GenX club requirements 😂

[@apsarasangreal84]

Must understand the significance of " Nanu Nanu"

[@susannahschannel6643]

Amen! I ❤ Mork and Mindy!

[@michaelsarahbahrt2681]

RIP Robin Williams 😢👽👻

[@namjamlewis1844]

Could you imagine the material Robin would have these days?

[@rjones4748]

😂😂😂

[@MrMwmussel1]

As an elder millennial I know all about Mork calling Orson.

[@maryhaley5569]

If you were never your parents' remote control. Sit down.

[@maryhaley5569]

@nopenoway1519 oh yes, good times. At one time, my neighbor actually translated to me what my dad was yelling to do. LMAO

[@joannesimpson2527]

😂😂👏👏👏🇦🇺👌loved cassettes and record player,still got my fleetwood mac,bay city rollers,Navana,beach Boys albums.😂😂👏👏was party time🎉

[@BigPouge]

THIS!!! I wish I could upvote this more. As the youngest I was everyone's remote 😞😀

[@lindsaylivingston9754]

Thank God the only one I missed was the Challenger explosion and I’m counting that one as a good thing. I’m a Xennial half way between the two.

[@MamaMOB]

I remember sitting underneath our television and getting up to change the channel. I look back on that now and realize that television could have completely squished me. It was at least 10x my size.

[@emeraldjonz.]

If you never heard the national anthem played on your television and then it turn to snow....for hours because that was ENOUGH TV for er body..SIT DOWN!

[@MrMwmussel1]

I was explaining the happening to a current highschool senior, they thought I was crazy

[@michaelblaes9847]

Not one channel had a guy say... Why don't we just rerun the primetime lineup? Or even just put on 3 or 4 episodes of a show?

[@nicolemikoski7775]

I was JUST telling someone about this & their minds were blown 😅

[@chiarac3833]

I barely remember this and I'm an early Xer...

[@ladyv5655]

I remember waking up early, turning on the TV just before 7am, watching the snow turn to inspiring shots of beaches, waterfalls, etc as the national anthem played before my favorite cartoons started.

[@iseeyou8781]

Couldn’t afford new albums so we waited by the radio for hours just to hit record when that new song got played.

[@thisisme2476]

And, got mad at the DJ who talk RIGHT up to the when the song started.

[@iseeyou8781]

@@thisisme2476 🤣🤣🤣 my college roommate called in with a request and asked the DJ not to talk during the intro. The DJ laughed and hung up. Never played the song. The request was for “Jessie’s Girl,” by Rick Springfield.

[@jaycee330]

Two words: Mix Tape.

[@Metalman200xdamnit]

@@thisisme2476 Or when the song ended.

[@mistib70]

I loved making mix tapes. I got really good at it too. Me and my boom box.

[@sigmachi8783]

If you never heard the phrase, “I’m on long-distance!”

[@KristiWilson]

Only if you waited till after 9pm!!

[@kellyjimenez8984]

YESSSSSS....."SIT DOWN, SHUT UP. CAN'T YOU SEE IM TALKING LONG DISTANCE!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@derixalandry6740]

And had to pay for it!!

[@daniellemitchell3118]

Or calling Person to Person.😅

[@wildly_heather]

Must know what a chat/party line is!

[@heatherchrisco9106]

Who remembers riding in the very backseat of a panel stationwagon that faced the traffic behind you?

[@peachykeen7634]

THOSE WERE THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE. We just had a Ford Taurus, but our cousins had the station wagon and I always begged them to ride backwards!

[@maryshannon3326]

We loved sitting back there on long trips and waving to all the people!

[@OldGal73]

We had a Ford Falcon station wagon and there was always a fight for the back seat (The Dickie Seat) on the trips to visit the Grandparents, who lived hours away!😂

[@kimwatson9338]

Bonus points if the window was rolled down so that you breathed in all the exhaust fumes!

[@ssm248]

We rode in the back back of a station wagon with no seat! We loved it!

[@rontrosin7075]

Must have heard the phrase “stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about”! and experienced the phrase being enacted.

[@jessieshepherd6642]

Or don't make me ask you!

[@peachykeen7634]

“Go to your room and sit on the bed and wait for me.” Scariest words I’ve ever heard.

[@lanky-x782]

Lol. They always gave me something to cry about until I learned it wasn't worth the belt.

[@RiverRatsTotalOutdoors]

Wait till your dad gets home, after my mom already chased me around with a fly swatter

[@maliasiwel7015]

My kids know that one

[@colettewilliams3575]

If you weren’t obsessed with Who shot JR, you can’t join. If you don’t know who JR Ewing is, you can’t join.

[@patrickmcgee8556]

I think I had a t shirt that said "I SHOT JR!!!"

[@colettewilliams3575]

@@patrickmcgee8556 I had a T-shirt that said wanted (blank picture frame) for the shooting of JR Ewing!”

[@PhoenixRising82672]

Dukes of Hazzard The Hulk Dallas Falcon Crest Friday Night lineup on CBS

[@goldengryphon]

@@PhoenixRising82672 The A Team.

[@PhoenixRising82672]

@@goldengryphon The Fall Guy TJ Hooker

[@jamiequick3607]

“Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?”

[@darkangel_1978]

"But of course"

[@pottymouthedplanter]

Bahahahaha

[@leanngerson7381]

😂 omg that commercial was always on

[@robbieparr3753]

Also, “Where’s the beef!?”

[@m_n_a_b]

Bahahaha! Oh my goodness! When this commercial was on in my childhood, one of my Dad's friends pulled up next to my mom at a stop light, honked his horn and rolled down his window. When my Mom noticed and rolled down her window, he said, "Pardon me Ma'am, do you have anything grey to poop on?" My younger brother and I lost it at that point and it has been a running family joke ever since. I even have my husband saying it these days. 😂

[@ginadoll00901]

This is your brain. This your brain on drugs. Any questions🤣

[@rebeccaduncan6793]

Back when they actually brought the drugs to school so we would know they looked like……

[@jonischoenbrun8110]

Nobody ever said I want to be a junkie when I grow up lmao

[@krystynasmyth1891]

& The more you know........😂😂😂😂😂😂we took that literally and they didn't like that😂

[@krystynasmyth1891]

I learned it from watching you ok 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MysticStreets]

Yes, why are my brains on drugs soo tasty?

[@brucewhite9657]

Remembering when MTV played music

[@hagibhrobertson2657]

Remembering how excited everyone at school was knowing the new channel called MTV was starting up that day! First song, The Buggles, Video killed the radio star.

[@florencedenham9395]

Friday night videos before MTV and the video/tune Video Killed the Radio Star

[@beckyweiss6072]

Most millenials should remember when MTV played music- TRL was the highlight of my afternoon when I came home from school in 6th and 7th grade. I also enjoyed watching VH1s pop up videos for all of the little trivia about the making of each music video.

[@terrijones4228]

90 percent of the day😊

[@danieb4273]

Remembering waiting for the first video.... Video killed the radio star! Opening day for MTV.

[@travisandmissydog]

Remember McGruff the crime dog???? LMAO!!!

[@prime-mate]

"Take a bite outa crime!"😂😂😂

[@K1ll3r84]

Chicago Illinois, 60652

[@supersavingswithjennifer2036]

Scruff mcgruff Chicago Illinois 60652!!!

[@randomfpv22]

Roger ramjet?

[@alricaneshama]

Yep.

[@amyl.7570]

If you don't know what "Gag me with a spoon" means...sit yo ass down!😂😂😂😂 .

[@paganbornspiritbear8249]

We always said…”with a wood chip”…hahaha! Lol!

[@user-sg9if7py5n]

SERIOUSLY 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤

[@dianneagain3830]

Damn makin me miss Frank Zappa .

[@TikiStanford]

Yeah, but this was Moon Unit Zappa! Omg, I thought she was IT. Loved the whole valley girls thing. Ironically, of course 😂😂😂

[@dianneagain3830]

I can't hear Moon or Dweezel and not think of their dad. I think I still have on of the knitted hats Moon was making around here some where.

[@chernobyl169]

If you never went to a restaurant with a smoking section, I'm afraid you are disqualified.

[@MrMwmussel1]

If you cant remember McDonalds having ashtrays

[@d.sepulveda7669]

YUP! 🚬😗 💨

[@karinowens7750]

Or cars having ashtrays!!

[@j348011]

Or when they make the Mall velvet rope, smoking exhibit.

[@shivag73]

@@MrMwmussel1 Or actual playgrounds with the merry-go-round

[@skytrip5273]

You had to memorize everyone's phone number too.

[@stephl5838]

If Saturday morning cartoons were what you lived for, then youre in.

[@kathy5hoech391]

After these messages we'll be right back. jingle.

[@queencitysaint9600]

Cowabunga

[@theartistjodievans]

Or if you tried to get up early enough to see Gigglesnort Hotel before the cartoons started!

[@DaddyWarCrimes78]

Saturday morning cartoons, into pro wrestling and then into American Sports Cavalcade on TNN to watch drag racing and NASCAR highlights. It will always be the Winston Cup to me.

[@bruceayers512]

Bay City Rollers, H.R. Puffinstuff, Sigmond and the Sea monsters. Anything by Sid & Marty Kroft.

[@kellie1255]

53 years old myself…don’t forget we had to wait for pictures to be developed, then laughing at what we took on those cameras, even disposable cameras!

[@ct3po776]

Pictures solid black cause lens cap left on, blurred out, 2 pictures blended together, a finger, your feet/ground by accident, bad lighting, so all you see are red eyes, a glowing head, but no background at all, and then telling the developing store you used that you don't want to pay for any pics from the list above! Oh yeah, and then finding a roll you forgot about 10-20 yrs later, so you know you lost some pictures, but can't remember what they could be!

[@brookewebb4924]

Yes!! Walmart photo desk was the spot in our college town about a week back from spring break!! So many memories and seeing groups of people immediately thumbing through all their developed pics

[@SaraMKay]

And hated each other because one forgot to take the used up roll of film out, the other one forgot to check, if the roll was already finished, so we had regularly two events overlapping on one photo 😂 Why did those rolls even rewind and allowed to be photographed over again?

[@williambryan3346]

You didn’t have to wait if you had a Polaroid.

[@ct3po776]

@@williambryan3346 Too expensive to get film for people living on peanut butter and jelly, and you got more than twice the pictures on 35mm! 110 cameras were cheap, with a built-in flash, also 35mm cameras were free, if the parents sat through a 90min seller's pitch for something they weren't going to buy!

[@diarradunlap9337]

If this phrase, "Hey! Hey! Hey! It's Faaaaat Albert!" doesn’t remind you of Saturday afternoons as a child, then you cannot be Gen-X.

[@saxismyax]

I have a portion of the show on dvd! 😁

[@pieterwillembotha6719]

literally no one cares. It's incredible how Gen X is just as lame as their parents. I guess age does that to you

[@bellamin4549]

@@pieterwillembotha6719 whoever’s kid this is, come and get him. He’s out here whining, again.

[@pieterwillembotha6719]

@@bellamin4549 too bad their's not an HR department for you to run and complain about me to xD

[@bellamin4549]

@@pieterwillembotha6719 that’s cute. GenX knows better than to go to HR.

[@bebetter340]

If the answer to your question from your parents was, “ BECAUSE I SAID SO”.. you’re in and never Back Talk, you might have gone missing 😂😂😂😂

[@ldsvenusk9524]

One more to add, getting up on Saturday morning to watch Saturday morning cartoons only to watch the test screen pattern until the station comes on.

[@donnataylor980]

😂😂😂 I remember that😂

[@LisyCO]

With a big o'bowl of the best sugary cereal in the world. Fruity Pebbles, Cap'n Crunch, Fruit Loop..my list is endless. I take that back, wasn't a fan of Honey Smacks😂

[@fireflyhikes4250]

Also the there was no 24 hour TV. Local stations shut down at night

[@angle5520]

Yep! And watched it pop on after midnight special. There might have been one other programming thing, but after that it was the pattern screen until the very next morning, waiting for the cartoons to come on. A typical Saturday morning went something like this for me: Cartoons, American Bandstand and Soul Train. I would switch back and forth throughout the hour. And then at night, Saturday night live or Monte python and midnight special hosted by wolfman Jack.

[@angle5520]

​@@LisyCOBoo Berry, Count chocula and Frankenberry and my personal favorite, cookie crisp.

[@licketyflip9957]

You remember the excitement and awe when phones changed from rotary to touch tone, and you had EVERYBODY'S phone number memorized.

[@jenbhikes]

I *still* remember all those phone numbers! Barely know my own now. ;) I use the old ones as my PIN numbers lol.

[@angeliaisastar]

I still remember some of my elementary school friends' phone numbers!

[@crystalbarbare3896]

Touchstone phone's came out in 1963 but we didn't switch over our main kitchen phone ( you know the one with the mile long cord ) until 1989.

[@theresam6864]

I was elated when we got our touch tone phone. Best thing since sliced bread.

[@Galloway278]

@@jenbhikesgood idea!!!!

[@penneyreed7316]

Don't forget that square dancing for middle school P.E.

[@j348011]

I said the same thing🤣

[@WrinklesNWarPaint]

Did you guys live in Kansas? I remember learning square dancing in elementary school P.E. for Kansas Day, but that was about it.

[@ladyv5655]

Square dancing was what my high school did for PE in the last two weeks of the semester.

[@djpaeg1]

And fox trot and waltz in High School PE

[@assignments5094]

Still happens

[@chellehollon7679]

1. Multi-story schools without elevators because anyone that couldn't climb the stairs went to a different school. 2. Collecting 12 oz glass pop bottles and trading them in for money to buy candy or baseball cards. 3. When going to the park wasn't complete without throwing up at least once (merry-go-round), having burns from the slide, or blisters from the monkey bars. 4. Skating Rinks were the place to be. 5. Walking to the concession stand at the drive-in alone and then trying to find your parent's car in what essentially looked like a giant used car lot.

[@stacywalsh4248]

Yes!!! All of this!

[@divinep1912]

Who tf had elevators 😮??

[@maryhaley5569]

If you have never seen a native American crying because of litter. Sit down.

[@KristenMcLaughlin-Sceurman]

Omg, memory unlocked!! That's a good one!!

[@CarlaBuggs1-iz6gp]

Or heard ‘only you can prevent forest fires! 🔥’

[@maryhaley5569]

@@CarlaBuggs1-iz6gp yep!

[@maryhaley5569]

@@CarlaBuggs1-iz6gp everyone knew Smoky!!!

[@SheilaR.08]

Crying Eyes Cody!

[@marcomoton3449]

Never watched a After-school Special, you don't qualify 😂😂😂

[@CurioMin]

If you do not know “Open, Open, Open”. Go sit down.

[@tirzah-marielewis3447]

I fell in love at least twice per year with some no name teenage actor from an after school special movie! Haaaa!! 😂

[@hks2377]

Or “The More You Know” PSA. 😂

[@christis7217]

School Specials

[@SoulSoundMuisc]

I was typically not allowed in the house after I got home from school. Dropped off my bag, changed clothes, and outside until 6.

[@cherylmarquez2645]

Let's not forget what Mr. Whipple said, "Don't squeeze the Charmin!"

[@themaggattack]

Nor Mr. Winchell- "Time to make the doughnuts!" 🍩

[@christiesmith978]

Don't squeeze the Charmin, bc it's TIME TO MAKE THE DONUTS

[@michaelgoldsmith635]

I remember when Johnny 5 in Short Circuit said that line and I was so impressed at hearing a pop culture reference in a movie.

[@gabrielinsley4908]

Where’s the beef?

[@Indysme]

If you saw Adam Savage from Mythbusters, in the commercial squeezing the Charmin…10 bonus points

[@FrisbeeGirl]

OMG. The Challenger explosion experience. Our science teacher, who had served in the military, got the note from the principal's office, returning to his lecture his reaction was the equivalent of, "Well, that just happened." He was so calm and nonchalant that I didn't understand that they were dead until class was over and we went to assembly. Afterwards, I saw him sobbing alone in the hallway. We were raised with bizarre levels of emotional incompetence.

[@Wentletrap213]

Yes, we were.

[@victoriabostick2935]

@@FrisbeeGirl yes I was in 10 th grade and I was in cooking class. We were watching the shuttle and everybody was speechless. The teacher didn’t explain anything.

[@NASAgeekKat]

Were I was in Georgia we had ICE and didn't go to school that day so I spent the day with my cousins and we watched the Challenger explode. We ran into my older cousins room telling him what happened and he called us liars and went back to sleep. He found out hours later and was shocked that we were telling the truth.

[@icecreamassassin3006]

Yeah my catholic grade school actually called parents when it happened and called the day short when that happened because some of the kids were so upset.

[@jasonmoreau-mccoy8406]

I was in 5th grade. Happened to be at with chicken pox. Watched it from our living room couch.

[@shawnempson2060]

The worst punishment parents could give you was being grounded from going outside!

[@ct3po776]

Mom would send me to my room where my record player was, so not really much of a bummer to me!

[@randomfpv22]

Absolutely!!!

[@MissNoel82]

OMG... I'd rather get a beating than be stuck in the house!

[@FallnAngL-dg7gx]

And as we got older, our parents suffered as well😎 My brother and I were a year (+5 days) apart. We worship music and play drums and guitar. Grounding became more infrequent in favor of heavy-chore punishment.

[@pattyhoughtaling6230]

The worse punishment I could get was my Dad's belt on my backside. I would rather take the grounding.

[@caraferris9390]

Being left in the car while your parents went in the grocery store

[@SarahMichelle777]

Being left at home while your parents went away for the weekend LOL

[@maritamuras8978]

Born in 1985. I was starting to wonder where my car people are. I also remember my parents saying, “Get in the car. We’re leaving” after a family gathering in the middle of summer only to have to sit in that stuffy air for several more minutes while the parents still talked. Eventually, we learned to wait until the last second and keep the doors open.

[@angiebarclay3218]

Or the bar lol

[@Bubblegumswitch]

Oooh dang, in the summertime, and hopefully with the windows down 😅

[@katherynhoward3840]

​@americasmomloveeveryonenoe7517 I had the cops called on me and they brought mine in to find me, so I taught her to grocery shop and I just let her do the shopping while I sat up front.

[@j348011]

Benny Hill show! Carol Burnett show! Soul train! American Bandstand, Solid gold! 😆🤣

[@WrinklesNWarPaint]

Oh, man, the Benny Hill Show! I loved that show! It came on after my bedtime, but my babysitter would let me stay up and watch it. The only condition was that we had to keep an eye out for my mom’s headlights coming up the driveway so I could dive into bed and pretend I was asleep. Ah, memories… 😊

[@karlar8648]

Benny Hill was a mother!😅

[@Chrissy521stl]

OMG we watched Carol Burnett everynight

[@Chrissy521stl]

My mom definitely didn't want me watching Benny Hill

[@amylehman5915]

I wanted to be a solid gold dancer when I grew up!

[@tawnyschlienz9063]

Watching the original Star Wars movie in the theater. And rode in the first muscle cars, jammed in with 12 people and laid in the back window dash or in the back of a pickup box with no worries in the world. Trying to get cigarettes out of the cigarette machine without making any noise. Playing outside all day, building tree forts and ramps to jump your bike. Walking to town by yourself to get milk for cereal and didn't worry bcuz all the mothers in the area kept an eye on you. When you could go into a bar with a parent and stay all day and nobody cared. MTV's Headbangers ball late at night was my favorite. And watching my first METALLICA video, my favorite band to this day. Going to the pizza joint and playing music on the jukebox. Going to the arcade with a roll of quarters. Going to the 5 and dime store to buy penny candy.

[@libbylulu148]

"It's 10:00 p.m.. Do you know where your children are?" If you never heard that PSA on Tv, sit down. Personally, i always found this PSA scary. 😅

[@Indomitable.essence]

I loved hearing it, bc I knew the good stuff was about to come on, my granny only had 4 channels, and my aunt was about to leave so I could hog her TV! Lol

[@matthatch3920]

Our parents had to be reminded they had kids. Lol

[@Silver_Rayn]

For me, I felt it was more like, "Do you know where mom is at?" My sister & I were always home when it got dark. I was always in charge (doing all the work)

[@mercedeslewis4598]

I always loved it. Someone was looking out for me!

[@maplelatte3366]

It was freaky. And so were the "this is only a test" Emergency Broadcast tones.

[@ericliford9293]

You must know that Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down

[@VisionMusicWorks]

😂😂🙋🏾‍♀️

[@americandefender1861]

Lol me! And I'm Gen Z lol

[@marlomchenry1784]

Hell yeah!Gen X Jersey girl here.Weebles fucking rocked.When I got mad at my brother I would hut him with one.

[@MEEMOSS77]

Having text books for every class AND having to use a brown paper bag to make your own book cover. Watching the tv channels come online every morning with the national anthem playing and watching the tv channels end their day with the national anthem and going to the test bars.

[@maranathaschraag5757]

Don't forget trapper keepers

[@Michael-fb1rl]

👍

[@daniellemitchell3118]

I used the brown paper bags, too. But as I got older, I got fancy. I would put the comics from the Sunday newspaper over them for some color. Then I could read them during class.😅

[@daniellemitchell3118]

​@@maranathaschraag5757Yep, mine was blue.

[@Kalamain]

In the UK we often used wallpaper samples for school books. Free and you could sometimes do more than one with any end of rolls they let you have!

[@something-somethingdarksid9498]

Millennial here, but I think this fits. If you never experienced the joy of hitting record exactly when the song you like starts playing on the radio when making your mix tape sit your ass down. - Bonus: The joy of getting that perfect recording where the radio hosts did not start talking during the instrumental bridge of that song - Double bonus: Knowing why radio hosts started talking during the instrumental bridges of a song.

[@mastertwitch1]

They started doing it to tighten air time between songs so they could sell more ad buys per hour

[@robs009]

I think thats where i picked up my bad habit of growling in irritation lol

[@Necropheliac]

To be Gen X, You have to stop caring about everything. It’s fking exhausting. We care about good music, cool cars, good food and that’s about it.

[@nadjasunflower1387]

and good video games. 😁

[@mariafranciscabertoglio6759]

And coffee. Don't forget coffee. Just black. Or with a splash of cold milk. Nothing fancy.

[@kuuderesyndrome3249]

nah I just don't drink coffee stopped caring about it​@@mariafranciscabertoglio6759

[@RebelAllianceJAC]

And not necessarily in that order. 😂😂😂

[@imscenery]

Yeah, that's about the speed of it.

[@DickGozinya-zl2bd]

If you were never told "Sticks & stones can break your bones but, Words will never hurt you," you can't get in.

[@user-mh4tx8zl4s]

Or the version I learned in High School.'Sticks and Stones may break my Bones, but Whips and Chains excite me!"

[@travisandmissydog]

Man I wish people would go back to that frame of mind!

[@rockrollangel1972]

or ennie meenie miny mo catch a tiger by it's toe

[@marythecontrary]

I'm rubber and you're glue. Anything you say will bounce off of me and stick to you.

[@SpiderBears]

(see 2020 riots) are merely oppressed people expressing themselves and is a perfectly valid form of "speech". Sickening

[@Magdalena-ow7gy]

What do these items all have in common: house slippers, flip flops, wooden spoon and/or spatula, skinny long tree branches, fly swatters, and rolled up magazines/ newspapers.... not a comprehensive list here😆

[@jamigrey5554]

Items close by to be hit with! Country goose wallpaper in the kitchen Orange and brown furniture Being left home alone at night so parents can go out.

[@colleenmarin8907]

Hairbrush

[@user-sg9if7py5n]

Beat yo ass equipment 😂😂😂😂

[@kennpeters1973]

Hey!! That's what we got our asses whooped with when we deserved/earned it!

[@aimeewalls8208]

Been whooped with all of the above! Proud gen-xer, born in ‘76!

[@user-zv3so9nw1q]

If you didn't sing "Conjuction Junction" or "I'm Just A Bill" to help get you through tests you're out.

[@MeanOldLady]

If people needed Seasame Street to get through school, they are morons. It was the same repetitive shit for decades! So boring & stupid!

[@NeilTruick]

"We the People" literally helped me ace a pop quiz in my 12th grade Government class in 1980.

[@ThatEllen74]

If you never requested a song from a radio station and then waited to record said song on a cassette recorder, you can’t sit with us! 😂 Oh the memories! ❤ I can remember thinking, “this guy needs to stop talking so I get all of the song!” I didn’t need his intro or comments. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ Also, when Gen X left the home on a Friday or Saturday night either with us driving or our friends picking us up, our parents didn’t know where we went and couldn’t talk to us until we got home. No cell phones, no Life 360…and speaking of no cell phones, there were NO cameras to record us doing dumb stuff! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 PTL! 😂

[@victoriabostick2935]

@@ThatEllen74 😂😂😂😂😂yes

[@ABeeSees.]

🤣👍🏼 Thank You! 11. Playing outside All day until the street lights came on. 12. Riding our bikes with No Helmet. 13. Cramming as many people as we could in the back of the truck for the Drive In on Saturday Nights. 14. Bon Fires at the beach 15. Hokey Pokey on Roller Skates

[@Pressity1]

YESSSS! Ahh, so few good memories from childhood and those are some of them!

[@princezzpuffypants6287]

I hated the hokey pokey on skates and I was always bullied into participating - and consequently falling breaking my ass

[@fylith6378]

These! 💯

[@42ayla]

The Roller Garden, even if you didn't skate

[@gabrielinsley4908]

No seatbelts too. How did we make it this far? Lol

[@iwonderasiwander9031]

If you have never owned a Walkman, played in the sand ash trays at the end of the grocery aisle or knew that Mikey would try anything. Please dont let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

[@joycee5493]

Mikey hated everything!

[@ninamason5877]

Mikey would try anything - good one!

[@ninamason5877]

Radio Shack

[@pfrazier21044]

I am laughing my butt off because I remember every single thing listed. I remember watching He-Man while eating my Capt. Crunch on a Saturday morning. Saturday morning cartoons were the greatest during the eighties.

[@jasonmoreau-mccoy8406]

He-Man then She-Ra!

[@cowboyx9380]

Spoiled child! We only had WHEATIES with a real athlete on the box! Capt Crunch was an Xmas gift! 😂🤣😂🤣

[@TheHammy10001]

Damn makes me feel so nostalgic reading these comments "Time to make the donuts"

[@meganmccormack5182]

Gen Xer here. If you never owned the original Jelly shoes, a snap bracelet or Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper sit down.

[@Certainlycaroline]

Or an arm covered in black jelly bracelets and a stack of Garbage Pail Kid cards. I miss those days so much!

[@meganmccormack5182]

@@Certainlycaroline Me too girl! Me too! I wish I had a time machine.🤣

[@woodntyuuliiktooknoo]

If you have never gone cross-eyed staring at a poster to figure out the hidden image....

[@rahshidawalker1350]

1978 speaking: Loved, Loved, LOVED Lisa Frank! So pretty....😍

[@moniqueemmett294]

What about metal skates? Don’t let you sneaker get stuck 🤣

[@sanaisy81]

If you didn't take typing class on a typewriter or do all your school research papers using an encyclopedia, you're not a gen X

[@JHabc]

Some encyclopedia that was decades old and had been passed down multiple times, and was missing at least 2 books

[@hdc1979]

One full year of typing drills now at 44 I'm thankful for this n ppl are amazed at my "skills"😂

[@michelewalker3862]

I've had children ask me if all my fingers are double jointed because I text so fast. Child, I'm 50. I learned a long time ago where all the letters are on the keyboard and can do it without looking.

[@taunyaw2181]

We had the whole set....

[@kenwolf9124]

I remember having typing classes on the typewriter while having computer classes

[@Prence]

If you have no idea what an 8-track is. Goodbye. LOL.

[@Sarah-with-an-H]

Honestly I heard a lot about 8 track and was familiar with it but never grew up with them. We had records and cassettes. I was born in 1975 my memories of the 70's is limited.

[@danamcmorris788]

Late 70's. We knew what they were but we never had or saw one.

[@11Renee11]

1979 here. I was brought up on my mother's '60s-80s record collection

[@midwestchick187]

And if it wasn't an aftermarket install on the bottom of the dashboard, it doesn't count.

[@Prence]

@@midwestchick187 exactly. LOL.

[@badmother7615]

NOPE. I’m first wave GenX (1967) and the DARE program only came along in the mid 1980s after the “Just say No” program-I was in high school and had no use for that.

[@TrishiDowns]

I was born in 1982 and remember all of this except the challenger. Here are a few more. All year round being told to wait in the car with the engine off and windows rolled up while your parents went shopping or visited or was at the bar having a drink. You will not only know what Noxzema is but now just thinking of it you can smell it. You have several pictures of when you were a child sitting on your parents lap while they were holding a cigarette or had one hanging out of their mouth. Being able to ride in the back of a pickup truck or a sit on your parents lap without a seatbelt. Tying your bike, skateboard or sled to the bumper and going for a ride. If you’ve ever heard “stop crying or I will give you something to cry about”. Saturday morning cartoons and lunchtime Flintstones. You know the phrase “not the mama” So many great memories lol

[@tunzjammer69]

Hell my parents left us in the car with the keys so we could jam the tunes!!😂🙌

[@lauriepayseur5897]

Ahhhh yeah! Riding in the back of a pickup! Yesss!

[@heatherchrisco9106]

I was born in 82 too! I think we should be Gen X and NOT Millennials!

[@patriciadenisecorbin7875]

Riding in the back of a station wagon, widow down and feet hanging out while sitting on little lawn chairs.

[@tunzjammer69]

@@patriciadenisecorbin7875 watching drive in movies from the roof of that station wagon as well!🙌

[@jkparks3163]

Schoolhouse Rock "I'm just a Bill..." '67 here.

[@melanieomer9186]

Conjunction Junction, what’s your function… and I was born in ‘62. Close enough

[@gregorykiernan7849]

Love it!

[@EvelynSaungikar]

We the people…

[@kimanderson9380]

We were suffering’ until Sufferage!

[@rachelderagonartist9766]

And Zoom!

[@jjcc5338]

100% right on.... That screeching sound of trying to hook up to the internet via landlines. Or getting kicked of line when somebody called. The art of making a collect call without having to pay, by saying"come pick me up" instead of your name. Sitting on your mom's lap when driving into town. Not being allowed in the house until after 5p.m. The taste of garden hose water in the summer. The sound of an icecream truck song(where you bought your candy cigarettes). Knowing how to spell words when paging a beeper. Knowing what a beeper/pager is😅. Learning to type on an electric typewriter. Knowing what "Be kind, rewind" meant. What the sound of a belt coming out of your dad's belt loops made just before you got it. Getting a "trapper" binder at the beginning of the school year. Not sure if your listening to the beginning of Ice Ice Baby, or Pressure. Sorry, got me remembering 😊

[@CatrinaTeverbaugh-if2zr]

Woooooow....the garden hose 💧...😅Cuz if u go in the house, you staying in the house😂😂😂

[@jjcc5338]

@@CatrinaTeverbaugh-if2zr Or....you weren't even allowed in the house till after 5p.m. these new generations wouldn't know what to do

[@aprillowe8383]

I was two when the challenger exploded 😢

[@JHabc]

Shoot, we never even got internet at home. Sit down

[@misskris117]

Trapper Keepers!!!!!

[@DaGoonR]

" It's 10 PM Do you know where your children are?" They literally played that on the TV every night to remind our parents that they had kids.

[@MTnest93]

I’m the oldest of Gen X, born in 1965 and no I did not go through the DARE program, but I was, “Scared Straight”!

[@martialartess]

1966 here and no DARE program here. But my Gen Z daughter won the DARE essay contest in elementary school. I do remember "Scared Straight." But the one that really terrified me way "Stranger Danger".

[@jasonkelley2651]

Technically we 1965 kids are the last of the Boomers. But we filled the roles of the first Gen X without breaking a sweat.

[@karmao2024]

Me 2 😂❤❤

[@gronk1965]

​@jasonkelley2651 No, we are X. Starts in '65. My big sister is only a few years older than me, and the generational difference between us is stark.

[@benzydino1]

Was it any better? I'm at the end of Gen X,1980. I snuck in right at the end, thankfully.

[@S-T-R]

Welp I'm 1000% in the club as I've had/done/lived every one of those requirements. And also adding to the list: 1) watched one of your parents pump $0.87 leaded gas into their car while smoking a cigarette. 2) Watched Saturday morning cartoons like it was a religion. 3) Road your bike all day through town and country without once having to "call home". 4) Then make sure your butt was home BEFORE the street lights came on! 5) Had a boombox so damn big it took 2 people to carry it.

[@PuzzleVibesAndFeathers]

YES to all of this! How about... we didn't know what an expiry date was!

[@justinbeck4197]

wow..I check all those too although my ghetto blaster was not so big

[@lilliputlittle]

And you'll remember how OPEC decided to screw everyone over and the long lines at gas pumps that resulted? Do you remember your parents only being able to gas up on certain days within certain hours based on the last number on their license plate(s)? I remember a lot that is built into my generation and it isn't all giggles and grins. Some of it is ugly as sin and we've not done a thing to change it.

[@victoriabostick2935]

The smoking the cigarette while pumping gas 😂😂😂😂😂

[@CarolynTaylor-pz9zn]

I sat in a car e my dad for almost an hour to get gas because Chevron was .68 cents but Phillips 66 was60 cents a gallon. 😅😅😂😊

[@LoganGraceHope]

Black market Cabbage Patch dolls😂😂😂 Moms willing to go to jail to buy a doll in time for Christmas!

[@cablegirl90]

My cabbage patch dolls name was Jodi and I also had a koosa

[@rachelpettit5438]

Remember the video that made national news of the store manager standing on a display case, swinging a baseball bat to fight off the mob of moms? That was us, that was our Zare's store! Our mom's are epic!

[@princezzpuffypants6287]

My grandpa fought so hard to get me one and i didn't even like 'em....

Or had a homemade, hand stitched doll with a cabbage patch head.

[@ambermarieharper]

My dad bought me one off a truck. Lol

[@Reformula321]

Watching Soul Train and Showtime at the Apollo. Awwww, snaps! And remembering Ice-T before he was a cop. Lol

[@shalontejordan5941]

You must know what a payphone is. You must have used an old-school map. You must have have had an answering machine.

[@Laiuka1]

Old-school, as in made of paper, not a Garmin gps.

[@exofunbun7785]

Must be able to recite any phone number from memory.

[@krystynasmyth1891]

What about the pager 😂

[@AbsolutelyNoOne12]

Ah the payphone... n when caller ID came into play... "you have a collect call from..." "call me back at this number!!!" Click... 😂😂😂

[@jeremyhess7977]

It's not an "old school" map.... it's an actual, folded paper map. We're not charting the seas for a northern route to fuckin' India to trade exotic spices.

[@christineandersonsarles7881]

Gen x if remember the cabbage patch doll shortage at Christmas time. 😂 I learned mine came from a stolen truck 😮

[@mariavenner2823]

My first one's name was kora. Got her in 1984 or 1985. Wish i still had her.

[@3173kiki]

My mom had to actually make one because they were sold out! 😂 Me and my bobo Cabbage Patch doll😂

[@rachelhall4808]

I remember cabbage patch but never had one. I do remember collecting garbage pale kid cards and stickers. I had them hidden! My mom would’ve been grossed out and disappointed. And then I would have been grounded.

[@page_one]

My grandfather asked his best friend drive 2 hours to get me one. Still have it.

[@lmward510]

My first one came from Mexico. My grandparents bought it while they were on vacation. 😂

[@bjr3688]

If you've never written in cursive. Sit down. 😂

[@phreak1118]

My 9 year old is learning that now.

[@amydopson2946]

My kids could not fake a note from Mom, because mine were always cursive! Life hack! 😂

[@Ferretlover64]

Omg come on!!! WOLFMAN JACK and the Saturday Night Special!!!

[@ekim72]

1. Riding in the back of a truck at highway speeds. 2. Watching a reel to reel film in school. 3. Learning from your dad how to replace vacume tubes in the tv to fix it. 4. Having traveled the Oregon trail on an apple II computer in elementary school. 5. Shop class bird houses. 6. Playgrounds with nothing but steel and pavement. 7. BOOM BOXES! Ahhhh the memories.

[@jeremyhess7977]

We had Apple II GS computers at my school.... Ooooo.... Fancy. LoL My playgrounds had concrete pads and/or hard-packed sandy clay... we'd pick around in it and find arrowheads all the time.

[@edwardt7364]

Back of truck that’s safe, we were in the back of an el Camino, and I’m a Millennials

[@benzydino1]

We used to rent the reel to reel projector and films from the library. Watched them on the wall.

[@rachelderagonartist9766]

You had computers in elementary school? You are a young gen-x!

[@benzydino1]

We only had a few, but yes, I'm a young Gen X. Made it in by 2 months. Nov. 1980.

[@krystynasmyth1891]

That sound......when you notice your tape is being eaten up and you run to save the cassette 😂😂from across 3 rooms

[@stoopidbastid6420]

ah the crinkle. I found out the hard way that you couldnt use rubbing alcohol to clean the pinch roller. Zeppelin 4 RIP

[@danielbeltz1914]

This actually made me chuckle.. I remember jumping from the upstairs to the landing to the downstairs and running into my room coming from the kitchen to save a tape.

[@radolfkalis4041]

Yeah, that noise burns into your SOUL!

[@EB1878]

​​@@stoopidbastid6420actually you can clean the pinch roller and the head in a cassette player using rubbing alcohol as long as it's 90% alcohol (less water in the stronger rubbing alcohol), swab with q-tips and let it air dry. The only time I experienced my tapes going crinkle cut French fry on me was when the cassettes themselves wore out, became tight (due to age, humidity chages, and repeated playing). I actually had some success salvaging some of my cassettes that became crinkled. I usually bought random cassettes, unscrewed them, switched out the spools, and labeled them, artist/album/year. It was tedious, sure. But those cassettes lasted me clear until 2012, then finally became oxidized due to their age. I managed to transfer a handful onto CD, then put them onto my MP3 players. I dubbed nearly all of my LP'S onto CD, then transferred those to MP3 and the same for my 8-track cartridge tapes, which by 85' those were being phased out entirely. They were a novelty to me and my hobby when I was 12 in grade school. 😊 Do I miss those tapes? You bet! I held onto my beloved Kiss 8 tracks, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath. The only 8 track players I owned were LLoyds (crappy home units in all actuality), one Weltron space helmet, one Weltron "Aquatron" both units wore out completely though. I believe those were sold for looks back in the day and less about quality and performance. The best 8 track player I owned later on was a Panasonic Dynamite (plunger style) red portable one, and a home unit, Realistic. Those actually lasted me several years since I maintained them well. Most all of my stereo stuff was either given to me and others I'd buy from thrift shops. It was always like striking gold if I found anything by my favorite bands or found another 8-track tape that I didn't have already. My first 8-track tapes were: Alice Cooper- Goes to Hell (my mother's tape), Cheap Trick- In Color (still have this, belongs to my mom), Kiss- self-titled 1974 (contains Kissin' Time so it's not the extremely rare pressing), Kiss Alive!, Kiss- Love Gun (fixed this myself at 12 years old and it played okay), Kiss- Dynasty ( I bought this for a huge .25 cents in 89' from an overpriced junk store), Kiss- Alive II both vol. 1 and 2, ZZ Top- (truck stop bootleg album, black cartridge with a generic label), .38 Special, Jim Croce- best of hits. My favorite was always the first Kiss album on 8-track. I loved hearing the rich, full music from a pair of those clunky pillow cushion headphones. I also had the big adapter to hook up modern headphones too. In way of music, we had it! In fact, growing up we had good music. 😊

[@crisl9079]

😂 Ah yes, good one!

[@ftrevino4493]

"It's a ancient Chinese secret".

[@YeshuaKingMessiah]

I remember that! Can’t remember brand tho lol

[@nicshere]

“Ancient Chinese secret, huh?” I think that was a Tide commercial. Could be completely wrong though.

[@ftrevino4493]

@@nicshere Calgon commercial. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5eldZSAnpWHmKssi=9aVZtba3Oy29E1qy

[@jq8974]

Calgon!!!

[@bigretardhalo]

Calgon.... Take me away

[@jbkibs]

Love it... It's 100% accurate. There are so many more... and a lot of them are commented below. There was also the phrase, "I brought you into this world, I can take you out and make another that looks just like you." LOL man. There is nothing that is going to beat growing up in the 70's through the 90's, It was one of the most magical times in American History for so many reasons.

[@TheHammy10001]

Yep, that was the best times ever

[@shep9231]

Drinking from a hose Roof jumping Having to go outside. Period. this one is MANDATORY!!!!!!!

[@kristinathomas5890]

Yep. Heck, I'm only a Xennial, but I was forced to go outside because my mom was a Boomer. And my brother is I guess solidly a Millennial? He's 1987. But he had the same experience. Our mom was emotionally negligent but I'm so grateful she made me put down my books and Barbies so I would have to experience life!

[@Carabaraloo]

Mom used to lock the door behind me.

[@briandeaton5048]

Getting locked out side

[@abbasbestgirl3054]

My middle name was outside.

[@DangerHob]

​@kristinathomas5890 Haha yep. Raised Gen X, but I'm solidly Milennial age. Our rotary phone was mustard yellow - it was always a hit when I would have friends over. 😂 Also grew up in an area that didn't have area codes until I was almost in my teens. I didn't have to remember a 10 digit phone number until I was probably 12.

[@tirzah-marielewis3447]

She just reminded me… there was no counseling after challenger blew up. Nada just like, “well there’s some trauma for your life” don’t make it drama… keep it pushin’!

[@christis7217]

And we all survived

[@matrix0027]

I remember my teacher quickly turned off the TV. They didn't acknowledge what happened at all. Our teacher was holding back tears and we got sent home from school early. My best friend who had the day off of school for an orthodontics appointment met me at the bus stop and that's how I found out that what we saw on tv was not only a burst of smoke but was the Challenger exploding and everyone on board dying. It was sad.

[@priestessofkek2406]

I had just gotten out of boot camp and saw it on the barracks TV. Yah I'm first wave Gen-X just like my Boomer parents were proper Boomers (Dad was born 9 months after VE day)

[@SarahMichelle777]

I watched it in the sky nearby in florida. What a nightmare. scarred forever. but…Ok everyone get to your next class now!”

[@StaceyQTPie]

Our school had an assembly the next day to talk about it and offer counseling. I don't think anybody said a word.

[@TheBourbon88]

You forgot "Calgon take me away!" 😆

[@wendydisanto]

@TheBourbon88 " It's an ancient Chinese secret". Lol

[@curtisclayton8023]

What about a stick of margarine talking 💩 to somebody by saying "Parkay"

[@kimlarge4077]

I say thst to this day.

[@phoenixspirit9530]

Those were the days. Old commercials... Nair : " who wears short , shorts?...we wear short, shorts. Bandaid : " I am stuck on Band-Aid Brand cuz Band-Aids stuck on me" ! Oscar Mayer : " My bologna has a first name, its O-S-C-A-R...."

[@TheBourbon88]

@@phoenixspirit9530 That is INSANE! I has just humming the band-aid jingle this morning over and over and then asked myself "why?" Spirit animal. . can you hear me!!??

[@Wentletrap213]

If you never went down a metal slide at the playground in August, sit down.

[@HepauDK]

July was worse here in Denmark...

[@Wentletrap213]

@@HepauDK Really, it was in the 60s when we visited July/August last year. Did you have a heatwave? I love your country, by the way. We had a lovely time.

[@HepauDK]

@@Wentletrap213 We had quite a s**tty summer last year. It started out with a nice warm May and start of June, but just as the schools closed for the summer, the rain began, and we didn't have two dry days in a row untill mid August, as far as I remember, at least here in Sønderjylland (Southern Jutland). It's been up and down, but I remember the summers to have been better when I was a kid. Except for 2006 and 2018, those summers were awesome with long periods of warm-hot weather (for Danish standard). In 2018, we had a short drizzle one evening in mid July, other than that, it was bone dry for 3 months straight. 2006 I was outright cooking the entire summer vacation, as I didn't have my air-air heat pump yet (I had electric panels for heating). That changed in 2009. :)

[@Wentletrap213]

@@HepauDK It’s unfortunate that we chose wrong summer to visit. After visiting Copenhagen and taking a detour to Lubeck, we even rented a beach house on Baltic. The water was clear and beautiful. I can imagine it would have been more delightful if it had been a few degrees warmer. Now I want to go back!

[@sarahd8925]

If you ever watched M.A.S.H., All in the Family, or Andy Griffith show reruns over and over again because you had to watch what your dad watched or there was no TV because you only had one, and it was a 19" bubble screen from the 70s, and it was the only one your family had from the time you were born until you were in college... say "aye"! Oh...or was that just me? 😂

[@alyssamitchell8191]

Mash. Yes. Andy was banned from our house but we watched a lot of Munsters, Lucy, Gilligan and Jeannie. Plus, my Dad and I can recite nearly the entire script of The Princess Bride.

[@allisonsmith8025]

Not just you. It was M.A.S.H. and then Bob Newhart at my house growing up.

[@martialartess]

@@allisonsmith8025 Mine too. If you don't know the quote "This is my brother, Darryll; this is my other brother, Darryll," get out of the room.

[@DMVGT]

1. If you don't know what Villa Alegre or Electric Company were, sit down. 2. If you don't know what the definition of a 'Latch Key Kid' is, sit down. 3. If your TV screen didn't turn to snow at midnight and you didn't see the fighter jet 'touch the face of God' before it doing so, sit down. 4.If your curfew wasn't when the street lights came on, sit down. 5. If you don't know what an 8-track is, sit down. 6. If you don't know what a candy lady or cookie lady is, sit down. 7. If you've never seen a JC Penny Christmas Catalog, sit down. 8. If you don't know what a Magnavox Odyssey is, sit down. 9. If you didn't have a TV with dials for UHF and VHF channels, sit down. 10. If you don't know about the Kroft Supershow, Lance Lot Link, Zoom, Captain Kangaroo, Great Space Coaster, Land of the Lost, Sigmund the Sea Monster, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl or Far off Space Nuts then sit down. 🙂

[@m_n_a_b]

Ooh! The JC Penny Christmas catalog was the BEST! I circled toys and dog eared pages for my parents for my Christmas list for Santa. Lol. And Land of the Lost was one of my favorites!

[@Galloway278]

La la la la la la la la la la la la Allegre! 😂 🎡

[@wtfreed7576]

They still do latch key kids

[@Samael1113]

I take issue with number 4. It implies we had a curfew. Other than being called in for dinner, there was no such restriction on most my neighborhood's activities, once the kids hit double digits in age. Maybe be in bed by 9 or10-ish, but it was an increasingly loose suggestion as age got higher.

[@themaggattack]

Magnavox Odyssey! That's a REAL O.G.! I didn't have anything like that, but my best friend's family had an Atari. Pong. Asteroids. Those were the days!

[@peachykeen7634]

If you don’t know what Teddy Ruxpin was - SIT DOWN.

[@Thaqueenb3221]

I still got a couple of the books.

[@steveminton8329]

That was our virtual assistant 😂

[@Nikkimommyof4]

OMG! I forgot about that stupidly expensive toy that basically nobody had. I only know one child that had one. But Cabbage patch kids were everywhere and people were obsessed with those ugly dolls.

[@atina197796]

Lol we had one and I still have nightmares of it going crazy after playing "shout at the devil" in it, it couldn't handle it and the animatronics went out.

[@Xyy2387]

Let's add My Buddy, Garbage Pail Kids, Cabbage Patch Kids, Rainbow Brite, Pogo Ball, View-Master, and Popples to the list.

[@sassy2215]

You can still remember your best friends phone number 49 years later!

[@victoriabostick2935]

@@sassy2215 isn’t that crazy and my friends parents still have that same number 🤭

[@GardenFox927]

Calling the movie theater and listening to a whole ass recording to find out a showtime. Or calling for the local Time and Temp 😂 I would call time and temp just because I was bored

[@gregorykiernan7849]

Newspapers for the showtime listings.

[@2sweet4u67]

😂, Sameee! Oh the memories!!😂

[@autobotdiva9268]

And then write the time down

[@krazyoldkatlady192]

Omg! You’re so epic for bringing that up! Not only were the movie and time listings 100 years long, but the wait to get to that point was as well!

[@cheefmynyon8348]

Thanks for resuscitating that memory! Haven't thought about calling the theatre in a looooong time....

[@kellifraser5355]

Ch-ch-ch Chia! Chia Pet. The gift that grows.

[@Wants2knowitall]

My late husband’s mother gave me one for the holidays one year. I should have known that relationship was doomed.

[@cynicalbeotch]

Don't forget sea monkeys!

[@Malini108]

still so weird

[@michellegrimm3991]

I love this so much!!!! I feel like I found my tribe!!! Also, if you never had to make or receive a collect call, head home when the street lights came on or got up at the ass crack of dawn on Saturday morning to make a bowl of cereal and plop down in front of the TV to watch cartoons, access is denied!

[@princezzpuffypants6287]

I preferred pop tarts. Milk is messy.

[@beckyweiss6072]

(I feel like a broken record I'm so sorry haha). But millenials like moi - (like, solid millenials, not Zillenials), Did the "Wake up at 6am for Saturday morning cartoons" thing. Disney had some *fantastic* ones in the 90s. I vaguely remember the Little Mermaid tv series as well as Hercules, but the Aladdin series was my jam. There was an agreement that my brother would always be able to watch Blues Clues while I was always able to watch the Aladdin series. Otherwise my brother tended to get to the couch before me so he had control of the remote. As far as the others - I probably don't qualify for the "head home when the street lights came on," because while it sometimes happened, that was because i live on a quiet cul-de-sac where are street lights right in the middle of the circle. My parents could watch out the window and see us just fine. Otherwise it was very strict supervision. Make a collect call - if you wanna stretch it I did one by proxy XDDDD. I remember doing one in a hotel once or twice with my mom's guidance. My mom grew up in Long Island, so when we went down to visit my grandparents, we often did a day trip to Manhattan. So I also remember squeezing into one of the telephone booths in NYC with my family while my mom made a call to my grandparents house to say when we were going back. My brother and I would bicker about who could put the coins into the coin slot while my mom and dad were both warning us to NOT touch the walls for any reason lmao. i never questioned it because they were so disgusting and plastered with graffiti

[@florencedenham9395]

@@princezzpuffypants6287 OMG I remember when the pop tarts started making Danish Go Rounds...the iceing was twice as thick and twice as much filling ..also reading the cereal box every morning and sometimes the cereal box even had a record on it that might play up to 4 times before it wore out.

[@Ecclectic_citcelccE]

Party Lines phones were not as much fun as they sound.

[@lisajones6107]

Coming home to watch an "After school special". 2 Mr. Bills. One on SNL and one on cartoon days to teach you about government.

[@carloslaboy7026]

If you never got excited over the prize from the cereal box, Just sit down

[@mariavenner2823]

Or cracker jack box?

[@matthewperry9243]

Or cracker jacks

[@guppy0536]

Let alone fighting who was gonna take it out of box 😅

[@Indomitable.essence]

Still do🤣🤣🤣

[@CatrinaTeverbaugh-if2zr]

Especially Cracker Jacks....😂❤

[@dayb1938]

We got cable in the house because my mom won a 1 year cable subscription in a drawing. I was so excited when MTV started. I watched the very FIRST music video MTV every played when they came on the air. It was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles 😂

[@tarajperson262]

YES! This 1981 Millennial made it! Let's not forget Thundercats, TV's that you had to polish with wood wax because it wasn't just a TV but a piece of furniture that your mother expected to pass down to you as an antique some day. Flat feet as an adult because all you wore as shoes as a kid was jelly shoes and converse. Keys to let your 9-year-old-self in the house after school as both parents work, then cooking hotdogs on the stove that you can't reach without pulling up a chair for your 5 year-old sibling that your 9-year-old self is watching. Visiting great-grandma in the nursing home, and finding her in the smoking lounge. Going into a bar with your parents and not getting kicked out because your parents were right there. Playing with the Cigarette machine pretending like it was a pin ball machine. Celebrating as three generations of women in your family all quit smoking at the same time.

[@michellemaroda7189]

They say Gen X cuts off at 1980, but I'm not so sure. There's a lot of these I remember, but you get to the Millennial nostalgia lists and I blank out.

[@joses9715]

Evil knevil 😂😂

[@BindingTheYoke]

The date for gen X cutoff has changed so many times as well as the millennial label. Now genX is 65-85 and millennial used to be XYZ collectively... people are enjoying making stuff up 😂😂😂

[@besetterobinson7468]

I had every color shoes, they sure made your fortune sweat😂😂

[@ajstacks41510]

1982 here and remember everything she's saying and some.

[@Lorelei_Thoughts]

Oh know the difference between 78, 45, & 33 rpm records & how to play them. Man I can still hear the magnetic click of the stereo case with the speakers on the side that were the same size! If you had a hi-fi you must’ve been rich! Plus if you had at least one stolen milk crate somewhere in your house.

[@snowwhite5842]

Having to dance lightly because the record would skip.

[@karlar8648]

8 track baby!

[@Chrissy521stl]

Or if you ever snuck into your stepfather's coveted 8 track collection

[@michaelgoldsmith635]

I still have like 6 stolen milk crates. I used them as a make shift shelving unit in college.

[@42ayla]

Mine are still holding my albums beside my current, sort of working record player.

[@kovert6407]

She really nailed the Challenger explosion on the dot. The teachers just turned that sucker off, wheeled the TV A/V cart out of the room with a mortified silence, and just tried to move right on into the normally scheduled curriculum. They had zero idea how/what to say or feel. Just keep 'er movin.

[@mamacypress]

Unfortunately, my third grade teacher did react. The moment when I looked to her in disbelief to find her sobbing in the dark is forever etched into my psyche

[@kovert6407]

@@mamacypressour Middle school science teacher, Ms. Habel, was a semi- finalist backup (one of 113) to Christa McAuliffe as the teacher-astronaut to go into space on the Challenger mission.. Needless to say, there were emotions.

[@KuscosPoison]

I actually missed the watch at school with that one. I was having one of my too-often Farris Bueller days and watched it at home. But had to keep my durn mouth shut about it when my mom got home from her factory job until having to act shocked/horrified at the news break on the tv once she was finally able to turn it on.

[@christiesmith978]

Swatch watch

[@twiderpated5174]

And yet somehow we all survived

[@LuvmykidsMucho]

I noticed that no one mentioned these..... Heard" do as I say, not as I do", watched... SHERA, PUNKY Brewster, STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE, The Snorkels, experienced all the below in one room, at the same time... Dinner, Grandpa in living room playing poker with buddies smoking cigars while as grandma in kitchen (living room and kitchen had no dividing walls) playing bridge (or yawtzee) with friends while also smoking while both yelling for grandkids to get papa, and friends beers and GMA and friends either ice waters or ice tea refills...or was that just me... Having a teddy rupskin and friends....with cassette tapes. Etc

[@ScottK1018]

As a Gen Xer, I concur with this list. Awesome. Do not forget Cheech and Chong movies. Using straight up oil for sun tan lotion, jumping your friends on your bike with a ramp made of cinder blocks and plywood and M80's. If they do not know what an M80 is they have to leave the room. Great Job. Keep it up. Gen Xer's rock!

[@coryw31]

"Surely you can't be serious!" "I am, and don't call me Shirley!"

[@thisisme2476]

Bad day to quit cigarettes.

[@RockPaperHammer]

Ever been in a Turkish prison Timmy?

[@Wade970]

I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.

[@Shawn3002]

You have clearance Clarence. What’s your vector Victor?

[@lookingfordrama01]

“WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT WILLIS? “ . MUST IDENTIFY.😂😂😂

[@user-bn4jk8gn1k]

willis. also: I love it when a plan comes together.

[@davidparr6567]

Sit down Mr Drummond...

[@crisl9079]

Oh, good one!

[@WildlyEclectic]

Gotta say right, though, chin down, look up "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis."

[@PhoenixRising82672]

Different Strokes Facts of Life

[@roudy4607]

If your television never signed off at midnight, please take several seats.

[@genxjack72]

Tom Vu seminar, National Anthem, then static.

[@djdean9881]

Listen to the logon for AOL internet and hearing "You've got mail"❤❤❤😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@angelsmilkyway4352]

Oh God the trauma of waiting forever for it to connect.

[@sgtkatt4041]

I remember when my mom found out you could charge the voice on there...She changed it to Kenny Chesney saying "You got love letters?" Smh

[@SimplyInterested]

Word!! I STILL use my AOL email every day! Lmao!

[@jasonheavilin9466]

Being excited to get free AOL cds

[@anniepeach2417]

Dial up in general. Lol. The computer was like “let me sing you the song of my people”. You typed in the page, then had to wait again for it to load

[@jamisonweaver3711]

Great video. Last Sunday at a wedding I told 2 co-workers that our boss looked like Boy George. (She REALLY did) They had NO FU(KING IDEA who Boy George was. 🤯 😑

[@rjones4748]

Crazy!

[@d.sepulveda7669]

WTF 😳 ❓❓ I’m appalled!! Shit! WE GEN X’er’s! LIVED!!!!!!

[@tanya_1747]

Omg...nooo! cries in Karma Chameleon 😭

[@cozettapierce8239]

I still envy how good Boy George's makeup lioked!

[@toddylu6869]

I had one ask me if Paul Newman did anything before he made spaghetti sauce.

[@Breezy-bv9te]

I have been present on ALL of the above! Born in 69' here. Anyone remember, "This is your Brain, This is Your Brain on Drugs" Commercial! or Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign. My Mom bought pantyhose in a plastic Egg. Getting Whooped in Gym Class playing Dodge Ball! In the 70's I drank juice from Wax Tubes, ate Ding Dongs wrapped in tin foil wrappers. I was a huge fan of "The Magic Garden, Romper Room, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Wonderama and the original Scooby-Doo!" I remember running home from school at 12 yrs old to watch Luke and Laura get married on General Hospital. 😁

[@peachykeen7634]

This 86’er makes that list ^ my mom bought pantyhose in the eggs and I would take them out of the trash to store treasures in them.

[@apsarasangreal84]

​@@peachykeen7634Me too! They looked like Mork's ship.

[@michelecommisso7535]

omg all of what you said!! 😂😂👍👍

[@phoenixspirit9530]

Panty hose brand was L'Eggs

[@cats333tube]

Born in ‘70 and we have an identical list. Let’s be friends!

[@lilliputlittle]

Being able to dial a phone number to listen to a recording say, "At the tone the time will be X:X" and staying on the line to listen to the temperature, forecast and school closures in cases of inclement weather.

[@trouble090794]

Playing outside till dark. They had to have heard that announcement on tv "Its now 10 o'clock, Do you know where your kids are?" Watched the begining of the internet and seeing the sh*t show it is today lol. Surviving lead paint, dangerous toys. Made a mixed tape from the radio. Gen X folks are survivors of many things that kids nowadays wont understand. Love the videos! You have a great day today and a better night tonight! ❤

[@Tanalei]

Watching the feed below the news on snow days on ABC/NBC/CBS

[@lauriepayseur5897]

And pausing and rewinding the cassette that you recorded off the radio to write down the words to the song because there was no internet

[@d.sepulveda7669]

⁠@@lauriepayseur5897YUP! 😂👍 Dam! We were Living Hard! 😹

[@j348011]

One of my best girlfriends growing up her mom used to stand at the door, ringing a bell for them to come home for dinner. 🤣🤣 we all would say on our rollerskates and our bikes, your moms calling you for dinner.

[@j348011]

@@nopenoway1519 sometimes we would even stay out until midnight and play a game called midnight with all the kids in the neighborhood in the summer.

[@kmatayka]

The smell of a strawberry shortcake doll. Or the cutest monchichi!

[@Nine28457]

Omg yes! My mom collected them for my baby sister.

[@michellea1442]

I had a Strawberry Shortcake birthday party! Such good memories ❤

[@edithhuelskamp1649]

I had a tiny Strawberry Shortcake folding table with two little plastic folding chairs. That and my Care Bears tricycle were two of my most prized possessions

[@Fuckbiden]

My sister still has hers and her Raggedy ann and andy dolls i idk if i spelled the name right

[@theampski3794]

I had a strawberry shortcake big wheel. The smell of fake strawberries still takes me back.

[@user-bh1ne9tv7s]

Or once a week you got a tv guide in the mail with listings of all the shows coming up the following week

[@emeraldjonz.]

Whoooo Hoooo Yeah!!! That was good reading!

[@williamsexton3078]

We used to look in the back of the TV guide at what was showing on HBO or CINEMAX. Write a letter to our grandmother who lived out of state with our movie requests. She would record them on VHS and ship UPS to us. We had a massive library and all our friends wanted to know what new movies we got.

[@rmcnally3645]

I had to explain this to a Gen Z the other day 😅 she looked at me like, "and what was it like going to school riding a dinosaur?"

[@user-bh1ne9tv7s]

@@rmcnally3645 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Some days that’s what it felt like

[@phlogistanjones2722]

Oh ho! Ya'll was rich!

[@Aneubis]

Don't forget "Pencil Wars" and "Hot Cinnamon Toothpicks!"

[@lelanacroft]

Boys had shop class. Girls had home-economics 😂

[@silvertarot25]

My school was progressive, they forced boys to take home ec & girls had to take shop. Ftr I'm a woman & I hated home ec, but loved shop.

[@stephy369]

​@@silvertarot25they let us choose

[@silvertarot25]

@@stephy369 I wish we could've had a choice, but in middle school it was mandatory. So 9 wks of home ec, 9 wks of shop, 9 wks of art & 9 wks of computer - in which getting to play the OG Oregon Trail was the highlight of the wk.

[@1mouseman]

I took typing, me and 20 girls😁🥳😉

[@silvertarot25]

@@1mouseman I was forced to do "keyboard skills" in middle school & sucked at it, so skipped typing in high school. I still can't type, but my kids being brought up on comps, well they can out type me any day lol.

[@butterflybaby429]

You can definitely add the fact that we had everyone’s phone memorized😂

[@j348011]

I still remember my friends, parents phone number to this day. And my mom until just recently got rid of her landline that we’ve had since I was a kid and I don’t remember her cell phone number. But I still remember the landline number. Some of my old friends were still calling my mom‘s house when they couldn’t find me.

[@rjsuper6587]

Including Jenny's!!

[@jariedwards589]

🎉🎉😂😂

[@tincan70]

@@j348011 I still remember my old phone number from 40+ years ago.

[@beachcat6745]

Little House on The Prairie, the After school specials, boom box in the back of the school bus, the metal slides at the playground, perms, Auqua Net soo many good memories!

[@ilovehmetal]

You forgot getting hit with whatever object was closest to hand 😂

[@user-nb2sq5hy5r]

This is hilarious! I remember every one of these things. Also, big teased hair, spandex pants under ripped jeans, the ugly nakedness trolls with colored hair and the cute little buttcheeks, the plastic pacifier Keychain or necklace, candy necklaces. Knowing who Mr. Rogers, Mr.T, Stevie Wonders are. The list goes on and on

[@exofunbun7785]

along with the pacifiers there was backwards jerseys, overalls with one strap undone, socks with Birkenstocks, hammer pants........

[@tthomas2923]

Grandparents and parents locking the screen door so you and your friends stayed outside to play ALL day. Catching lightening bugs, playing hind go seek, kickball or wiffle ball in the neighborhood.

[@nadjasunflower1387]

riding your bikes all over town like an underage motorcycle gang. 😎

[@michaelgoldsmith635]

And don't forget yelling "car!" when you were playing in the street, so everyone got out of the way of the oncoming traffic.

[@AfroPrincessDiaries]

This! My Mom use to do this when we lived in hot ass Georgia.😅

[@tiffanygrever8092]

I remember those days then having to ask if you could bring curtain toys out and if it was something new then no.

[@nadjasunflower1387]

@@tiffanygrever8092 ohh...also, having to change out of "school" clothes, into " play " clothes first...lol

[@setapartaay925]

Being a member of Video Warehouse, Block Buster or Hollywood videos. Man….those were the good ole days 🥹💯

[@elizabethclairewolfrosenda3391]

Don't forget Erols 😜

[@lanareed214]

I told someone I worked at a blockbuster in college and they laughed at me😢

[@setapartaay925]

@@elizabethclairewolfrosenda3391 I never heard of erols. 🫣

[@setapartaay925]

@@lanareed214 that’s was a great spot to work at!! Get first dibs on all the latest stuff 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@elizabethclairewolfrosenda3391]

@@lanareed214 yup, working at Blockbuster was suuuuuch a generational rite of passage 😆

[@todayslist37737]

If you never felt the pressure of getting the timing right after FINALLY being chosen to turn the film strip knob, sit down!