Endless bike rides, playing until dark, exploring unsupervised, babysitters, taking fearless chances, going into sewers with flashlights.
Posted by Ok_Industry3016@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 23 comments
That's us. Let me know what I missed?
Fight_Tyrnny@reddit
Exactly!!! Check this one out, I found this home video of my and my brother in about 1979. My dad recorded it on his reel recorder with no sound. THIS is what GenX was doing before computers and electronics. It all changed for us a year later when we got our Atari 2600.
This should look similar to you ALL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H1R09b9c2Y&list=PLRtYLPWOr-yaHuuMgUTK-TacBYecE3sao
chawchat@reddit
Yes, we know by now. Stop patting yourself on the back genx.
Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)
You're going to come to our sub to talk like this? Go back to your own.
chawchat@reddit
Am '71 GenX though.
Lanky_Comedian_3942@reddit
"But, but...drink from hose!'
Lanky_Comedian_3942@reddit
Babysitters?
rudolf_the_red@reddit
babysitters. first you'd get the older babysitters taking care of you and playing innappropriate games like 'doctor'. then, later, you'd go and visit your girlfriends who were babysitting and do unspeakable things in strangers homes.
Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)
For me anyway.
umeboshiplumpaste@reddit
I had SO MANY. And they were usually kids two years older than me. And only in the summers when we were home the entire day alone otherwise.
Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)
Right? Pizza and MTV.
umeboshiplumpaste@reddit
No cable in our house. A lot of game shows, soap operas, playing yard games in the neighborhood, swimming at the neighbor's pool, and bike rides across multiple cities like we had our own cars.
And lots of frozen Hostess Ding Dongs, Choco Bliss, and an assortment of Little Debbie items.
Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)
Yeah man been there, when the grandma who babysat me the smell and food was shit. Nothing but soap operas all day. Living hell.
happycj@reddit
We inflated those pool mattresses you’d lay on in the pool, and put them into the sewer and rode underground. It was viscerally terrifying and such a GenX experience!
Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)
Nice!
052-NVA@reddit
I once went into a sewer with candles and a box of matches. Either we are all blessed that we survived, or kids are actually pretty resourceful and competent if you give them space to explore
Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)
Yeah the fire department and cops showed up. Was a mess. Even ended up on the news with the head line as "the Sewers of Doom." LOL
East-Garden-4557@reddit
Lots of kids didn't survive
DueConversation5269@reddit
ah yes, the good Ole life
sotiredwontquit@reddit
Swimming in irrigation ditches fenced with barbed wire, and avoiding getting sucked into culverts.
flicmeister@reddit
"I'll take 'Shit You Could Go Do Right Now If It Were That Important To You' for $200, Alex."
apc961@reddit
Could he really do the babysitter for $200?
Ok_Industry3016@reddit (OP)
DAILY DOUBLE!
Bardamu911@reddit
aggressive broadstroke self mythologizing?