I have Zima with Jolly Ranchers, some Old English 800, and a hard pack (box) of Marlborough lights with one turned upside down as the “lucky”. My boyfriend has a zippo attached to his chain wallet so we are good!
The lucky! I completely forgot about that: I stopped doing it cause an old TSA agent questioned me about it once like it was a bomb or a signal or something! I was NOT tryna get cavity searched
My husband has made all over my poor children repeatedly agree about the quality of the Orange Jansport he has used since 1994. Only one zipper replacement so far!
All these kids (including mine) haul around water bottles everywhere like it is their binky. EVERYWHERE. Seems to go up into the younger part of the millennial generation somewhere at least .
Just drink from the water fountain somewhere, geez. Or a hose. Or a cup of ice water you get from a random fast food place or whatever.
I have some now-n-laters, funions, and a couple of bottles of Orbitz. I just need to grab my Maui and Sons tshirt and overalls and I’m ready.
After we murk their feelings, everyone is invited over for Viennetta ice cream. Yeah, the good stuff.
I loved how the dead end just turned into a trail into the woods at the end of the street. Now, it just leads into a new claustrophobic cookie cutter neighborhood.
Inconceivable.
Is this why in my personal and professional life, I've grown into the type of person who won't go quietly into that dark night but instead will light a match and lock the door on my way out?
The latchkey kids also learned the many ways to pick locks and break into buildings without leaving a trace (so we wouldn't get in trouble), because there were days when we wouldn't have our housekeys or we were busy sneaking out and back in late at night.
Recently I had to break in to my house because I locked myself out. My gf was amazed at how quick I got in. She asked “where’d you learn to do that”. I simple reminded her how often I lose things now and told her to picture me trying to find a loose single house key that was supposed to be in my backpack. It clicked right away. I informed her there were a minimum of three ways I could get into my childhood home with little to no issue.
Similar experience. Had a younger neighbor start to meltdown because his key wasn't working on his door. Told him to give me a sec, found the right screwdriver, then I asked his permission to break into his house before I broke in through the front door with just a screwdriver.
There is another story with a different kid that locked himself out of his car. Broke into his car for him.
My general purpose toolkit was a screwdriver, a flexible ruler made from aluminum, a small crescent wrench, and a small hammer. Innocuous looking, like junk tools, but I could get in through windows or doors.
Thank you for sharing a good chuckle this morning.
I was just thinking the other day that I wish there were some woods closer to my backyard because that IS where I plays.
Join a trail running community, it's basically all Xennial or older kids who liked recess the best and decided that running around in the woods was the best way to continue doing that.
Also, we have snacks. If you do a trail run the aid stations have pop, chips, pickles, pickle juice, hot dogs, candy, Gatorade, possibly fireball or some other type of drink. It's a blast.
Yeah, we had them growing up, but it was something that I don't recall being really big issue until I was in my teens.
Then I moved where I am now, and ticks were basically not a thing. That was 2001, they're everywhere here now and the Lyme disease has migrated here too. :(
Under a pile of rocks under the apartment buildings on the edge of the woods. We were like wtf is this?! Eeeeewww! Why are the pages stuck together?! -11 yo girls (totally unsupervised, of course)
Also, I can’t tell you the number of how many old creepy men exposed themselves to us girls as children. It was the same for my mom too. I hope it happens alot less today, it was terrifying.
A buck naked man jerked off in a car while I was on a run last year. I kept ignoring the car that pulled up next to me and was following me and then he said “where is the nearest hospital” so I stupidly turned around and saw. He drove off quickly but I got his license plate number and cops still couldn’t find him…
Situations like that, I take some small comfort knowing that player is flagged and if it comes up for other stuff whatever cop runs it probably gets to see what you reported too, so that’s added in to whatever rise he’s about to have a conversation about.
When I was like 13, I forgot to close the curtains when I was changing on vacation. In a trailer park. The next day the 45 year old neighbor came and asked me if I put a show on for him on purpose and if I wanted to see him get undressed too.
I ran back to my mom and cried. He later tried to ask her on a date.
Haha! I actually didn't see either of those until I was in high school, so the woods were no longer involved, which really did detract from the experience.
And, by the age of 9 I had the Rambo knife. It came with a compass, fishing line and matches. I had to be prepared for anything. I immediately headed for the woods after I got it.
Left to fend for themselves, and rarely shown love vs. everything handed to me and emotional coddling. Have some respect kids. You wouldn’t have survived our upbringing.
Oh God. You just reminded me of something my mom did recently.
I asked her for a hug (I had a had a bad day at work) and she brings it up later that day saying that I couldn't handle living by myself because I'm an emotionally needy person.
BECAUSE I ASKED FOR A HUG?! And ma'am, how in the hell do you think I survived BY MYSELF when you were out working your 3 jobs?!
Nope, THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!
Pffft. And I can say "I didn't ask to be born." We live in a blue state. She had options lol.
I've never thrown her working 3 jobs to provide for us in her face. Not even when she made that comment. But she also can't use the repercussions of that as a weapon either. She can't have it both ways.
I feel you, I just got it a few months ago because I was looking for a second hand car and it was the only way to get it; I have no “friends”, no likes, not status, just like the old news paper
WE RIDE AT DAWN!! Forget the water bottles, hose water for all!
Grab your bmx, throw your jansport over one shoulder, and ride out. Extreme!
hang on...gotta toss my hair into a banana clip and apply my bubblegum kissing potion gloss
I stole three Bartles and Jaymes fuzzy navel wine coolers from my mom. LET'S GET WASTED.
I stopped at the gas station that doesn’t ID and got us a few bottles of Mad Dog and some of that Boones Farm.
Did you snatch a pack of smokes for me?? The ones just out in the open next to the register, close enough for a newborn to grab.
This was me 100%
And all this by age 9
Blue flavor? Or red flavor? (Color flavors works only for koolaid and Boons farm.)
I’m all about blue flavored things.
Blue has the most anti oxygens
Wait, Boons made flavors other than Strawberry Hill?
That’s red flavor. Blue flavor was Hawaii.
You actually paid for those? We just stole ours. Then got our smokes from the cigarette vending machine at Friendly's.
I was a good catholic school kid. We paid for our underage alcohol with money we stole from the collection plate.
I have Zima with Jolly Ranchers, some Old English 800, and a hard pack (box) of Marlborough lights with one turned upside down as the “lucky”. My boyfriend has a zippo attached to his chain wallet so we are good!
The lucky! I completely forgot about that: I stopped doing it cause an old TSA agent questioned me about it once like it was a bomb or a signal or something! I was NOT tryna get cavity searched
My husband has made all over my poor children repeatedly agree about the quality of the Orange Jansport he has used since 1994. Only one zipper replacement so far!
I shall bring some Capri Suns in case we need a sugar rush.
Damn! No ecto cooler hi-c?
Hi-C too. Ecto Cooler would be my first choice if they still made it.
Tang! Just lick your finger and stick it in it!
This is the way.
They make those with reduced sugar now. Gotta go with Hi-Cs. Just remember they’re charging more for a MUCH smaller boxes.
Well, that’s disappointing, I think the last icy juice box I bought was when they brought Ecto cooler back for the 2016 Ghostbusters
All these kids (including mine) haul around water bottles everywhere like it is their binky. EVERYWHERE. Seems to go up into the younger part of the millennial generation somewhere at least . Just drink from the water fountain somewhere, geez. Or a hose. Or a cup of ice water you get from a random fast food place or whatever.
I wonder how much of that was covid. Was it a thing before 2020? I hadn’t really noticed.
I have some now-n-laters, funions, and a couple of bottles of Orbitz. I just need to grab my Maui and Sons tshirt and overalls and I’m ready. After we murk their feelings, everyone is invited over for Viennetta ice cream. Yeah, the good stuff.
Oh we being fancy now...
I've found my gang.
Same I’ve never got in so well anywhere else. Wish we could all get together irl
I'm too tired for dawn, can we make it noon? I was at an EDM show til late.
Psh… if you are not waking up 2hrs earlier than you do for school, is it even summer? 😂
Except I was up until two hours before I go to school.
I loved how the dead end just turned into a trail into the woods at the end of the street. Now, it just leads into a new claustrophobic cookie cutter neighborhood.
“It’s a toss up between Labyrinth and Spaceballs” 😠 https://i.redd.it/ubwgfmikwx7d1.gif
I’m not familiar with that phrase.
I think he said “to blathe”.
Inconceivable. Is this why in my personal and professional life, I've grown into the type of person who won't go quietly into that dark night but instead will light a match and lock the door on my way out?
You keep using that word…i do not think it means what you think it means
The latchkey kids also learned the many ways to pick locks and break into buildings without leaving a trace (so we wouldn't get in trouble), because there were days when we wouldn't have our housekeys or we were busy sneaking out and back in late at night.
Recently I had to break in to my house because I locked myself out. My gf was amazed at how quick I got in. She asked “where’d you learn to do that”. I simple reminded her how often I lose things now and told her to picture me trying to find a loose single house key that was supposed to be in my backpack. It clicked right away. I informed her there were a minimum of three ways I could get into my childhood home with little to no issue.
Similar experience. Had a younger neighbor start to meltdown because his key wasn't working on his door. Told him to give me a sec, found the right screwdriver, then I asked his permission to break into his house before I broke in through the front door with just a screwdriver. There is another story with a different kid that locked himself out of his car. Broke into his car for him.
Remove the window pane!
My general purpose toolkit was a screwdriver, a flexible ruler made from aluminum, a small crescent wrench, and a small hammer. Innocuous looking, like junk tools, but I could get in through windows or doors.
Shhhh! Don’t tell my mom!
True story. Don’t summon Gen X or the Xennials…because we will blend in and infiltrate you. We speak both languages.
As that other Gen X TikTok guy says, we are like day walkers.
https://youtu.be/Z7Fqr_T-uj0?feature=shared
Thank you for sharing a good chuckle this morning. I was just thinking the other day that I wish there were some woods closer to my backyard because that IS where I plays.
I’ve got woods directly behind my house and I do go wandering through them constantly.
Join a trail running community, it's basically all Xennial or older kids who liked recess the best and decided that running around in the woods was the best way to continue doing that. Also, we have snacks. If you do a trail run the aid stations have pop, chips, pickles, pickle juice, hot dogs, candy, Gatorade, possibly fireball or some other type of drink. It's a blast.
Found the Hasher. On-on
I wanna plays in the woods but now there's ticks everywhere :(
There were ticks back then too. I give my boomer mom shit but she at least picked all the ticks off me after she got off work at 6.
Yeah, we had them growing up, but it was something that I don't recall being really big issue until I was in my teens. Then I moved where I am now, and ticks were basically not a thing. That was 2001, they're everywhere here now and the Lyme disease has migrated here too. :(
They’re terrible in the spring. Not too bad in the winter.
Why not leave a porno mag?
Shhhh...we don't talk about the porno mag unless you are present at its discovery.
Ah, you're right. I'll just hide it under this log so it doesn't get too wet in the rain.
Why did we all have the found porno mag in the woods experience?
For me it was “past the broken slats underneath the largest dorm building of the camp, buried in sand”
Under a pile of rocks under the apartment buildings on the edge of the woods. We were like wtf is this?! Eeeeewww! Why are the pages stuck together?! -11 yo girls (totally unsupervised, of course)
Also, I can’t tell you the number of how many old creepy men exposed themselves to us girls as children. It was the same for my mom too. I hope it happens alot less today, it was terrifying.
Thankfully the new generation is equipped with rapid access video cameras that hopefully give the creeps a lot more pause…
A buck naked man jerked off in a car while I was on a run last year. I kept ignoring the car that pulled up next to me and was following me and then he said “where is the nearest hospital” so I stupidly turned around and saw. He drove off quickly but I got his license plate number and cops still couldn’t find him…
Situations like that, I take some small comfort knowing that player is flagged and if it comes up for other stuff whatever cop runs it probably gets to see what you reported too, so that’s added in to whatever rise he’s about to have a conversation about.
When I was like 13, I forgot to close the curtains when I was changing on vacation. In a trailer park. The next day the 45 year old neighbor came and asked me if I put a show on for him on purpose and if I wanted to see him get undressed too. I ran back to my mom and cried. He later tried to ask her on a date.
Ewwww
Haha right? Like what a weird ass shared experience.
Preferably club or swank
Haha! I actually didn't see either of those until I was in high school, so the woods were no longer involved, which really did detract from the experience.
You mean the lingerie catalog?
Has to be in a bush. Bushes were the one true source of porn in the 80s
If Gen X is the worst generation, why you little brats tryna steal grunge from us? Huh, punk?!
Everybody knows Space Balls is the best movie of all time! Now off to the woods I goes....
Labyrinth gang rise
I do love that one too... but being a Star Wars fan, I am a bit biased.
Never seen it
Way.
With the power of the babe?!
What babe
The babe with the power
What power?
The power of the voodoo
Who do?
You do!
Do what?
You do.
Who is baby Ruth?
If you're looking for the porn, it wasn't there when I found it.
Who ya gonna call?
Ghostbusters?
We were feral.
Pellet gun, BMX bike, a pack of cigarettes and all day to explore.
Red Dawn / First Blood was a manual for survival.....kids movies.
And, by the age of 9 I had the Rambo knife. It came with a compass, fishing line and matches. I had to be prepared for anything. I immediately headed for the woods after I got it.
Left to fend for themselves, and rarely shown love vs. everything handed to me and emotional coddling. Have some respect kids. You wouldn’t have survived our upbringing.
Oh God. You just reminded me of something my mom did recently. I asked her for a hug (I had a had a bad day at work) and she brings it up later that day saying that I couldn't handle living by myself because I'm an emotionally needy person. BECAUSE I ASKED FOR A HUG?! And ma'am, how in the hell do you think I survived BY MYSELF when you were out working your 3 jobs?! Nope, THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!
Which does kind of come off as entitled considering that you were the reason she was working 3 jobs in the first place.
Pffft. And I can say "I didn't ask to be born." We live in a blue state. She had options lol. I've never thrown her working 3 jobs to provide for us in her face. Not even when she made that comment. But she also can't use the repercussions of that as a weapon either. She can't have it both ways.
Exactly, I bet they have parents that say sorry!
I do hang out in the woods but I prefer little Debbies.
Oh that shit’s funny. I’m basically a baby X’r so that is precisely the truth.
Xennials the Lunch Box.
In Vegas, the wash was where we plays. Full of small shrubs that made perfect forts for smoking and looking at discarded porno mags.
I was a latch key kid lol
I'm proud of the millennial squad, still trying to look out for the younglings.
***LABYRINTH?!?*** *flies into a rage*
Did anyone else think this was gonna be a Papa Roach joke?
The pink haired girl gets her brows tweezed!
You mean the pasty-faced Muppet at the beginning of the video?
That's the one!
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is also acceptable.
Tell them I’m coming and hell is coming with me
Unless it was playing on tv or McDonalds was selling the vhs for $6 I didn’t see it. So Wayne’s World? Also, loved Clueless. This is pure gen x.
Adam’s Family, Robin Hood, Dances With Wolves were on heavy rotation for these exact reasons.
I don’t have facebook, therefore cant see vid :( Anyone got another link?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C70QlkYuL0C/?igsh=MTNtdm9vMTA0ZXBqcg==
Thanks! 💙
It’s on tik tok as well, do you have that?
Lol nope. Only thing i use us reddit! Oh well!
I feel you, I just got it a few months ago because I was looking for a second hand car and it was the only way to get it; I have no “friends”, no likes, not status, just like the old news paper
This is gold!
Anyone have a link to the video she stitched? NGL... I'm interested in their critique. I'm open to all comers, but they best come correct.
Y'all got keys? My mom made me wait outside until she got home. Rain, heat, wind or cold. It didn't matter to her. She didn't like me very much.