GenX Millennial Club requirements continued…..

Baby GenX and Elder Millennials have so much in common!!! #genx #millennial #xennial #comedy

[@melodieeldridge754]

If you never watched Friday Night Videos until the screen turned into an image of the flag and played the national anthem....

[@maribiddle5859]

Kasey Kasem’s Nightracks!!! Yes!!!!!! Then listen to a four hour countdown to the number one song nod being ready to record onto a blank cassette by hitting play and record at the same time (after threatening everyone if they made a sound!!!

[@e0n555]

PTSD triggered 😂😂

[@sweettee8110]

​@@maribiddle5859Yes!!! 😂

[@darknesslive5225]

HEADBANGER'S BALL!

[@JosieGrossie73]

@@darknesslive5225 YESSSSSSS

[@TS-hi8vo]

If you didn’t know that your brain on drugs was a fried egg….”get to steppin”

[@alreadytired6515]

I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU! 🤣

[@maritamuras8978]

Millennial born in 1985. I remember that commercial really well. It had a huge impact.

[@dusanradin5868]

@@maritamuras8978 I think you belong to us Gen X, actually.Last year.

[@maritamuras8978]

I’m an early Millennial. I remember that very clearly. It kept me from ever touching any drug ever.

[@dusanradin5868]

@@maritamuras8978 1965-1985 Gen X,last time i checked.

[@mrcspage]

calling the radio station to play songs so you can record them... SEE YA

[@josephadams5282]

COME ON

[@RemoteCamper]

Calling The radio station and telling them to play the WHOLE song and don't talk so you can record it..

[@heidipye3488]

Calling the radio station to dedicate a song to your 12 yr old love of your life.😂

[@AFLoneWolf]

Only to have the DJ talk over it and ruin it.

[@Dragonmoon8526]

If you didn't need to weak up between six and seven on a Saturday to watch those once a week cartoons, goodbye.

[@NINacide]

Ever accidently wake up around 5 and see Bozo the Clown?

[@Dragonmoon8526]

@@NINacide Nope, it was ages ago, but I recall daytime reruns. As a kid.

[@Wranorn]

@@NINacide Friend of mine had a band named "Fear of Clowns",.... Wonder if he woke up early one day?

[@NINacide]

@Wranorn i went to a bob baker event last week. Imagine antique marionette clowns being creepier

[@staceymackowiak1386]

@@NINacide We used to go to see the Bozo show in person! Always wishing you'd get picked to play the grand prize game.

[@amysimmons5004]

No seatbelts required for kids. Being seated at a restaurant & being asked smoking or non

[@melvance7281]

Smoking section??? That was not a thing in my day

[@greengoddessGigi420NOTRAPPER]

If you have never rode dirty with pixie sticks, sweet tarts, & candy smokes...DENIED!

[@bmcagent]

And the candy necklace!

[@sweettee8110]

​@@bmcagentThat your friends took a bite of right off your neck 😂

[@joletta9672]

I recently found a pack of (probably 30 year old) Victory candy cigs at a very small gas station in a very small town. I snuck out with that $.59 box like I was smuggling something. 😇😂

[@josephadams5282]

OMFG, YES

[@morgansmith3333]

I have one! If you had to time your pee breaks to correspond with commercial breaks when watching TV!

[@emj1768]

YES & getting snacks yo!😂😂😂

[@josephadams5282]

😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣‼️

[@andrea8130]

"It's back OOONNNN!!"

[@tracyannmb]

Raise your hand if you been on an airplane when smoking was allowed 🤮

[@ls-vg4pn]

That will make you throw up!!!

[@lauragueldner2490]

International flights were the MOST fun.... The "Non-smoking" section started literally one row in front of the smoking section. No partition. No curtains. Made for reeeeeeaally long flights to Europe and back.

[@laurieweaver454]

Flew to France and ran out of cigarettes before we landed. I was 16.

[@georgecottell6616]

I smoked on a flight from the East Coast to the West Coast, 1988.

[@HugsXO]

Smallest damn ashtrays ever on an airplane.

[@Donnamite555]

Got it. Don’t forget smelling FRESH mimeograph paper. Or is it just me.

[@EndScene]

Oh... no, it is not just you. Doesn't take too much brain power (though we don't know how much was lost smelling that paper) to conjure up that scent in my mind

[@therealcyberius]

DITTOS!

[@tallybea3523]

I helped work the machine, your hands would be purple.

[@Donnamite555]

@@tallybea3523 whoa - all day sniffs, Well played tallybea, well played.

[@kittycraft3620]

Wanting to be the one that got to go to the office to pick up said mimeograph sheets. A whole class of Horshacks from “Welcome Back Cotter” ! lol ,

[@tarheelmp8051]

If you have never had to push start a car.... denied 😂

[@hailyframbach6589]

I think the younger generation is going to not understand the difference between "push a car to start" and "push start a car". They may also think that my phrase quotes means sarcasm.

[@Ninjanimegamer]

They also don't know that in the cold weather especially, the gas pedal needed a few good pumps before turning on the car. They don't even know what a carburetor is or how to put one together. They don't know what it's like to drive a car without power-steering, power-brakes or powered windows and no ac. ....and when those cars stalled you couldn't turn the wheel without super strength. We were "built tough, and our metal cars tougher."

[@LeonaLinscott-cy6dz]

​@Ninjanimegamer, you forgot standard transmission. The subtle difference of using the clutch vs riding the clutch. Nothing quite like having to stop at a light, going uphill, in traffic, driving a stick-shift. You gonna roll back into that car that's half way up your ass...🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@joletta9672]

Oh yes! The joys of you and siblings listening for your father to yell, "Ok, now push so I can pop this clutch!"

[@ct3po776]

Tried to learn on my Dad's clutch, but could never get 3+ limbs to work at the same time, which is also why I couldn't play drums either, so always drove an automatic! Now I did have a cop pull me over at night as I was delivering for Dominos Pizza, and accused me of popping my clutch in my 1976 white woody 4 cylinder automatic Pinto! He was right when he said it sounded like I needed a new muffler, as that had to be replaced within a few months!

[@mitchellmalmstead5305]

Never watched Schoolhouse Rock...denied.

[@sassy-hallelujah]

Singing: “I’m just a bill. I’m only a bill. Just sitting here on capital hill…” 😂 Reference: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYuboaaGabhpeLMsi=LpbdipTAoXi67E0y

[@lodrezzon]

I can still sing every one of those damn songs...thank god too, or I'd NEVER know what an adverb is.

[@Kris.with.a.K]

COLUMBIA RECORDS!!! THIS flashback gave me WHIPLASH!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤

[@amysimmons5004]

I have some requirements that have been missed. 1. If you didn't drop your Film of at a photo-mat hut & have to wait an entire week to see what your pictures looked like. Just to discover half of them were either dark, blurry, or had the tops of peoples heads cut off. Goodbye 2. If you never wore your hair where it stuck out 3 inches from your head, No. Bonus points if you ever got it to 5 inches tall on top. (The 80's & aqua net is why we have a hole in the ozone layer) 3. You must recognize Michael Jackson BEFORE he became a solo artist.( part of Jackson 5) 4. Know the catch phrase "Where's the beef' 5. Who was Mickey (not mouse) & why did our parents hate him. ( we drove my mom nuts with that Toni Basil song) 6. The Berlin Wall coming down. Or at least Pink Floyd's album "The Wall"

[@jenniferlisow2901]

If you didn't get sick on Bartle & Jaymes wine coolers at least once, then you can't join us.

[@melodieeldridge754]

Omgod. More than once, I taped a penny to the CH post card.

[@ptrckhgn89]

Bonus points if you got each of your pets subscriptions too. I think Columbia House is still looking for Skip, BeBe, Bandit and Ned Hogan at my parents address. I miss those dogs. Ok, maybe not BeBe. Not after my brother trained him to bite me on sight.

[@Bubblegumswitch]

@@ptrckhgn89😅😅😅

[@angelamillard6418]

If you didn't buy cigarettes for your parents with no questions asked when you were nine😂 get to steppin

[@prudies.3375]

I did that a few times. Why would they allow that??? lol.

[@LeaC816]

Ya bringing back the memories!! I was 3” taller back then thanks to Aqua Net Extra Super Hold and a rat tail comb! The higher the hair, the closer to God! 😁

[@tias6717]

I cannot give enough thumbs up for this! 💨💨🔥🔥

[@lemmdus2119]

He’s 6 feet tall, 6’6” with the Afro! 😂 If you don’t know where that line is from.

[@michellemaroda7189]

RIP the ozone layer (40,000 BC - 1987)

[@lemmdus2119]

@@michellemaroda7189 🤣🤣🤣

[@lotuslove2186]

Yes ! Meeting at a girl friends house with our CRIMPER & AQUANET before our school dances.

[@cam569]

If you have never had the pain of trying clove cigarettes.

[@terriegilley6475]

My brother's girlfriend smokes those. They even smell horrible.

[@tias6717]

If you know the SMELL of a clove cigarette from a mile away, golden ticket entry!

[@tinamirabile4828]

OMG- we used to smoke them every morning before school- lol

[@reneeaultman6080]

Used to love those!

[@amcam208]

​@@reneeaultman6080Same!!!! ❤

[@lovebuzz1979]

I garruntee! Holy smokes Zima’s😂 how about the avacado colored home phone with the cord that stretched over the whole house! We are Gen X✌️

[@Sarah-with-an-H]

Our phone was white, but over time and with parents that smoked it yellowed. It's the reason also why I'm not a fan of white plastic electronics because they don't stay white.

[@maryg9482]

Zima tasted like throw up going down...it was worse coming up

[@lovebuzz1979]

We used to put Jolly Ranchers in um. Still tasted like dishwater 🤢

[@Sarah-with-an-H]

@@maryg9482 it tasted to me like if 7pu was alcoholic

[@michaelgrantham1871]

Gotta say, I was around when Zima was a thing, never tried it. I was chasing Jack with Bud.

[@tomsloop6274]

When hearing "The Coreys", if two specific names don't immediately fly out of your mouth... Do not reapply, do not appeal, do not protest, just go!

[@crystalpetrosky6188]

THIS! So much this!!!! The Lost Boys was a Gen X anthem movie!!

[@amcam208]

Feldman, all day long! ❤

[@nicshere]

Feldman and Haim. License To Drive. The Lost Boys. Goonies and Lucas were movies they did separately but were as good as they one’s done together.

[@lauranolan1969]

I hope it's Feldman and Heim? I have no idea why I read your comment and those two names pop straight through my brain. Maybe Goonies😂

[@joewarren3n1]

Do you remember captain kangaroo??

[@Paperscrapper]

It was not available on any channels we got, but I can sing Counting Flowers on the Wall.

[@Ninjanimegamer]

....And the magic garden with the chuckle patch. Romper room with her magic mirror. The electric company with OJ Simpson, bill cosby and Morgan Freeman. Laugh-In with Goldie hawn. We had great t.v., because we had actual writers. Now they all seem to be on strike.

[@lanie4343]

I loved watching captain kangaroo and i love that song counting flowers on the wall that don’t bother me at all lol statler bros rock

[@maryhaley5569]

"One of these things is not like the other..." is now playing in my head. Thanks

[@irony11]

Yes. Do you remember Captain Caveman?

[@deestrick5712]

“We are the World. We are the Children.”

[@DarinM1967]

Here's a possible trick phrase to test them with. Ask them to finish any of these "Conjunction Junction...", " Hey little 12 toes..." or "I'm just a Bill..."

[@frannielocks]

“…what’s your function?!” 😃😃😃😃

[@DarinM1967]

@frannielocks * whisper * "Hey, you're not supposed to answer it online! Now, all the millinals and GenZs will know one of our pass phrases! I'm not worrying about GenAlpha's because, according to MSMs, most of them can't read above 3rd grade. Anyway, keep the other ones to yourself until the next months meeting! It's the annual town hall where we're going to vote on whether or not we give enough Fs yet to actually try and help the younger generations or just let them wipe each other out! I know, I know the vote hasn't changed in the last 43 years, but ya'll never know! At least we did vote last year to keep feeding the Boomers, so at least nobody can say we haven't been trying to play well with others. LOL!!!

[@3807shawn]

Just a phoney old bill and I live on capital hill

[@DarinM1967]

Yup! You both are right, but what about the 3rd one or how about "There was suffering until ..."?

[@ThePumpkinLady53]

Class of 1988...our After Prom party was at a legit BAR! Paid for by our school!!! I kid you not.

[@Ninjanimegamer]

We had our prom at a hotel and yes we could drink at the bar. There was this one dude who pulled off all, and I mean all, the paintings off the walls and brought them to my room. He was drunk and was trying to impress me cause he knew I liked art. Hahaha. The after prom parties were scattered across that hotel. It was way fun. My friends and I had tried to put back those paintings in the early morning hours. We tried to match up the faded wallpaper to the size of each painting. That was a lot of work, and we had to use the stairs, because some of those were too big for the elevator. The kid who did this is sadly no longer here with us but his memory lingers on.

[@highspiritsfarm781]

If you never had to dodge an incoming lawn dart…or count the bruises on your shines from a clacker….nope you ain’t in the club.

[@moxdragon1857]

I still hold firm with If you didn't get beat with that paddle "That had holes in it" by your principal lol

[@lilly5157]

The board of education. 😂

[@lovebuzz1979]

😂

[@nataliesue2485]

I believe you are from Gen W. 🤣 They banned disciplining students in the US before us Gen eXers came around. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@mrsdig57]

We could here every paddle when the principal comes to get a students. It was usually a student that didn't care ❤

[@JosieGrossie73]

​@@nataliesue2485 Not true I was 8 in school in Florida we still had the paddle

[@amysimmons5004]

Spending the entire week infront of the radio to make the best mixed tape

[@MamaJ1997]

Banana clips in your hair, skinny leather ties and saving up the 16 oz glass pop bottles for the deposit

[@thealchemist333]

Listening to quiet storm on the radio and calling in to dedicate a love song to your crush and waiting with your girlfriends to hear yours get played and screaming😱😆 Reading Dear Abby Encyclopedia Brown Judy Bloom books Remembering lines from commercials... "Hey Mikey, he likes it!" "Hey Koolaid!" "No my brother, you gots ta get your own" Making mix tapes with a double cassette boom box and pressing play, record and pause Being a breakdancer and having to accept a challenge from the new kid after school while everyone watched, praying you could keep your title😂 Watching Dance Fever and Solid Gold

[@22LA22]

If your mom didn’t drink TAB 😂

[@trouble090794]

I remember when LA Gear high top sneakers were The Shoes to have! Those crazy wind/parachute outfits, Using Sun in on our hair, The mix matched earrings, and you cant forget Love's Baby Soft perfume! I remember getting cable TV, and tge first time the road i lived on getting paved for the first time (I grew up in a very small town out in the sticks lol). Trying to play pick up with metal jacks lol their plastic now. I was born in 1977 so grew up in the 80s and 90s. The jelly shoes that hurt your feet but you wore them anyways lol catching lightening bugs (which are now close to extinction). And lets not forget that if an adult asked you to do something, you better do it! 😂

[@trouble090794]

Also the time of every rock and roll music was the devils music because played backwards it held satanic messages 😂

[@TH-wh8ew]

Know what I was thinking about, ? Being allowed to purchase a pair of Jordache jeans and also Gloria Vanderbilt jeans.... I remember that being a thing ! Also, what about the Breakfast Club did we just completely forget about them? What about the Brat Pack? Yeah that bunch too..... I am having to dig deep into my memories, they are buried !!! 🤣 For multiple reasons ?!

[@cynlev]

I asked my mother for Gloria Vanderbilt jeans. She went to Sears and bought me Cheryl Tiegs jeans. Oh, the shame at school...

[@TH-wh8ew]

@@cynlev I remember those too.

[@jenren1831]

I saved up my Christmas and birthday money to buy Jordache Jeans!

[@laurieweaver454]

I still have a pair of Jordache jeans. I also named my first horse Jordache. 😂

[@TH-wh8ew]

Now that is hilarious !!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@livingdeadgirl1542]

If you have never riding in the back of a pick up truck LOADED with friends to go to a concert or just anywhere SIT DOWN. OH Almost forgot if you have never been Physically terrorized by older siblings SIT DOWN ❤

[@Wranorn]

I am the older sibling.

[@Magdalena-ow7gy]

If you don't know what C.O.D. is.....

[@MustangGirl-64]

Saturday nights … the love boat and fantasy island

[@lanie4343]

Damn right then wrestling lol

[@mrslehman3]

My desktop in college had an ashtray built into it! Haha

[@Ninjanimegamer]

We smoked in the classrooms when I was in college. That was in 91-95.

[@mrslehman3]

@@Ninjanimegamer yep! That's about the right time

[@maryg9482]

Agree 100%. Also, if a dog didn't try to murder you whilst biking...not in. If your parents took away your radio cuz SATAN...not in. If you didn't get violently ill off grain alcohol....not in. 😂😂

[@tomsloop6274]

Everclear 😮

[@vr6410]

If you never had to go and watch Saturday cartoons and actually get up and turn the channel and turn it on and off. No remote no. Rewind just Saturday cartoons in the morning with a bowl of cereal

[@maritamuras8978]

I did on an old tv. I was born in 1985.

[@LS1LEE]

You forgot to mention under no circumstances were you allowed to disturb mom or dad until they came out of the bedroom period. Be quiet watch Buggs Bunny and eat your Frosted Flakes.

[@rain0069]

doritos points rc cola clear nail polish for the run in stocking boston baked beans parachute men from the quarter machine that came down sideways😂

[@bmcagent]

Your Mamma's glass Tab bottles on the counter.

[@reneeaultman6080]

Parachute pants!

[@TH-wh8ew]

And if I'm not mistaken I'm pretty sure we're the only generation that has had to live through multiple recessions, The '70s, The '80s, The '90s and then the Great recession 2007 - 2009 !!! And least we forget the COVID, probably hit the Xers and some different kind of ways and I'm not talking about the illness so much as the burdens because we're taking care of multiple generations children and parents and even grandchildren sometimes ??? Yeah I think we're a Pretty Hardy Bunch !!! They don't give us enough credit, not yet anyway ! One day we may even be regarded as the greatest generation and if not the greatest Definitely the Coolest/ then I can all put that in their pipes and smoke them...🤣🤣🤣

[@lemmdus2119]

I look at it this way…we had our WWII relatives still alive, my grandfather was WWI. We learned our resilience from them. We also were attacked worse than Pearl Harbor on 9/11 and many of us answered the call like our grandparents. Our generation bore the brunt of that war at its beginning.

[@Ninjanimegamer]

The only time, (I say this with a grain of salt), I felt sorry for any other generation was when gen z couldn't have a prom in 2019/2020/2021 due to COVID. (This didn't affect my kid, just some kids in the neighborhood.) Otherwise, suck it up buttercups, because life is hard. You've got to be tough to make it through.

[@TH-wh8ew]

​@@Ninjanimegamer True that's sad and unfortunate, but not necessarily a life-changing event... The Z Generation, ??? Hmmm ??? There's a lot to unpack there... I love my Z babies but they are much different than My Millennials... Or sometimes referred to as the Y Generation but I think they like millennials better... I actually have old Millennials and Not young Millennials... Believe it or not Yes there's a difference....

[@christinanihart7598]

Columbia records is what started my bad credit that and Encyclopedia Britannica I'm sure I still owe them money also. Lol

[@Polythene_Pam]

If you have little brown spots all over your body BECAUSE you put iodine in baby oil...you're in. 🥴

[@JoD-ib1fx]

I’m remembering, No car seats for babies, I was held lol (70’S) , people smoking in hospitals, movie theaters, restaurants!

[@lisarice4402]

I was put in blankets inside an old dresser drawer!!

[@JoD-ib1fx]

@@lisarice4402 lol 👍

[@LeonaLinscott-cy6dz]

Ppl smoked in the bank (sitting at the desk w/ loan agent or waiting to open an acct, etc), at the insurance agents' office, barbershop, auto repair shop, etc. Hell, they smoked while shopping at the grocery store!

[@amandameyer-smith5452]

Smoking everywhere!

[@jeremyhess7977]

When my dad took me home from the hospital when I was born (1977), I rode shotgun and he kept his right hand on me when he wasn't shifting the transmission.

[@jdoveyk9422]

Columbia House…😂 that’s legit. If you didn’t spend your hard earned money in the mall at Spencers… denied! If you didn’t call ☎️ Ticketmaster and put the phone on perpetual redial to get concert tickets the moment they went on sale… denied! If you didn’t send a check or money order in the snail mail to a catalog company for your games/sneakers/clothes… denied! If you didn’t own a full size cassette tapes briefcase that permanently lived in your passenger seat… denied. If you don’t remember the Milli Vanilli lip synch scandal… denied!

[@melodieeldridge754]

Candy. Cigarettes.

[@cynlev]

My father used to buy me the fancy chocolate candy cigarettes in the plastic box. And of course, he said, "don't ever smoke when you grow up."

[@Broncoburger]

And the vending machine smoking monkeys that blew smoke rings.

[@nswh7817]

Baby Soft perfume

[@pyrettablaze1226]

I used so much of that back in the day! I think that’s the reason why I have chronic sinus and allergy problems to this day!🤣🤣

[@bolognatony8739]

You said "yeet". Denied.

[@LeonaLinscott-cy6dz]

Not denied, but it could qualify ya for probationary period or something. Lol

[@jeremyhess7977]

@@LeonaLinscott-cy6dz No exceptions. Rules and laws have no meaning if we make exceptions.

[@sweettee8110]

If you never watched The Great Space Coaster or The Electric Company...Beat it! 👉🏽

[@MustangGirl-64]

If you didn’t have feathered hair or didn’t emulate one f the Charlie’s Angles. Denied 🙅‍♀️

[@maryhaley5569]

My hair was so feathered that the back of my head looked like a duck's butt

[@MustangGirl-64]

@@maryhaley5569 lol 😂

[@matthewmcdaniel8846]

If you never stood for the pledge of allegiance every morning at school, if you never walked to school, if you never chewed tobacco in FFA class, if you never went to lunch break and drank flaming Dr Pepper before choir class 😁

[@donnaj1546]

I had to look up Justin Wilson and my mom made us go out in long pants and sleeves for that slide but otherwise I am there. However I was more bartles and James instead of zima

[@Ninjanimegamer]

We had those wine coolers at prom. Lol

[@Polythene_Pam]

If you didn't leave the house smelling like you went swimming in Jean Naté and Love's Baby Soft, you can't sit with us.

[@ksealskimmer]

born in 1971...what we use to do before caller id and *69.... crank call people using 3 way calling and listening to two people fighting over who called who

[@cam569]

I'm always questioned to what music I had in my collection, it was a top 40 mix tape from the radio.

[@amysimmons5004]

If you don't know what a pager was or how it was used, u can't come in

[@shaylaadams477]

Recording songs off of the radio with a cassette, got motion sickness from the merry go round from it being spun 90mph, writing letters because texting wasn't invented yet.

[@uloveshawna]

😂"If you can TASTE this picture?" OMGLOL 😂😂😂..Immediately in both ways!🚽😆👍🏼 ❤thX

[@michellemaroda7189]

I still have my Big Mac Transformer! I also recently had to explain to a younger relative that I used to have to turn to Channel 3 to play video games.

[@Whatchamawhozit]

If you didn't know that growing up was being a toys R us kid... get to stepping

[@kristyblackwell1712]

Rolling your stonewashed jeans to “fit in.”

[@88GrandMrs]

It makes sense why I had NO clue about the iodine thing.😂 I am a black woman 1976 I was like, huh? Had me questioning my generational placement 😂😂😂

[@aimeed4523]

OMG, that is hilarious. My first car was a 78 Celica with no AC and those god awful fake wool seat covers. I grew up in Northern CA. I would have to go to work in a tank and shorts with all the windows hand cranked down in the summer and put my uniform on when I got there. Those were the days. Class of 94!

[@MustangGirl-64]

You’re talking about those wooden rollerballs right?😂

[@sweettee8110]

I had a '78 Chevy Nova. Chocolate brown. I called her Hershey. No AC and no radio. Rode around with the windows down and a boom box on the front seat. Fun times!

[@sophiacromwell8017]

Celicas are great!! (I wish they’d start making them again!!)

[@jenren1831]

I called my air conditioning “4-55” All 4 windows down driving 55 😂

[@MustangGirl-64]

@@jenren1831 🤣

[@MB-wz4qo]

Oh the memories of the metal slide in the heat of summer! Not only that, but our metal slides were about 75 feet tall, our metal jungle gyms with the peeling paint that were essentially death traps, the 50 foot monkey bars, and the merry go round where you would pile all of the neighborhood kids to see who would go flyong off first...and all of this on a gravel playground! The good old days.

[@afriendlyfaceinthecrowd]

“Skyrockets in flight! Afternoon delight!”

[@krystalvanhorn8310]

If your first makeup and perfume as a kid wasn't Avon. Get stepping.

[@leeannulrich9874]

Spiral perms, Nair, camping all night for concert tickets, candy necklaces, the yellow thingy you put in your 45 to play the record. No? Move along

[@LeonaLinscott-cy6dz]

How about...'stealing' your boyfriends Levi jacket or favorite flannel? Wearing those alligator clips with the feathers hanging from em in your hair, which is also a convenient roach clip You know what a roach clip is. The floating heart necklace Swatch watches Nagel posters You know Will Smith from DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince When your parents/grands got hooked on nighttime soaps like Dallas, Knots Landing, Falcon Crest, etc. For the drugstore crowd: Jean Nate...Jovan Musk...Charlie...Le Jardin...Chloe...Jordache... For the Mall pack: Obsession...Polo...Poison...Drakkar Noir...Giorgio

[@RemoteCamper]

I've never heard of Iodine and baby oil. * Putting 2 tape players together so you can make a copy of a tape. * The significance of scotch tape and a cassette tape.

[@karlar8648]

Dad with his muscle car with all of us packed in front to back. My favorite was the Grand Torino. And don't forget the Green Stamps book.

[@3807shawn]

If your parents never had a station wagon where you faced toward the back denied

[@kenziesmith3722]

If you never got to watch the real T.G.I.F, then get moving.

[@prudies.3375]

Don’t be reedikulous!!

[@kenziesmith3722]

Anyone remember that one show it was like aliens landed on earth got a house and neighbors and had a alien baby in a crib? Please someone else tell me they remember it too! I think it lasted one season if that

[@prudies.3375]

@@kenziesmith3722 I’m not sure if this is right but do you mean Out of this World?

[@kenziesmith3722]

@@prudies.3375 nope not it. But guess what I googled it and I'm right there was a show like that called "Aliens in the Family" I'm so glad I'm not crazy (well I mean I think the jury is still out but still)

[@kenziesmith3722]

@@prudies.3375 I looked it up it was called Aliens in the family

[@wendywheelock943]

If your child puts on a pair of Doc Martins or Converse and you cannot find the exact same pair in the back of the closet that are OLDER than said child...please place your application in the shredder.

[@emj1768]

I used to put jolly rangers in my Zimas! ❤❤❤

[@beth7215]

A little lime juice myself. Loved them!!

[@kevinjohnson4288]

Skittles here

[@emj1768]

@@kevinjohnson4288 Ooooooooo that's a good ones! Never thought of those!🤗🤗🤗

[@allstardemolition7]

Riding in the back of a truck, getting up on weekends at 240am as a 12 yr old, folding and delivering 250 plus newspapers by bicycle to your doorstep by 445am, i can do this forever.

[@tias6717]

And we use the hand cranking symbol to each other if we want you to roll your window down!😊

[@wendygrossman7411]

I am dying laughing! I loved after school specials. Gen X is the best to ever live.

[@beth7215]

How about if you didn't have a Member's Only jacket - NOPE. Don't know about Purple Passion? Denied. If you don't know about jelly shoes or Swatch watches, sorry, we're all full. 😅😂 Blessings to everyone 🙏

[@jdoveyk9422]

Purple Passion pukes are devastatingly hard to clean up. 😂😂😂

[@beth7215]

@@jdoveyk9422 luckily the only time I had enough to puke, I made it to a toilet for the duration (I had the whole 2 liter. 2 liter of grain alcohol - you had to love the 80s!!)

[@jenniferri7735]

i must confess i had to google justin wilson, but the instant i saw him i just yelled his name with a cajun accent because HE IS LOUISIANA THE END

[@susanbartlett3421]

What kind of wine do you drink with that? The kind you like!!

[@Polythene_Pam]

Hearing cars all over your town that had that Dukes of Hazzard horn.

[@shezzawymark8963]

We had the smoking section at school right next to a national park that was a tinderbox come summer. My older daughter who is only 30 had it on their oval where the teachers would bum cigarettes from the students.

[@JT-ox9tk]

I qualify for most of these things, but being an older Gen Xer, a few of these things are after my time. I hope you still take my application into consideration!

[@Ninjanimegamer]

Gen x isn't the problem. It's the millennials that don't like being in the millennial group who are trying to sneak in under the guise of xennial, which is not a generational thing, but rather a social wannabe thing.

[@matthewmcdaniel8846]

If you don’t know what RC COLA is, Mr pib, and flaming Dr Pepper is

[@charlesbutler4755]

Pulled up at High School in an T-top Camaro Z28 with a blower sticking through the hood rocking out to Ozzy Osbourne Crazy Train , Guns n Roses Sweet Child of Mine head banging your mullet with a pack Marlboro Reds rolled up in your shirt sleeve wearing a Metallica shirt

[@rajon25]

I quit drinking like 15 or so years ago but I still hate that I know if if you throw a jolly rancher into a Zima, it tastes better. Or maybe that was bitter? Also I'm baby Gen x and the product of a parochial school and I was thinking we didn't have a smoking section, literally we were told to smoke across the street. Wow! The more I think about it, the more surprised I am that I am still alive in my 40s.

[@nicolewalker1171]

Party lines!! Pick up the phone and listen to someone else's conversation 2 blocks away.

[@ls-vg4pn]

I still have my CDs from CH. Listen to them in my car. My legs got burned on the leather car seats because cloth seats weren't a thing back then. PICTURE PAGES. Mall bangs (hair was parted at your bangs) We also used hair spray to blow and hold our hair out from the sides. Anyone remember the barrettes with the braided ribbons?? Chinese jacks?

[@branwen4029]

I don't owe them money but those fake ass names I used sure do LMFAO 🤣

[@rightsidepainter1233]

Riding your bike to friends or the park because asking your parents for a ride wasn't even an option. Rain or shine or blizzard.

[@LeahMT.]

The Columbia House Records thing 🤣🤣 I quit and rejoined so many times

[@ATrane-1842]

If you didn't ride in the back of a pickup truck or hangout at the roller skating rink... sit down

[@cincygirl1973]

I was showing these videos to my son, added the "Do you know where your kids are" tv spots nightly and the playing card in the spokes of our bikes and the look he gave me 🤨 he'll never understand 😂

[@jenren1831]

Playing outside or at a friends house all day long, without contacting home … just be home before the street lights come on!

[@crystalschilleci8597]

If you think playing outside is boring denied. I had friends all over my neighborhood. Now we barely know our neighbors

[@onceuponanexploration6048]

Omg that hexagon McFlurry really brought me back. Purple ink worksheets…

[@Acesandeightz]

I don’t owe Columbia House anything. But a family pet or 2 may…

[@melmel9832]

Prank calling people from the phone book. Calling POPCORN to check the time. Your mom “forgot” to pick you up from the library. You walked yourself home after getting 4 wisdom teeth pulled because your mom was working.

[@heidimackay1902]

Whew, as I watch this and leave my comment wearing the exact same glasses lmfao 😂 I have still made the list and that's what really matters! 😅

[@Ninjanimegamer]

Ah, but were you driving and drinking? Did you pack in 10+ kids/friends into a car? Did you neglect to buckle up, because there was no law? You may not be in if you were born after 1980. Even 78-80 is questionable.

[@NothingToNoOneInParticular]

My truck is 54 years old...I still crank my windows up and down....V8...460....I hate Jotato's gas prices..

[@cynlev]

That Columbia House line took me ALL THE WAY OUT!! I STILL owe them money 🙂

[@tedlogan4867]

If you never played coin-op video games while wearing roller skates... access denied.