British Mum Reacts to The Dangers Gen X Faced In America!

[@L3WGReacts]

Live reacts here: twitch.tv/L3WG

[@valerieholmes9211]

@L3WGReacts love watching all mom and you can't afford to get

[@jack-of-all-trades1234]

Do you remember reacting to this one 10 months ago?😊

[@BBelle64]

Thank you for including the MOM! We love her❤️🇺🇸 Merry Christmas 🎄

[@jennybaby2010]

Southern raised American GenX here and I'm with Mum ... those were the days😂❤ we were living our best lives🎉🎉🎉 I always love when you do reactions with your Mum. Ya'll are a great team❤. Merry Christmas to ya'll🫶🎄🎅🧑‍🎄❤️

[@johntarnowski9086]

Lewis you should react to Evil Knievel with your mum

[@hawaiiangunner]

You drank from the garden hose because you weren't allowed back in the house until lunch or dinner.

[@IdahoRanchGirl]

The water tasted the best I ever tasted! So cold and yummy! Loved it.

[@LJBSullivan]

Yes, once you came in you were expected to say in.

[@LJBSullivan]

Born in 60s here, growing up in n 70s was awesome. Except we actually listened to parents and had quite a bit of freedom, no cell phones.

[@hawaiiangunner]

Gen x. The last gen to know freedom!

[@rondeal3823]

Loved that water hose after taste. Nice rubbery bouquet.

[@dianeessex300]

Another fact about genX is we were PROUD of our bumps, scrapes, and bruises. For us, it was a badge of honor coming home bloody. Parents were like, "Is the bone showing? You're alright. Go set the table".

[@kerrypierre9494]

Exactly, we were allowed to learn real world lessons on our own. The cuts,scrapes, and bruises just made us tougher.. my dad's treatment for injuries was. 'Walk it off, Don't be a sissy "😂

[@lindae9875]

my older brother fell off a roof once when he was 9, and hurt his arm. Mom advised him hot dishwater would fix that. (no idea what he was doing on the roof, and turned out he had broken it, so she had to take him to the doctor after all)

[@dianeessex300]

@lindae9875 Lmao! "Hot soapy dishwasher" was my mom's cure for EVERYTHING!!!

[@kerrypierre9494]

@@dianeessex300 🤣🤣🤣 That's wild

[@raistlarn]

@@lindae9875 Dad tried something similar when I broke my wrist, which was literally half an inch out of alignment with the rest of my arm. Mom almost killed him.

[@willgillespie7111]

As an American Gen X all kids of this era were savages. We all have stories that would make your skin crawl 😂

[@marcbennett9232]

agree! not only that, the stories our parents, aunts and uncles told made us cringe! at least thats my experience.

[@willgillespie7111]

@ True that

[@Mike3639Z]

Stories what stories we were well mannered children. Raised with respect for all an never saying or doing anything that was offensive or dangerous right😅...

[@michaelsoper3610]

. . . and, if the statute of limitations has passed, we might tell you.

[@philipsims9920]

i liked it better when nobody cared about us...

[@Shortsac72]

I'd go back to the 70's & 80's in a blink of an eye if i could. We were truly blessed

starting to think it was the height of western civilization

[@shanel2448]

Wait for me!

[@michaelchamberlain407]

Born in 69 here and did all these things and loved it! I’d go back in a heartbeat! You had true best friends back then who still today are my best friends in our mid 50’s. We not only grew up together, we lived life together and always will. We’ve lost a couple through the years to tragedies but reminisce of them often. We were and still are blessed because of the era we grew up in! We need to find Doc and Marty to take us back to 1985!!!

[@vickil3256]

Me too!

[@TheBlackAxe1]

Damn straight! I would too.

[@LoraHauschildt-d4e]

I am laughing so hard watching your reaction when Mom says YES we did that. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@michaelsoper3610]

Somewhere along the way the lesson was lost that hurting yourself is the natural incentive to correct your errors.

[@mickeycostley3288]

Painful mistakes was our greatest teacher.

[@JL-ccl2024]

I laughed so much at these two! Mum is great 😅

[@p_vic_7]

Mom would've fit in perfectly. Life was super fun.

[@jasonhawes5096]

😂😂😂

[@einarhornraiser9019]

Hell yeah! 70s born Gen Xer here! Growing up in the 80s was the best!

[@staceysarian7444]

Same here

[@babyg90660]

Same! We had a blast! We are the generation that we're literally Ford tough!

[@catherinescott8478]

Wish I could go back!!! It was the best!! Best music, best movies. Concert tickets were hella cheap.

[@jack-of-all-trades1234]

He reacted to this video already but that's alright.

[@kristinewilliams-hall3564]

Best time to be a kid! Love the videos w/mum!

[@PaNDaSNiP3R]

We’re the same generation that ate breakfast and had a milk carton on the table with a missing kids picture on it and then we were told to go outside and not come back until it got dark

[@snowdogthewolf]

Yes! After getting tired of seeing the missing kid's face, we'd move on to reading the back of the cereal box for the 3rd time.

[@petethehawk5186]

In middle school we’d ride our bikes about 5 miles to a plaza on a major highway to catch the bus to ride 30 minutes to the mall lol. We would then spend several hours there at the arcade and wandering around on about 5 bucks. No cell phones, no kid tracking lol. You’d just be gone for hours with, if they were lucky, a pay phone call at some point to mom saying all was good. When I was 16 my parents let me take an Amtrack train ALONE from Tampa to Raleigh NC to visit a friend who had moved. The dude in the dining cart served me beer😂. It was a different time and you matured way, way faster than kids today who seem to be children well into their 20s lol.

[@JoshuaStamford]

I lived one city away from Richard Ramerez, better known as the night stalker and we still weren't allowed back in the house until the streetlights came on.

[@JoshuaStamford]

@@petethehawk5186 Remember when you had to memorize everyone's phone number because you didn't have a fancy cellphone to do it for you. And I remember riding my bike to the liquor store with my dad's DL, a few bucks and a note for a sixer when I was ten.

[@JoshuaStamford]

@@snowdogthewolf My mom gaslit both me and brother into thinking the kids on the milk carton were spokes models for the milk company until we could read.

[@johnhaas9984]

Anyone else still have scars on their shins from the sharkbite sawblades also known as bike pedals?! 😂😂 Holy crap, I can still feel the those things digging into my legs to this day!! 😬😬😭😭

[@jasondemuth6659]

Badge of honor…

[@p_vic_7]

I still have them. Another thing was, a lot of my friends were hit by cars. No permanent injuries. Lol

[@tasierico364]

When your foot slipped and it tore up your shin. I remember that better than I want to. 😣

[@hisinvisibleness-fn8qj]

Yes😂

[@ravenfrost2]

Right on the back of my calf. My bike was way too big for me.

[@samwetherhold08]

9:02 I love your mom's disappointment at you not having seen The Goonies. 😂 You absolutely NEED to watch it!

[@jLutraveling]

Many Sstates have car inspections. I feel like the conditions of the cars were exaggerated

[@ScribbleScrabbless]

Seriously, you have to watch it!

[@jennybaby2010]

The Goonies is great! I still love that movie. My nieces and nephew are Millinials, my kids GenZ and they all loved that movie😂❤

[@slickstretch6391]

Bro, pause. Go watch The Goonies. It was filmed in my home state! It a favorite!

[@Mac12sworld]

He knows little about good movies! But a plus is it leave a lot of content for him to create! Its best to watch a movie with a streamer that actually didnt see the movie!

[@marygarrison9882]

In the summer you had to let the hose run for a bit before you drank out of it because the water that was sitting in the hose was scorching hot. So, if there were bugs in the hose, they got washed out before we drank out of it.

[@CJ-1776]

We reasoned that the near boiling hot water in the hose acted as a sterilizer anyway. Drink all the hose water you want. Strengthens your immunity and we become stronger as a species. 😜

[@bassnazi4713]

Lol also for the hose life, best to drain it after shutting off the spigot...geez I'm getting older

[@csurampower]

That's why you always let the dumb one in your group drink first lol. Also, you could drink (and clean off) from almost any available hose in the neighborhood. Most people didn't care as long as you turned it off.

[@phillipmanganaro-q2p]

Here in Az we had 118° to 120° heat the water hose went from hot to warm, not cool 😂

[@argonunya8751]

I'm Gen X & A water supply & treatment engineer. This is where we learned to "wait until the temperature changes".

[@bethdabruzzo7112]

I grew up in the 80s & my parents never had any idea where I was or what I was doing. It was awesome.

[@ctcanine]

Same…;the best of times

[@kerrypierre9494]

Ditto

[@snakebite6x6x6]

Same....and then when my kids were little they completely denied this fact.

[@SaroDracon]

"Be back by dusk"

[@kdogrock77]

Freeeedoooom!!!!!

[@Britcarjunkie]

Robert (Evel) Knievel, was a motorcycle daredevil, that set several distance records for motorcycle jumps, usually over objects, mainly cars or buses. Every kid in the '70's wanted to be him.

[@michaelchamberlain407]

I think almost every boy growing up had the Evel Knievel motorcycle and action figure you’d put on the launching pad, crank the handle on the side as fast as you could and let him and the motorcycle takeoff as fast as it could go hoping it would go straight enough to hit the ramp you set up. Us neighborhood kids would have jumping competitions to see who could get Knievel to jump the farthest. Each time the short jump kid was out until it was down to the last two then it was best 2 out of 3. Today it sounds so simple and boring really but we’d do it for hours just for fun! I miss those days for sure!

[@OldGeezerstoolbox]

I "met" him once when he came to the place I was working for a promo about 1985. Smaller man than he looked like on TV...and he walked like every bone in his body hurt like hell--because they probably did from being broken many times over. I suspect what I interpreted as smaller stature was probably hunching over a bit and also the result of many spine injuries and surgeries. Nice enough guy in the 15 seconds I was introduced.

[@DomDownTV]

We drank from the hose in the 90s...I'm an elder Millennial. I also miss sitting in the back of a pickup truck.

[@mitchualp]

Yes millennials grew up with genx siblings and the same parents so yes yall done some of the stuff that gen x did

[@SwarmerGaming]

Man I'm gen Z and did that. Late 90s born. If we went outside we STAYED outside. There was no going back in for a quick break for snacks or drinks. And we had to get home before food was ready to wash up or we were in trouble or didn't eat.

[@andiross3176]

@@SwarmerGamingBoomer here. We had to do the same and be home by supper time. Our parents didn’t usually see where we were so they’d whistle for us (the loud, shrill type of whistle) and I swear they all had different whistles so we knew who had to go. Those whistles seem to be a dying art these days😞

[@naomib2334]

​@@mitchualp True, I'm a Millennial

[@hanamakura]

I was doing that in the early 2000s.

[@Darryl.Smelser]

I'm only halfway through this video, but absolutely LOVING your Mom for defending what we did when we were kids back in the day!!! ❤❤❤

[@hilligus33]

The comment of dad being in the background gives me memories of some dad's even helping us build the ramp to watch their kid possibly either wipe out or get wiped out by the bike

[@briankruse199]

I had one of those dad's he was the best! I as a dad have done that for my kids

[@petethehawk5186]

You’d have dads drinking beer and smoking cigarettes at the baseball field as the kids practiced lol.

[@Sabe53]

And if you got hurt they told you to walk it off.

[@hilligus33]

@Sabe53 I heard one ask way back when...can you breath? Kid nods head. "You'll be fine." Sit up and take a couple breaths. You're good.

[@Sabe53]

@@hilligus33 My dads rule was if there ain't no bones stickin out you're ok.

[@cryptidoutlaw8707]

There will never be a generation as tuff as us gen x. There used to be a saying “ Only the Strong Survive “ I wouldn’t change the way I grew up in the mountains for nothing.

[@averteddisasterbarely2339]

Baby boomer , nobody's as tuff as us ! Gen x , hold my bandaid box !

[@goldenheartOh]

Wellll.... technically, the Silent Generation was tougher, seeing as how they were forced to kick Nazi a$$, And that was AFTER going through the Great Depression. I don't mind taking 2nd place to them!

[@dlmgrace52]

Love your mums confirming the Gen X toughness. It was great to hear her saying she did so many to those things. I’m a Boomer and my kids are Gen X and what Gen X kids did was past along to them by us Boomers. My wife and I love your videos and watch them regularly.

[@JohnMcClain-s5w]

My kids grew up in the eighties, I was glad they got some of the experiences I got from the sixties and seventies.

[@jenniferdutton2469]

True! Started with Boomers and was handed down to Gen X. My mom tossed us out of the house every Saturday morning to go play with friends. We hung out all over town with all the other kids who were doing the same. Wouldn't change a thing.

[@edwardtalerico9041]

And do forget, metal swings and monkey bar cages on the playground. No rubber padding around the playground in case someone fell, we had dirt, rocks and sometimes concrete to catch us if we fell off 😂😂😂

[@switters3]

Almost everybody you knew as a kid had a cast at some point. I saw a kid, probably 8 or 9, with with a cast last month. I couldn't help smiling so wide and gave them the nod. They hit me back with the same. Not all the youngs are soft.

[@edwardtalerico9041]

@switters3 shit, I still break myself 😂😂😂😂

[@jarack3256]

Don't forget the merry-go-round, aka the kid yeeter 3000.

[@Haladmer]

The really upscale places had that plastic grass/AstroTurf that was a paper cuts generator that somehow also gave you rug rash/carpet burns at the same time...

[@michaeldice7459]

​@@Haladmerwe only saw AstroTurf on TV

[@HeidiLamb-i1m]

The coat hanger was the replacement for the antenna on the TV because the broke very easily.

[@shirleyz7400]

Or heaven forbid the knob fell off & go misplaced & you had pliers to change the channel. 🤣

[@andyloy7809]

I make them for digital channels now. It's pretty easy just need a couple of pieces of coax and a splitter 👍🏻

[@paulw2117]

oh yeah. We had to use the hanger a few times.

[@BoogieOogieWoogie]

We had to have both the rooftop antenna and a coat hanger! And, sometimes, we even had to add a spool of wire to the coat hanger and run it up and over a decent expanse of wall, to the ceiling very crappy home decor, for sure! 🤣💦💦💦

[@answeris4217]

The adjustment dial to try to get everything clear.

[@nomadicr3n3gad36]

This type of lifestyle for kids lasted into the mid 90s. I'm a middle aged millennial and we did all of these things. There we still no cell phones or there were only car phone and only rich ppl had those. Riding bikes, jumping gaps , digging hole, making forts, climbing trees, fences, and buildings. Kids today will never know the true joys of childhood

[@jeffmellow]

The '90 might have been peak Western civilization.

[@dbsommers1]

Yes. My younger brother was that and did those things still.

[@feralon9570]

Dukes of Hazzards and Evil Kenevil are the two I remember for jumping.

[@davidcosta2244]

​@@Groovy-z3xTurbo boost FTW !

[@Guerita72]

I'm a 52yo woman and my aunt still calls me by my old childhood nickname "Duke" for Dukes of Hazzard." I still have the scar, too.

[@chynne33]

When she mentioned jumping I immediately thought of that episode of Happy Days when Fonzie jumped

[@twatts1523]

Smokey and the Bandit and Starsky and Hutch were fun, too!

[@MrKelzKelz]

I remember super Dave

[@JoJo-iq9pb]

FL, USA here… drinking from the garden hose offered three things: convenience, quench your thirst obv., and if you went inside… the rents may see you and give you a chore.

[@steamdespair9189]

FL here as well and the taste of the lead pipes were our fruity water taste. lol

[@JL-ccl2024]

Drinking from a water hose in Arizona - HOT 😂

[@TT_09]

Yes! Jersey Girl here, but be careful, let the hot summer water run for a a bit before you drink!

[@txbeachbum]

When I was growing up if you got in trouble the punishment was staying inside... Now you can't get kids to go outside for anything.

[@jacobwinkler8383]

Not true I'm a Gen z and the punishment was the same being grounded. Ground hog my is what ur talking about and the only kids that don't want to go outside all the time are teenagers and play video games all the time at least where I grew up in my experience. I would go outside and play basketball in February with snow still on the ground in shorts and a t-shirt and because all the running around I wasn't that cold. Everybody else I knew. There's not that much of a difference between generations of people think there is but you have to remember the people that grew up like this have kids and then a lot of them want to raise their kids the same way so their kids are raised the same way. Yes kids prefer to stay inside more but that's because there's more to do inside than there is outside in today's age. Fact of the matter kids were banned from doing most of the things you would do as a kid in the 80s. The government cops would frown on the same stuff so kids don't go outside they stay in they play video games they read books they chat with their friends on their phone they watch movies you know other stuff.

[@DWeezy62]

I'd damn near have a breakdown when I got in trouble, and my mom would make me sit in the house on the couch. I would be falling out, and she would yell at me to set up. I thought it was the worst punishment ever. I would have rather been spanked and allowed to go back outside. She knew that and never wavered. I became a lot better over the years at hiding my mischievous antics in order to not be vanquished to the couch.😂

[@Formerpoledancer]

My mom made me help her do housework if I was grounded. It was horrible torture but it made me smarter in how to not get caught. 😂

[@stacy_rose7820]

I remember having to sit in front of the window and watch my sister still playing with our friends in the yard 😢

[@quidproquo3933]

Good . Cause us gen x’ers are still out there .. keep the brats in the house

[@jillianharte5178]

Hahaha, thank for bringing me bk to my childhood❤ I'm top of Millenial, we drank from hoses, my brother built ramps for his BMX, sprinkles and slip & slides were a must. My mom used to write a note with her phone number for 2 packs of Marlboro 100's in soft pack. 2 packs were $5.00 back then. Over $10.00 for 1 right now. If we got hurt we would expect a chuckle from our parents and some sort of comment like, "rub some dirt in it" 😅

[@redbum321]

I really enjoyed this. As an American Gen X kid, it was nice to hear your mum did many of the same things that we in America did back in the 70's and 80's. I always wondered what kids in other countries did growing up. Great reaction.

[@jonzalezart]

I hope we can explore that more

[@shawnshawnmoviereviews]

Ya we totally did all of this. Kites with razor blades, jumping your bike over people, fire cracker and bb gun wars hunting each other like Deer Hunter, riding bikes everywhere, 5 finger discount stores, walking around with illegal liquor in McD cups, selling candy and gum at school, and other things. We also started working at 10-12 with a newspaper route, shoveling show in the winter, raking leaves, movwing lawns, etc. Now you have kids not getting to work until 18-20.

[@garyjordan3914]

If then , most just want to stay home .

[@tokemeout]

My brother and I would play bb baseball indoors,was all fun and games until we shot out the t.v..lmao we couldn’t sit for a week 😅

[@designsbyphilip510]

I used to climb up onto, jump from the roof on purpose...for fun. I would ride easily 100 miles on my bike in a day (it was easier once I got a 10 speed.) FYI, Slip N Slides were awesome, Click Clacks (or Clackers to some people) were fun until your older brother used them as bolos (trust me it hurts.) Bike ramps, bike pile ups, huge jumps (I tried to jump a car from a giant ramp, concussions mess with ya.)

[@fmfdocbotl4358]

​@@designsbyphilip510I lived about 15 miles to the beach and would skate, bike or board to the beach with a boogie board strapped to my back

[@Bill-z2z]

And walking through a department store with a lit piper cigarette in your hand

[@amycaraway4489]

I was born 1967. I took an independent road trip on my Harley Sportster from Cape Girardeau MO to Daytona Beach FL at 16. Broke down in GA in the pouring rain. Rescued by a mormon truck driver that fixed my bike, fed me and got to hang with his family. (Wish I could thank him now.) We were stupidly unafraid and unsupervised.

[@heffiagametech8094]

July. Nice to see another person from the Cape Girardeau area.

[@reneecarrick6270]

HA

[@veronicabennett2777]

Hey I’m in KC! I KNOW how long that is! What a cool experience that ride just have been! SUCKS about the rain tho! Why is it ALWAYS GEORGIA!!!

[@kdogrock77]

I'm glad ya made it, and more glad you got that experience

[@diane9247]

Yay! Sounds great to me.😂

[@medasin1]

GENX in America, here! There were so many more things we did 😆 we did car surfing, pick up surfing, cliff jumping into shady rivers, we swam in strip mines filled with water, hand ropes from tree branches and swung off to see who could get the highest. So many other crazy things.

[@truthmatters4654]

I was just telling on this feed in my comment about car surfing with my boyfriend on the roof of a Subaru with our feet hooked in the roof rack holding hands and kissing. And Cliff diving, and exploring a cave which is one of the biggest tourist attractions in upstate New York how caverns. At like 12 or 13 years old with my best friend whose parents were the managers of the place. We go down a hundred feet into the ground at night while they were asleep and get on a little boat and have an adventures down there. At 12:00 or 13. See if you can find my comment and comment on it some of your stories cuz I left a comment with some more of my stories in there you sound like you lived in a place similar to mine.

[@truthmatters4654]

Here's a messed up one for you when I was 15, somebody I'm going to assume they were boys started a rumor that a satanic group was going around looking for virgins to sacrifice. Someone had been graffitiating around the county in various places. And I believe even some dead animals were found. Every virgin girl in the county went on a quest to lose their virginity. So Satan's six would not get them and sacrifice them to Satan lol

[@valerieholmes9211]

I am 68, that is why we are tougher. Love your mom.

[@ChuckHuffmaster]

I'm 64 and yeah we were tougher and had more freedom especially in the summer months we only went in the house to eat or sleep and being stuck inside on a rainy day was so boring and bicycles were transportation and you better learn basic repairs or you were pushing your bike home and who can forget the evening news announcement " it's 10 o'clock do you know where your children are "

[@KatherineOkulewicz]

68 also (OMG how did that happen!) And agree we had to just DO it!

[@GoddessFourWinds]

GenX is between 1965 and 1980. I'm sorry. Sincerely. I was born in 1966 so I barely made the cut.

[@ChuckHuffmaster]

@GoddessFourWinds I was born in 1960 and I always considered myself a Late Boomer

[@GoddessFourWinds]

@@ChuckHuffmaster That's cute! I know I'm an older GenX but I am definitely in there. lol

[@darcyjorgensen5808]

Wait - as a child you never slept in the back of the car? No seatbelt! And everyone is the car is smoking.

[@steamro11r]

loved riding in the back window and getting the truckers to honk for u

[@bridougherty4711]

Smoking with the windows up lol

[@mikek0135]

That back shelf was COMFY! And, yes, I loved getting thrown onto the back seat, or into the footwell (just make sure to bend over the center hump!).

[@courtneypepper5798]

Sometimes ya! And you wonder why we Have asthma, or chronic ear infections!???

[@michelledaniels9887]

Chain smoking with the windows up, too. No wonder most of us smoke/smoked.

[@jimmyb.6272]

Your mom is awesome! Tell her when I was a kid, I thought Evel Knievel was the coolest guy ever.

[@Kinikia95]

He was!

[@Ruskaga]

Raise your hand if you had an Evel Knievel lunch box 🙋

[@J-Rod91]

8:55 YES LEWIS!! I have said this in the comments SEVERAL times. You need to start a movie reaction channel! Those are HUGE on here man. In fact the majority of stuff I watch on here is people reacting to movies I have seen. I have wanted to see how you react to movies too. COME ON LEWIS……… SERIOUSLY, you NEED to do that. I think with that and a new addition of full movie reactions on Patreon, your bank will start blowing up. 🤞🏻😉🤞🏻

[@argonunya8751]

We were a feral generation. Exploring the woods, bottle rocket wars, walking on railroad tracks, looking in streams / creeks, ponds for any wildlife. Out for hours on our bikes, digging for treasure in the backyard. We got ourselves into some trouble... and figured out how to get ourselves out. 😅

[@Ruskaga]

Walking across railroad trestles where you had to place your feet on the ties because there was nothing between them. And because the trestle was retired, a tie might be missing and you had to jump the gap!

[@brotherlittlefoot2216]

I say these same words to others often,w very little difference in the wording. We're all like a collective mind. Probably not one argument on any of these threads.

[@frankd1286]

Omg.... Your mother is wonderful!!! Totally relate to her and what she was saying. See where you get your great personality. Take care. Have a Merry Christmas.

[@bobkupi9905]

I think I love your mom. I was born in 1955, and grew up in the 1960's. I'm 69 and from the baby boomer generation. I can't count how many times I came home bruised, bloody, and covered in dirt. It was the best times of my life.

[@Ozarkprepper643]

Same here I'm 72. Grew up on a ranch. Broken bones and concussions was normal.

[@kdogrock77]

Amen, we were alive

[@CyndiDeimler]

I was born in 1956 and I agree!

[@kathleeningram3880]

Born in 1955,loved growing up then. Kids nowadays are over pampered and afraid of germs and getting a "booboo "😅

[@cyn37211]

I’m 72, had the bruises, broken bones, and stitches! My mother used to shudder when I skateboarded down the street.

[@FLALIFE-ji9mx]

GEN-X We didn't need our parents to explain if we're male or female. We fell down and got back up again. Didn't blame Are problems on our skin color. we accepted our flaws and approved on them. We knew Motley Crue, Poison and Aerosmith were not women. We didn't need special bathrooms. We were poor and we didn't complain.

[@michelledaniels9887]

No participation trophies! Spankings in school. We knew to mind our manners and not talk back or we're likely to lose a tooth.

[@KevinDeChane]

Your mom was sooo right about the coat hangers and the kids turning behind the TV adjusting the antenna lol the memories!

[@aewhatever]

The youngest was usually the remote control

[@cindyelam9509]

And the foil

[@KevinDeChane]

@aewhatever unfortunately I got that duty all to often. Middle child sister was always exempt dad rules.

[@Lycantis]

My dad was an engineer so while we did have to adjust it, he made this Frankentenna that could catch ANYTHING with precision for a good measurement of moving it around and it usually stayed like that for ages. I'm a Millenial but I did a lot of these in the early 90's. Great times.

[@arethatart4116]

Right Mom we called them rabbit ears😂😂😂

[@michellemcdowell8570]

As a fellow Gen X’er, I loved hearing your mom’s reaction & your reaction to her reaction

[@RoderickSquadDMcCloud]

Water to dirty to go boating?! That’s unheard of here in the USA😂 I could see a turd floating in that water laugh my ass over it and then continue on boating!🤣

[@ericbonds2302]

One thing they didn't mention about bicycles was getting dragged off when your bell bottom pants got caught in the chain and your ankle got wound around the pedal.

[@knightwolf3511]

even regular pants i would get caught in

[@debk9889]

😅 yes!

[@sw33py96]

Or your shoes strings

[@EricaGamet]

"Bell-bottom pants" being "Flared trousers" for Lewis and his mom! But, yeah, that's a memory I think I had tucked away until just now! 😂

[@leeannniemala6931]

We would put a large rubber band around our ankle to keep our pantleg away from the chain. Looked funny as hell but it saved a lot of ripped jeans and bike crashes!😊

[@jameshuey8607]

Your mom makes your videos ten times better bro. Like next level. I was born in 1975 and I remember jumping over a kiddy pool with a bike and landed it. So many great memories.

[@BoogieOogieWoogie]

Three of my girlfriends and I took an impromptu, day long canoe trip down the local slough (among many other escapades) - and, as long as you could beat your parent(s) home, you were good 😂

[@JohnMcClain-s5w]

I turned 18 in 75, joined the Marines, I'm glad you enjoyed much the same young life as I did.

[@jscottbennett458]

As for the cigarettes, remember that there were cigarette vending machines back in the late 70's and early 80's. No ID required. Shop owners had to compete so a note was not that far out of the question.

[@AceMoonshot]

I'm a boomer but yeah, vending machine right across from the high school. Who needs lunch money anyway...

[@josephhaddakin7095]

​@@AceMoonshotour HS had a smoking area for 16yo or older with "parental approval".

[@exeter1985]

Being born in the states in 1967, this video is the history of my childhood. There are some more 'interesting' things that we had and did that weren't included in this video. Did the video include the first handheld video games? The toy company 'Mattel' made some of the first handheld video games.

[@williamscoggin1509]

My dad was smart here in Texas. We had an outdoor antenna on one of these tall poles and he mounted the pole right beside the living room window. We could just open the window and use our hands to turn the pole left or right while watching the TV to get the picture clear. One person operation, no muss no fuss! 👍🏻

[@paigeballard253]

Cowboy ingenuity!

[@darrenshoults4620]

Mine too, but ours was at the back door. Wish he had thought of putting it outside the window.

[@davidcosta2244]

There were also rotators, which was a box on the inside, with a motor on the antenna.

[@joelstyer5792]

My Dad did the same thing here in Pennsylvania.

[@hellidontknow74]

Watching this on Christmas. Not with family due to illness. You two felt like family. Your Mum's a gem.

[@willielarimer7170]

Hope you're feeling better

[@BTWITCHGAMING]

His Mom is a catch!

[@AgSherr]

Dang. Feel better and take care of yourself. Happy New Year!🎉

[@ttashicatt1091]

Hope you feel better and Happy New Year!!!!!

[@ralph_clay]

This video is spot on. I'm an American Gen Xer and I broke my arm jumping my bike in street. And yes, we used to jump each other on our bicycle too. Also, skateboarding was everything. And all our pants had holes in the knees from wipping out or playing outside. BTW, your mom is cool.

[@DeadInside-ew8qb]

Yeah, broke a couple of fingers the same way

[@s.reneebornkessel3785]

Broke a collar bone jumping out of a truck…those were adventurous times, lol.

[@bencrabtree8273]

The big Christmas tree is from national lampoon's Christmas vacation movie. Watch it if you haven't seen it. I used to lay up on the back dash and watch the stars. And I still have a bb in my leg from a higher power bb gun. Couldn't trade none of it. Love it.

[@randyhanson9441]

in the animal world it is called "Culling the Herd". Only the strongest survived.

[@quinnchilds914]

"THE Slides of Hell", Sliding down metal slides that would get real hot during the summer, which majority of the time you'll have blisters even it you had pants on in stead of shorts. "The Marry Go Round aka Wheel of Death", I bunch of us hanging on a steel wheel as other's continued pushing the wheel causing it to go faster and faster and if you fell off you lose. If broke anything a few of us will get you home and run because we don't want to explain to your mother what happened, but the game continues. 😂"The Swings of Flight", Launching ourselves 10' to 20' just to see who can fly the furthest. Or doing daring flips off the swings if you were bold and skilled enough. And the list goes on of the death defying acts we children performed in the 80's for entertainment. 😂😂😂

[@MrMgentryholt]

Truth

[@quinnchilds914]

@@MrMgentryholt tell 'em

[@patmarkham519]

quinnchilds914--I was born in the50s, do did all that in the 60s & 70s! But, did not do flips off of swings!

[@spinthepickle1244]

Poured buckets of water from nearby creek down hot slides before going down. But sometimes the slide would heat back up sooner than we thought and we would get burned while our friends laughed and ran back for a new bucket of water.

[@TimmyNanCam999]

What about the see-saw/teeter tawter? We used to "cherry bump" each other, trying to get the person up in the air to fly off.

[@janetsanford6923]

Lewis's mum was correct, some of the "clackers" were made of glass, I had a set of the glass ones.

[@aaronlayes4485]

growing up back then was way way more fun you have no idea how much more social we were in those days.

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

Yo Bro, I'm Gen X (born 1968) and your mom is right. Water out of the hose is the best tasting water ever and no bugs cause the water would wash them all out!! 😎👍

[@megan5867]

Gotta wait a second though, because the first water to come out was hot as hell!

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

@@megan5867 True

[@WillardWooten]

The Xmas Tree on the station wagon is from the movie National Lampoon Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase , he took the whole tree because he forgot the saw.

[@JIMBEARRI]

Lewis, you're not thinking. The water from the hose is the same water that comes from the kitchen faucet [tap]. Even in the UK, tap water is chlorinated.

[@AC-ni4gt]

Well he isn't wrong. If you don't cover the hose up, you'd find a huge ant or a wasp in there. BLECH! I just remembered having to pull leaves out of it a few times as a kid.

[@OkiePeg411]

There's pretty nasty stuff in an outdoor hose, but we drank out of them anyway!!! I wouldn't be worried about a bug because you let the water run a bit before you drink. But there was mold, plastic giving off poisons in the hot sun and who knows what else.

[@brianb8060]

Growing up in South Florida, there was a difference. First the water was really hot, you had to let it run for a minute. Then, if you're holding the hose while you wait, you are being stung by Fire Ants.

[@patmarkham519]

​@@brianb8060-- I'm from Michigan, & in August we had to watch out for Yellow Jacket wasps. I remember washing my sister's car bare foot. Unfortunately,I stepped on one with my foot & got stung. Had to walk on the side of my foot for 5 days, cause it hurt so bad! You also, had to cover your food & drinks, so they wouldn't get into them! I'm so glad we don't have fire ants here! We do have Red Ants here,that act somewhat the same way, if you step on their nest.( But they aren't half as aggressive, thank goodness!)

[@katepavelle9465]

Just let the water run a bit to get rid of the rubber smell and you’re good.

[@TrentCunningham-t8f]

Born 1970 and when I was 10 years old my Dad brought home a 1966 Olsmobile Delta 88. Just about every night I would drive that car up to Woodys convenient store to get cigarettes and Dr.Peppers for my parents... Our childhood was awesome....

[@kathyrichards3058]

Holy crap, we had that car, I called it a Tuna Boat, it was huge and the ugliest, not even a color, combo of silver and gold, maybe bronze mixed it, with an 8 track player.

[@TrentCunningham-t8f]

@kathyrichards3058 ours was a white 4 door with blue interior. It had a Rocket 455 in it and showed 140 mph on the speedometer. I grew up in a small farm town in Northeast Texas. At 10 years old whenever I passed our town Police Officer in that car he would just smile and wave at me but when he passed me on my go-kart he would hit the lights and I'd run from him and make him chase me all over town....

[@kathyrichards3058]

@@TrentCunningham-t8f How ironic, we were in the Pan Handle, Amarillo to be exact. I couldn't wait to graduate, getting out of there, finally going away to college. Our Tuna Boat had a white top with that hideous color, maybe it faded over the years but it was still an ugly color. I'm pretty sure ours was a V8 350, was your Dad into modifications on car performances. Wish mine was, but then again, it was a gas gusalure. They kept that car until my Dad died. I didn't want it, yikes! Are you still living in Texas?

[@Michelle-j4k]

I do notice back in my school days someone in class always had a broken arm or leg all the time from playing. I never see young kids with broken bones anymore!

[@naomib2334]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@megan5867]

Dang, you're right. We always had one kid in summer that couldn't swim because they'd broken something. My kids have never broken anything.

[@juliearmfield2634]

You don't see kids with broken bones because they are on their computers and play stations. Lol

[@MrScottsearles]

Because kids don't play outside anymore. I was outside more than inside as a kid.

[@misfitwitch]

I'm an American Gen X'er..and I have done all these things in the video... even riding in the back of a truck without the camper shell...We'd fight over who got to sit on the wheel wells... Usually the older kids go those prized seats and the little kids had to sit on the truck bed... but when dad braked a little too hard, those on the wheel wells would slide off and we'd be laughing sooooooo hard.... PS I love your mom.... She's so funny.. I love your videos with her.

[@almaofearthia6785]

Your mom was great! You should definitely have her on your channel again! In this video she was your expert with lived experience and available for some interesting instant fact checking! LOL!

[@sdev2749]

Australia was just like America - we did all of this and it was VERY normal to us. I was a kid in the 70's and a teen in the early 80's, and it was exactly the same, if not even more extreme.

[@Pops-km8xt]

This is because, in my opinion, most of us had grandparents whom fought in WW2. Passing on self reliance to us. Making what they needed. Encouraging us to take a bite out of life and let the juices run down our chin. And most importantly to think for ourselves and not take shit from anyone.

[@farscapefreak8911]

I’m a kid of the 90s and live in a small town in Alaska and we played all the time outside during the summer rain or sun. Riding around the neighborhood and going out into the forest that surrounded my house with my friends and cousins all day long. We sadly couldn’t do this during the fall and winter because it would be cold and rainy. In the summer my aunt would feed us breakfast and have us do our chores, and then would lock us out of the house with a packed lunch and tell us to come back in the evening. If we had to use the bathroom she told us to use the woods. If we got hurt she left a first aid kit for us to use in the garage.

[@Ana-db4km]

That's another level of tough, didn't have to worry too much about crazy people, but,,,, What about the wild life?

[@farscapefreak8911]

⁠@@Ana-db4km Mostly just had to deal with bugs like mosquitoes and spiders and thank fully we don’t have poisonous spiders black widows or brown recluse. The only thing to really worry about was black bears. My neighborhood was built on a old bear trail that is used all the time for the bears to reach the beach and all the berry patches. We have blueberries bushes all behind my house and bears will come and gorge themselves in the afternoon and then take a nap. When I was a kid there use to hold a yearly seminar on bear safety for the kids and pass out a bear bell to each child, and if parents noticed a bear around they would make a call on the telephone tree to warn the other parents. Then we were told to stick to the roads and stay out of the forest. That was about all they did about it not really forbidding us from playing. During my sister’s 10th birthday a bear walked across my front yard right between 10-15 screaming little girls to get to the neighbor’s berry bushes completely ignoring them. My mom watched the whole thing without batting an eye or raising the alarm and this was around 2009. My gen was the last big group of kids in my neighborhood until about 5 years ago, but things are pretty much the same kids playing from dawn until dusk in the street and forest. Thankfully my neighborhood is in a pretty great part of town with no crimes or violence, and all our neighbors know each other and stay in contact through a group messages letting each other know about weird cars, if someone shady is hanging around, or if the local Yogi is out and about.

[@hunterkyles3373]

I'm from NZ. I used to go and get cigarettes for mum while she was at home. I'm 50yr old now and I still remember asking for John Brandon 40 mild. Lol ❤️

[@charlesmorrisett4696]

The look on your Mom's face when you said she's a Gen X'er and she tells you to choose your next words carefully lol 😅🤣 I love your videos brother and I love your Mom, she's awesome and beautiful 😍🌹😁🫣😎

[@charlesmorrisett4696]

And out of respect for her, I won't ask how old she is........but I'm almost 45 so I probably grew up in the same era as her.......but I'm in Tipton Indiana in the USA 😎🇺🇲

[@aaronlayes4485]

I did kite fighting with a custom nylon kite my step grandfather made, it had so much lift that he often had to hold me down twin lines and that thing could do some mad tricks and stunts and I got pretty good at absolutely wrecking newb kites that wanted a crack at me. He made a kite of his own that was so powerful it would reach speeds over 70 mph during some tricks, his son my uncle in law actually broke his arm when it took him into the air and he came back down. kite fighting was awesome and that actually lead people to think about kite surfing it is what brought it about someone thought of a powerful kite and a skateboard then a surfboard.

[@debk9889]

Good memories. I tried the bike ramp and forgot to pull up, ended up flipping over. Oww, but held it in. Rode bike everywhere! Over bridge to the other side of town, brakes went out, crashed. Got up and rode on. No helmet. Hitchhiked with 3 friends, frequently, always got a ride. Played on the train tracks until train arrived. Jumped to edge, feeling the wind of the train going by! No car, walked to get groceries, frequently. Mom smoked, note for smokes. Bullying was normal. Fights happened, yes, with little fists flying 😅. Loved riding in the back of the PU truck. Played tag, hide n seek, kick the can until the street lights went on. Begged to stay out a little longer. Sledding/ice skating every day possible in winter on the local pond, no parents! Best times ever! 😂

[@karinadelacruzvelderrain4256]

I'm a millennial and I did play outside all day as a kid, no sunblock either. Drank from the hose, played hop scotch, played kickball, learned to ride my bike but didn't go far just our apartments, basketball, played on the monkey bars, I went on field trips with the recreation center, put on talent shows for them. We walked everywhere when we went to places or took a bus and it was really hot here in Arizona. Never had to climb a roof or did any tricks on bikes because I wasn't that dumb. We played outside at night too, my sisters would sneak out a lot. My dad did have a boat when I was little and we would go to the lake.

[@johnsmith2046]

It is nice to see this video! I am 51 (born in 1973) and we had so much fun growing up in the 1980's. Cheers from the state of Ohio, USA! :)

[@mickeycostley3288]

Born in '73 too. It was a blast!

[@michelledaniels9887]

78 here raised in Ohio. We're the last great generation. Know what it's like with and without social media. I long for the old days often. People are nuts now.

[@johnsmith2046]

@@michelledaniels9887 , me too. And I agree. I'd give anything to go back.

[@kathyrichards3058]

@25:00 Brooklyn,NY ~ Summer at night, with those metal bike pedals, we would get as much speed, tilt the bike to make contact with the pedal, to see who could cause the biggest sparks, from the friction. Then put your barefoot back on the hot pedal. Those click clacks, were originally glass balls on strings, what could go wrong? LOL…The object, get the rhythm below, getting speed and balls higher each time, then a quick hand drop to get them clicking on the top, then down, etc really fast. Of course glass would chip off, into someone’s eye, or the ball would crash on your wrist/arm, fracturing the bone. Then they changed the balls to plastic, wasn’t the coolest sound anymore.

[@tomjeff2713]

and stand up putting your left foot on the right pedal so you can jump off fast if you were heading down a hill too fast

[@chuiduma]

As a xennial this is also relatable to me. So many gen x stereotypes continued into the early millenial years. It's crazy how different I grew up compared to younger millenials. The difference is only a few years, but it's also _massive._

[@GoddessFourWinds]

Same between Boomers and GenXers. I was born in 1966 and the cut-off is 1965...yet my mom and I (who are very close) are so very different.

[@devilfrawg4953]

Ditto. Xennials are day-walkers. We had the best of both worlds, able to move freely between both and still blend in.

[@peggykunkel9180]

Really enjoyed this video and your mom sharing her experiences as a young person. It was great to hear that her experiences were very much the same as we had in America.

[@samwetherhold08]

18:24 😂 my car is held together by HOPE. The poor thing is a decrepit jalopy, but it starts and goes, until stalling again. Aye tho, we make it places.

[@JoseyWales-hk1lc]

Back in 70s we actually played war with BB guns and Sling shots!

[@feralon9570]

For my daughters 21st birthday last year, we bought a 100 ft slip n slide and my gen x ass went down it a few times.

[@debk9889]

😂 Nice!

[@justaride1366]

I love it! 🤣🤣🤣

[@pletch73]

My grandma used to send me up to convince store with an empty back of cigarettes, a note from her and the money to get it. I could get 1 candy bar for doing it... I was 7.

[@mn240s14]

As an older millenial who grew up mostly gen x, this brings back memories! We need to bring the old ways back. I learned, sometimes the hard way, so much. The "Mom, I'm bored" followed by the "go back outside and figure it out" is the best lesson kids need to learn.

[@DanaTheInsane]

If I went outside the other kids would beat me to death if they caught me. I stayed in.

[@whitechris720]

No seat belts. We did a 14-hour drive with no floorboard and no seat belts. We could and did watch the road pass under our feet.

[@ronniecole6054]

I heard your mum call the bike a chopper. i remember hearing them called banana seat bikes or Schwinn. I personally just called them all bikes. i was born in 77. I'm really glad I got to grow up when I did. And love the channel. Omg, I keep editing this comment. lol Mo Mom sent me to the stored with a note to buy cigarettes for her when i was a kid. lmao

[@Garland-y6y]

I'm an American from Tennessee and I love your reactions and I must say, your mom is awesome and since I am gen X I have to say that this video is a gem

[@JS-vi6ir]

Always great to have another video with your mom! Keep 'em comng. Also, I'd love to see one where she tells her favorite stories of you as a kid! 😀

[@KaloaWarren]

Born in the 60s grew up in the 70s. Great times.

[@BarbaraLaurion]

This was HILARIOUS!! Your Mom is great. Lewis, I am your birthday buddy only I grew up in the 60's and 70's. This was so relatable. Another thing we did in the summer was go barefoot. By Summer's end, the bottoms of your feet were like leather. LOL

[@butterfrogfarm]

Now that I still do, I cant stand shoes today. maybe thats why LOL

[@clarisamagdaleno8548]

I used to do that too, until I was running and stepped on a board with a nail on it.

[@justaride1366]

@@clarisamagdaleno8548 I did that when I was 4 or 5. Got my first tetanus shot, and a sucker to stop my crying. I kept on running barefoot. I also stepped on a bee...which was pleasant. I felt that one even through my callused feet. I kept running barefoot until I left the country for the city as a young adult. Now I live where it is too cold to go barefoot. 😐

[@donaldhead3703]

grew up in Geogia... during the summer the asphalt got sticky from the heat. i would walk barefoot on the road and had no problems with it

[@cindyelam9509]

We even got to go barefoot at school with a note from our Moms..I always had a stumped big toe😅

[@Wildflowers516]

Love you mum ❤❤❤ My brothers were always up on the roof !!!

[@deborahsmith1804]

I remember sliding down steep cement stairs on card board boxes

[@I321Oo]

We took plastic sleds down carpeted stairs, and couch cushions down the stairs, the most rapid startling ride was taking a plastic sled down a tall metal slide, I'm not sure if it was icy from winter but it went so fast it was a feeling of shock after Lol

[@debk9889]

​@I321Oo That's crazy, the sled on the metal slide. How many times did you go over the edge? 😂 I used to slide down carpeted stairs backwards with my silver snowmobile suit on. Otherwise your legs would stop you going forward! 😅

[@kathyhayevsky4703]

A slippery sleeping bag works well too!

[@Bablezmith]

We did the slip n slide in the middle of our apartment complex. we extended it with trash bags and duct tape. :)

[@avisser5345]

Great video. Glad to see lawn darts were included. Those things were huge, heavy and metal. It was insanity that our parents let us play with them but it really was a different time than now. I feel sorry for kids nowadays that have no clue what they're missing out on. Playing kick the can at night with a bunch of friends, feeling like you owned the night, was magical. Jumping off the roof while holding an umbrella or garbage bag, thinking you would float down. Playing king of the mountain.

[@brianrounding4283]

King of the Mountain is my JAM !,, that was Darwin speaking out.

[@darrenmaguire6298]

I absolutely love your mother. Watching your reaction and her reaction and the common ground of her growing up during my generation and yes I am. Gen X was so fantastic to see that it brought tears to my eyes because the great memories. Just the conversation between you and your mother is priceless. My mother has been gone for four years now and just seeing this laughter and communication and fun between your mother and you brings me happiness. Tried to take every opportunity to appreciate the time you spend with the people you trust and love. From Wisconsin America, I wish you and your family a merry Christmas and happy New Year’s.

[@TruthLies68]

Gen X here...born in late 60s..LOVE your MOM!!! The Goonies was filmed just up the road from me. It's so interesting that it really was Global Gen X lol

[@LillyofSooth]

As a child growing up in the late 1950's and 1960's, our parents really didn't supervise us, especially when we were outside. Would ask if I could go visit my friends that lived down the street, and mom would say, "Sure, just be back before dinner time!" Same was true for my friends...for hours we would be finding all sorts of exciting things to do...sometimes coming home scarped up and bleeding...Mom would wash the wound off and put on a bandaide...and say, "Be more careful!" I don't think any of us in my group of friends ever ended up with broken bones...However, cuts, bruises, lots of scrapes were common...along with rashes from the stinging nettle that grew in the ditches.. My favorite place to walk was in the field of mustard plants that grew over five to six feet high...we would make paths and mazes and play hid and seek...Ah, hid and seek played at night in the dark in our backyard...and of course we would put on dark clothing so to make the finding more difficult. That game ended for me when one evening upon coming back inside I found a black widow spider crawling on the front of my shirt...AAAAACCCK! Yikes! Close one!

[@Sobergirl_]

11:32 EXACTLY! My dad would say, “If you don’t break their nose, I’ll break yours.” My dad didn’t want me to ever take crap from anyone.

[@ripperwrestling6587]

TRUTH!

[@BoogieOogieWoogie]

My mom always just told me to suck it up; that dealing with bullies was simply a part of life that you needed to learn to navigate. There were no suggestions on how to go about that, though 😆

[@shellyann8818]

​@BoogieOogieWoogie Right! And we 💯 DID navigate through it! There was none of this coddling and babying. And I couldn't be more thankful for that. Made us stronger & more independent 💪 🙌 ❤

[@dbsommers1]

Mine was more realistic. "Losing is fine, as long as you make him pay for it. Eventually he'll learn even when he wins, he loses."

[@Cookie217]

Lol, at 17:56 was from a movie “National Lampoon Christmas Vacation “. Funny movie 😂

[@Denisehoma1111]

I was searching comments to see if anyone else commented this 😂😂

[@Cookie217]

@Denisehoma1111 its a favorite movie. I live for the squirrel 🤣🤣

[@BoogieOogieWoogie]

Now, that was a great movie (although, if I were to watch it again, I'm not so sure it would meet the expectations of my memories)! 😉

[@BoogieOogieWoogie]

​@@Cookie217 Your squirrel comment reminded me of another classic of the era- Caddyshack (I loved the dancing gopher- danced just like my step dad🫣😄).

[@Cookie217]

@ I can hear the song “ I’m alright”

[@meganleffingwell3437]

Lewis and Mum , I worked on a Christmas tree farm in Michigan for the last 6 years and you'd be shocked at how many people bought huge trees and asked us to tie them on top of normal sized cars or jeeps! 😂 There are families who drive several hours to pick their tree from us and they would have to drive that same distance with the tree on top and make sure it doesn't fly off! For example a family bought a 15 foot tall tree and tied it on a Cadillac and they came all the way from Arkansas, and someone else tied a 10 foot tree on their Honda Civic 😂

[@defendsorfortis2002]

Back then..cars were built out of steel and huge!! If you got into a car accident in a 78 bonniville vs a '23(anycar) who would win?..also a family affair to move the massive front seat back and forth...good times.

[@kurlee2460]

Ahh those were the best days.. and the Havoc we caused and hearing.. “I know who your Dad is” Lol and being scared to go home, only to realize that they had not talked to your Dad yet. Then 2 days later getting busted 🤣🤣

[@Hrhdgf]

"Rocky Road", I love the Goonies!!

[@AC-ni4gt]

"Slick shoes!" "Slick shoes?" "You are my greatest invention ever."

[@raileryc]

“Hey You Guys!”

[@raileryc]

"La mota vienen en primer cajona. La coca y la rapidez vienen en segundo. La heroina en el debajo. Siempre hay que separa las drogas!" - Mouth

[@unclepitch]

Do the truffle shuffle!! Come onnnnn.. DO IT! come onnn... DO IT!

[@DomDownTV]

The "banged up car" depends on where you live. Most places I've lived require annual inspections or you can get stopped by the police if your car is in bad shape...but in Michigan I saw some cars rusted out and without doors...crazy. The laws are different by state.

[@JudyHart1]

Urban areas have inspections, rural areas not so much.

[@megan5867]

I live in Kansas, and there are no inspections for your cars, ever.

[@Guerita72]

I live in Texas and we've had inspections ever since I can remember. I think I we might've just passed a law saying they're not required, though.

[@learea239]

​@@megan5867 Really? What part of Kansas are you in because here in KC we definitely have to pass inspections in order to renew our tags.

[@megan5867]

@@learea239 well here in Wichita we don't. Are you on the Kansas side of KC or the MO side? Or are you in like Johnson County?

[@jefferybates6193]

So glad I ran across this channel. Had to subscribe. Keeps me laughing from beginning to end. I was born in the early 70s in America. And I remember and relate to everything in this video. Good times. Keep up the good work on the channel. I really enjoyed this.Thanks fron America

[@rock-t3d2k]

At Christmas, the cigarette cartons were decorated with ribbon printing and a little tag with Happy Holidays. Nobody in my immediate family smoked but a couple of cousins (adults) did and getting a carton of cigarettes was a real gift. Cigs were 30 cents a pack and a carton (20 packs) was really expensive - if I remember right, it cost $6. I can't even imagine how expensive a package of cigarettes are now, they are super taxed. (a "sin" tax).

[@nabcunion]

It's ten bucks. Per pack now.

[@MrScottsearles]

It's like $80.00 or more for a carton of Marlboros. I roll my own now, it's cheaper.

[@pnuhn1]

Yep. Dangerous times. My older brother had an arrow shot through his leg by accident. I missed the dart board and sent darts into my sisters back. Ouch! We played tackle football on pavement .. that hurt the most.

[@Nimbus1701]

Love mom. Could see her smile and all those memories come rushing back. I'm GenX (born in 73) and grew up back then. It was the best time to grow up. We never went in the house because we were afraid we'd have to stay in and do chores. In my neighborhood, we rarely even went in to eat because there were apple and pear trees in the neighborhood. As guys, we'd just stay outside and pee outside.... whatever. We left the garage open so we could grab something or some tool we needed without having to go in the house. Rule was to always put the tool back exactly where you got it, because dad was not happy when he went looking for a wrench, tape measure, hammer, or screw driver and it wasn't there. Just the best time to grow up and give almost anything to go back to those times. Having to fight over the Atari because we only had 1 controller. It was great.

[@mickeycostley3288]

Born in '73 too. Man! What a life!

[@mrssaunders2]

Aww man! Atari! The life😊