everyone before that was gen x. I find that definition much more accurate as several of my younger friends and brother included grew up in this manner. Not to mention we didn’t have a home computer until like 1998…and the only reason I had a pager was because I paid for it. Sure there’s the argument that city kids were exposed to all that stuff as early as the 80’s but that wasn’t the majority of regular kids nor was it anybody in my town. Regardless if I may hold an alternate seat on the council… I would got to ratify her application on the above grounds. Respectfully submitted on this 22nd of June in the year of our Lord 2023.
Wait wait wait. The question is, is the main phrase in her vocabulary "you'll be OK, walk it off" to her kids? How many times has she taken them to the doctor for a scratch, or cold? Were they still alive when they got to the doctor? If she's not taking them right to the edge, then she's not a true Gen X'er. I think the Elder GX Council may need to see medical records and interview neighbors.
Went to school w a 101.7° fever. 🥴 Also had a fever of 106°. My parents left me to go bowling. Pretty sure I got worse & suffered a little brain damage from that one. 😵💫 Mom came home & rubbed rubbing alcohol on me. Thanks Mom.
1966 here. Let her in. She has the independent problem solving attitude our generation is known for. We are the paradox of love and apathy at the same time. We learned early “you don’t cry - you just do”. We were left to our own devices and learned how to steal wood from builders for treehouses and not get caught. We can sing every song put out by schoolhouse rock, and could jump big things on our Huffy bicycles like Evil Kenival. We made our own fishing poles and bows and arrows. Our moms would all come outside at 6 pm and yell to all the other moms to tell us to come home for dinner. After wolfing down dinner we went back outside only to have our parents drag us in long after it got dark. TV was limited to 3 or 4 channels so we were forced to watch “Hee Haw” or whatever else our parents had on…. My God we had it good!
I'm GenX and can proudly say that I was one of the younger people to have ever seen the original Star Wars when it first came out in theaters. My dad took me to see it when I was eight years old.
My best friend, his brother, my brother, and myself picked bottles for miles working our way to where our mothers were visiting another friend's mother. Along dusty country roads, stashing bags of bottles and cans in culverts as they were filled. Impatiently waiting for the last cup of coffee to be finished so we could sell all the bottles at the depot before they closed. We averaged at least $5 each as long as the ditches hadn't been picked that summer. $5 would pay for the movie, and enough popcorn, soda, and candy to make us physically I'll, lol, but it was all right because there was still left over candy, for Sunday after church. Growing up in rural Alberta, the farms were so far apart our parents would drive us as usually Halloween was when the winter snows would start. We would usually get at least 1 full pillowcase of candy, sometimes more. Usually by Christmas we'd still have the dregs leftover, candy corn, and those horrid little super sweet toffees in the pumpkin wrappers, petrified granite hard. The first movie that we earned was Star Wars, and it continued on until we got jobs. We used to pick rocks and roots for the local farmers for $4/hr when minimum wage was less then that. Full lunch, cash each day, drank from the hose or straight from the igloo water container full of melted ice. Balance it up on the edge of the wagon, try not to get too much spit on it or the next guy would cuff you upside the head. If you cut yourself, spit on it, make sure it's not too deep, rub some dirt on it, continue on with the day. A friend picked so many fields one summer he bought a new Yamaha dirt bike.
She had me when she said she wrote a list, and it was on paper.
Probably in cursive too
@@1.1797my thoughts exactly! LOL ❤️
Yaasss!! 📝
Yep!
@@1.1797I was about to say that if it's in cursive, 100+ bonus points.
But does she know the relationship between cassette tape and #2 pencil?
Cassette tapes? Let's talk about the hand me down 8-tracks.
@@jasonwaltman3566or the little plastic thing that goes in the middle of 45’s
@@punkroxgirl huh, we always thought they were little yellow throwing stars lol
Dammit! I forgot! It's not covering up those 2 spaces to re-record over, cuz you just needed tape for that. OR.. if the tape got all funky you'd stick a pencil or anything (finger) in the middle holes to wind them back up again.
UHG! Now it's killing me.
I do, and I was born in '86.
I'm so glad I wasn't the only Gen x who had this kinda childhood LMFAO. Don't forget about the swingset that came off the ground when you would swing too high haha
LMAO!!! Yep!!!
Ours would turn over on you, and we found this out when my middle sister did NOT take note and stubbornly continued to swing too high, thus giving it the moment to launch itself with her still in the swing off the ground and land on top of her. Natural consequences are sometimes the only teacher necessary.
That's why, when you see the front legs come up off the ground a few inches on the back swing, you prepare to jump out of the swing as it reaches its peak on your trip back forward. It was the 8 year old version of Russian Roulette. Just be careful you don't catch too much air and land on the merry go round.
aah the reason I wouldn't sit on them XD
Lawn darts
On behalf of my fellow early 1980's applicants I'd like to add:
We learned to use actual card catalogs because the digital ones didn't exist yet.
We know how to adjust rabbit ears and dials to get cartoons to tune in. Also wire hangers, and aluminum foil.
We know how cool walkie talkies were before cell phones were a thing. (And if you hold down the morse code button too close to the old tv, some of the tubes in it blow up... or so I'm told... I was nowhere nearby when the TV died.)
We flew kites.
Clothes were more likely to be thrown out due to being too shredded, burned, blood stained, or gummed up with tree sap than us actually growing out of them.
Many of us used 8 tracks and record players when we were kids (at least i don't think that was just me).
I could go on. Our non-millenial resumes are extensive.
Yes! 1st question: What does Dewey Decimal mean to you? 😅
Lol. My first car had an 8 track, that I had an adapter to play cassettes in. Later on when the Discman came out, I had the cassette adapter to play it in the car, but I had to put the cassette adapter into my 8 track adapter. 😂
Don't forget blowing into your Nintendo game cartridges
Approved! 😂
@@em77775I remember doing that it worked to .
Latchkey kid here. The first time I ever heard of parents staying home with their kids when they are sick, was after I became an adult.
my dad would be so angry if I was sick. And he drag me to family events anyways. He would send me to school too and get upset when the nurse sent me back home.
Yeah, my parents went to work and left me home if I was sick. They would bring me a stack of books (usually encyclopedias) though, and then take the Atari controllers with them. "If you're sick, you won't feel like playing games anyway."
That said, I rarely got away with being sick, even actually sick. My mom was a nurse, so I had to have the flu to get out of school. If it was the common cold or a sore throat, I was still going to class. They'd just stick a tin of cough drops in my bag and send me on my way
Mine stayed home with me one time when I was sick. Of course, I was throwing up and passing out simultaneously and they were wrapping me up to rush me to the hospital because ambulances cost too much.
@@tracymoore9044 my step sister had a deathly allergic reaction to peanuts and my dad just stayed on his computer the entire time. Step mom had to call the ambulance as my step sister almost died. My step sister hates him since then. The hospital said it was a miracle she survived and that next time she would probably die.
@@kjc7388Damn ! Your "Father" was a seriously Fu**ed up in the head Psychopath. No child or anyone for that matter should endure that kind of irresponsible negligent treatment. This is coming from a Gen Xer myself, also I'm a Cancer 🦀 ♋️
Born in 1975. To this day, I still carry a pen and index card so I don't forget anything.
One index card is enough? 😁
'77 here.
@@arcanewyrm6295 Yes, one will usually last me one week.
@@arcanewyrm6295 77 as well. Theres always room for one more writing utensil and paper glad im not the only one. Take care out there
I mean to do that but I keep forgetting...
It's a spiral bound notepad and a pencil, but yeah. Also '75
1975 here. She went though a lot of our experiences. I say we accept her. She listed her reasoning and was polite about it.
Would have been better with at least one well placed "fuck".
Ah my yearmate!@ Metalman200xdamnit!
1987, still the same, except streetlights.
My town was smalller, and when I was in 2nd grade, we upgraded from typewriters to the 6” disc, and yes Oregon trail was basically unbeatable.
Was recently reminiscing about the giant steel merry go round, getting several kids on there, and one or two would get it spinning as fast as they could manage, and the goal was to hold on the end.
The best memory I have is an old riding lawn mower my brother and I converted to direct drive after removing the deck that was rust welded into a useless state.
Yeah, but it's she trauma-bonded by the experience of sitting down as a child to enjoy a nice cartoon about some little bunny rabbits... only to discover the horrors of _Watership Down?!?!_
@@MarcillaSmith or the Rats of NIMH.
There is still nothing better than cold well water coming out of a hose on a hot day. It’s better than any bottled spring water.
Facts
I firmly believe my years of consuming water from my moms lawn hose improved my immune system 😅
To this day I hardly ever get sick
It was really about that distinct plastic flavoring that all water hoses had when the water got hot. I can still taste it 50 years later...it was what gave us the magic ability to fly in our Superman Underoos.
@Victoriom4 that and we weren't afraid of getting our hands (and bodies) covered in dirt, mud, and so on. Not living in a bubble had its perks.
@@foncywoolsocksiii923 so true- although I had plenty of fear, just didn’t let it hold me back- my multitude of injuries will attest to that.
My elementary teachers told my class we were Gen X. I was born in 1983 and I grew up believing I was Gen X and Pluto was a planet. I’m not giving up being Gen X anymore than I’m giving up Pluto being a planet. No.
I'm a millenial and pluto is a fcking planet, I will die on that hill any day.
This stuff is hilarious. As a true Xer, I think we should start issuing "Honorary Gen X Certificates" to people on the cusp who can actually remember "Gen X'ey things." lol.
'80 to '85 is kind of considered transitional. Not actually Gen X, but ample exposure to older siblings and neighborhood kids that were, gives them some connection to the period.
I was born literally at the end of '79, and I can attest the cultural shift between those born in '78 and '79 to those born in '80 and '81is fairly noticeable. That said, the shared trauma is there and a lot of transitionals are Gen X enough. At least until they try showing it off as a badge of honor or accomplishment in the presence of an actual Xer, who will promptly check them.
@@Samael1113I honestly don’t consider any generation better than another. It’s the fact that I was told by my teachers that I was Gen X and decades later they(whoever “they” are) changed the years of the generations. In my 30s, the internet informed me that my generation was changed from Gen X to Millennial and Pluto was no longer a planet. Bullshit.
@@JohnB-dr8skI was born in 1971. How about if we call them GenX wannabes! 🤣🤣🤣 As one person commented they were born in 1983. I was 12 when they were born. Think back to when you were 12.
Ahhh… the good old days of “accidentally” breaking the giant mercury thermometers in high-school science class while the teacher was “out”, and then throwing palmfuls of the mysterious liquid marvel at your friends with everyone laughing their arses off….. I do believe it was the inspiration for the new-model T1000 Terminator some years later.
I had a bottle with a blob of mercy in it that I use to play with all of the time. I often wonder if it will ultimately be the cause my death or some other serious condition or if it will be the lead (BB gun) pellets or fishing sinkers I use to chew on. Though I worry most about the gasoline I swallowed siphoning gas out someones car so me and some friends could cruise around.
Did you ever break open Glow Sticks and play "Predator".
@@mattfoltz7752 even better… when I was in the Army during the height of the (not so) “Cold War“ we had these little mini glow sticks (more like glow -pellets actually) that we would hold betwixt our clenched front teeth (and being the toxic chemical geniuses we were back then) we would rapidly open and close our lips while going, “meep meep meep meep”…. while in the darkness of night. It was hilarious until one of them broke and leaked is chemical goodness into my mouth…. I had a murderous migraine for no less than 18 hours after that while praying for death the entire time. Dreaming of those grade-school pizza squares kept me goin none the less. Lessons learned, I regret nothing!
@@mattfoltz7752no, but my friend was swinging around when the end came off and it went directly and promptly into my eyes. My parents took me to the hospital. On the way there, my stepdad went to flick ashes out his window and they went flying right in to my damn eyes! 😂 it was a bad night for my eyes! 😂
@@kevinb4079we made lead fishing weights in metal shop. Middle schoolers with molten lead…good times 😅
I approve of her joining the ranks of the gen x. She survived the metal slides on hot days and the playgrounds at McDonalds. Plus, she wrote her list on paper.
Playgrounds on wood chips...if you were lucky. None of this padding...
@@juanitadudley4788Would’ve loved some wood chips on the playground…
my school put gravel at the bottom of the massive steel slide to fill in the muddy hole!😂😂
Fellow 83 here. Do you remember the 3 story rocket playgrounds of death?
@@juanitadudley4788Or, if you had “padding”, it was the black rubber that was hardened by the elements, and was almost as hot as the metal slides 😂 Bonus points if you walked/ran on it barefoot 😂
She made a LIST!!!!
‘77 baby here…I’ve always told my ‘83 sister that she’s an honorary Gen X’r, especially because she grew up liking a lot of things I liked by default & with the same parenting style. I vote for your application to be approved.
I ('83) had a chat with my brother ('78) and I said I may not be full-fledged gen x but I'll be damned if I'm stuck with the tickle me Elmo/furby generation. He said "nah, ur just a gen Xer's annoying shadow"
I vote her in. Anybody who has ironed their shorts while wearing them on a metal slide mid-summer and doesn't snivel on about their trauma or subsequent PTSD qualifies as a hardened Gen X. Welcome aboard sister.
Yep, and no one sued the person who installed it. You knew what you were getting into...
@@scottcrawford7674 failing that, did she swing the swing so high that one of the legs on the swing set came off the ground?
@@engmed4400I did that last year and the year before at my old elementary school. It's the same set that they had in the 70s; just replaced chains and seats. BTW, I'm 52, but yea I was playing on the swings and swung high enough that I could see the roof of the building. Lol. (I just won't jump off; I drag my feet; I'm not a stupid 50+ year old. Lol.)
@@jenniferlynn329 I'm 46, and there are a few scars and memory gaps caused by antics on the swing.
Everyone always says this, but what exactly were replaced metal slides? Plastic ones?
I cast my vote to approve her application. GEN X isn't about calenders. It's about attitude and experience.
I’m fully seconded this one.
She’s in, by my book.
It’s not her fault she just missed us by a few years.
I’m good with this, because I know SOME older Gen X I would like to kick out bc they act and talk like Boomers
100% Accurate!
@@heatherchaffee1496 Those very Gen Xers are probably the ones who gave us the insufferable millennials. Those Gen Xers I say we kick out.
We will take her as Gen X. She seems Gen X material. She speaks and relates to enough changes we experienced. We're still very selective about who gets in for Gen X. We don't accept everyone you have to know our struggles and our ways to be a member of our Gen X crew. You
can always tell a Gen-Xer by the way they talk and by their approach. We got sarcasm, we're independent, we're tech-savvy, not tech-dependent, and we lived through so many changes nothing surprises us. Adapting and overcoming is our motto. We take an I could care less approach to a lot of things.
In our careers, we appreciate being left alone just let us do our work drink our coffee stay out of her way and let us get on with it. That's been our most productive way. Well, that's Gen- Xer do we let her in?
‘81 here. Had a black and white tv with rabbit ears on top of the floor model that didn’t work. Walked to school. Was fed breakfast in the summer, then told get out. Knew how to fix a bike chain and replace the inner tube. And remember thinking the internet was invented in the late 90’s.
81 here… it was invented in the 90s 😑. I’m sticking to it.. nobody dialed up to anything in the 80s, therefore it did not exist.
Yes, all of this, and if you didn't learn how to make some food after the age of 4/5, you went hungry
This woman is clearly one of us and should be accepted with honors
She’s considered only if the greatest movie of the era are as follows: The Goonies, and/or The Breakfast Club. And she must know the difference between GoBots and Transformers. 😂😊
OMFG....
GOBOTS!!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
More like Voltron and Transformers. As for greatest movies, you can't discount any Jim Henson movies. ESPECIALLY the movie, Never Ending Story.
I also would have allowed watching the first season of Buck Rodgers. The second season was an abomination and does not count as suitable TV for humans.
@@terecevladimir5250Don't forget the Dark Crystal!
She also has to know at least 3 characters of Fragile Rock.
Born in 1983 and I can concur! All of this is so very true!
I remember the taste of hot hose water, it was nasty. After that lesson, you let the hot water run out before putting your mouth to the hose. Another thing that people forget is how we didn't need much food as kids because we were unknowingly earthing as we played outside.
I also learned when running the hose to get it cool enough to never, ever do that one vital thing. "TURN THE HOSE OFF! WE ARE NOT WATERING THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD!" And that was the tip of the iceberg if we did forget. My father was pissed when I soaked the entire patch where the hose was coiled just so. I never did that again.😂
EDIT: Keep in mind the hose running too long was my mother yelling from the front door because she heard the water running from the kitchen for what she thought was too long. In my reality of the time 5 minutes wasn't that long.
@@seamuszharper That first scare from your parents was all it took to never do it again. My punishment was getting the belt on my bare butt at least ten times or until I cried. Today, that kind of punishment is seen as inhumane.
I didn't need food while playing because we hit every blackberry, raspberry, mulberry bush in our way. Never striping it just handfuls.
@@ItsLifeLibertyFreedom lol you were lucky then!
@@ItsLifeLibertyFreedomyes!!!! This!! Exactly this!!! Thank god! 😅
And we loved our blockbusters, and radioshack stores. And don't forget about Saturday morning cartoons. Damn, I miss it all.
Dude, I just got a huge dose of nostalgia.
Hell yeah Brother!
Mom showed me and sis how to make cold cereal turn on the TV for cartoons
we were never to disturb the adults until noon LOL
I was born in 85 but I miss riding around town with my siblings in the bed of my dad’s truck. Nobody really cared. Or we’d squeeze all of us kids on the floor of the van. There just weren’t enough seatbelts or seats so we didn’t bother.
Movie Gallery >;0 and various country gas stations you'd walk to to rent bad movies
Everything she said is something a 90's kid would've experienced too, shows generations don't really change, things do.
Yeah but did you grow up and finish your schooling entirely without ever using the internet? I think that's gotta be the essential Gen-X entry criterion!
As a member of Gen X 1976, I vote her application be approved. All the evidence she presented is Gen X experience. She even wrote it all down on paper and knows how to use rotary phones. 😂
But did she write it in cursive??? Hmmm???
@@stephenw6244 true! The generation nowadays can't write in cursive
She's in!! She's earned it!
@@stephenw6244came here to say this!😂🤣😂🤣
I approve. The dividing line is always been somewhat nebulous. I've heard it as late as 1984. As someone else pointed out, she made her list on paper. This 1968 Gen-Xer says yes.
Agreed, but only if they lead with Gen-X experiences instead of complaining about the dates; a true Gen-X wouldn't whine about a date (entitlement is the hallmark of Millennials), rather they would reminisce about the freedoms and responsibilities inherent in our generation... as well as some John Hughes movies.
I miss watching the "Horror Hosts" on TV every Friday and Saturday night, and the smell of the 8-tracks at Musicland in the mall.
@@mistersamdi she wasn't complaining
@@SiriusMined didn't mean to imply she was; she clearly led with examples of growing up with Gen-X experiences. I say that in reference to those that would or do
@@mistersamdithanks for clarifying
@@SiriusMined just one of the many services that I offer... 😁
Uk gen X here... we used to pile into the phone booths on the high streets with one coin to listen to the song of the moment on "dial-a-disk." We loved space dust and sherbert full of colourants and additives that used to pop in your mouth and, 9 times out of 10, left you with mouth ulcers. We had one antibiotic/cough medicine/pain killer and they all came in a brown bottle and tasted the same. AND ... we knew all the words of "The Message" . We laughed at Not The Nine O'Clock News, The Two Ronnies, The Goodies, Are You Being Served and Fawlty Towers and if you wanted to call someone stupid, he'd be a Benny. (Thanks Crossroads) You had trifle and a bath on Sunday nights.
I refer to myself as a Gen X Hybrid US/UK 😂
Sounds about right to me but don't forget Benny Hill, Bless this house, The good life etc, Drinking from streams/rivers and eating "Japanese knock weed", tastes a bit like rhubarb.
Making Go-carts (soap box cars) and racing downhill with no brakes.
Making home made flame throwers using lighter gas & plastic tubing with a match soaked in wax for the ignition.
Or Blow darts from sewing machine needles and cotton wool and a plastic tube.
P.S. '60's kid here.
Not a UK Gen Xer (from across the pond) but the best thing about British TV to me was, in this order: Dr Who, Are You Being Served and Waiting on God. Those three played here on Saturday evening on PBS.
Ahhh the stuff that tasted like 'red'
I remember all of that, good times, especially the trifle.
I have to say, I'm shocked by the gatekeeping by my fellow Gen-Xers. I agree it's about attitude/mentality over birth year. I also have found many veterans to have the Gen-X mentality regardless of age. I was born in '78, my BF in '69...we very much see eye to eye, and have a similar view on life.
You’re both genX though. 😂
I've met GenX kids who ought to be disqualified due to becoming wussies.
@MaryDunford I can't disagree with your statement...lol. Mostly speaking to the fact that Gen-X doesn't gatekeep...that's a trait of later generations. Your statement sounds like you agree that it's more about attitude than age.
A fellow Gen Xer from 69' am with you.
@@MaryDunfordes, we should avoid a weak mentality from dividing our ranks. We feral few that survived life as latch key kids don't want any pansy attitude folks to weaken our resolve. That is something other generations will be okay with. Not us. We, the few, the proud, aren't okay with that in our playhouse. We are Toys R Us kids and we don't respond well to being told what to do.
I actually found a metal slide the other day in a park. I let my daughter slide down it (after warning her about the surface) and she was thrilled about how fast it went. Exactly, I told her, that's why they beat those plastic slides any day. I wouldn't change my childhood for anything.
My granddaughter discovered a metal slide at a local park a couple weeks ago, and LOVED it!
They were even faster when one of us swiped wax paper from home and rubbed down the entire slide. As a 1963 kid with three sibs 16, 10 and 9 years older than me (definitely boomers), I claim Gen X citizenship 😊.
My 11 yr old asked to climb a gate twice…cuz it was so fun the first time! She lives with her mother…in the city!
We have a park here where I am that still has them. 5 of them. 2 are a meter wide. New zealands still pretty much the same as back then. We age slower then America standards
Take a little stainless steel polish next time. You will fly down that slide!
1972 here. So many rookie comments. Rural Ontario with a 4 digit phone number. Splitting firewood at 6, chainsaw skills at 10., tractor at 12. It was a beautifully tough upbringing
I STill have a 5digit number we only added the fifth in '99 LOL 1970 Jan baby who claims conception in the 60's counts lmao
@@jessgunn6639 1969 kid myself, conception does not count!😂
@@thudtheace it depends on when you start the decade! remember the millenium debacle? lmao
It sure was! Grew up literally on the shore of Lake Ontario, Bell party line till 1974, our ring was 2 longs and a short.
there a subgroups in every generation you definitely have the difference between farm and rural raised living inside small towns are growing up and decent size or big cities. I believe it's the collective memory of a generation. If any of us went to the library Dewey decimal system. 95% of us had chores and that's how you earned your money. Most of us were told better seen that heard buy an adult at some point in our life. Most of our parents attitude towards things were let them try it if they get hurt go learn. Most of us are fiercely independent smart and savvy in Farrell (some Italy may be a little bit more feral than others). I meant to say this because I was born in 1982. I too at a very young age was chopping firewood enough for camping so this but to actually keep warm in the winter. Learn how to hunt and fish by the age of 10. Immediately I'm from the US so not quite sure about the four or five digit number thing. But I did live in a place with a party line. Track country mile to get to the school bus. I am proud that most of my friends are Gen x where is millennials.
My youngest brother is technically a millenial that has six older GenX siblings.
He had the same upbringing as the rest of us, same tastes in music because he had to listen to ours, had to watch the same TV and movies we liked, was subjected to the same technological changes as us because our household was always lagging well behind the cutting edge, was forced to listen to us rant about the issues we cared about instead of his peers, and generally was marinated in the same cynical irony and seared in the same "shit happens, so better get yours together" pan of reality as the rest of us.
He in fact cannot stand or even understand most other millenials, and by all rights qualifies as an honorary Gen-Xer.
Same here. Mom and Dad really strung the 8 of us out. I’m directly in the middle, 1977.
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If you were the oldest born in 78, you're a millennial. If you were the youngest born in 82, you're a genXer. I agree. There really isn't a hard line.
@@jonas000111 They keep changing it on us. I was born in 79. I thought they called us millennials around 2000ish but then it seemed like they kept dropping millennials' birth year down. I feel like I'm a bit of both though cause it's so close.
@@em77775next their gonna say people born in 1990 are Gen X 😂😂
My town is trying to recreate the Gen X kid by putting in a long slide made of metal and concrete for the kids to play on in the summer, where it averages upper 90s on a good day. Ahhh cant wait to teach those little bastards.
Please share video. We’d all appreciate the laughs!
The metal slide we had in the 70s got so hot nobody got on it. And it ended on blacktop. No soft landings back in the day.
And it was worse because we had shorter shorts then. Burned your fucking thighs and you would say things that your parents would bust your ass for.
@@timrankin8737 I remember dirt at the landings. But it was SO compacted from being slammed into that it had worn down to the rocks that were way underneath the soil. 😂 good times.
At a park in my town there was a concreate slide built into the side of a hill back in the day. It must have been 50 feet long.
Awesome! Great site and content. Sincere best to you and your family Sir!
1984 Here - always considered myself an honorary Gen X because I'm the youngest of 4, and my siblings were all Gen Xers. I had all their hand-me-downs, drank from hoses, played until called home / street lights were on, earned all my money from picking weeds, mowing lawns, etc., did dangerous shit without our parents knowledge, had a black and white TV.... And so much more.
Honestly, Millenials that grew up poor (Poor, not broke) are basically Gen Xers, in my opinion.
absolutely
1984 is still GenX.
Yes yes yes. Poor older millennials grew up like gen-x’rs. Same here. I even had to let myself in from school cuz my mom had to work and I had to help cook dinner… and this was 1994 🤣
1985 here and I don’t consider myself a millennial at all. I didn’t even have a cell phone until after I graduated. I was given a pager my senior year in case my nephew was born while I was at school. What about made a crap load of mix tapes from waiting for a song to come on the radio and recording it or I road everywhere on my bike, from down the street to several towns over. I never hear those things being brought up but I don’t think millennials ever had to do them.
1986 here. Drank from the hose, our first house phone was rotary, played outside till the sun was down, played in an actual forest, used floppy disks (I still have some I bought from my high school library), slid down burning hot slides a time or 2, even got sent to school once with bloody knees, played Oregon Trail and died of dysentery EVERY time, and never owned a cell phone till my mid twenties. Oh and had hand me downs from my brother.
I submit that she recite the GI JOE motto or She-ra catch phrase to ensure she spent the normal amount of time in front of the TV.
Maybe sing Conjunction Junction or recite “I am a Bill”.
Knowing is half the battle. I say that all the time.
@@AppalachianPatriotah, Schoolhouse Rock.
@@AppalachianPatriot
"And", "But" and "Or" will get you pretty far! 😄
Um how's about the '5' times table one? "A 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, Stop!"
I don't know the GIJoe or She-ra songs?? HOWEVER I do know the Land of the Lost, & HR Puffnstuff songs. 😉
I guess it all depends on when you were allowed to watch tv. Lol.
I’m 36 now and I relate with the gen xer. Oregon trail was amazing and yes I had floppy disks too. Gosh the memories. I remember getting tapes for Christmas not cds even yet.
I'm an early 1980, and barely squeaked in based on DOB. I also feel that Gen X is a state of mind. I vote yes. This person has earned the title.
I'm 1978 and I'm gen x. How do you barely get in at 80?
@@matthewburkholder1076 depends on what you read. Some people say Gen X ended at 79, some at 81 🤷
If you're born in the last month of 1980, I'd say that's squeaking in (depending on which definitions you read).
@@tizzas1232 I was born in June of 80 and I've always considered myself Gen X. I was out of high school before it became common for high schoolers to have cell phones, much less the little kiddies.
80 babies unite!
I can’t tell you how much I love this video. I’ll bet she’s a Xennial. 👍🏻👍🏻
Xennial! Yes!
Yup! The Oregon Trail generation!
1968 here. I don't acknowledge a gatekeeper for any generation, you don't need to apply. I don't care what year you were born, what year you graduated or what year you became an adult. You know it in your gut, if you are Gen X. But the humor and subtle clues in the video are endearing.
While I adore the fact she put actual pen to paper, as a GenX'er, I think 3 follow up interview questions are in order. Maybe ask for question ideas from us, the fellow GenX'ers, then pick the top 3 of your choosing Dadbod. Might be fun. After all, we are a GenX family.
first question for her " What is a Mogwai" (mogg why) and why are they dangerous
@@bastintripletroubleboys2101as in gremlins? Dont add water. It was on last Christmas on the show channel. It had been years
@@ebossnz6838 yes very good, mogwai is what they are before they change into gremlins
On which days did cartoons air on basic network television and between what times of day?
@amberd5318 Or what channel did your TV have to be on to use your VCR?
I mean I figured out pretty early on how to beat the Oregon Trail... and that I was a bit of a sociopath. The trick is to make sure you have doubles of the necessary parts, little food, and a metric f*ckton of bullets. You hunt until you have enough food for a week or so, you set the pace to Grueling and the food to the best possible. Leave in April. Expect 1 person to die and make your peace with that. For me it's usually snake bites. Then just go on your merry way.
Ah, but in addition to dying of dysentery, almost no one finished Oregon Trail because it was on the school computer. So few of us had our own computers. So we just didn't have enough time to win even if we didn't die.
@@jenniferhanses which is where I first beat it. I didn't even get my first computer until like 94. Just gotta have that ruthless aggression. Although in Jr. High we could play on our lunch break so I'm sure that helped lol
@@Rookseven7I had to come in here just to know what you were on about I thought it was a real walk and I wanted to do it 😂
@jamiewalker8772 the Oregon trail is real and one can still take it today. Though, if I'm understanding your comment, I would highly suggest not walking it as it is 2170mi and goes through six states.
Hahahahaha
Thank you! Another 1983 kid here. I have lumped myself in with Gen X my whole life due to growing up with a Gen X older sister and identifying more with them as a result.
Elder Gen X here. Did she ever make a bike ramp out of half rotten plywood? Bonus if it had a rusty nail or two.
Honestly we need to come up with an initiation like when we were but young children. Can't join unless you do something that lets you shake hands with Death and you come out the other side alive.
I beat oregon trail easily in 6th grade. I found a bug in it. You could buy items for a negative amount and get the item and the money. So lets say you had a wagon wheel that was 50 bucks minimum. If you offered 25 they would say no. If you say 50 or above, they would sell it. So, I'd buy it for -500 and get the wheel and 500 bucks. It was a cool bug that I only showed a couple friends.
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First of all, love your channel and your message. Keep doing what you do ✊🏽
Hi, 1981 GEN X applicant here
IMHO, Being GEN X was about the attitude and how you confronted life, thinking for yourself and by yourself and being resourceful.. I can go on… anyway, I Love punk, metal, rap, grunge, even early 2000s electronic music.
Ordered my music by mail when I was a teenager back in the 90s so imagine my excitement of getting a new Danzig or Sonic Youth CD after 3 months (I live outside the US) it was like christmas in july. I
skipped school frequently to drink and smoke with my friends
I connected to the Internet via 64kbps dialup modem and took 1 day to download a single nuddy pic 👙
Used a pencil to rewind my lowfi cassettes which most were recorded from originals (to avoid wasting batteries of my walkman of course)
Broke my nose skating and fixed it myself to avoid dealing with my parents (I did an ok job all things considered)
Always had a don’t give a phuck attitude and still do 🤘🏽
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Forgot to mention I would vote the lady in, she def qualifies
Don't put your application in as you are part of the xzenialls the only microgeneration to exist so far. You had the best of both worlds imbrace it.
Approved, she knew about the hamburglar jail... that's some great memories❤
She could have learned about the Hamburglar jail on the internet...
@@ForestGreen88She's of age. They had those up into the 90s and even the early 00s. Especially at the ones in the inner cities. Before they started remodeling a lot of the McDonald's.
@@jeffreekoch9298 I'm just a small town girl and I had no idea those stayed up for that long in some places. The ones I remember seeing were taken down by about 1984. I can't be sure though because I only saw McDonald's when we drove into the "big city" for something and that wasn't very often.
I was just trying to be funny though, of course she can join us.
It was a pretty good application, and she really did her research. Respect.
No need to do research if you are simply stating your own childhood.... and like most of us born in the early 80s we all had similar childhoods...
@@DunderMifflinPaperCo.Here here.
I was born in 1983 and, like many people who have commented here, I was told my whole childhood that I was Gen X. We used cassettes, VCRs, had paper Toys R Us and JCPenney catalogs we would go through to make our Christmas lists (but we never got anything on the list because our presents came from Walmart). I've never owned a bike helmet, I remember using the pencil sharpeners you hand cranked, and trapper keepers were the coolest thing you could own in elementary school. We didn't tell our parents about our siblings, we "worked it out" ourselves and no one asked me what I wanted to do, they told me what I was doing and I did it. I refuse to be grouped in with anyone other than Gen X!
To be fair, she does fall within the lines of being a Xennial. Oxford has defined a Xennial of having the analog childhood that Gen X have and a digital young adulthood of later generations.
In other words, some commercial buffoon changed the GenX deadline from 1985 to 1980, and then realized the most terrifying combination possible are GenX children with Y2K educations, and made up a “micro-generation” of Xennials from 1980-1985 so they could try to control that particular groups with capitalism.
Neither GenX or Xennials give a fuck either way, unless it is fun, like these stitch vids. We will all stick together if the shit really hits the fan. I mean, we will probably be the only survivors, soooo…..
Oh :(
Uh...no.
This was excellent. Brought back a lot of great memories from the '80s and '90s. I would give anything, even my left and right nuts, to go back to either of those Decades right now, especially with how bad, and ridiculous, everything has gotten in 2023.
The world was pretty fucked up in the 80s and 90s too. It's just that no one had 24-hour news access in the palm of their hand and the ability to instantly connect with millions of poorly-educated people with nonsensical opinions and bad attitudes. Our mindset was far more local, and what happened on the TV news felt far, far away.
So true! I have always felt like a GenX’er not a Millennial. I’ve always said I’m on the cusp of both generations.
Approved. I was still in high school when she was born. The floppy disk reference sealed it.
Most of us 80s babies were raised that way. The ones I know, at least. I'm more Gen X than Millennial even though I was brought into this world in 1987. I resonate a WHOLE LOT more with Gen X than I do millennials.
I'm '84 and I'm definitely more Gen X than Millennial. Talking to Millennials that actually act like Millennials, drives me nuts. I feel like I'm talking to children and some of those Millennials are the same age as me.
@@elizabethyoung4469 I know exactly what you mean, I can definitely relate to that. And you can't tell them anything they don't already know lol 🙄
@@johnwayne3904Lol.😅
Yeah, these 'trendy' microculture things never really accounts for the pocket areas that were behind the times. When New York or Los Angeles did a new thing, it took 5-10 years to trickle down into less developed areas whether or not it urban or rural.
I was introduced to 8 1/2 floppy IBM, atari, nes, kicked outside & had mass stick fight wars, mud fights, catching wildlife bare handed, built sketchy as fuck ramps & ripped apart & rebuilt bicycles, sleds dragged by pickup trucks, rode in the back & had to hold on tight & god forbid they hit a bump & you fell out (dust off & hop back in w/no tears), bart simpson toys & transformers to tonka trucks of cast metal -that became bludgeoning weapons against siblings, old pump action airsoft rifles, hell my grandpa had me fetch his Coors light beer at 7 while he taught me automechanics, fuck my 1st tv was black n white tube with (i think it was labelled) uhf & vhf toggle knobs that rotated with a hard click, rigging paperclips to extend rabbit ears, had to help shingle a roof at 10, have too many scars & had too many tetanus shots to count - a dumb ass story of 'what did you learn?', oh don't get me on firecrackers near 4th of july season... the fine art of flat palm & a cherry bomb... let alone the ass whoopings -principles office at school, plus grandpas' switch, & moms' paddle.... so much more shit, especially the rolodex of numbers was all by memory lol...
Yeah I'm 88 and the millenials portrayed on here are not like me at all. I'm 35 and more like this video then anything else. I'm in New zealand so we were a little behind in technology so I guess its that. I raise my kids the same
"you even played with liquid mercury". Can confirm. We broke one of those thermometers in 7th grade science class and played with it. The whole class was shut down afterwards, but none of us died.
As an ‘83 er, I’d also like to be on the list. Parents let us walk blocks and black to the gas station or even the grocery store with no parents at 9 and 10 years of age. Also went to the fair without adults and the mall and we didn’t get kicked out along with basically the same list she said, drank from a hose, got the hot burns from the slides, and let’s not forget that marry-go-round of death. You either hung on, puked, or went flying off and prayed you didn’t break an arm lol.
Approved😂 I think there was a kid who might have come close to winning that famous Oregon Trail but we were only allowed one class period at a time every Thursday. We will never know if he actual passed and won that trail!😉😄
I remember winning Oregon Trail once.
It was a beautiful moment.
I was born a couple years after her and I did all those things with one big difference. My dad actually took me to another dudes house to fight him.
😂😂😂
Yes, but was she capable of using M-DOS and other early computer programs? Did she learn to balance a checkbook, take woodshop and home economics? 🤔
I used MS-DOS and windows for workgroups v3.11.... also took home ec, woodshop, tech ed, and had to balance a check book because my parents wouldn't let me get a debit card at the time...
Considering the apple 2 was common in schools till 94. So yeah I was born in 82 and never used a windows based computer till middle school
We had to take woodshop and metal shop. Only the girls took home ec. I also took technical drawing which was blueprint drawing / draftsman type of course. Ended up career carpenter but could read all drawings for whatever they wanted built.
Balance a checkbook. Fantastic. What about typing class?
@@dianewilliams2789 omg I forgot about the teachers giving printed copies of the keyboard on a work sheet so you could practice typing at home
I know I'm late by a year, but this is too funny. What hit home for me was "playing with liquid mercury". I am an OG GenX (1/65) and in my grandfather's shop there was a 6oz glass jar of mercury he had collected from replacing heating thermostats. I never touched it directly, buy I would dip dimes into it with needle nose pliers (it would "clean" them). That little jar was super heavy for it's size.
I vote we accept her application. She appears to have ticked all the correct boxes.
What about carpal punishment? I don't know she did check alot, ok she's in.😂
@@steelrain79you mean corporal punishment? Like getting a spanking? If so, yes she's definitely in.
@@foncywoolsocksiii923 yes that's what I meant lol. Now that I think about it that was to much.
@@steelrain79they ended that in 1985, where I lived, starting my 6th grade year. Thank God! I hated getting paddled at school, cuz it always meant a another round would be waiting for me when I got home. 😅
@@steelrain79 My 2nd grade teacher had one of those giant wooden rulers that she nicknamed the bodybender. The threads in this video are bringing back so many memories.
I'm an old Gen-Xer. 1966. There were no f*cking computers ANYWHERE growing up. And WTF is Oregon Trail? REJECT this application with prejudice.
The late Gen-Xers might try push you out of Gen X and off to the Boomers, then! 😅
You only missed the Boomers by 2 years, and both my and your experiences show the strict generation cutoffs are pretty meaningless.
You're as different from late Gen-X as I (1981, Millenial who missed Gen-X by 1 year) am from late Millenials. You probably have many things in common with late Boomers, but few in common with early Boomers. I have nearly identical average upbringing with late Gen-X, but possibly much less in common with your upbringing as early Gen-X.
1983 here. I was raised as gen x and I wholeheartedly agree that maybe not all of us, but those of us who's parents were born in or before 1950 qualify.
Her application has my approval. I especially appreciated the mentioning of playing with liquid mercury.
Those were the days.
Yes, but, was she her parents remote control? Does she remember not being able to watch a movie at home without it being on one of the 7 channels we had to choose from? Does she remember not being able to watch TV in her room, because they weren't allowed? Sure, She played Oregon Trail as we did, but what does she truly remember of the times before home entertainment?
You had 7 channels? Im jealous. We were lucky to have 3 or 4, without having to goto the UHF channels.
Late GenX ,had my own TV and VCR in my room as a teenager
7 channels you must have lived in the rich neighborhood, we had 3 channels and only one was clear enough to watch.😂
😂😂😂 OhMyGosh! My first Belly laugh in a long time! Seriously.. tears!
"But was she her parents remote control?"... I can't even..
It took me almost 5 minutes to read the rest of your comment.
Just now realizing Oregon Trail must've been some sort of game. I thought she meant literally hiking the Oregon Trail. Lol. Good to know.
Love this video. ❤ from Gen x 76 in Oregon
1982 here. I can't believe I played with mercury as a child. Still a xellenial though. We weren't forced into the outdoors until the street lights came on. We chose the outside. Indoors was fine when the weather didn't suit us.
I feel for the younglings who will never know the joy of a collaborative effort of children to chop down trees and build forts in the wood storage shed. The hyper masculinity of our neighborhood kids would make youngsters nowadays tremble in their boots. Wrestling was a way of life.
Jumping from a roof onto a trampoline holding a sheet so you could see if it would function as a parachute was a dismal failure, but I can tell you that as you first experience the drop and hopes that your "chute" would work is an exhileration almost unparalleled at that age.
No need to apply to genX
We xellenials are right where we need to be. A wonderful bridge generation.
Aha good.
Thank you sir. My faith is restored. Im sitting here going “hey i fought for my country maaaan” etc etc… then I find this perfect comment ✌️
Sure whatever you say… 🥴 just making up words to suit your fancy? Sounds like something a millennial would do.. lol
I always heard it as Xennial. 🤷🏻♀️
@@MsAubrey yes, you are correct. #alwayslearning
Wrestling?! YES! I was my neighborhood champ
As a genXer, I say fast-track her application and have a 2nd interview with 3 follow-up questions....she also has my vote because she WROTE down her list.
Do you get kids not write anymore? This is wild. I’m ‘86 and I write down EVERYTHING….
I loved the Oregon Trail! 👏🏻🤣🫶🏻
We were the last generation to not have internet in our faces growing up, but had it as adults. We had a computer, a commodore 64.
Commodore 64??? Fancy!
I had to settle for the Commodore Vic 20 and borrow a tape drive from a guy I knew who had the 64. He also had a modem, but I can’t imagine what he would do with it. I did have one or two games for it, though I can’t remember the names. I think one was called Mars Lander or Jupiter Lander? It’s been too long.
Commodore 64? Try a Ti99 - hardcore Gen X! 🤣
Richie Rich! I had to settle for a Vic 20 too. I’ll never forget sitting there punching in endless numbers of machine language from a magazine to get a very, very, very basic word processor, then trying to figure out which of the page after page of numbers I transcribed wrong. And the cartridges for the back! That satisfying “thunk” as it seated and you had a new application ready to go.
Ummmmm.... TRS80. I believe it was made by Texas Instruments. First computer I ever saw. Looked like a desktop Ford Pinto.
My first computer was a VIC-20. When we got a Commodore 64, it was like a major upgrade!
Also a 1983 here... I've always fallen more in line with Gen X than anyone else...
Fellow '83er here. As someone asked below I even know the relationship between a pencil and cassette.
Had a record player and a pile of vinyl in the house as well. My mix tapes were songs of me waiting for the radio to play the right song and hitting record haha.
I was born in '72. Comfortably gen x. The remark about walking to school as soon as you could cross a street reminded me of something I had heard a few years back.
I drove a taxi for several years. One morning I had a young mom in the car, and we were talking about schools today. I mentioned how I don't see kids walking to school anymore like we did. She told me they aren't allowed! If a child walks to school without an adult it is considered neglect! Even if the child is age appropriate and walks in a group it still isn't allowed. When I was in grammar school we had patrols with patrol leaders from the 5th graders. I didn't walk in them as I liked to be on my own, but it was a great way for the older kids to learn responsibility. The younger ones learned to navigate safely.
I was about 7 when I would walk downtown by myself. I live in Massachusetts. We jay walked everywhere, and we still do. So you had to learn to cross without a light most times.
These kids do not play outside anymore. They probably got an app for that too! They will never understand the world we mastered as children, and they are weaker for it!
1984 here. When I was in 6th grade (middle school), they had me walk home alone when they sent me home sick. I lived down the street. (Rhode Island)
Wish I could say kids didn’t play outside anymore, but judging from the noise levels from 4pm to 9pm and on weekends in my neighborhood, I don’t think that’s entirely true.
@@TheGraduate702 I'm speaking in general terms as I'm sure there are exceptions. I'm sorry you seem to be dealing with some right now.
Where I live it looks vastly different from when I was growing up. You couldn't get us inside. I've heard others in different parts of the country say the same. They are busy with their phones and social media I suppose. Glad I was raised in the 70s and 80s.
@@scorpio-mh1np that’s horrible! It makes me feel less annoyed knowing that at least they are outside running around, though I would prefer a quiet evening here and there .
@@TheGraduate702 let's hope the saying "they grow up so fast" applies to your neighborhood!
1965 here. Grew up on a small horse ranch. If I got a cut or scrape, my mom (and later myself) would grab the iodine out of the barn...I was lucky if I got a band-aid. My childhood consisted of orange stains on my body! 🤣
MacureChrome!! (I don't remember the exact name) but yes! It left your skin yellowy-orange.
Love it. Gen X here. 58 and proud to be a Gen X
Ok boomer.
41 and proud to be Gen Y
@@Modine.Maybe, the person that posted 58 and proud meant 58 as being 58 years old which makes them a part of Gen X, not born in the year 1958 which would then make them a Boomer. Just wanted to clear that up for you, so now you understand.
@@BeverageGuzzler I may have stuck my foot in my mouth but at the same time let's no go correcting people just based on assumptions, it's not really the best thing to do. Just so you know.
I say expedite her application for approval. The playing with liquid mercury had me....remember taking apart old light switches and swirling the mercury around in a jar lid. Anyone else remember when there were less than ten television channels to choose from and half of them required changing the direction of the roof antenna or rabbit ears to minimize the "snow"?
Anyone else still fix their car by themselves even though not a qualified mechanic? 👀
I’m feeling a hella lot older than I am these days. I just had a 19 year old girl shout at me.
I had to walk away because my “toxic masculinity” might have gotten out.
Danm. Actually as I write this I realise it was much worse than I am explaining.
We are doomed aren’t we?
@@jamiewalker8772 I still change my own oil & filter but getting too old to do much from beneath the car... most things under the hood that call for removing less than 5 bolts, I can still fix.
Born in 1974. So from 6-16(1980-1989)…pure blood genX’er.
I did everything on that list and more. No helmets while riding my bike…and jumping the ramp we made out of a wood plank and cinder block, in the middle of the street of course. 👍🏻
Good job. But Cinder Block is correct
@@atatterson6992typed too fast. Meant block.
Born in 1975. I don't remember anybody wearing helmets in the 1980's.
@@ryanthompsonthompson820maybe a plastic army helmet I got at Toys r us because an hour before we were running around the neighborhood with toy guys that looked real playing army.
@@ryanthompsonthompson820 only on street motorcycles. Bicycles amd dirt bikes not so much... almost never, unless a race demanded it
1970 here, and I cast a yes vote for the young lady.
I remember when Fruit Loops and Trix cereal were only 3 colors, there were actually toys in the cereal and Cracker Jack boxes, and the smell of fresh vinyl from the Camelot record store... the 1st thing you did when you got home with your new album was pull out your pocket knife, carefully cut a slit in the cellophane, and take a DEEP sniff of the new album. Then you packed your one-hitter, grabbed a returnable bottle of Mountain Dew, got out the liner notes, and read along with the lyrics as you listened to your record while laying on the (bed, couch, shag carpet) in a dimly lit smokey room.
Life was SOOO good!!!
The paper list was important. But the lightning bugs and losing your shit won me over. Being GenX myself, she gets my vote.
I’m her age. We had all the important phone numbers written down on a piece of paper next to the phone. We memorized our friend’s numbers. The library was our google. Being confined to our room was a punishment. We had to literally be there at a certain time to watch our favorite show.
She gets my vote. She had a list (good list too), and it was on paper.
I was born in 81 and have always considered myself GenX. I used a typewriter for my college essays as we had no conputer. The typewriter was avacado green ( to match the kitchen) and weighed 75 lbs. Our wall mount rotary phone was yellow with a 30 ft long cord.
Typewriter? Oh yeah, you definitely qualify, my dude.
Ma’am we are elder Millennials. Old enough to remember the wise ways of those that came before us , but with only half the trauma and abandonment issues . Be proud!!!
Amen
I dunno. There was a fair amount of trauma and abandonment on my side. 😂😂😂
If you don't have trauma and abandonment, that should mean parachute parenting made you co-dependent or narcissistic 😂
@@richardthomas598 nah no overly protective parenting here lol . I was told early “no one picks a man up when he falls” and “no prize in being a victim”. So I see my struggles as stepping stones to them not being a struggle…most days
Born 1977 here, in the prime time of Gen X, so to say, in West Germany, in the middle of the Cold War. Played outside in the rain after Chernobyl blew up in what we found out later was nuclear fallout. I believe it's fine that you've made this distinction with "Elder Millennials", as we have a lot in common, get along pretty well, generally speaking, you've still got a lot to be proud of on your own merits, and yeah, we'll sit together one day in the same retirement homes anyway. I imagine that we're the ones running the show then, while the younger generations are either dead already or still working to pay off useless student loans.
As a fellow GenXer, I approve. We also had a stereo console the length of the wall, and all it did was play the radio and spin records (33 1/3 or 45s).
Anyone else use a tape recorder and put it next to the radio hoping to record their favorite songs from the radio airplay - while trying to keep my siblings quiet so they wouldn’t ruin the recording? I must have played the Star Wars theme and Funkytown (Lipps, Inc.) a million times from my tape recorder.
Such great memories ❤
I did this also😀...and then memorized those songs with the DJ voice pop-ins before and after (and still sing them to this day with those extras🤪🤪🤪)
I've seen Conan the Barbarian ('83 Arnie version) over 100 times. I can name every member of the A Team. Duran Duran is my favorite band. I used to buy cigarettes for my mom at the corner store.
@@lisayoder5686 Imitating the bad, overly dramatic DJ voices? 😂
When I ordered something in the mail, I had to wait 4 to 6 weeks for delivery.
Saturday mornings were for cartoons, and they were actually entertaining.
I was taught to be quiet, polite, and respectful to my elders.
I recorded songs off the radio with cassette tapes.
The first computer games I played were on floppy disks. The 5 1/4 inch ones.
Before owning a computer, I played an Atari, and later a brand new NES.
I know what a VHS tape is.
I have had to wait for film to be developed.
Cartoons before school. Preschool there were only 4 channels and color TV was new and they had to go over to the TV to change the channel
Shes right. The early 80s kids are Xenials. On the cusp. My younger brother is also of this range. Grew up the same as me and other siblings (GenX). Share same parents (Boomers).
As a man born in 83 , i consider myself gen x , i played outside all day with the dog, climbed trees, drank from the hose, and learned to build things at a early age( thanks dad ❤) , i can cook, and while i do enjoy video games, i have to have time outside and go for walks, the goonies was an awesome movie, and die hard is a Christmas movie!!!, i have used a rotary phone, And enjoy a nice swim in a creek or pond
You are Gen Y.
No I'm Gen x, and being tht you just had to say something, go touch grass
@@kevincopeland5044 I touch more grass than you lol. And I'm 83 too, definitely not Gen X, they are retiring.
@@kevincopeland5044You're still not Gen X though. The time period for Gen X is 1965 - 1980.
The time period for Millennials is 1981 - 1996. So, you're a Millennial, not a Gen Xer.
I still have the bottle of mercury we played with. It has an eye dropper style cap that worked great for sucking up the puddle when done playing. I also still have the asbestos tile we used as a fire prevention backer when doing plumbing repairs with lead based solder. Don't even want to think about the chemicals I used in the military as cleaning agents.
the best thing i liked about being a Gen-xr was,,,, the endless stream of CRAPPY, part time, no benefits, minimum wage, jobs that I had to work until i was in my 40's. THANK YOU BOOMERS.
Can you say, "under the table, telephone marketing scammers?" 😅😅😅
Dried my clothes on a line in the sun, and crunchy towels felt so amazing.
I would collect the static from my TV screen and use it to shock my siblings unless I accidentally touched a door knock and shocked myself.
75 here... I just love the fact that so many people want to be accepted by our generation. Tis a noble thing indeed.
Slippery slope. You let 83 in, you gotta let 84 in. They were practically the same year. Actually, every year was until about 1990.
If she can recite (from memory) the phone number from her old rotary phone, then I say yeah... she is a Gen Xer.😊
Are you talking about the 7 digit number that started w 2 letters? 😉
Cuz rotary phones will work w any landline number! I still had 2 of them plugged in til my house burned down in the NCalif wildfire in 2017. One had my grandparents number inserted in the middle 'space'. & I still remember it. They have the best sound. Clear w zero background noise.👍
Good one.
@@maggienbob1304 Yes, people forget the times where small towns had 5 digit phone numbers! I still remember ours
I can recite several but I had a push button phone. My grandparents all had rotary phones though.
@@maggienbob1304I'm sorry about your home burning. I hope you are all okay.
I agree I believe most of her attitude and experience qualities make her perfect
We need her to list some bands, that will be the killer
I was born in 83. Ive seen gordon lightfoot to Bob Newhart live. And everything inbetween
Or ask if she knows what breakdancing was.
@@Metalman200xdamnitmy first exposure to break dancing was soul train.
@@73N5H1 The NYC Breakers,right?
Generation X are those born between 1965 and 1980.
It is a GENERATION.
Agreed. You either are or you aren't.
@@davidmitchell6873 A lot of these older millennials, who have used their generation for all its worth, think they are going to magically join a different generation. It's ridiculous!
Yeah... Sure if one wants to be called "older millennial" but a millennial is still a millennial.
@@prasselboll Do you have a favorite Gen X film? (i.e. Clerks, Reality Bites, etc.)
I'm actually a millennial myself but my absolute favorite film is "Singin' in the rain" but that's a bit before Gen X, right? "Stand by me" maybe?
I submit that if one or more of your grandparents/great grandparents/grand aunts or uncles/relatives that lived through the great depression and were still alive and you spent time with them (years of your life not just a weekend especially if they lived in the country/on a farm/ranch) you are automatically GenX....
That time with mine changed my whole world view and made me well suited for life in current times.
1984 Millinnial from Brazil. We were raised as tough as the lost generation were. We get automatically the Gen X batch. But was 10x harder than for an American GenX
,,,,you died of dysentery! Classic!
1983 here.. I may not remember the challenger blowing up, but I remember a working Atari with 7 or 8 games at grandmas house, cheap squirt guns that give you scars on your fingers, uncles always had frisbees in their car for some reason, and I drank from the hose until the street lights came on 🤣🤣
sometimes 10-15 different frisbees... ready to party anywhere 🤣
That is exactly why I find that age grouping for gen x ridiculously stupid. I remember one time some “expert” was qualifying millennials as those kids who never knew life without home computers or the interwebs, and everyone before that was gen x. I find that definition much more accurate as several of my younger friends and brother included grew up in this manner. Not to mention we didn’t have a home computer until like 1998…and the only reason I had a pager was because I paid for it. Sure there’s the argument that city kids were exposed to all that stuff as early as the 80’s but that wasn’t the majority of regular kids nor was it anybody in my town.
Regardless if I may hold an alternate seat on the council… I would got to ratify her application on the above grounds.
Respectfully submitted on this 22nd of June in the year of our Lord 2023.
My family had a Commodore VIC-20 home computer in the early 1980s and we weren't city kids.
@@sammiller6631 yea and we had a trs80 word processor, you missed the point
i think the line between genX vs millenials is more to do with 9-11 and smart phones -> social media. (1967 here)
Wait wait wait. The question is, is the main phrase in her vocabulary "you'll be OK, walk it off" to her kids? How many times has she taken them to the doctor for a scratch, or cold? Were they still alive when they got to the doctor? If she's not taking them right to the edge, then she's not a true Gen X'er. I think the Elder GX Council may need to see medical records and interview neighbors.
Agreed, born in 74 and I have a scar from a ruptured appendix 😆
Went to school w a 101.7° fever. 🥴
Also had a fever of 106°. My parents left me to go bowling.
Pretty sure I got worse & suffered a little brain damage from that one. 😵💫 Mom came home & rubbed rubbing alcohol on me. Thanks Mom.
1966 here. Let her in. She has the independent problem solving attitude our generation is known for. We are the paradox of love and apathy at the same time. We learned early “you don’t cry - you just do”. We were left to our own devices and learned how to steal wood from builders for treehouses and not get caught. We can sing every song put out by schoolhouse rock, and could jump big things on our Huffy bicycles like Evil Kenival. We made our own fishing poles and bows and arrows. Our moms would all come outside at 6 pm and yell to all the other moms to tell us to come home for dinner. After wolfing down dinner we went back outside only to have our parents drag us in long after it got dark. TV was limited to 3 or 4 channels so we were forced to watch “Hee Haw” or whatever else our parents had on…. My God we had it good!
I'm GenX and can proudly say that I was one of the younger people to have ever seen the original Star Wars when it first came out in theaters. My dad took me to see it when I was eight years old.
Bonus pts if you got the SW poster from Mickey Deez.
Original Star Wars at a drive in.
My best friend, his brother, my brother, and myself picked bottles for miles working our way to where our mothers were visiting another friend's mother. Along dusty country roads, stashing bags of bottles and cans in culverts as they were filled. Impatiently waiting for the last cup of coffee to be finished so we could sell all the bottles at the depot before they closed. We averaged at least $5 each as long as the ditches hadn't been picked that summer. $5 would pay for the movie, and enough popcorn, soda, and candy to make us physically I'll, lol, but it was all right because there was still left over candy, for Sunday after church.
Growing up in rural Alberta, the farms were so far apart our parents would drive us as usually Halloween was when the winter snows would start. We would usually get at least 1 full pillowcase of candy, sometimes more. Usually by Christmas we'd still have the dregs leftover, candy corn, and those horrid little super sweet toffees in the pumpkin wrappers, petrified granite hard.
The first movie that we earned was Star Wars, and it continued on until we got jobs. We used to pick rocks and roots for the local farmers for $4/hr when minimum wage was less then that. Full lunch, cash each day, drank from the hose or straight from the igloo water container full of melted ice. Balance it up on the edge of the wagon, try not to get too much spit on it or the next guy would cuff you upside the head. If you cut yourself, spit on it, make sure it's not too deep, rub some dirt on it, continue on with the day. A friend picked so many fields one summer he bought a new Yamaha dirt bike.
@@northrungrader8937 $4 an hour to pick rocks is good money.
Was 7 at a drive in movie theatre. Loved that place it had all the 50s fixtures and fittings, it looked like it was out of a movie itself.