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Posted by WarhammerRyan@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 203 comments
I think most of us also can relate to this sort of childhood...
Posted by WarhammerRyan@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 203 comments
I think most of us also can relate to this sort of childhood...
nochumplovesucka__@reddit
Gen X to me are people who were adults or teens in the 80s.
I was a kid.
I'm glad I found this sub, I didn't know xennials were a thing but I never felt like Gen X. I always thought of them as way older than me. But millenials seem younger than me to me. So this is where I belong.
Kinky_drummer83@reddit
Same, even though I'd be considered a "younger" xennial because I was born in '83. I feel like I have nothing in common with millennials. Half my upbringing was from my older siblings who were 6 - 11 years older than me, and sort of raised me.
You can't beat hose water on a hot summer day.
cloggedDrain@reddit
Doesn’t that technically make you a millennial? I make fun of my wife over this. She was also born in 83
Suspicious-Cow7951@reddit
I'm such an old millennial I remember when I was generation Y
thevigg13@reddit
You and me both. My mother read it in a newspaper article and proclaimed this to me as if they uncovered the origin of life.
Suspicious-Cow7951@reddit
Same
Kinky_drummer83@reddit
I've always seen Xennial loosely defined as 1977 - 1983 birth year. But I'm not going to lose much sleep over it.
lolli91@reddit
Yeah I wouldn't say 1965 starting
headlesschooken@reddit
I think you're confusing the GenX shirt with the xennial birth year range.
SurlySuz@reddit
It’s that xennial is really tail-end gen x and the oldest millennials. So I see myself as both millennial (technically) but also Xennial.
Angry_Hermitcrab@reddit
Well all these terms are based on the culture changing through time. I really had no friends my own age. All older and I was homeschooled. So my personality is more if not entirely based off a much older generation. Also having hbo and cinemax from a young age had some big effects. I was born in 83.
TenderMending@reddit
This is exactly my experience. I am I guess an 'elder millennial' with a firmly gen x older sibling and I feel ~culturally gen x.
The_Queef_of_England@reddit
Hose water was plasticy barf. I don't think we're defined by liking it, but knowing it. Warm hose water was never nice. Familiar, not good.
cracklincornbread@reddit
That hit off the hose pipe tasted like house.
SurlySuz@reddit
I had the same sort of thing. Born the same year as you with older gen x siblings half-raising me. Can’t relate to a lot of millennials.
banjonyc@reddit
When you're at the end or beginning of these classifications it's very hard. I was born in '63 and was a teenager in the '70s and early '80s so I drank from the water hose. However, I'm considered a boomer with people who were born in the '40s
3s1k@reddit
I still remember when my dad got a new garden hose one summer. That nasty plastic taste of new garden hose baking in the summer sun… bleh. Took a year or two for the hose water to taste right again.
Something came up the other day about drinking from the hose and my kid’s friend made a face like if I had said we used to drink from mud puddles.
RFWanders@reddit
I was born in November of 1980, on paper I am GenX, but I have far more in common with millennials, so the Xennial label fits much better.
Triala79@reddit
October of 1979 so I feel you. Gen X were my older cousins who smoked and listened to Bon Jovi as teenagers. I was just some kid coloring in the corner then...
y0urPalMitch@reddit
This! 78’ baby here. I was the kid playing Nintendo in front of the tv while my older siblings or cousins made out with randos on the couch pretending I didn’t notice.
mponte1979@reddit
'79 here, I would pretend to not notice for bribes. My standard fee to not rat out the baby sitter was some garbage pail kids.
eternal_peril@reddit
78 is the best 7 and 8 combined in that order
singleguy79@reddit
Hello fellow Oct 79er
Practical-Trash-4976@reddit
I was born in 75 and I relate to this specific sub more than the Gen X or Millennial sub
Rellcotts@reddit
Yeah 76 here and I relate much more to this sub as well
initcursor@reddit
Same here. I didn’t even know “xennial” was a thing but I feel like I stumbled across my people.
Celtic_Fox_@reddit
Exactly!! Couldn't have said it better, I was born in '89 but grew up with a single parent in poverty. We essentially lived with hand me downs that she had from years prior so I watched nothing but older movies, and listened to mostly older music.
I just feel like I can relate so much here, not that I necessarily feel disconnected from my own generation per se.
LucretiousVonBismark@reddit
Me too!
Cyberhaggis@reddit
1980 baby too. I feel I've got a lot more in common with millenials from a social perspective, but more in common with gen x from a cultural perspective, so Xennial it is.
HockeyandTrauma@reddit
Yeah I'm summer 81, and I guess it depends on where you look if I'm x or millennial, but this sub is absolutely where I feel most comfortable. Can definitely identify certain things from both groups, but neither overwhelmingly so.
No_Barber_1195@reddit
“Xennial” exists as a term because the generational structure makes no sense!
1901-1927 The Greatest Generation (26 Years) 1928-1945 Silent Generation (17years) 1946-1964 Boomers (18 years) 1965-1980 Gen X (15 years) 1981-1996 Millenials (15 years) (But by some measures up to 2000)
Realistically if you’re born 81-85 you likely have more in common with Gen X than Millennials relative to how old your parents were.
nochumplovesucka__@reddit
trashbilly@reddit
Welcome
BIGepidural@reddit
How the fuck is someone born in the late 70s or 80 supposed to be an adult or teen in the 80s? 🤦♀️
nochumplovesucka__@reddit
Whoosh.
BIGepidural@reddit
Bless you
RadicalPickles@reddit
Gen X were 90s young adults, kids/teens in the 80s
nochumplovesucka__@reddit
Some were young adults in the 80s too. Someone born in 64 when Gen X starts, would have been 20 in 1984, with 6 more years left in the 80s
The_Queef_of_England@reddit
Same. Gen X is a bit less flexible than me. Gen Z is a bit too flexible. I relate to gen Y, but lean xennial.
Least-Back-2666@reddit
Us early 80s babies have forever tried to distinguish us from xers or millennials.
Probably because we were all told we'd be special or grow up to be rockstars or presidents, cue fight club speech.
bemoreoh@reddit
Gen x were my older aunts and uncles, even though they were only a couple years older I was left out the group when they hit puberty. I ran the streets as an independent for a while.
Pitiful-Body-780@reddit
Same, dude, same.
Derp35712@reddit
A read a characteristic of gen x was not feeling part of a generation so now I don’t know what to think.
cloggedDrain@reddit
It’s an internal conflict, and I am glad it’s not just me
83CO@reddit
I'm '83. A few things in here are before my time, but you folks get me.
its_raining_scotch@reddit
Gen X were the cool older brothers and sisters of my friends to me. They taught me about music and Star Wars and older toys or video games. Because of this I always looked up to them and know their vibe/culture very well, but my later childhood/early teens were different from theirs, so there’s a divergence of experience.
Sanchastayswoke@reddit
Same here. To all of it
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
Same...but there's no xennial stuff around. This hits home for a lot of us though
Awesome_Bobsome@reddit
IMO every generation has this early/late split. It's just exacerbated with X because of computers and internet. Xennial microgen FTW. The Jones and Zillennials cusp microgens aren't nearly as significant. Though the Zillennials do have that touch screen thing and have essentially always had pocket computers as phones.
Themoosemingled@reddit
We really are the tail end. Gen x we’re the people in reality bites. I was still in high school.
But we had that analog childhood, with the digital shift at that pivotal age.
That’s what makes the xennial so unique, and we all feel so comfortable here. I’m the eldest of 4 so this is like me and my younger siblings friends.
ElectricSnowBunny@reddit
Dude it's such a good sub, welcome!
PlaneLocksmith6714@reddit
More neglect than hose water.
AHorseNamedPhil@reddit
The hose water trope is mostly a suburban life thing rather than something that was universal. I kind of hate it for that reason. In the cities you had a store every 3 or 4 blocks & a snapple iced tea or a soda or whatever was probably $0.75. I don't remember anyone drinking from hoses.
harlembornnbred@reddit
Amen! City kid and never drank from a hose as they didn't exist for us. I'd either bum a quarter off my siblings or their friends to buy a juice or drink from the fire hydrant which were always open on hot summer days before they added those awful sprinkler caps here in NYC
AHorseNamedPhil@reddit
I probably overstated things in saying it never happened, but not enough to ever remember anyone doing it. It definitely wasn't some thing people were doing all the time. I grew up in Philly, and it sounds fairly similar to your experience.
harlembornnbred@reddit
Yea in Manhattan there were no lawns so no water hoses. I'm sure people from the outer boroughs did but it was a never for me lol
baconrefugee@reddit
I lived in the city. We drank from the hose and played in the fire hydrant
mecrissy@reddit
lol bold of you to assume we had 75 cents. And Snapple wasn’t a thing until I was in high school. I was a city kid and 100% drank out of the hose.
AHorseNamedPhil@reddit
Fair enough. I'm assuming in a place that had lawns where the hoses got a lot of use?
I grew up in a place w/ rowhouses and concrete, and no one drank from hoses. It's definitely a trope that isn't a universal Gen X experience.
Zeqhanis@reddit
Fellow poor kid, and adult. However, when I discovered that there was a foot-tall gap between an upscale restaurant's slatted, wooden patio and the dirt below, that definitely changed ($5 to 10 a week). I felt rich.
Interesting-Fly879@reddit
Definitely drank from the hose in the summer while running around all day with the neighborhood kids. (Some of which I didn’t even like but everyone hung out anyway!) Also occasionally pulled a carrot from the garden or a stalk of rhubarb from the patch in the neighbor’s yard gave it a quick rinse with the hose & ate that.
HoldMyBeer85@reddit
In the early 90s I could get a Craigmont soda for 25¢, or a name brand soda for 50¢. Donuts were 45¢, and candy bars were 49¢.
Now get off my lawn.
raccoonportfolio@reddit
My wife likes to say "benign neglect"
Searcher_since-1969@reddit
Benign neglect is the perfect term! As a latchkey kid, it couldn’t be helped but I was happy!
Main_Half_2290@reddit
Hose water? You spoiled, rich kids from back in the days. We barely had enough stones to play with.
BlurL1fe@reddit
People born after that were raised the same way
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
Yes. I'm an 81er hence my op saying .any of us xennials can relate
BlurL1fe@reddit
I know, but Gen X always acts like they’re the only ones.😂
BetterAd7552@reddit
Ah, the sweet taste of plastic tainted water from the hose after running around for hours until red faced… sigh. Good times.
Also the rule was, head home when the street lights came on.
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
Yup. Dinner at a friend's house or friends over for dinner (hot dogs or macaroni were always hits) and out til the street lights.... good times
Interesting-Fly879@reddit
And sometimes you could go back out to play flashlight tag after dark if you bugged your parents enough!
full_of_ghosts@reddit
Everybody hates Boomers, and rightfully so. They're the spoiled brats of history, handed everything on a silver platter but delusional enough to think they earned it. Incompetence, entitlement, and arrogance, all wrapped up in one annoying, condescending, utterly clueless package.
And we were raised by the worst of the Boomer generation. They barely parented us, because they were too busy being the spoiled brats of history.
The stereotype is true: We basically grew up feral, even if we were lucky enough to grow up socioeconomically stable.
yeuzinips@reddit
I'm no contact with my boomer parents. Sometimes I'm surprised I survived my childhood...
TonyNoPants@reddit
I am NC with my silent gen narcissist mother. I don't understand this concept of silent generation. My parents couldn't be more boomer if they tried.
full_of_ghosts@reddit
I've wanted go no contact with my Boomer mother since I moved out of my parents' house, but I enjoy the company of my Silent Generation dad, and they're still married, so they're a package deal. I still have to tolerate her if I want to maintain a connection to him.
When my dad goes (and between being older and men having shorter life expectancy, he'll almost certainly go first), my mom is getting cut off, and I have zero qualms about telling her that at my dad's funeral. I give zero fucks about making one of the worst days of her life even worse.
As sad as I'll be about losing my dad, I'll be very happy about finally being free of my mother.
yeuzinips@reddit
Many people would be shocked to read what you wrote, but I want you to know that I totally understand this perspective. Some people - even blood relatives - are irredeemable and awful. My father is one of the worst people on the planet, and I will not miss him when he's gone. All of his kids have gone NC with him, and he'll die alone.
goater10@reddit
As much as I love my Boomer folks, their level of entitlement and inconsideration gives me the shits. They expect me to drop shit in the middle of the day to help them with some minor or trivial inconvenience like setting up their mobile banking app when I'm in the middle of presenting in a meeting. Or they will ring me at 6am or 11pm asking me how to do something, so I've had to push back on them and lecture them about appropriate times (Which is ironic as a 43 year old man that I have to parent the people who raised me)
They're also completely incapable of figuring things out or can't undertake critical thinking and can't live in today's modern world because everything confuses them and they don't have the patience to learn things, despite things being much easier and streamlined when they were in the prime if their lives. If it's not perfect or idiot proof then they go into an infinite boot loop and just stand there helpless.
justme131@reddit
I (1977) was raised by boomers (1949&1950) who are the most entitled POS ever.
We were upper middle class but I had to go a semester in middle school without PE shorts because I had grown and gone through puberty between 6th and 8th grade.
They were $4 shorts that my mother refused to buy me until Christmas so they could be a gift. Yet they went to the country club every weekend.
PL02550@reddit
My dad was a narcissist. He convinced my mother for them to foot the bill for a Gospel band. All the equipment that wasn't a personal instrument was purchased by him. I went years without decent footwear and clothing because all the money was tied up in the loan for the music equipment and bus. I thought it was normal until I started seeing a therapist and she had to stop me and confirm what I was saying. That was when I realized that that wasn't normal.
TonyNoPants@reddit
I feel ya! I have a narcissist mother and I never knew what was going on in my house was abnormal until it was therapy time.
naamingebruik@reddit
When I was a kid every time I wanted something that was popular among my peers, my dad would go on about being myself and not looking at other kids, and not buying stuff just because everyone else has it. And the importance of being a unique individual. So I often was the odd one in the group and occasionally bullied over it.
Even a Charlotte Hornets cap was not ok, I wanted one and he went on and on about "who has Hornets? Why do you want it? do you even know who they are?" And no I didn't know them but the logo was cool, and I know kids in school thought they where cool.
Later it turned out my dad just didn't want to "waste money" on those things for me and packaged it that way so he wouldn't come across cheap.
But my dad always had the latest newest gadgets....
TheJustBleedGod@reddit
I had to steal lunch from the cafeteria in high school because my parents didn't give me lunch money. They made too much to qualify for free lunch. So crazy to think about now. How can you be so selfish to not ensure your kid isn't hungry at school.
bcrosby95@reddit
My parents were boomer upper-middle class and it was the exact opposite. My dad even threatened to ground me once because I wouldn't take his money when I was going somewhere.
AlpineLine@reddit
I had a similar experience, i had good parents but they had 4 sons and were just spread too thin at times. They had a teenager and a toddler at the same time and me and my next older brother who were the two middle kids didn’t always get allot of attention. I played basketball in middle school. Our team had old uniforms from the 80’s that had super short shorts that were completely out of style in the 90s. Everyone on the team bought compression shorts to wear under them but my parents wouldn’t bother with that expense so I had to be the only one not wearing them and had to sag the shorts allot. I didn’t even want to play in allot of the games and rode the pine. I also ran Cross Country and was always the last kid to be picked up from practice and always had hang out with school custodian on her cigarette break. Then they couldn’t figure out why I quit sports in High School.
justme131@reddit
My mom would scream at me for hours when grades came home. She would rage that I must be stupid for getting anything other than an A in PE. She wouldn’t listen when I told her it was because I didn’t have the appropriate gym clothes.
Indie_Fjord_07@reddit
Dang we are the same exact birth year and my dad has the same exact birth year as your parents. lol
I never thought about the neglect part. They were super busy though with their careers
It’s def a stark contrast to now where my cousins spend tons of time behind their kids while also balancing busy jobs.
Midnight_Marshmallo@reddit
I'm so sorry you got stuck with parents like that. We were dirt poor but I had no idea because my Mom did her best to make sure my childhood was fun and I had everything I needed.
AliveInIllinois@reddit
My dad was like this once I became a teenager. Tried to wait till Christmas to buy me a winter coat one year. Another year bought me a 5dollar alarm clark. When he'd just bought himself an $150 cb radio.
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
Sounds accurate
eyeballburger@reddit
Blows my mind that people think someone born in ‘80 is in the same “generation” as someone born in ‘65. 13 years old and nirvana, Metallica, faith no more, cannibal corpse VS 13 and the beegees, led zeppelin, black sabbath. Home consoles vs arcades. Gangster rap vs hippie folk. Totally different eras.
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
End of genx is really start of xennial but before the kids who "grew up with the internet". There was never a cultural divide so we did it ourselves. We don't feel like millennial fits and gen x say we don't belong with them (don't worry - been hearing that all of our lives, we are used to it). Thing is, we relate more to x than millennial as far as formative years, but we are (and early on were) more into technology and keeping up with its changes than many in the genx era. Not all, don't get your old-man-balls twisted up, but many. 😉
Frunklin@reddit
Wolfman's got nards.
Creative-Motor8246@reddit
Still drink from the hose.
DVRCD@reddit
Right?! When were we supposed to stop? That plastic metallic hot water gave us nourishment spring summer breaks.
Worried_Speaker_5567@reddit
That hose water... Never gave it a single thought in the 80s.
DVRCD@reddit
Wait were/are we not supposed to drink from the hose?
TheJDOGG71@reddit
Oh my gosh, I want this shirt!!!
Optimal-Option3555@reddit
When you think about it, you can thank the 60's destroying boomers from having any idea how to raise children. All morals and any sense of structure was tossed out tye window.
cartoonchris1@reddit
Also Sesame Street, only reason we turned out mostly right.
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
C is for cookie: that's good enough for me!
Mobile-Boss-8566@reddit
Birth of the latchkey kids!
WickyWickyWhack@reddit
Heck yeah. I had the house key tied around my neck with a shoelace
FrostyGuarantee4666@reddit
House keys? What are those? We could come and go into anyone’s house no problem.
I still don’t lock my door. I’ve specifically chosen to never live anywhere that it’s required. I’m not stupid though. I lock up expensive stuff that can easily be stolen but not my house unless I leave for an extended period of time. Steal my shit, I guess. I don’t have enemies. No one is going to be fucking with my shit.
My sister/bil (two years older) lock EVERYTHING. Granted, they have kids but it’s a crazy thing to me to lock everything all the time.
Middle of the day on like a Sunday when everyone is home, I go over to their house and every single door is locked. They have everything on remote control phone locks and shit. They live in a really nice neighborhood with zero crime and they still insist on locking everything, all the time. It’s so bizarre to me. I’ll never understand it.
captain_paws_tattoo@reddit
This sounds like someone who's not afraid of being raped by someone waltzing into your house in the middle of the night.
FrostyGuarantee4666@reddit
Yeah well you got me. Like I said I chose to always live in places where those things are never a concern. I’m not at home as I’m typing this. My house is totally unlocked.
The thing is, if someone has the balls to even consider breaking into my house to steal shit or hurt me a locked door isn’t going to necessarily stop them.
Do I lock my car? Of course. Do I use 2 factor id on all my internet accounts? You bet your ass I do.
I’m still never worried about my “stuff” otherwise. Most people don’t have a FAFO mentality. Most people don’t start shit.
I understand that millions of people live in fear their entire lives. For some it’s a choice. For me it’s not.
AdultingLikeHell@reddit
Gen X never heard of them.
windsyofwesleychapel@reddit
And the threat of nuclear annihilation!
LoFi_Inspirasi@reddit
I track generations via boy bands they were obsessed with during their teens.
Gen X - New Kids on the Block
Xennials - Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC
Millennials - One Direction
anOvenofWitches@reddit
That’s insulting! Television raised me!
Philosipho@reddit
I watched movies like Hellraiser and The Shining when I was a teen. Because of that and all the neglect, I grew up detached and suicidal. I could have watched someone die the most horrific death and I'd wouldn't just analyzed it like a detective or something.
Can't even begin to explain to most people how fucked up my life has been in general.
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
Hope you're doing well now
TheCatalyst5@reddit
More specifically, MTV raised me.
LucretiousVonBismark@reddit
Yes! Around the ages of 10-14 were the best Mtv years! I was a grunge kid who wished I was a bit older so I could definitely be Gen X!
TheCatalyst5@reddit
Same!
TheJustBleedGod@reddit
Danby Tanny, Joey, and Jesse were my dads
JennyIgotyournumb3r@reddit
I hate how true this is
JayA_Tee@reddit
It’s so weird, bc us early 80s babies? So were we. And it was awful.
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
Yeah...81 here but brother was 77 and I was treated the same in the early 80s
IbexOutgrabe@reddit
OP! You’d better be home before the street light turns on.
YOU KNOW WHICH LIGHT!
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
Haha I was indeed home and taking a nap when the lights came on
yucon_man@reddit
And leaded gas fumes.
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
Lead paint bedroom walls...
DontUBelieveIt@reddit
You forgot Reagan’s boot on our necks.
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
I'm Canadian...sorry, didn't have to worry about that
blacfd@reddit
Latch-key kids unite
cherrydarling79@reddit
Im 09/79, basically raised by my Gen X sister (because parental neglect lol) wearing her 70s hand me downs, watching her shows and listening to her music, and also DEFINITELY told many childhood summers that if I was thirsty while I was playing outside that I could just get a drink from the hose so. Yes. This hits home for sure.
Beneficial-Tailor-97@reddit
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tinaalbanyny@reddit
If you haven’t seen this, it’s hysterical https://www.reddit.com/r/HolUp/s/r5aW9nZpD4
Alito4life@reddit
goater10@reddit
You make the rules and we will break them!
frougle_mcdugal@reddit
kay_bizzle@reddit
I swear to Christ, everybody acts like they invented drinking out of the garden hose
OldenPolynice@reddit
Should just say
Still Dwelling on the Same Old Shit
Lost-Cantaloupe123@reddit
Hose water in NYC = fire hydrant..
bikemandan@reddit
Lost-Cantaloupe123@reddit
Lol, more like freeze your hand off trying to drink water at an angle without getting your clothes/sneakers wet - the era before walking around with a water bottle. #memories
Substantial_Diver_34@reddit
What’s Gen X?
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
The generation that needs to get dug up to find their buried treasure, of course
Substantial_Diver_34@reddit
X marks the spot
krissym99@reddit
Born in 1981 so the oldest of the millennials, but was never allowed to drink from the hose!
WebOk91@reddit
1991 (last elder millennial) am also never drink from the hose.
krissym99@reddit
1991 is elder millennial? 😭
Practical-Trash-4976@reddit
No, Millenials are 1981-1996. Literally google “Millennials Age”
krissym99@reddit
What are you talking about? I was questioning the person saying that they're an elder millennial because they were born in 1991.
Practical-Trash-4976@reddit
My bad, I actually meant to respond to that person
krissym99@reddit
Ah ha, that makes more sense!
WebOk91@reddit
definitely
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
81 as well...drank from many hoses in the 80s
BackgroundGrade@reddit
mmm, eau de vinyl.
dustysmufflah@reddit
According to this I was given hosewater instead of baby formula...
Practical-Trash-4976@reddit
For me (75) and my brother (77), it was neglect during the day and overcompensation the rest of the time in the form of strictness and punishment. “This house had better be spotless when I get home from work!” and when it invariably wasn’t because, surprise, unsupervised children aren’t the most dedicated servants, the groundings would commence
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
Wooden spoon too? Or were your parents creative with things like washing your mouth with soap or holding your tongue with tongs and putting pepper/spices on your tongue?
Practical-Trash-4976@reddit
Meh, they weren’t super into the corporal punishment beyond the very occasional spanking. They definitely threatened to smack my face for “smarting off” but I don’t think it ever happened. My grandma put a bar of soap in my mouth once. I honestly don’t remember what I even said so I must have been pretty young. My best friend who lived across the field was part of a big family with six kids from infant to high school and 4 bedrooms. Their mom ruled with an iron fist and a wooden spoon. Pretty sure their dad also gave them the belt. Good times, the 80s. P.S. we still had corporal punishment in school when I was in elementary
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
Yeah...had one teacher who used to smack a Metre stick across kids desks and catch fingers, a few broke and went flying across the room (sticks not fingers)
Practical-Trash-4976@reddit
P.P.S. But I was grounded with Butters frequency
terminalchef@reddit
I don’t get the hose water thing. There is zero difference between that and coming out of your top when the hose is clean. We never let our hoes get filthy or anything like that.
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
Moreso the idea of kids being kids and spraying from the hose and not even going inside for water. Get soaked while drinking and take off. Most times from your own hose but not always
The_Queef_of_England@reddit
Any other 1980 kids told they were millennials for years, and then suddenly got kicked into gen x?
VendaGoat@reddit
*GUFFAWS*
I must have one.
Jojahu@reddit
Cringe
dinglepumpkin@reddit
I do not feel Gen X
WebOk91@reddit
one day I saw a shirt that said GenX 1970-1991
LPNTed@reddit
I'd love to have this shirt, but I was NOT neglected, and even if my parents weren't alive, I wouldn't dare be taught sending this message... To be clear.. I love the shirt and the idea.. unfortunately it just doesn't work for me.
mbeefmaster@reddit
Embarrassing boomer-lite behaviour
HausuGeist@reddit
Id buy that!
LifePedalEnjoyer@reddit
I agree with the sentiment, but it's not something to advertise or brag about.
dismayhurta@reddit
Yeah. This sub sometimes gets boomeresque.
If smart phones existed then, we would have used them the same amount as Gen Z.
I loathe this “Kids today are doing X wrong” bullshit or “we were better because of Y.”
wagashi@reddit
Humor is therapeutic.
FI-Engineer@reddit
Black humor doubly so.
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
Agreed. It's not something I'd buy to wear but it's a funny way to encapsulate a big part of my youth
AquariusRising1983@reddit
I disagree... I feel like it's a badge of honor that we all made it to our 40s
ScreenTricky4257@reddit
"Suck hose water!"
"Already did it."
bemoreoh@reddit
Hey, to be fair my mom was young and still growing up when I was born. We’d stay out way past our bedtimes. I remember going to a couple of her high school night classes with her. Few years later I went to that same high school.
brh1588@reddit
The Gen Xers I know are all a bunch of whiney little bitches
Kookiecitrus55555@reddit
You forgot the smokes
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
None of us will ever forget the purple-grey haze of that time. Why do you think we were all outside
Kookiecitrus55555@reddit
Don't forget yellowed window sheers and drapes
CLUTCH3R@reddit
Can relate
GenExHusband@reddit
I knew I hard that phrase before
Merzbenzmike@reddit
Take my money. I need this in a t shirt.
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
That's what this vendor wants to do.... could likely find them online
Merzbenzmike@reddit
I’m sure.
CarlSpackler22@reddit
Generational divides are pointless distractions
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
But humor is boundless
Blue-Nose-Pit@reddit
It’s mostly accurate, except not all of us had to drink from the hose.
WarhammerRyan@reddit (OP)
And some may not have had the hose, just the faucet 😀
Cisru711@reddit
I wasn't neglected so much as nagged to death.
WornInShoes@reddit
as a 1980 baby, this is why I have trust issues
PedalBoard78@reddit
My Mom would take me to the pediatrician because someone in my class was out sick. But when I fell and cracked my skull.. she just drove me to my Dad’s work so I could sleep on his office couch.
My swollen head was too much to deal with.
Swaxgirl@reddit
That’s fucking amazing!
Evanescent_Starfish9@reddit
We need some good T-shirts for Xennials.
like_shae_buttah@reddit
Would have been cooler if it said Degeneration X
psilosophist@reddit
I like when people wear shirts like this because I can easily spot people I want to avoid.
RoyDonkeyKong@reddit
I liked it better when they were all, “Whatever.”
Now they are acting like a bunch of posers.
RealisticWoodpecker3@reddit
I wanna know what the Stephen King one says!
1ofZuulsMinions@reddit
Stephen King Rules
KitchenNazi@reddit
The phrase and shirts are just fucking embarrassing.
Anaxamenes@reddit
Dayum I got lucky with my boomer parents. Just raised on hose water, though they both had jobs early on that wouldn’t let them be away for kids. It was a different time. I once had to stay at work with my mom while I was sick because she worked in healthcare. No being off at home with sick kids.
DebiMoonfae@reddit
Mill, I was born in 81 but I too was raised on hose water and neglect.
threefeetofun@reddit
Remember knocking on random houses doors asking if we could drink from the hose.
demuro1@reddit
Holy shit this is me
AfraidMeasurement892@reddit
Welp, I’m right outside of 80’ and with bootstrap military southern af parents all of these comments resonate with me hard as well. 🙈🙈🙈🙈
an_Aught@reddit
Respect to gen x.