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re: Gen x experience - lost forever.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:33 am to Ruston Trombone
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:33 am to Ruston Trombone
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People forget how much boredom there was. It’s easy to romanticize now when you’re not the one who has to spend half your day every day just waiting around for something.
I don't remember being bored. I am sure I was but there was always a creek that needed damning or a construction site awash with plywood and shite to steal and build or add on to the fort/clubhouse/space-pirate ship. When we weren't doing that we'd be playing football or baseball with anywhere from 3 to 30 to a side. It was even better as a teen because someone always had some task that they would pay you to do and you'd do it so you'd have some folding money in your pocket. Had to have folding money to buy gas to cruise the parking lot. Kids today are missing out on life not having a parking lot to cruise.
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Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:34 am to ScopeCreep
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Stuff like this makes me wonder how y’all created a generation of blue-haired queer-identifying weirdos who cannot cope with modern society.
Left them to their own devices like we were left to our own and they were not up to the task.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:35 am to Dandaman
That feeling of getting to the video store and having one copy left…
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:37 am to LSURussian
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Waiting for your favorite song to play on the radio so you could hit “record” at just the right second.
Been there, done that...
There was also the 8 track changing tracks in the only hit on the damned album LOL. Never understood how they did not time it where the only hit had to change tracks in the middle. It was almost as if they meant to do it.
Cassettes were SO superior. I do not remember ever having to stick a piece of folded paper in cassette player to get it to play like an 8 track. Would have to rewind the damned things sometimes but if you anticipated it you could hit eject before it at the whole tape.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:42 am to CAD703X
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i can't remember the last time i saw a kid walking or riding a bike to school.
Most schools discourage it. We lived about 500 yards from our daughters elementary school for a while. Entire neighborhood was out and about when it was school time and when it let out. If you did not walk your kid to school they could not walk by themselves. I have no idea why but our daughter did it, she was clearly physically capable, but the school acted like it was the end of the world. She did it nearly every day for the 5 or so months we lived there until we bought our current home and the school was constantly on about it. She walks to a store or waffle house now just about every day after school to hang out with her friends and her high school doesn't like that either. That will stop this year as she is driving (UGH). Kids would still do it and would love to do it....but parents and schools do everything they can to prevent it.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:45 am to AwgustaDawg
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I was born in 1965 so either very old Gen X or very young Boomer. Either way when we were kids and mentioned being bored someone would find something for you to do like dig a ditch or mow the lawn. This is why we left the house just after waking up and did not go home until we knew we had pushed it as far as we could....parents were too busy to start assigning jobs first thing in the morning and too tired in the evening to start assigning them. We would usually chance returning home sometime during the day to sneak in the house and get something to eat but you had to be careful because the damned adults were on top of their game after a few cups of coffee....they would have all manner of ill shite they demanded you do. Luckily for most of us the adults were at work during the day so we could disappear after they left and come back and have the run of the house. Weekends were tough though...damned adults around all damn day.
Born in 82, pure millennial here. ONCE I told my mom I was bored, and she looked at me with a satanic grin, grabbed about a dozen paper grocery bags, and said meet her outside. We went to the backyard, where my dad had about a dozen pecan trees with bumper crops. She said, "start picking them up."
I never told her I was bored ever again.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:47 am to Dandaman
I miss books. Now it's so easy to google anything I want to know. But I miss the days of having a physical library of knowledge and knowing how to find information without a screen.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:48 am to McLemore
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I read the same condensed, large print Reader’s Digest stories 455 times in my grandparents’ bathroom over a few summers.
My mama took up with an old boy when I was about 8 or so and that summer she more or less kidnapped my sister and myself and took us to his "farm" just outside of Birmingham. We lived in an old single wide trailer without AC. His mother lived in a similar trailer about 100 yards away. The trailer we lived in was slap full of Modern Romance and similar women's magazines. We spent all of about 4 weeks there before their romance faded and we hightailed it back to Atlanta and civilization but I must have read 6-8 hours a day from those women's magazines. It paid off later in life...I was far more attuned to female romantic fantasy than most men my age and nothing makes drawers fly off like being able to spoon feed a woman her idealized romantic fantasies....
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:51 am to Ruston Trombone
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People forget how much boredom there was
During the summer when school was out after the Price is Right went off it was time to find shite to do and we did.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:53 am to Ruston Trombone
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People forget how much boredom there was.
I mean, that was exactly the point. People were allowed to experience boredom which also encouraged them to find things to do.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:54 am to AwgustaDawg
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I must have read 6-8 hours a day from those women's magazines.
That certainly explains you
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:55 am to MRTigerFan
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I miss books. Now it's so easy to google anything I want to know. But I miss the days of having a physical library of knowledge and knowing how to find information without a screen.
To be honest I miss being ignorant LOL. There is still far more that we don't know than we do but it is own fault...the collective knowledge of our species entire history is a google search away and that is great but back in the day we would say some stupid shite like "Its closer to Honolulu from Anchorage than it is to Los Angeles" and unless you wanted to go the trouble of getting out an atlas and measuring it and converting it you could argue about it for days....now its about 30 seconds on the google machine LOL. We thought all manner of trivial shite was true because it sort sounded like it might be....now if you don't know something its because you ain't googled it.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 12:14 pm to MRTigerFan
quote:the monroe library was the coldest building in town!
I miss books. Now it's so easy to google anything I want to know. But I miss the days of having a physical library of knowledge and knowing how to find information without a screen.
(or maybe thats because my cheap arse father made us keep the thermostat on 80 all the time so when i actually experienced air conditioning it blew my mind)
i swear if i snuck out at night and turned that round dial down a *FRACTION* he would be out of bed within 10 minutes bellowing at the top of his lungs WHO MESSED WITH THE THERMOSTAT!!!!!!! anyway i digress. yes the library was great..you had to spend an hour pouring over the dewey decimal system for textboks or just alphabetical for normal books.
this was social media circa 70s/80s
This post was edited on 6/30/25 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 6/30/25 at 12:25 pm to StansberryRules
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The last generation before the Internet, pretty substantial. Nothing changed society as much. Even electricity.
The steam engine probably did. Prior to that humans could only travel as fast as a horse or a sail on a boat could go. That means someone born in 1800 could relate more with someone from Ancient Greece than someone born only 50 years later.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 12:30 pm to zippyputt
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Playing outside, with no gadgets is a lost art!
You could do a lot with a pile of dirt and some sticks
Posted on 6/30/25 at 12:33 pm to Dandaman
They won’t, unfortunately.
It’s always instant gratification… we can thank phones, iPads, etc. for that
No meeting up to hang out and figure out what to do.
Never see 4-5 bikes parked outside someone’s house in the neighborhood… that’s how we knew were everyone was .
High school kids don’t really go on dates… movies, dinner, etc.
No going to blockbuster to pick out movies
Kids grow up to fast now a days.
Tearing up typing this, as I have a 20 and 14 yo. Half way bc it reminds me they are almost out the house, and half way bc I feel sorry for them not being able to experience growing up like I did…graduated high school 2000.
It’s always instant gratification… we can thank phones, iPads, etc. for that
No meeting up to hang out and figure out what to do.
Never see 4-5 bikes parked outside someone’s house in the neighborhood… that’s how we knew were everyone was .
High school kids don’t really go on dates… movies, dinner, etc.
No going to blockbuster to pick out movies
Kids grow up to fast now a days.
Tearing up typing this, as I have a 20 and 14 yo. Half way bc it reminds me they are almost out the house, and half way bc I feel sorry for them not being able to experience growing up like I did…graduated high school 2000.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 12:54 pm to biglego
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I must have read 6-8 hours a day from those women's magazines.
That certainly explains you
You are correct, being able to read has been a blessing and a curse that many folks seem to forego....
Posted on 6/30/25 at 1:00 pm to Dandaman
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What Gen X lost is subtle but profound: a sense of being truly untethered, of finding things instead of being fed them, of living without constant comparison or surveillance. They had a private kind of youth — and that kind of privacy now feels like a relic of another world.
It’s only a relic if you make it so. Turn all the electronics off and do your thing without them. It’s not that difficult.
I get the nostalgia for the past, but a lot of modern tech conveniences are nice to have. I don’t want to give them up completely.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 1:26 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
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During the summer when school was out after the Price is Right went off it was time to find shite to do and we did.
hell in my house if you waited til Price is Right came on some damned adult would have a list of shite for you to do you couldn't complete with a crew of thirty just like you in a year....wasn't any watching of TV during the day...now around 3 when WTBS started with the reruns of the Monsters and the like the adults would be tired and not as sharp so they might forget you were around and handy to have around to do the shite they didn't want to do...but at 9 am they were well rested, full of coffee and idiotic ideas about how a kid ought to spend his day in the summer...so you had to be gone while they were getting up.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 1:30 pm to Dandaman
Wouldn't have all generations that came before Gen X lost the same things?
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