Generation X: Traits That Define Us And Let You Know Just How Cool We Are!

Heck Yeah! The best generation to grow up in, amI right?
Is that you too? Are you Generation X? I want to hear from my GenXers Loud and Proud, baby!
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[@jamesmasters3316]

That's a hard sale nowadays. You got courage to put that out their during an exodus.

[@cden409]

Not a chance

[@davidcarper5411]

Are u serious ??

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

Bakersfield = Alaska of the US

[@paulettelamontagne6992]

lol who in the heck would ever want to live in Bakersfield

[@bbautista061979]

Living in a world without cell phones and internet was beautiful

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Oh man! You are not joking! I miss it so much!

[@troyauretta434]

Remember saying I'll see you on Friday at 8. Then the person would be there Friday at 8. With zero call in between. Ahh I miss that

[@childrenoftolkien]

Imagine trying to go to a house party with all the phones nowadays. No thanks.

[@LeftHandedRightHanded]

And now you're addicted just as much as kids are. So shut up

[@AS-rr9km]

@@childrenoftolkienait no! They are still fun! Millennials still put their phones down at parties 😂🖐️

[@mandytreutens9099]

Proudly Gen X.... our life code was: Seen not heard, think for yourself, don't ask questions, solve your own problems and most of all cover your arse!

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Mic drop. 🎤

[@mlblja]

💯

[@maggienbob1304]

The generation before the baby boomers 1925-1945(?) was called the "Silent Generation" because that was the saying for children then.. that children should be seen and not heard". ...sad really. I suppose that's why we (or at least I) were treated the way we were. Because that's how they were treated.

[@mixedmediaartgirl300]

and "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me"

[@mixedmediaartgirl300]

​@@maggienbob1304100%

[@kenjones8083]

I was the last of the boomers. I can read a map, a compass, do math without a calculator, read a clock, I am a US Vet, and I can have a conversation without screaming and crying

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Roger that! 🇺🇸🎯👊🏼

[@Karma-qt4ji]

Apart from the US veteran part (mainly due to age and not living in the US), my kids (early to mid 20's) can do all of those things. They had a better life in the noughties than I did in the 80's. We are too quick to judge a billion plus individuals on our perception of some of their peers.

[@judywein3282]

And we can write in cursuve, too!

[@Karma-qt4ji]

@@judywein3282 But can you spell? *cursive

[@judywein3282]

@Karma-qt4ji yes, I can. But my autocorrect can't. 😊

[@heatherroy4219]

The only advice I got from my dad was... do whatever you want to do , just don't get into any trouble.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

😂

[@Ok_Loren]

My Southern mom when I was 6: You better not start any fights like you do here at home. But if somebody starts one with you, make sure you whoop their ass like I do yours. 😂

[@Yo-Yo888AA]

And don't let your younger siblings get hurt or in trouble.

[@curly874]

My dad's only teen age advice...... keep it in your pants

[@jasonmoquin]

....and if you DO get into anything that would get you into trouble, don't get caught.

[@Darkangl28]

We were the last generation to experience true freedom.

[@charlottebowes7666]

The first…not the last 😎

[@desertrat7634]

I was free range before free range was a thing

[@mg8642]

Nope, that's generation Y. Just after you and before Millennials

[@divinaluz7]

​@@mg8642Gen Y *are* the Millennials 😂

[@freedomkw99]

We were last polite and respectful generation

[@kandihoarding7395]

We memorized phone numbers. We had records, cassette tapes and cds. Our playground equipment was set over hot black asphalt. We didn't have bottled water, we drank from the garden hose. We had to use pay phones and it cost a dime to make a call. Our book covers were brown paper grocery sacks that we cut and taped over our books. I love being Gen X.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

I loved making the book covers!! Yes! Me too.

[@elizabethjohnston3549]

I still remember my neighbours phone number from the 70s this was a number to call in a emergency

[@tinarussell6656]

Yeeeesssssssssssssssss. Life was wonderful ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@jimgardner5129]

Any chance in the winter you'd put bread bags on your feet before you put on your shoes, so as to keep your feet dry?

[@landychapman3]

Remember Rand McNally maps? Rotary dial and pay phones?

[@evangelist6277]

Free range, pretty much describes it. The late 70's and 80's were awesome. If you needed money you got a paper run or mowed the neighbours lawns. If you wanted to go somewhere you walked or rode ya bike. Christmas was better because everyone went out to the store gift shopping, lots of people and the stores really made it feel festive. Damn they were good days.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

💯💯

[@Karen-jv5uo]

We got money from glass root beer bottles and recycled cans. At 8, I would buy nearly dead plants at Kmart and brought them back to life and sold them for skate rink money.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

😂@@Karen-jv5uo

[@Karen-jv5uo]

@@LivingInBakersfieldCa 😂 And...we would be sent to lil general on banana seat bike and buy a six pack of miller ponies and a carton of cigs for dad...put goods in basket and ride back to the house two miles and deliver to him untouched. Hey, he didn't get DUI s. 😂🤣

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

LOL! Buying cigarettes for the adults...what is up with that?! We all did it too! @@Karen-jv5uo

[@davidmcneill341]

Rode my bike to school by myself in 1st grade at age 6. On the other side of the freeway. Taught myself to ride a bike alone in front of the house at age 4. Half of our lives without the internet and half with. Our generation is unique.

[@ShaunHensley]

yup walked or rode my bike or took the bus, all my choice by the day, starting in Kindergarten. Went back to my childhood home and drove to my school.... almost 2 miles

[@natashabetts7509]

We are very unique .

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

100% Very GenX to be riding bikes everywhere and alone!

[@dougied3449]

walked to school every day after first day of kindergarten. it was only across town. we lived in fardition on outskirts. 8 blocks to railroad tracks, follow them south quarter mile, turn west on main road, 12 blocks to post office where my dad worked, them 3 more blocks to my school. that was the shortest route to take. still remember after all these years.

[@rexgrl3]

We didn't have social media, we had diaries that locked. We learned to SUCK IT UP early in our life.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

so.many.diaries.!! Good Lawd!

[@Breezy-bv9te]

I pretty much got "Walk it Off or Get Over It". The Diary lock never worked. My mother would pick the lock. 😒

[@bboone7847]

Even though we had diaries that locked didn't mean they were private 😡😥 that's when some of us learnt to trust no one, not even your own mother...

[@jj-vu5ov]

ah yes the ol whine about what other generations have as a comparison about how your generation has allegedly learned how to "SUCK IT UP" unlike any other. the irony.

[@jamesw1659]

Imagine trying to explain this concept to today’s professional victims…

[@tjdogsrule7277]

I remember my mother calling me from work and giving me dinner instructions over the phone, and standing on a chair to cook and wash the dishes.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Omg! Yyeess!!

[@rebeccaanderson4445]

Thats awesome 😂

[@tswain92_]

Wow... I forgot about the chair.

[@ladydeerheart1]

Me too! I definately remember, very well, standing on the chair to wash dishes. We got "spanked" if we splashed water or didn't get the dishes clean too.

[@darrickwhite1986]

Same!!!

[@rare6319]

You just can't compare how much life was better in the 80s than it is today

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Not comparing, just stating ‘facts about GenX.’

[@JayEm6885]

The 80's??? No - the SEVENTIES, which is the crux of Gen-X-ers! 👍

[@faithfullove5496]

We truly are the BEST generation.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

🎯

[@mawsafgjp4619]

Narator: Gen X answer these questions. Gen X: That is classified.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

😂😂😂😂👊🏼

[@monty2005]

😂😂😂 so true

[@dalerushton1394]

No comment.

[@winteronice]

See? Told you so.

[@rh1507]

He needs to do a séance and ask the soul of Kurt Cobain for the answers.

[@MG-iw8xc]

And every Gen X kid could repair/replace every part on their bicycle. It was our main mode of transportation, besides walking everywhere of course.

[@cainsolo1]

Gimme a good 'ol fashion BANANA SEAT any day!!!🖖🖖🖖

[@PhotonTheta]

Roller skates!

[@MG-iw8xc]

@@PhotonTheta Yes! We cannot forget the awesome roller skates.

[@BarefootPeasant]

Swing bike!

[@ant1999]

Gen X kids understand repercussions.... and responsibility for their actions.

[@OldschoolRed]

Love these questions. Really shows the difference on how soft these young kids are.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

😂

[@justme1269]

Cotton soft

[@jonm57]

Really good questions

[@cpapcyborg]

LOL These kids need a padded straightjacket to feel safe

[@danawagner5301]

We had self worth from being able to fry an egg at 5. We talked about our day instead of silly feelings. We watched our younger siblings to protect them at 9, and we all survived. If someone bullied us or our siblings we punched them in the mouth, and made them stop. We didn't hang or shoot ourselves because bullies were mean. We got meaner! And again,we survived!!!

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

💯

[@jonm57]

Correct. Punching was allowed for self defense.

[@tinarussell6656]

One TV that had three channels and a few sub-channels. On Saturday when the cartoons went off at noon, westerns came on and it was time to go outside and play. Best life ever ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@keeganpony]

Yessss!!!

[@pinkworld9384]

Love Family Film Festival And Elvira!💛

[@PhotonTheta]

When college basketball came on after cartoons, it was time to hit the streets

[@PatrickMcclellan-lh2yt]

I looked forward to Saturday. Bill dance and Jimmy Houston. Riding your bike to the Robinsons farm to go fish. Gosh darnet it was great.

[@christyethomas4575]

Yesssss

[@amshyllsekhmet6631]

"walk it off, you'll be alright" lives rent free on my brain lol

[@mayhemjr.803]

" rub some dirt on it!" Remember that?😂

[@Andrea-wc6mq]

I still use that phrase " rub some dirt on it, you'll be alright. With the grandkids 😅

[@PhotonTheta]

Blow on it, you'll be fine 😂

[@markhall7294]

"its a long way from your heart"

[@ricksylva8834]

I still use all those with my grandkids...and my kids have heard them a zillion times.

[@jimgardner5129]

This was great! Tied my sneakers. No velcro!! :) Speaking of footwear, winter = bread bags inside your shoes to keep your feet dry.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

😂 Love it!

[@trustno1903]

Latchkey kid. Myself and my 2 older siblings were assigned rotating chores while mom was at work 2nd shift, including 2 hr shifts of watching little brother. Mom was gone when we got home from school. We cleaned, cooked, grocery shopped and ran the household. We were required to grow up fast, be independent and problem solve. We were survivors. We still are.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Roger that!

[@dianeteppert8534]

If you weren't strong enough you didn't survive. Also every adult watched out for you instead of just your parents.

[@drewt1081]

and every adult could, and would whoop our asses

[@christinaflanagan7048]

yep, if you were dumb enough to get caught you would not only get spanked and/or yelled at by someone in your neighborhood but then you would get it again when you got home. And yes I said spanked

[@hellzellz1022]

@@drewt1081is this just an American thing? Hitting random children… I know the families would have a very violent response to hitting one of their children in my country 😆

[@donnaknudson7296]

​@@hellzellz1022This wasn't everyone. This didn't happen in my neighborhood.

[@natashabetts7509]

so true

[@violetenergy4392]

Feelings??? 😂😂😂😅😅😅 We were too busy being resouceful to get sh$t done to get what we wanted cause asking our parents was a no no! 😂😂😅😅

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Yup! we were to be seen and not heard.

[@camiblutube7116]

Exactly!!!❤

[@nicoledeloncrais5940]

Hell yes 🎉

[@fuzzblightyear145]

hell,we were out of the house most of the time up in a tree or out on the bikes

[@Tarlkov]

1st job was at 13 years old. wanted to buy the Haro Master freestyle BMX frame. You think my parents were buying a $300 frame for me? LMFAO

[@Jeremy-ns7xr]

These were spot on

[@JS-oy6nn]

I walked to school at 7 alone in Brooksville, Florida. I’m an only child so I’ve pretty much been self reliant since 7. And during the summer I would get up eat grab my fishing rods and tackle box get on my bike and would be back at dark.

[@jamesw1659]

Good days, huh?

[@digitaldew]

We're the best Generation born in 66🤟, the best life growing up. It's easier to ask for forgiveness rather than permission.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Preeaacch!!!

[@dalerushton1394]

'69, absolutely loved being a boy in 1970's and a teenager in the 1980's.

[@tonybony5805]

You know something we will be the last to remember watching the moon landings on tv.

[@benneal9309]

​@@tonybony5805 yea that's shit was real, todays astronauts have lost the technology though right😂😂

[@benneal9309]

@@rollingwiththepunches1988 I'm a gen x 75, most ppl my age still believe we went to the moon, and I have found most gen xers trust the televisions science implicitly 🤣 as for the younger generation, speak for yourselves, of all my kids my youngest is the only 1 that acts like a gen x,, as a 14yr old she had enough brains to tell the world to get fucked, and not take part in an experimental gene therapy. As far as Im concerned gen xers just a bunch of weak willed pussies to afraid to say no, our combined actions over the last 4 years in the face of certain worldwide tyranny is a joke we just continue to keep our garden looking good, and continue on like nothing ever happened, I know let's talk smack about how our generationis not to be fucked with, whilst we lead it down the garden path, it's our age letting men be woman and woman be men, our parents were still keeping that shit in check but not us, if anyone had mentioned socialism in our fathers days we got our asses smoked now we encourage it🤣🤣 probably about 90% of gen xers were dopey enough to get the shot so they could go overseas, or keep working!!!look at the state of the world it's our age that's running the ball now and we a bunch of sellouts happy to work with companies like BlackRock . As a gen xer I shouted the truth of the mRNA out to the world, everyone called me all sorts of lovely names, that's a true gen xer totally deaf to what any robot calls me, unlike most of the pretend muppets I have seen trying to stand up for out generation on tic tok, cos that's our go to right!! Take your handle for instance rolling with the punches, you keep that shit up you end up punch drunk, try ducking or not blocking each and every shot with your face for a change and see how the world really treats you!!

[@kathrynwilliams1396]

This was my childhood. I wouldn't change a thing. I really miss that world.

[@Roseyard]

So do I! Happy to have experienced a different world growing up 😊❤

[@lisakain1517]

Me too!!!

[@joshbisinger7068]

Me too.

[@zeldaharris6876]

Same here. I can't believe everything has gone so haywire. I miss that world so much.

[@paulammon2281]

I was born in 83 in the UK and we were like this going in to the 90s easily 😂

[@tlc4786]

Cooking age- 9 yrs; Started raising babies-9yrs; Walked everywhere; Played outside everyday; Started using a firearm about 10yrs.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

👊🏼

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@Ummmmwtf.............]

We watched ourselves from 1 to 330 daily after pre-school. 2 of us.. 4 years old lol. We didnt answer the door or phone though no one ever came to the door during those hours

[@zzanatos2001]

I was born in 1967. I remember riding mini bikes, listening to great rock and roll, riding in cool muscle cars, playing with dangerous toys, riding my bike everywhere, going swimming every day in the summer and mowing everyone's lawn in the neighborhood for pocket money. It was a very exciting and optimistic time. People were so different then: Caring, friendly, sincere and honest. Modern America seems like another planet in comparison.

[@familylove9637]

Also we were outside all day, cleaned the house on Saturday mornings, came in the house when the streetlights came on, could walk anywhere without a problem, climbed trees, drank from the hose, everybody looked after everybody! It was the BEST!

[@watchinvidzwatchinvidz7691]

Yes nowadays kids have to be careful who they talk to if at all. Antisocial & unhappy. Sad world

[@ricksylva8834]

same here...exactly. In fact I had to check you user name to male sure I didn't post your comment...haha

[@bbautista061979]

It was all purposely done. That's the saddest part of all brotha

[@jenniferlloyd9574]

Remember holding an empty glass coke bottle in your hand with arm extended and shooting a pop bottle rocket from it? Shwisssshhhh... ....POP!

[@garrydesrosiers1390]

Generation x is the last generation that has to be responsible for their actions in every category of life.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

loud and proud

[@sherrijeffries971]

Even now at our age we are expected to know all of the answers and take care of all the business.

[@animeshock2006]

Ah falling for the boomer bullshit us millennials due to because at least some of us are in our 40s already

[@karentucker2161]

Not really, i was raised by a baby boomer parent and was born in 84. I got my buttr tore up if i acted the way kids act now. I was pretty much raised the same way these "gen xers" were. I only missed that generation by a couple of years.

[@ashanator1991]

​@@karentucker2161born in 91 and it was the same for me.

[@christopherjones4115]

Born in 1970 and by the age of six I was cooking, ironing my own clothes, washing my clothes, doing dishes, and staying in a child’s place! When grown folks were talking we made our selves disappear it was called respecting our elders something these kids today can’t comprehend!

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

👊🏼

[@Annakaydyct]

Im a millennial, and I wasn't coddled, but my father always had my back. I started cooking and cleaning at 5, babysitting by 9, alone by 12, and always went home to my father. 💕 Be supportive, don't enable

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

💯🙌🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@sharroon7574]

I wish my dad had my back, you really had the best balance I'd say.

[@lorib5398]

I think the aloneness and self reliance of generation x is a little bit different than what you are describing. You had a parent there that would show you how to be collaborative in a team player in an office environment. The millennials are very collaborative and group.Oriented and that is very successful in the work world. That's not what we were taught.We were left to literally fend for ourselves. Is it a grit and tenacity and creativity and resourcefulness to get anything accomplished. It was all left up to us. Nobody gave us advice and told us the path that was going to lead us to the best success and the best outcomes.We have had to figure that all out on our own. Unfortunately for a lot of you, Going to college was not the best path.😮

[@lorib5398]

And i'm not complaining about the grit and tenacity and creativity and resourcefulness that we had to develop in order to get things done. I'm grateful for it. Hardship and a tough life creates character and builds character in a person. I'm very proud to be a generation X cohort. ❤

[@legette38]

'72 here, cooking at 13, fresh air fun kid, No babysitting, 3 fist fights, No coddling, No feelings discussions, went everywhere by ourselves but had to be in by the street lights, no seat belts in cars the sizes of boats! The good Ole days ❤

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

👊🏼

[@feelthereaper1757]

73 Here, my mom had an early 70s caprice that when I was little I would stand up in the middle of the front bench seat and my seat belt was my mom's arm.

[@elvis777333]

1972 ROCKS!!!!!!

[@maggienbob1304]

Big cars had big trunks. Great for the drive-in! 😊

[@leeshackelford7517]

I could stay out past sundown, but if I wasn't home for dinner I either fixed it myself or went hungry...mom cooked enough for whoever was at home when she started cooking

[@LambentLark]

Gen X remembers plausible deniability. Good times!

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Oh my word. Truer words never spoken! LOL

[@rockylewis5218]

Always has been my favorite loophole

[@Snipergoat1]

Plausible deniability was life. You could never really fully cover your tracks but with a bit of effort you could make an equally likely cover story with just enough evidence to survive a cursory check up.

[@LambentLark]

@@Snipergoat1 My mom's favorite picture of us, mine too, was one my sibs were all pointing their finger at the sibling next to them. I, was pointing at dad. I came home from school early one day and caught him standing in front of the open fridge, eating Oreos and drinking milk straight from the carton! You know how many times mom yelled at us kids for drinking from the carton? How many times we got turned down when we asked for Oreos while shoping 1,000,001. And it was HIM! Did I throw him under the bus? No. I used it as a bargaining tool by never mentioning it. And he had too hook me up with his office Oreos. He said I had an evil smile. I told him it looked just like his evil smile. Lol Weird what kids and parents bond over.

[@paigeherrin29]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ramonasmith4502]

We still can teach the kids to play as we did. Just take time. Show our love to the new generation and the more important get them close to God.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

💯

[@r6854]

@@LivingInBakersfieldCa I don't know. No one 'taught' me how to play. I was basically turned loose and told to be home before dark. Not too much instructions.

[@davelew86]

When I was 3, I stood on a chair, over a gas stove top and made scrambled eggs in a cast iron skillet with no one else in the kitchen.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

YYEES! Very standard for GenX to be cooking at a young age.

[@onecuet]

I'm a Gen X. We made our own breakfast & lunch. We often ate TV dinners for supper or helped out with diner. We were responsible for washing & drying the dishes, laundry, mowing the yard, etc... You played outside & came home before the street lights came on. I could walk all over town without worry of being snatched up. High-school was a blast. We had great 80's music. Disputes were resolved by a fist fight, cuz only weakling would brandish a knife. We still looked after our elderly. We were very patriotic of our country. We aren't scared to work hard to get ahead.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Exactly!

[@karentucker2161]

I was raised the same way. You helped with chores and you cleaned up behind yourself and you helped with supper.

[@onecuet]

@@karentucker2161 Yep, we were pretty independent kiddos. We had fun but we didn't go around tearing up other people's stuff. We definitely didn't break or set on fire our communities. You knew your neighbors back then too.

[@ghulsey45]

In my day we'd fistfight. Once it was over we went back to being friends. No grudges

[@marylees8983]

Yes!

[@joynkindness]

yep. m

[@collettelemons8892]

Loser buys the beer, lol

[@jacobbragg1032]

Sometimes, we had to fight to become friends

[@chadshinn2154]

My best friend still to this day was my bully in the 3rd grade!! 😂🤣😂🤣 We fought I face planted him into a bud and we became best friends afterwards….

[@Moosey5757]

I miss those days for sure! Walked everywhere, biked like a mad person, rocked out to records and cassettes. Ate pavement and walked it off. Please give me those days back!!!

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

LOL!!

[@unapologetic3674]

I never realized how badass I am, thank you🤣🤣♥️ sending love to all my gen X family 😘♥️

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

👊🏼

[@tammiehammett5054]

I didn't know how good I had it growing up in the 70s and 80s.

[@tomwalker9184]

It was better in 50's and 60's

[@tammiehammett5054]

@@tomwalker9184 for some folks it was.

[@oneinamillion8769]

​@@tomwalker9184yeah... not for everyone dude

[@OldsmobileCutlass1969Va]

ADD/ADHD were fixed with a wooden switch 🤣

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Bless! Was it even around back then? It was just being a kid as far as we knew. Kids have a TON more energy that's why we were always being put outside. LOL

[@jonathangodbout6645]

Or a big wooden cooking spoon from my Italian mother

[@lilyz2156]

@@jonathangodbout6645 Spoozzzzzzzz/ zzzzzzzzTry a belt, felt like a whip.

[@feek3168]

OH MY GOSH!!! My Mom loved those switches, taken right from the back yard. It stayed in the kitchen and we knew not to get rid of it!!!! 😂😳

[@tinacampbell1217]

Lol... One of the worst wippin I ever got was the day I picked my mama a bad switch. It broke after the second hit she made me go pick her another one and when she got done with me for what I had done she stopped at the door turn around and came back and whip me for picking a bad switch. 😅 I never picked a bad switch again

[@carlbruschnigjr1757]

We played outside, walked or rode our bikes everywhere, drank water from the garden hose, climbed trees, played in rivers, caught and cleaned our fish, and learned about the other sex by spending time with them.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

👊🏼

[@mps9944]

I remember snow storms that overwhelmed us in minutes during the school day and the principal deciding to send us home no phone calls and my sister being in another school being worried about her not knowing if she was dismissed . What normally took me a half hour walk turned to 2 hours ! Making my way home arriving and waiting for her at the door with tears in my eyes because I was frozen ! I was 10 my sister was 8 and her school was even farth away ❤

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

😳🤪

[@claytonbigsby1]

We're the last generation of feral kids. We're solid.

[@PhotonTheta]

The COVID kids are pretty feral, too... At least latchkey. Gives me hope.

[@watchinvidzwatchinvidz7691]

The kids nowadays are the feral ones at least our parents cared enough to tell you you're wrong & try & raise us.. Nowadays parents let the kids do whatever & don't raise them at all & now we have to set them straight at work when they start their scrap there.

[@standinginthegap7118]

exactly

[@CrazyMama1957]

❤😂

[@mg8642]

Generation Y was also feral. We didn't have internet at home or mobile phones either

[@JustCristi000]

I didn’t have time to worry about pronouns or my entitlement. Because we were busy surviving by walking to school after walking home making something to eat and homework. My parents worked and if we forgot our key… we had to figure how to get in or had to wait outside until parents came hime without eating. And if we wanted to go anywhere… we used the bus and got lost. We always managed to figure it out. Never talked about our feelings. We were too busy getting our butts handed to us, if we messed up. Also we we had to earn our money, if we wanted anything i.e, babysitting or cutting grass. We weren’t just handed anything. Any problems we had… we handled them with our hands no guns involved. Gen X had some of the greatest music! Still listen to it to this day.❤

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Roger that! We figured it out for sure!

[@PhoenixFires9]

Yep… I definitely crawled in through the kitchen window a few times ; )

[@stiixgirl6148]

@@PhoenixFires9 I had to crawl through the doggie door. Prepared me for the times I needed to crawl through my sunroof and trunk when I locked my keys in the car later in life, lmao.

[@ingrid1377]

We had a coathanger hidden in the bushes if we forget to our key

[@Ka-kai]

I could climb the porch post and get into the house through an upstairs window. I never had a key.

[@prof113]

We did a LOT of stuff, at a MUCH younger age than the youngsters today. True of every generation.

[@tarshagreene4661]

Gen x 1975❤ I remember cooking for the first time when I was 10 years old. I sat to babysit my younger brothers and sisters in the 80s and 90s. Also remember playing the Atari and the Nintendo and watching saved by the bell on Saturday mornings

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

We all seemed to cook and babysit at VERY young ages! LOL

[@dilsiam]

I had to do stuff by myself to keep me occupied, meaning I can stay with myself without anybody else's company. I'm no afraid of being alone...

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

👊🏼

[@2sweet2]

Yeah so true. I'm the same. I don't get afraid or bored when I'm alone. I know how to entertain myself and stay busy. It made me strong and confident. Thanks to our time.

[@laurieg449]

Amen, me too!

[@JUNKERS488]

If me or my friends were inside it meant either we were grounded or sick. We had to be home before the streetlights came on.

[@user-yz9yg4yx1k]

Or It was a blizzard or pouring rain.

[@mythreeboys6623]

Born 1966. I had a purple heavy plastic skateboard. My Sister had a pink one. Both from Sears. We rode them skateboards everywhere & far from home to get to our friend's house's. We rode bikes, went roller skating every Wednesday & Saturday, lived at the mall on weekends, walked to the $1.00 theater 23 times to see Alien. Probably 10 times to see Warriors & many others, played baseball in an empty field, skipped school once in awhile, got my 1st job at 13yrs.old..I lied & said I was 16. Walked to work everyday by myself. We came home & did chores. Got an allowance. Went to too many concerts w/ that allowance to count. Our 1st concert was Van Halen. Had the best kind of friends. Still friends w/ 3 of them 43yrs. later. Rushed home after school to watch MTV & play Atari. We all gave each other haircuts one weekend. We all showed up to school Monday morning w/ mohawks. Lmao. Went to see Devo at Rice University. Tom Petty, AC/DC, KISS, Genesis, too many to name. Went to many Texas Jams. It really was the best of times. These modern generations, alot of them..not all, are weak & self absorbed. Including my own. I wish they could have grown up like we did. It was freaking amazing. And the best part..nobody gave one shit about your feelings. You know why..we were too busy having the time of our lives! I'm not exaggerating either. It saddens me that these kids now will never know that. When I see them all looking at their phones it is truly heartwrenching. Missing out on so much. Watching other people's lives instead of living, really living, their own. Damn Proud to be GenX. The Last Feral Generation. ❣☮🙏🏻🎵🎶🎸🎼🎶🛹🚲

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

the concerts!! sooooo good!

[@Chandler.C_1993]

I'm a millennial, but I grew up this way. My answers almost completely matched yours!

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

👊🏼

[@zeldaharris6876]

God I miss that world. I was just talking about this today with my colleague. How I want those days back. Keep your devices, give me my freedom.

[@mcjsrn]

As a GenX'r I love how fascinated the younger generations are with us.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

No lies detected. I'm not sad about it either.

[@Snipergoat1]

Yeah, it's a bit flattering. It's also perplexing that what we thought of as "Being a kid" is somehow considered badass in some ways.

[@sarahnorris872]

Because we are the last generation before cell phones, we are antiques to them

[@DoubleDogDare54]

Doesn't surprise me. Younger generations don't recognize what normal life is because theirs is so abnormal they accept it as normal.

[@MrsShocoTaco]

They're amazed that we survived childhood without devices attached to our hands lol

[@jamesevans328]

I remember standing on a chair to cook Mac and cheese when the parents were at work at the cattle auction for two days straight. Me and my sister got our selves ready for school made our own breakfast and dinner . We lived 20 miles in the country. No neighbors to look in on us . Starting shooting guns when I was nine , driving at twelve.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

👍🏼

[@shannonhawkins3296]

I’m 60 so I’m pretty much between Boomers and Gen X and I answered those questions just like the Lady in the video.

[@goodoljackburton9211]

At 12 years old, I was in the back yard doing chores, learning how to turn a wrench on our LTD, riding my chopper bike with friends, playing football, basketball, shooting soda cans with a BB gun…all that and more then coming home when the street lights came on. I can’t thank mom and dad enough for it all either. Gen X 🇺🇸

[@mjwbulich]

Was going to mention turning wrenches. I was doing oil changes at 13 ans by the time I was 16 I was doing tune ups and brake jobs.

[@feek3168]

Grew up with 4 GenX brothers, me too. Everything my Dad taught my brothers, I had to be there too! My Mom did not rescue me! 😂😂

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

The chopper!! ✌🏼

[@skipd9164]

we are the only ones that know what a chopper is and it's slick backwheel

[@debcollins8231]

​@@feek3168Me too. I mowed the lawn and shoveled driveways countless times. I bet you did too😊

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Lots of walking, bike riding, cooking while standing on a chair at a very young age and all sorts of 'feral' activity is the stuff of us GenXers! Can you relate?

[@andiwaslikeyea]

YAyS Bakersfield!

[@PERFECTLS3]

No seatbelts, no bike helmets, metal slides, drinking from a hose. Fun was a playing card and clothespin on your spokes while you rode bikes with your friends, not sitting in a dark basement playing first person shooter games. Bumps and bruises, cuts and scrapes all part of being a kid, and you shook 'em off and kept playing. Those times created good women, strong men, and great families. I miss those times, and the simple satisfying life that hard work provided those willing to do it.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

As a little boy, my mother would always get me into the kitchen to watch her cook and and prep the food. By age 7, I was working the stove and oven. By age 10, I was allowed to work with deep fry oil. Since prepping the food for her, I never knew my mother was prepping ME to shop smart and cook well for myself. My Boomer mother knew exactly what was expected from her Gen X child.

[@aaronstreight3033]

we were very healthy. walked every where.

[@sagatuppercut2960]

I rode a skateboard until I was about 17 years old. I loved skateboards and being OUTSIDE with my friends. I hardly spend anytime outside now. I'm a boring adult.

[@ladyj9330]

cooking -7 baby sitting 11, walked 1 mile to elementary school as a child and 1 mile back, no firearm, 2nd grade first an only fist fight, don't care what other people think of me, my parent's did not care about my feelings, I STILL don't ask for help and I am in my 50's, lots of veterans, outside from sun up to sun down no matter the season unless there were chores inside (and except for school), was NOT coddled as a child,

[@JT-un7dc]

Why is Independence terrifying? Self-reliance self-sufficient and can handle themselves in most situations.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Right?! Love that perspective. 💥🙌🏼

[@startrekker188]

Got away with waaay more!! 😂 Independent is our 1st, middle n last name! 🤟🔥

[@dlane7539]

Its so amazing how different Gen X is than any other generation. I wouldn't give up my experiences for anything! ❤

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

No lies detected in that comment! 👊🏼

[@ladydeerheart1]

I'd give up a few.

[@MergeGirlXOXO]

Well said!

[@marylees8983]

I told my mom Gen X is the best generation. We grew up in the best times!❤

[@cathyyoung3285]

That's because they were the last feral generation. I'm generation Jones, at age 10 I was babysitting and had a paper route. We slept outside in tents made of blankets on a clothesline. Rode bikes and played on metal playground equipment in a paved playground. No helmets, no seat belts. Rode in the bed of a pickup truck and only showed up at the house for food lol. Great times

[@curly874]

I am a boomer, I am male, I do not cook, that is woman's work I bring home the bacon, the women cook it When I grew up in a very rural area, boys were not allowed in the kitchen, we went and got firewood, we got river rock to decorate cement fences, we helped the neighbor bring in the hay, we milked the cows, we picked fruit, we roto-tilled the garden, we took trash to the dump, re renovated houses, we loaded railcars, we worked in warehouses. All before we graduated high school..... We don't do women's work, except when you are very pregnant r for a month after giving us a child.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

😂 Boomer indeed!

[@collettelemons8892]

We had more freedom than kids today will ever know.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

True statement

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

💯

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

💯

[@jennywren2696]

Not only that our parents had complete trust in us!

[@didicoy72]

maybe yours did. I went to juvy at age 8. 😂

[@johnvahl762]

No, I think they gave us a chance to learn from our mistakes. Once you were caught, you usually had to face the consequences yourself because your parents would not shelter you. Trust took time and effort to repair.

[@submaxcw7947]

They trusted you, that's why you don't trust us

[@jenniferd107]

Right?? Silly mom and dad...Enter: Alcohol, Marijuana, Mushrooms, LSD...

[@buschwc]

Haha keep telling yourself that

[@jaiess540]

I'm 1st gen Southern Italian, I was cooking in the womb. When I screwed up as a kid, which was....often 🤣...I got my arze kicked. The result: I NEVER made the SAME MISTAKE TWICE!!!

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@lorireed8046]

Ohh how many of us heard that one!! You can make a million mistakes but you Best not make the same one twice!

[@dalerushton1394]

( Bobby Diello 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 ) Lol, 3rd generation unless I count my Great Grandparents who were immigrants. Mom stayed home and cooked with her Mom. Proud wooden spoon survivor; Grandma chased me with a rolling pin with a cigarette in her mouth, she didn't want "no shenanigans !" Lol 😆 🤣 😂, she learned that from my Aunt who was Irish and just as strict ! I prayed they didn't tell Dad. The 2nd hand smoke would have been considered child abuse today probably ! Lol 😆 🤣 😂

[@ladydeerheart1]

I was cooking with my easy bake oven long before I cooked in the kitchen and I was 6 when I was cooking in the kitchen. lol.

[@leeshackelford7517]

I was allowed to argue with my mom....IF my logic was correct......I might be wrong, but if I got there logically, I was safe. If I was sassing or just arguing to be a pain....hahaha ....mom had a thick leather belt

[@imtweetydiva29]

I was a latch key kid. I cooked when I was 5 years old. I baby sat first time once when I was about 10. Know lots of veterans, have family members in the military. I was not coddled as a child.Played outside all the time. The good old days. Remember the old metal monkey bars, especially when they got hot on the playground. We were tough feral children. 😂❤

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

💯👊🏼

[@dannyc8617]

I got caught many times. First was a girl running out of the house who my mom saw, and I still tried to deny it. Dad was cool about it in secret, but punished me anyway, that's our generation

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

right?!

[@kitty19cat751]

I actually laughed out loud at the "other peoples opinions" question 🤭

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Right!?!

[@matthewatwood8641]

So did I.

[@judywells8345]

me too.

[@paulkaz2127]

Great to consider other peoples opinions and gain any knowledge, if they may have real validity. Or perhaps for the 'reciever' of the other's opinion, to impart some actual knowledge, if one may have some relevant knowledge to offer.. but conform to an opion to be liked? Nah.. some may have done such sheep conforming at the time, yet there is much more so presently.. and epidemically. That's some real dumbing down way to 'live'.

[@a.t.5257]

Bottom line, JUST DON’T MESS WITH US, We’ve been to the puppet show and we have seen the strings. 👍

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

😂😂😂😂

[@robjohnson1370]

We learned from an early age what "Fuck around and find out " REALLY meant ☠️☠️☠️

[@Leah-fs7qq]

Lol he said "feelings with parents"!😆

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

😂😂🎉

[@timothy4664]

Lol...hilarious. born in 77. Still valid responses.

[@lemhanback9595]

😂😂😂 luved the Nunya at the end, we still don't leave evidence against us behind. 😂😂😂😂

[@howard7689]

Answers could hamper a political career

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

True statement

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

🤪🤩😎 None of that in my future, lemmetellya

[@naeemsaley2197]

That’s the truth 😂😂😂

[@tomjohnson4323]

I was sent to gas stations as a 8,9,10 year old kid with a note to buy cigarettes for my dad all the time

[@keeganpony]

Yesss!! My dad used to give me three quarters and send me to the club house at our apartment complex pool to buy Kool Mild cigarettes when I was 7…no one asked a single question.

[@oneinamillion8769]

Same😊

[@edwardcook2973]

Same, except it was two quarters for the cigarette machine for a pack of Belair 100s and a quarter for me to get a soda pop out of the pop machine. Drank it and sold the bottle back to the grocer for 10 cents.

[@rosablanco9960]

We were the funnest generation. The bravest, toughest, “We’re just the best”

[@mariamart_0]

Not simping for you guys. You guys are better than these Gen Z adults who are so sensitive and social media addicted smh. 🙄 I LOVE YOUUUU GIUS, KICKASS AND BADASS GENERATION 🤣🤣🙆🏾‍♀️

[@jestexgarcia3601]

I have a real question. How do we get back to that then since times change? Times were definitely better back then

[@AS-rr9km]

Delete all your social media apps. I only have KZbin. I keep up with the big news updates & stuff but other than that, life is pretty great without it. I got rid of my apps back during the 2016 election & people often think it’s weird I don’t have insta or Snapchat blah blah. Once you Don’t have it, you realize what you’re missing out on. All those fun things you’re scrolling seeing other people do, you could be doing! Or working, saving up for a trip! But people are often lost in the internet. I have lived before Big internet, so beginning of AOL, & after so today, & indeed society changed in the ways we thought…but a little bit worse & way worse off on mental health than anticipated. But no one is doing anything about it, because they did not establish proper laws for the internet when it was created. Now there is so much information being bought & stored, sold legally & illegally, authorities or government can’t really keep up. This is my recommendation, because in my experience it has brought me closest to those times as a kid without all this noise in the world.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

That is GREAT advice!!

[@rockylewis5218]

The honest answer to that question (IMHO) would require an extremely powerful EMP and the loss of all digital technology.... OMG, I just had an epiphany: the pinnacle is mechanical/analog, anything more and the machines take over. Steam-Punk would actually be the best reality

[@rockylewis5218]

​@@AS-rr9kmpretty much the same; KZbin is the closest thing I do to social media anymore. And, I am much happier because of it.

[@feek3168]

Dont be pressured to follow all social media, set boundries in your life and others will have no say in the matter! Work time, family time, worship times!! Don't let the lines be blurred! I have work emails coming in today "quick question" they say! Nope. Im not on the clock. No one was calling my parents after they arrived home from work! Ever.

[@andyiswonderful]

Baby Boomer here. Mom and Dad worked for us 6 kids. We were hugely independent. And that laissez-faire attitude meant that I got away with everything. But, I was a good kid, very responsible.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

👏🏻👊🏼💯😂

[@jocrozier4712]

Born late 60s...Independent at a very young age & it was expected! Cooking at 12, 13 yrs old I was babysitting. Acouple of fist fights 😅 & didn't discuss feelings usually. Walked everywhere as a kid, parents still don't know half the stuff I got up to with my friends when we were teens and I know a lot of 80 yr olds!

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

love it!

[@JUNKERS488]

You could fall and break a bone and all you would hear is "Walk it Off"

[@maxwelltheportlycorgi7299]

Oh my goodness yes! I fell roller skating when I was 6. Broke my wrist but my RN mother thought it was just a bruise until the whole arm turned almost black 3 days later. Took me to the ER had it reset and casted. 12 weeks after, go back outside....didn't I go and break it a second time doing the same damn thing! Boy did they question my poor mother hard when she took me back to the ER with the same story, "I broke it while roller skating"

[@mythreeboys6623]

Or..rub dirt on it. Lol.

[@newfiegirl8526]

We don't need social media to affirm our feelings by getting "Likes", because we don't care whether you like us or not. We like ourselves.......our parents taught us how to be secure and confident individuals by not blowing smoke up our a$$es telling us how special we were.

[@naeemsaley2197]

I love that response 😂😂

[@swiftkarma4436]

Not all parents honey. My parents were from hell. They didn't deserve kids.

[@oneinamillion8769]

Yeah and the whole everyone gets a trophy sh didn't exist

[@danawagner5301]

I was born in 1959. We didn't set in the storeroom and have a good cry when we had to work! We wanted the monet for fun stuff!

[@watchinvidzwatchinvidz7691]

Yeah the likes is sick. I could give no f's if you like me bc I saw you & instantly didn't like you bc you have to have me to like you... to be ok with yourself. I hate dealing with these people at work. I just want to work & be nice & go home. I don't want your drama & sick politics. Sick society.

[@GarnetDart]

experiencing the world outside with total freedom until dinner time. We scraped knees, fell out of trees and played with friends. We learned how to survive in the real world. I'd give up everything to do it all again.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Straight facts!

[@laurietillman4362]

She nailed it!! 1967 baby here!!

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

👊🏼

[@MariAnKenobi]

I would just leave the house without saying anything and walk alone to the library, 3 blocks away, or the candy store in the other direction, or just to roam with my neighborhood friends. We lived in that house when I was in 1st to 3rd grade. I don’t think my mom knew where I was at least 70% of the time.

[@familylove9637]

And you were always safe!

[@tiffanyshanley1419]

As long as you were either home for supper or home before dark!

[@neilwatson9706]

I was expected to prepare dinner for the family at around 12 years old. Small things that advanced to greater and more complex dishes as I got older. No parents around until 6pm meant you learned to cook or you starved.

[@m0L3ify]

That broke me when I was 11.

[@TheRealJohnHooper]

What do you do for a living now?

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Latchkey kids!

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

If you’re asking me, I’m a realtor

[@MrStaybrown]

Exactly, i remember my parents saying you get home before us so get dinner ready.

[@crampo21]

Absolutely right on.😂

[@sreyno01]

I started cooking at 8 years old and we basically raised our baby brother

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

yup! Very GenX!

[@JPerry2337]

70 yrs old; had a single mom who worked 2-3 jobs 7 days a week, started all home chores at age 6, started earning money doing odd jobs age 8, walked everywhere by myself, learned to avoid bullies or fight back, played outside whenever possible had to be home before street lights came on, had to complete chores and homework before going out to play, not coddled and mom always gave praise and credit for work done. Didn't get away with anything! Know a lot of veterans and was one myself - Vietnam vet got a college degree and served 5 years by age 24. Owned own home by age 28 and have been married to the same wonderful man (also a veteran) for 50 years.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@sxwrtr918]

Sixty-one here. You rock!

[@lauriecollins7312]

70+ here. Same here. Including vet. Hospital corners & bed made daily. Ironing cotton sheets etc- no fitted sheets back then,. Best time - going to orchards , picking fruit all day- worse processing it before playing outside🤣. Hung clothes on clotheslines 4 seasons. Walking-biking whole chilhood- fixed own bikes - tires= the norm

[@BillKurn]

65 here. I spent my childhood outside digging "foxholes" and riding my stingray. Later that turned into dove hunting and dirt bikes.

[@noneyabuizness]

You have to keep in mind, when you were a child, times were different.

[@code-52]

I'm a boomer, my adult children are millennials. Gen x is far more stable than either of the above groups.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Awww yeah!! Preach!!! 🤣🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@St.Linguini_of_Pesto]

@Ru Gu why thank you [polite curtsy]

[@dalerushton1394]

Thanks !

[@bridittebargeot2679]

Yeah, those who survived 😂😂😂 What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!

[@jasonbrown7090]

thankyou

[@4dogsloveme]

Being a baby boomer was the best time ever!!! Kids did not have anxiety, we played outside and on the merry go round, monkey bars and played smear the queer, red rover, we ran up the slide, road bikes all day. Did chores and respected our parents.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

OMG! Those games wouldn't be allowed today. LOL

[@dianamattson1195]

Grew up in the 60s. Learned to cook and clean early. I couldn't go out until my chores were done. In the summer, I spent 10 hours a day at the pool. Rode bikes everywhere. Went to Sunday school and church every Sunday. Our parents knew each other, and everyone knew when we did something wrong.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

👊🏼

[@agriffin5308]

If we can take you back to a late 70s early 80s concert we absolutely would. Dress code, jean jacket. The greatest generation was is our grandparents. They served in World War II. We looked up to them.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

still do!

[@myrabeth77]

What your parents never knew about what went on between when you disappeared after lunch and when the street lights came on couldn't hurt you.

[@michellem634]

When they said "Where did you.. And how.. Nevermind I don't want to know" 😂

[@moimeme1928]

I was born in 1952. I could walk to the movies alone without fear. I saw the decline of our values and society over the past 7 decades.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

😏 I get it.

[@cecepalmer4833]

I was helping to can tomatoes, green beans, and peas when I was about four years old.

[@cathykirkwood6707]

I had to walk a long way to school everyday by myself. I had some scary experiences as a result but I'm still here today!

[@jeffreyjeziorski1480]

As a millenial, I can tell you that I walked to school as a child, alone, in the snow, into the wind, uphill both ways...my generation wore "long johns", carried our lunch to school in a paper bag that sort of disintegrated during the trip. Did any other generation have white bread with bologna and mayonnaise? Mmmm, warm. BTW, millenials birthed the children that became The Beatles. Top That!!!

[@stevesnodgrass7434]

You learned to take care of yourself. My dad always said to keep my head in a swivel. Gen x is the shit.

[@user-mw4hi1rv9v]

I had to walk a very long way to school, but I had my sister with me. It was cold. We live in the projects, but it was so freaking cool because all of us from the Projects would meet up in one spot and all walk together. And the best part about it is if somebody messed with one of us, they messed with all of us.😂😂😂😂😂 and we had like probably at least 15 to 20 kids walking. I said we live in the projects.😂😂😂😂 Providence, Rhode Island, the smallest town in the world

[@paulettelamontagne6992]

Same my mom called me the Pervert Posse

[@paulettelamontagne6992]

​@@jeffreyjeziorski1480no you weren't Olivia was like 19 81-82

[@Kuuppon]

1. started cooking at 7 (selfish so I cook for me only) 2. watched my little cousins at 10 years 3. Walked often alone as a child 4. Not until I joined the military but was around fire arms often 5. Had a few fights but nothing to scream about. 6. Don't give a damn about other's opinion. 7. Feelings are an unknown unknown in our family. 8. Help was for if you were at death's door 9. Knew a lot of vets then and I'm one now. 10. Outside was our friend and you better be back before the street lights were on. 11. What's coddling? 12. Snitches get stitches

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

LOL!

[@grayreyesreyes8209]

Snitches get stitches for acting like B!@&@$!! Lol

[@Eileen49654]

Yep number 8 for sure

[@MrChief132]

I was like wtf is coddling lmao

[@grumpyoldbastard0563]

Same here.

[@tanyaroberson9629]

In my neighborhood all our mothers started working when we were around 9-10 so we all walked home from school by ourselves and no parents were home.

[@MexicanApachemiwok777]

Playing basketball was so much fun, I replaced it with riding a bike for 2hrs tho.

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Love it!

[@sirich7751]

If my parent knew half the stupid shit I did.........

[@LivingInBakersfieldCa]

Same!

[@annarodriguez9868]

Oh, we knew!!! You learned a lot from those stupid experiences! 😂

[@randomas8634]

My parents owned a shop, they got calls all day long, "Randomas is in the creek (what? it was hot)", "Randomas is in the library (during school time)", "Randomas is in the pub (I was paid under the table)", "Randomas is putting rocks on the railroad tracks (oh come on, we all did)"... Mine knew, and never said anything.

[@annarodriguez9868]

Back in the 80s and my kids were teens I told them that if they got picked up by the police not to call me to bail them out. Then I read about some poor kid that was killed while in a holding cell and told my kids to call me, but they were going to be sorry and wish I had left them in jail. Fortunately, none of them got into any serious trouble.

[@brendangibbons6094]

Lol facts