If you never heard the national anthem played on your television and then it turn to snow....for hours because that was ENOUGH TV for er body..SIT DOWN!

@MrMwmussel1

3 ай бұрын

I was explaining the happening to a current highschool senior, they thought I was crazy

@michaelblaes9847

3 ай бұрын

Not one channel had a guy say... Why don't we just rerun the primetime lineup? Or even just put on 3 or 4 episodes of a show?

@nicolemikoski7775

3 ай бұрын

I was JUST telling someone about this & their minds were blown 😅

@chiarac3833

3 ай бұрын

I barely remember this and I'm an early Xer...

@ladyv5655

2 ай бұрын

I remember waking up early, turning on the TV just before 7am, watching the snow turn to inspiring shots of beaches, waterfalls, etc as the national anthem played before my favorite cartoons started.

If you were never your parents' remote control. Sit down.

@nopenoway1519

3 ай бұрын

We also had the antenna on a pole on the back porch so we were also responsible for opening the back door and turning the pole until the station was coming through clearly. They would shout at us through the door, a little more, now back a little…. Lol

@maryhaley5569

3 ай бұрын

@nopenoway1519 oh yes, good times. At one time, my neighbor actually translated to me what my dad was yelling to do. LMAO

@joannesimpson2527

3 ай бұрын

😂😂👏👏👏🇦🇺👌loved cassettes and record player,still got my fleetwood mac,bay city rollers,Navana,beach Boys albums.😂😂👏👏was party time🎉

@BigPouge

3 ай бұрын

THIS!!! I wish I could upvote this more. As the youngest I was everyone's remote 😞😀

@lindsaylivingston9754

3 ай бұрын

Thank God the only one I missed was the Challenger explosion and I’m counting that one as a good thing. I’m a Xennial half way between the two.

Couldn’t afford new albums so we waited by the radio for hours just to hit record when that new song got played.

@thisisme2476

Ай бұрын

And, got mad at the DJ who talk RIGHT up to the when the song started.

@iseeyou8781

Ай бұрын

@@thisisme2476 🤣🤣🤣 my college roommate called in with a request and asked the DJ not to talk during the intro. The DJ laughed and hung up. Never played the song. The request was for “Jessie’s Girl,” by Rick Springfield.

@jaycee330

23 күн бұрын

Two words: Mix Tape.

@Metalman200xdamnit

23 күн бұрын

@@thisisme2476 Or when the song ended.

@mistib70

20 күн бұрын

I loved making mix tapes. I got really good at it too. Me and my boom box.

Remember McGruff the crime dog???? LMAO!!!

@prime-mate

12 күн бұрын

"Take a bite outa crime!"😂😂😂

@K1ll3r84

5 күн бұрын

Chicago Illinois, 60652

If you never heard the phrase, “I’m on long-distance!”

@KristiWilson

3 ай бұрын

Only if you waited till after 9pm!!

@kellyjimenez8984

2 ай бұрын

YESSSSSS....."SIT DOWN, SHUT UP. CAN'T YOU SEE IM TALKING LONG DISTANCE!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@derixalandry6740

2 ай бұрын

And had to pay for it!!

@daniellemitchell3118

2 ай бұрын

Or calling Person to Person.😅

@wildly_heather

2 ай бұрын

Must know what a chat/party line is!

If you have never seen a native American crying because of litter. Sit down.

@KristenMcLaughlin-Sceurman

3 ай бұрын

Omg, memory unlocked!! That's a good one!!

@CarlaBuggs1-iz6gp

3 ай бұрын

Or heard ‘only you can prevent forest fires! 🔥’

@maryhaley5569

3 ай бұрын

@@CarlaBuggs1-iz6gp yep!

@maryhaley5569

3 ай бұрын

@@CarlaBuggs1-iz6gp everyone knew Smoky!!!

@SheilaR.08

3 ай бұрын

Crying Eyes Cody!

Welp I'm 1000% in the club as I've had/done/lived every one of those requirements. And also adding to the list: 1) watched one of your parents pump $0.87 leaded gas into their car while smoking a cigarette. 2) Watched Saturday morning cartoons like it was a religion. 3) Road your bike all day through town and country without once having to "call home". 4) Then make sure your butt was home BEFORE the street lights came on! 5) Had a boombox so damn big it took 2 people to carry it.

@PuzzleVibesAndFeathers

16 күн бұрын

YES to all of this! How about... we didn't know what an expiry date was!

@justinbeck4197

15 күн бұрын

wow..I check all those too although my ghetto blaster was not so big

@lilliputlittle

13 күн бұрын

And you'll remember how OPEC decided to screw everyone over and the long lines at gas pumps that resulted? Do you remember your parents only being able to gas up on certain days within certain hours based on the last number on their license plate(s)? I remember a lot that is built into my generation and it isn't all giggles and grins. Some of it is ugly as sin and we've not done a thing to change it.

@victoriabostick2935

5 күн бұрын

The smoking the cigarette while pumping gas 😂😂😂😂😂

@CarolynTaylor-pz9zn

4 күн бұрын

I sat in a car e my dad for almost an hour to get gas because Chevron was .68 cents but Phillips 66 was60 cents a gallon. 😅😅😂😊

"Surely you can't be serious!" "I am, and don't call me Shirley!"

@thisisme2476

Ай бұрын

Bad day to quit cigarettes.

@RockPaperHammer

Ай бұрын

Ever been in a Turkish prison Timmy?

@Wade970

19 күн бұрын

I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.

@Shawn3002

13 күн бұрын

You have clearance Clarence. What’s your vector Victor?

Must have heard the phrase “stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about”! and experienced the phrase being enacted.

@jessieshepherd6642

2 ай бұрын

Or don't make me ask you!

@peachykeen7634

2 ай бұрын

“Go to your room and sit on the bed and wait for me.” Scariest words I’ve ever heard.

@lanky-x782

2 ай бұрын

Lol. They always gave me something to cry about until I learned it wasn't worth the belt.

@RiverRatsTotalOutdoors

2 ай бұрын

Wait till your dad gets home, after my mom already chased me around with a fly swatter

@maliasiwel7015

2 ай бұрын

My kids know that one

Remembering when MTV played music

@hagibhrobertson2657

3 ай бұрын

Remembering how excited everyone at school was knowing the new channel called MTV was starting up that day! First song, The Buggles, Video killed the radio star.

@florencedenham9395

3 ай бұрын

Friday night videos before MTV and the video/tune Video Killed the Radio Star

@beckyweiss6072

3 ай бұрын

Most millenials should remember when MTV played music- TRL was the highlight of my afternoon when I came home from school in 6th and 7th grade. I also enjoyed watching VH1s pop up videos for all of the little trivia about the making of each music video.

@terrijones4228

3 ай бұрын

90 percent of the day😊

@danieb4273

3 ай бұрын

Remembering waiting for the first video.... Video killed the radio star! Opening day for MTV.

“WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT WILLIS? “ . MUST IDENTIFY.😂😂😂

@user-bn4jk8gn1k

Ай бұрын

willis. also: I love it when a plan comes together.

@davidparr6567

Ай бұрын

Sit down Mr Drummond...

@crisl9079

25 күн бұрын

Oh, good one!

@WildlyEclectic

20 күн бұрын

Gotta say right, though, chin down, look up "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis."

@PhoenixRising82672

9 күн бұрын

Different Strokes Facts of Life

If you weren’t obsessed with Who shot JR, you can’t join. If you don’t know who JR Ewing is, you can’t join.

@patrickmcgee8556

12 күн бұрын

I think I had a t shirt that said "I SHOT JR!!!"

@colettewilliams3575

12 күн бұрын

@@patrickmcgee8556 I had a T-shirt that said wanted (blank picture frame) for the shooting of JR Ewing!”

@PhoenixRising82672

9 күн бұрын

Dukes of Hazzard The Hulk Dallas Falcon Crest Friday Night lineup on CBS

@goldengryphon

7 күн бұрын

@@PhoenixRising82672 The A Team.

@PhoenixRising82672

7 күн бұрын

@@goldengryphon The Fall Guy TJ Hooker

“Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?”

@darkangel_1978

3 ай бұрын

"But of course"

@pottymouthedplanter

3 ай бұрын

Bahahahaha

@leanngerson7381

3 ай бұрын

😂 omg that commercial was always on

@WildnUnruly

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@robbieparr3753

3 ай бұрын

Also, “Where’s the beef!?”

Who remembers riding in the very backseat of a panel stationwagon that faced the traffic behind you?

@peachykeen7634

3 ай бұрын

THOSE WERE THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE. We just had a Ford Taurus, but our cousins had the station wagon and I always begged them to ride backwards!

@maryshannon3326

3 ай бұрын

We loved sitting back there on long trips and waving to all the people!

@OldGal73

3 ай бұрын

We had a Ford Falcon station wagon and there was always a fight for the back seat (The Dickie Seat) on the trips to visit the Grandparents, who lived hours away!😂

@kimwatson9338

3 ай бұрын

Bonus points if the window was rolled down so that you breathed in all the exhaust fumes!

@ssm248

3 ай бұрын

We rode in the back back of a station wagon with no seat! We loved it!

OMG. The Challenger explosion experience. Our science teacher, who had served in the military, got the note from the principal's office, returning to his lecture his reaction was the equivalent of, "Well, that just happened." He was so calm and nonchalant that I didn't understand that they were dead until class was over and we went to assembly. Afterwards, I saw him sobbing alone in the hallway. We were raised with bizarre levels of emotional incompetence.

@Wentletrap213

8 күн бұрын

Yes, we were.

@victoriabostick2935

4 күн бұрын

@@FrisbeeGirl yes I was in 10 th grade and I was in cooking class. We were watching the shuttle and everybody was speechless. The teacher didn’t explain anything.

You never caused yourself or another bodily harm with a Sit-n-Spin

@steelbeard151

Ай бұрын

Or riding a Green Machine downhill into traffic.

@johnhorton9637

Ай бұрын

Yep. That happened more than once . Ok maybe a dozen times. I don't remember the exact number. But yeah

@marythecontrary

19 күн бұрын

I have a scar in my eyebrow to prove it. 😂

Must understand the significance of " Nanu Nanu"

@susannahschannel6643

3 ай бұрын

Amen! I ❤ Mork and Mindy!

@michaelsarahbahrt2681

3 ай бұрын

RIP Robin Williams 😢👽👻

@namjamlewis1844

3 ай бұрын

Could you imagine the material Robin would have these days?

@rjones4748

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@MrMwmussel1

3 ай бұрын

As an elder millennial I know all about Mork calling Orson.

This is your brain. This your brain on drugs. Any questions🤣

@rebeccaduncan6793

2 ай бұрын

Back when they actually brought the drugs to school so we would know they looked like……

@jonischoenbrun8110

2 ай бұрын

Nobody ever said I want to be a junkie when I grow up lmao

@krystynasmyth1891

2 ай бұрын

& The more you know........😂😂😂😂😂😂we took that literally and they didn't like that😂

@krystynasmyth1891

2 ай бұрын

I learned it from watching you ok 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@devonsilverfox3114

2 ай бұрын

Yes, why are my brains on drugs soo tasty?

Must understand what it means to say "I learned it from watching *you*, Dad!"

@marythecontrary

19 күн бұрын

This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?

The Farrah Fawcet red swimsuit poster in your brother's room 😂

@stellastarbrightk7563

27 күн бұрын

Hell my sixth grade class gave that to our teacher for Christmas. He put it up behind his desk. Lordy what would have happened today

If you never got excited over the prize from the cereal box, Just sit down

@mariavenner2823

2 ай бұрын

Or cracker jack box?

@matthewperry9243

2 ай бұрын

Or cracker jacks

@guppy0536

2 ай бұрын

Let alone fighting who was gonna take it out of box 😅

@Indomitable.essence

2 ай бұрын

Still do🤣🤣🤣

@CatrinaTeverbaugh-if2zr

2 ай бұрын

Especially Cracker Jacks....😂❤

Being left in the car while your parents went in the grocery store

@SarahMichelle777

2 ай бұрын

Being left at home while your parents went away for the weekend LOL

@maritamuras8978

2 ай бұрын

Born in 1985. I was starting to wonder where my car people are. I also remember my parents saying, “Get in the car. We’re leaving” after a family gathering in the middle of summer only to have to sit in that stuffy air for several more minutes while the parents still talked. Eventually, we learned to wait until the last second and keep the doors open.

@americasmomloveeveryonenoe7517

2 ай бұрын

Got arrested for this 🤦🏼‍♀️ even though the the tween could exit the vehicle and it was on

@angiebarclay3218

2 ай бұрын

Or the bar lol

@Bubblegumswitch

2 ай бұрын

Oooh dang, in the summertime, and hopefully with the windows down 😅

Watching the original Star Wars movie in the theater. And rode in the first muscle cars, jammed in with 12 people and laid in the back window dash or in the back of a pickup box with no worries in the world. Trying to get cigarettes out of the cigarette machine without making any noise. Playing outside all day, building tree forts and ramps to jump your bike. Walking to town by yourself to get milk for cereal and didn't worry bcuz all the mothers in the area kept an eye on you. When you could go into a bar with a parent and stay all day and nobody cared. MTV's Headbangers ball late at night was my favorite. And watching my first METALLICA video, my favorite band to this day. Going to the pizza joint and playing music on the jukebox. Going to the arcade with a roll of quarters. Going to the 5 and dime store to buy penny candy.

Smokey the Bear, "Only you can prevent forest fires".

If this phrase, "Hey! Hey! Hey! It's Faaaaat Albert!" doesn’t remind you of Saturday afternoons as a child, then you cannot be Gen-X.

@saxismyax

2 ай бұрын

I have a portion of the show on dvd! 😁

@pieterwillembotha6719

2 ай бұрын

literally no one cares. It's incredible how Gen X is just as lame as their parents. I guess age does that to you

@bellamin4549

2 ай бұрын

@@pieterwillembotha6719 whoever’s kid this is, come and get him. He’s out here whining, again.

@pieterwillembotha6719

2 ай бұрын

@@bellamin4549 too bad their's not an HR department for you to run and complain about me to xD

@bellamin4549

2 ай бұрын

@@pieterwillembotha6719 that’s cute. GenX knows better than to go to HR.

Don't forget that square dancing for middle school P.E.

@j348011

3 ай бұрын

I said the same thing🤣

@WrinklesNWarPaint

3 ай бұрын

Did you guys live in Kansas? I remember learning square dancing in elementary school P.E. for Kansas Day, but that was about it.

@ladyv5655

2 ай бұрын

Square dancing was what my high school did for PE in the last two weeks of the semester.

@djpaeg1

2 ай бұрын

And fox trot and waltz in High School PE

@assignments5094

2 ай бұрын

Still happens

You must have at least 4 scars from “hey yall, watch this!” events. Plus, you must be able to recount the story upon request.

@davidparr6567

Ай бұрын

Bicycle from barn roof on a dare... Attempting to ride a Hereford bull in a pen... Learning why your dad said do not put your new pocket knife in an outlet...he's crying , and if he's crying, he's breathing...he'll be fine.

@joenobody5631

27 күн бұрын

​@@davidparr6567"If he's crying, he's breathing." Why did that hit my inner child so hard? 🤣

@mastertwitch1

12 күн бұрын

What about 2 scars, and 3 improperly healed broken bones?

If you didn't eat a Swanson T.V. dinner while watching Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday nights, you're out.

@victoriabostick2935

4 күн бұрын

@@kmason3279 we ate them every Friday cuz my mom went shopping that day. I can remember the ones with the pitiful 3 shrimp and the mashed potatoes that never got cooked all the way bcuz it was still frozen in the middle 🤭

If you don't know what "Gag me with a spoon" means...sit yo ass down!😂😂😂😂 .

@paganbornspiritbear8249

3 ай бұрын

We always said…”with a wood chip”…hahaha! Lol!

@user-sg9if7py5n

3 ай бұрын

SERIOUSLY 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤

@dianneagain3830

3 ай бұрын

Damn makin me miss Frank Zappa .

@TikiStanford

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, but this was Moon Unit Zappa! Omg, I thought she was IT. Loved the whole valley girls thing. Ironically, of course 😂😂😂

@dianneagain3830

3 ай бұрын

I can't hear Moon or Dweezel and not think of their dad. I think I still have on of the knitted hats Moon was making around here some where.

If you didn't take typing class on a typewriter or do all your school research papers using an encyclopedia, you're not a gen X

@JHabc

2 ай бұрын

Some encyclopedia that was decades old and had been passed down multiple times, and was missing at least 2 books

@hdc1979

2 ай бұрын

One full year of typing drills now at 44 I'm thankful for this n ppl are amazed at my "skills"😂

@michelewalker3862

2 ай бұрын

I've had children ask me if all my fingers are double jointed because I text so fast. Child, I'm 50. I learned a long time ago where all the letters are on the keyboard and can do it without looking.

@taunyaw2181

2 ай бұрын

We had the whole set....

@kenwolf9124

2 ай бұрын

I remember having typing classes on the typewriter while having computer classes

I wasn't in school when the Challenger exploded. I was off the coast of Cuba doing Naval exercises. Born in 1965, I'm a first year inaugural Gen X-er

@vincentgarzoli3197

29 күн бұрын

Mark 1, Model 1--Nice!

@AnEnquiringMind

19 күн бұрын

All hail to the Elder!

@1011skarn

12 күн бұрын

Older GenX are basically Boomers

@vincentgarzoli3197

12 күн бұрын

@@1011skarn Bullshit! And neither Boomers, nor Xers would agree with that. Both were the original participants in generational warfare, and essentially hate each other more than any Millenial or Zoomer possibly can. F(orget) Boomers! Their time is up!

@HulaHula667

12 күн бұрын

I’m the end of Gen X… and also British. So I remember seeing it on BBC news as we were done for the day…

Millennial here, but I think this fits. If you never experienced the joy of hitting record exactly when the song you like starts playing on the radio when making your mix tape sit your ass down. - Bonus: The joy of getting that perfect recording where the radio hosts did not start talking during the instrumental bridge of that song - Double bonus: Knowing why radio hosts started talking during the instrumental bridges of a song.

@mastertwitch1

12 күн бұрын

They started doing it to tighten air time between songs so they could sell more ad buys per hour

If Saturday morning cartoons were what you lived for, then youre in.

@kathy5hoech391

2 ай бұрын

After these messages we'll be right back. jingle.

@queencitysaint9600

2 ай бұрын

Cowabunga

@theartistjodievans

2 ай бұрын

Or if you tried to get up early enough to see Gigglesnort Hotel before the cartoons started!

@DaddyWarCrimes78

2 ай бұрын

Saturday morning cartoons, into pro wrestling and then into American Sports Cavalcade on TNN to watch drag racing and NASCAR highlights. It will always be the Winston Cup to me.

@bruceayers512

2 ай бұрын

Bay City Rollers, H.R. Puffinstuff, Sigmond and the Sea monsters. Anything by Sid & Marty Kroft.

Let's not forget what Mr. Whipple said, "Don't squeeze the Charmin!"

@themaggattack

3 ай бұрын

Nor Mr. Winchell- "Time to make the doughnuts!" 🍩

@christiesmith978

3 ай бұрын

Don't squeeze the Charmin, bc it's TIME TO MAKE THE DONUTS

@michaelgoldsmith635

2 ай бұрын

I remember when Johnny 5 in Short Circuit said that line and I was so impressed at hearing a pop culture reference in a movie.

@gabrielinsley4908

2 ай бұрын

Where’s the beef?

@Indysme

2 ай бұрын

If you saw Adam Savage from Mythbusters, in the commercial squeezing the Charmin…10 bonus points

1. Multi-story schools without elevators because anyone that couldn't climb the stairs went to a different school. 2. Collecting 12 oz glass pop bottles and trading them in for money to buy candy or baseball cards. 3. When going to the park wasn't complete without throwing up at least once (merry-go-round), having burns from the slide, or blisters from the monkey bars. 4. Skating Rinks were the place to be. 5. Walking to the concession stand at the drive-in alone and then trying to find your parent's car in what essentially looked like a giant used car lot.

@stacywalsh4248

5 күн бұрын

Yes!!! All of this!

If you’ve never been prohibited from entering your own home during daylight hours, you’re out.

Benny Hill show! Carol Burnett show! Soul train! American Bandstand, Solid gold! 😆🤣

@WrinklesNWarPaint

3 ай бұрын

Oh, man, the Benny Hill Show! I loved that show! It came on after my bedtime, but my babysitter would let me stay up and watch it. The only condition was that we had to keep an eye out for my mom’s headlights coming up the driveway so I could dive into bed and pretend I was asleep. Ah, memories… 😊

@karlar8648

2 ай бұрын

Benny Hill was a mother!😅

@Chrissy521stl

2 ай бұрын

OMG we watched Carol Burnett everynight

@Chrissy521stl

2 ай бұрын

My mom definitely didn't want me watching Benny Hill

@amylehman5915

2 ай бұрын

I wanted to be a solid gold dancer when I grew up!

The worst punishment parents could give you was being grounded from going outside!

@ct3po776

2 ай бұрын

Mom would send me to my room where my record player was, so not really much of a bummer to me!

@randomfpv22

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely!!!

@MissNoel82

2 ай бұрын

OMG... I'd rather get a beating than be stuck in the house!

@FallnAngL-dg7gx

2 ай бұрын

And as we got older, our parents suffered as well😎 My brother and I were a year (+5 days) apart. We worship music and play drums and guitar. Grounding became more infrequent in favor of heavy-chore punishment.

@pattyhoughtaling6230

2 ай бұрын

The worse punishment I could get was my Dad's belt on my backside. I would rather take the grounding.

Your mom ironing in front of the t.v. while she watched soap operas 😂

@user-bn4jk8gn1k

Ай бұрын

any Australians here? Saturday night was for Countdown, and yeah, mum ironed and we sat on bean bags.

@OldJoeBlows

28 күн бұрын

While still wearing heals from her day at the office.

@PhoenixRising82672

9 күн бұрын

Or you Grandmother watching The stories

I am laughing my butt off because I remember every single thing listed. I remember watching He-Man while eating my Capt. Crunch on a Saturday morning. Saturday morning cartoons were the greatest during the eighties.

Gen Xer here. If you never owned the original Jelly shoes, a snap bracelet or Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper sit down.

@Certainlycaroline

3 ай бұрын

Or an arm covered in black jelly bracelets and a stack of Garbage Pail Kid cards. I miss those days so much!

@meganmccormack5182

3 ай бұрын

@@Certainlycaroline Me too girl! Me too! I wish I had a time machine.🤣

@woodntyuuliiktooknoo

3 ай бұрын

If you have never gone cross-eyed staring at a poster to figure out the hidden image....

@rahshidawalker1350

3 ай бұрын

1978 speaking: Loved, Loved, LOVED Lisa Frank! So pretty....😍

@moniqueemmett294

3 ай бұрын

What about metal skates? Don’t let you sneaker get stuck 🤣

If you never went to a restaurant with a smoking section, I'm afraid you are disqualified.

@MrMwmussel1

3 ай бұрын

If you cant remember McDonalds having ashtrays

@d.sepulveda7669

3 ай бұрын

YUP! 🚬😗 💨

@karinowens7750

3 ай бұрын

Or cars having ashtrays!!

@j348011

3 ай бұрын

Or when they make the Mall velvet rope, smoking exhibit.

@shivag73

3 ай бұрын

@@MrMwmussel1 Or actual playgrounds with the merry-go-round

If you never had to sit and wait for your cassette to rewind, and then tried to play/stop/rewind to find the start of your favorite song on the tape, please sit down.

Omg come on!!! WOLFMAN JACK and the Saturday Night Special!!!

What do these items all have in common: house slippers, flip flops, wooden spoon and/or spatula, skinny long tree branches, fly swatters, and rolled up magazines/ newspapers.... not a comprehensive list here😆

@jamigrey5554

3 ай бұрын

Items close by to be hit with! Country goose wallpaper in the kitchen Orange and brown furniture Being left home alone at night so parents can go out.

@colleenmarin8907

3 ай бұрын

Hairbrush

@user-sg9if7py5n

3 ай бұрын

Beat yo ass equipment 😂😂😂😂

@kennpeters1973

3 ай бұрын

Hey!! That's what we got our asses whooped with when we deserved/earned it!

@aimeewalls8208

3 ай бұрын

Been whooped with all of the above! Proud gen-xer, born in ‘76!

Schoolhouse Rock "I'm just a Bill..." '67 here.

@melanieomer9186

2 ай бұрын

Conjunction Junction, what’s your function… and I was born in ‘62. Close enough

@gregorykiernan7849

2 ай бұрын

Love it!

@EvelynSaungikar

2 ай бұрын

We the people…

@kimanderson9380

2 ай бұрын

We were suffering’ until Sufferage!

@rachelderagonartist9766

2 ай бұрын

And Zoom!

As an older Millennial, I loved watching the Smurfs and Fraggle Rock. Some of my favorite music is from the 70s, 80s and 90s. We had a rotary phone in our garage and a phone on the wall in the kitchen. I used to watch Brady Bunch, Chips, The Andy Griffith Show and the Munsters reruns.

You are not invited if you've never washed a chalkboard at the end of the school day or took the erasers to the cleaning machine OR better yet, asking a live operator to connect your call

@melrupinski88

9 күн бұрын

Eraser cleaning machine? Fancy. We had to clap them by hand and get the chalk dust all over us while breathing it in.

@sherryj7419

9 күн бұрын

@@melrupinski88 LOLLLL 😆 we had to clap them too before we put them to sit on the machine. Thank you for reminding me. I luv, luv, luv ❤️ the memories

53 years old myself…don’t forget we had to wait for pictures to be developed, then laughing at what we took on those cameras, even disposable cameras!

@ct3po776

2 ай бұрын

Pictures solid black cause lens cap left on, blurred out, 2 pictures blended together, a finger, your feet/ground by accident, bad lighting, so all you see are red eyes, a glowing head, but no background at all, and then telling the developing store you used that you don't want to pay for any pics from the list above! Oh yeah, and then finding a roll you forgot about 10-20 yrs later, so you know you lost some pictures, but can't remember what they could be!

@brookewebb4924

2 ай бұрын

Yes!! Walmart photo desk was the spot in our college town about a week back from spring break!! So many memories and seeing groups of people immediately thumbing through all their developed pics

@SaraMKay

2 ай бұрын

And hated each other because one forgot to take the used up roll of film out, the other one forgot to check, if the roll was already finished, so we had regularly two events overlapping on one photo 😂 Why did those rolls even rewind and allowed to be photographed over again?

@williambryan3346

2 ай бұрын

You didn’t have to wait if you had a Polaroid.

@ct3po776

2 ай бұрын

@@williambryan3346 Too expensive to get film for people living on peanut butter and jelly, and you got more than twice the pictures on 35mm! 110 cameras were cheap, with a built-in flash, also 35mm cameras were free, if the parents sat through a 90min seller's pitch for something they weren't going to buy!

You must know that Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down

@VisionMusicWorks

2 ай бұрын

😂😂🙋🏾‍♀️

@americandefender1861

2 ай бұрын

Lol me! And I'm Gen Z lol

@marlomchenry1784

Ай бұрын

Hell yeah!Gen X Jersey girl here.Weebles fucking rocked.When I got mad at my brother I would hut him with one.

We got cable in the house because my mom won a 1 year cable subscription in a drawing. I was so excited when MTV started. I watched the very FIRST music video MTV every played when they came on the air. It was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles 😂

You forgot getting hit with whatever object was closest to hand 😂

Never watched a After-school Special, you don't qualify 😂😂😂

@CurioMin

2 ай бұрын

If you do not know “Open, Open, Open”. Go sit down.

@tirzah-marielewis3447

2 ай бұрын

I fell in love at least twice per year with some no name teenage actor from an after school special movie! Haaaa!! 😂

@hks2377

2 ай бұрын

Or “The More You Know” PSA. 😂

@christis7217

2 ай бұрын

School Specials

@SoulSoundMuisc

2 ай бұрын

I was typically not allowed in the house after I got home from school. Dropped off my bag, changed clothes, and outside until 6.

"It's 10:00 p.m.. Do you know where your children are?" If you never heard that PSA on Tv, sit down. Personally, i always found this PSA scary. 😅

@Indomitable.essence

2 ай бұрын

I loved hearing it, bc I knew the good stuff was about to come on, my granny only had 4 channels, and my aunt was about to leave so I could hog her TV! Lol

@matthatch3920

2 ай бұрын

Our parents had to be reminded they had kids. Lol

@Silver_Rayn

2 ай бұрын

For me, I felt it was more like, "Do you know where mom is at?" My sister & I were always home when it got dark. I was always in charge (doing all the work)

@mercedeslewis4598

2 ай бұрын

I always loved it. Someone was looking out for me!

@maplelatte3366

2 ай бұрын

It was freaky. And so were the "this is only a test" Emergency Broadcast tones.

PULL BUTTON START!! Ahhhhh....bringing back memories.

@DR-wp6gy

21 күн бұрын

Don't forget the pliers when the knob broke

I remember the Highway Patrol coming into our driver's ed class and showing VERY graphic pictures from traffic accidents. No blurring, editing or anything. Just blood, brains and twisted metal.

If you don’t know what Teddy Ruxpin was - SIT DOWN.

@Thaqueenb3221

3 ай бұрын

I still got a couple of the books.

@steveminton8329

3 ай бұрын

That was our virtual assistant 😂

@Nikkimommyof4

3 ай бұрын

OMG! I forgot about that stupidly expensive toy that basically nobody had. I only know one child that had one. But Cabbage patch kids were everywhere and people were obsessed with those ugly dolls.

@atina197796

3 ай бұрын

Lol we had one and I still have nightmares of it going crazy after playing "shout at the devil" in it, it couldn't handle it and the animatronics went out.

@Xyy2387

3 ай бұрын

Let's add My Buddy, Garbage Pail Kids, Cabbage Patch Kids, Rainbow Brite, Pogo Ball, View-Master, and Popples to the list.

If you have no idea what an 8-track is. Goodbye. LOL.

@Sarah-with-an-H

3 ай бұрын

Honestly I heard a lot about 8 track and was familiar with it but never grew up with them. We had records and cassettes. I was born in 1975 my memories of the 70's is limited.

@danamcmorris788

3 ай бұрын

Late 70's. We knew what they were but we never had or saw one.

@melrmontez

3 ай бұрын

1979 here. I was brought up on my mother's '60s-80s record collection

@midwestchick187

3 ай бұрын

And if it wasn't an aftermarket install on the bottom of the dashboard, it doesn't count.

@Prence

3 ай бұрын

@@midwestchick187 exactly. LOL.

Stink bombs on the heaters at school; roller skating every weekend; ethnic joke books in the bathroom; smoking area for students; fist fights announced in the morning and the whole school attended after school; cruising; Sun-In and crisco for sunbathing; Jams shorts; Big Wheels; Aqua Net and perms; you got dressed up to fly in an airplane and when you got to your destination you smelled like an ashtray. Fun times!

@shawnperry6465

3 күн бұрын

Or the book "101 Uses For Dead Cats" 😂

Wow, I said "get out your Math book" at the same time you did... what a memory that turned out to be, ey? How about... Can still sing the jingle from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom? Forced to participate in the annual TV event that was "The sound of Music"? Ever heard of Certs "with Retsyn?" Remember the life changing day that "Cable" came to town.

@jaycee330

23 күн бұрын

I can still hum the "Wide World of Sports" theme. (The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat...)

You remember the excitement and awe when phones changed from rotary to touch tone, and you had EVERYBODY'S phone number memorized.

@jenbhikes

3 ай бұрын

I *still* remember all those phone numbers! Barely know my own now. ;) I use the old ones as my PIN numbers lol.

@angeliaisastar

3 ай бұрын

I still remember some of my elementary school friends' phone numbers!

@crystalbarbare3896

3 ай бұрын

Touchstone phone's came out in 1963 but we didn't switch over our main kitchen phone ( you know the one with the mile long cord ) until 1989.

@theresam6864

3 ай бұрын

I was elated when we got our touch tone phone. Best thing since sliced bread.

@Galloway278

3 ай бұрын

@@jenbhikesgood idea!!!!

One more to add, getting up on Saturday morning to watch Saturday morning cartoons only to watch the test screen pattern until the station comes on.

@donnataylor980

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 I remember that😂

@nopenoway1519

3 ай бұрын

Yes, oh my goodness NBC had the best cartoons Saturday morning.

@LisyCO

3 ай бұрын

With a big o'bowl of the best sugary cereal in the world. Fruity Pebbles, Cap'n Crunch, Fruit Loop..my list is endless. I take that back, wasn't a fan of Honey Smacks😂

@fireflyhikes4250

3 ай бұрын

Also the there was no 24 hour TV. Local stations shut down at night

@angle5520

3 ай бұрын

Yep! And watched it pop on after midnight special. There might have been one other programming thing, but after that it was the pattern screen until the very next morning, waiting for the cartoons to come on. A typical Saturday morning went something like this for me: Cartoons, American Bandstand and Soul Train. I would switch back and forth throughout the hour. And then at night, Saturday night live or Monte python and midnight special hosted by wolfman Jack.

Remembering the first opening song when MTV hit the air! Also listening to MTV 24 hours a day in the summer. Remembering when cable was first introduced.

@sassyscrofa1972

Ай бұрын

🎶Video Killed The Radio Star🎶 😁

If you've never written in cursive. Sit down. 😂

@phreak1118

Ай бұрын

My 9 year old is learning that now.

@amydopson2946

Ай бұрын

My kids could not fake a note from Mom, because mine were always cursive! Life hack! 😂

Ch-ch-ch Chia! Chia Pet. The gift that grows.

@Wants2knowitall

2 ай бұрын

My late husband’s mother gave me one for the holidays one year. I should have known that relationship was doomed.

@cynicalbeotch

2 ай бұрын

Don't forget sea monkeys!

@Malini108

Ай бұрын

still so weird

Watching Soul Train and Showtime at the Apollo. Awwww, snaps! And remembering Ice-T before he was a cop. Lol

OMG the Challenger was IT!! Rolling that tv out and then the silence.

"It's a ancient Chinese secret".

@YeshuaKingMessiah

2 ай бұрын

I remember that! Can’t remember brand tho lol

@nicshere

2 ай бұрын

“Ancient Chinese secret, huh?” I think that was a Tide commercial. Could be completely wrong though.

@ftrevino4493

2 ай бұрын

@@nicshere Calgon commercial. kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5p2psODmZO6kqw.htmlsi=9aVZtba3Oy29E1qy

@jq8974

2 ай бұрын

Calgon!!!

@bigretardhalo

2 ай бұрын

Calgon.... Take me away

Having text books for every class AND having to use a brown paper bag to make your own book cover. Watching the tv channels come online every morning with the national anthem playing and watching the tv channels end their day with the national anthem and going to the test bars.

@maranathaschraag5757

2 ай бұрын

Don't forget trapper keepers

@Michael-fb1rl

2 ай бұрын

👍

@daniellemitchell3118

2 ай бұрын

I used the brown paper bags, too. But as I got older, I got fancy. I would put the comics from the Sunday newspaper over them for some color. Then I could read them during class.😅

@daniellemitchell3118

2 ай бұрын

​@@maranathaschraag5757Yep, mine was blue.

@Kalamain

2 ай бұрын

In the UK we often used wallpaper samples for school books. Free and you could sometimes do more than one with any end of rolls they let you have!

Don't forget "Pencil Wars" and "Hot Cinnamon Toothpicks!"

If your television never signed off at midnight, please take several seats.

You forgot "Calgon take me away!" 😆

@wendydisanto

3 ай бұрын

@TheBourbon88 " It's an ancient Chinese secret". Lol

@curtisclayton8023

3 ай бұрын

What about a stick of margarine talking 💩 to somebody by saying "Parkay"

@kimlarge4077

3 ай бұрын

I say thst to this day.

@phoenixspirit9530

3 ай бұрын

Those were the days. Old commercials... Nair : " who wears short , shorts?...we wear short, shorts. Bandaid : " I am stuck on Band-Aid Brand cuz Band-Aids stuck on me" ! Oscar Mayer : " My bologna has a first name, its O-S-C-A-R...."

@TheBourbon88

3 ай бұрын

@@phoenixspirit9530 That is INSANE! I has just humming the band-aid jingle this morning over and over and then asked myself "why?" Spirit animal. . can you hear me!!??

To be Gen X, You have to stop caring about everything. It’s fking exhausting. We care about good music, cool cars, good food and that’s about it.

@nadjasunflower1387

2 ай бұрын

and good video games. 😁

@mariafranciscabertoglio6759

2 ай бұрын

And coffee. Don't forget coffee. Just black. Or with a splash of cold milk. Nothing fancy.

@kuuderesyndrome3249

2 ай бұрын

nah I just don't drink coffee stopped caring about it​@@mariafranciscabertoglio6759

@RebelAllianceJAC

2 ай бұрын

And not necessarily in that order. 😂😂😂

@imscenery

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's about the speed of it.

Being able to dial a phone number to listen to a recording say, "At the tone the time will be X:X" and staying on the line to listen to the temperature, forecast and school closures in cases of inclement weather.

If you never were smacked by a hairbrush, wooden spoon or a Hot Wheels track...sit your azz down 😂

If you were never told "Sticks & stones can break your bones but, Words will never hurt you," you can't get in.

@user-mh4tx8zl4s

Ай бұрын

Or the version I learned in High School.'Sticks and Stones may break my Bones, but Whips and Chains excite me!"

@travisandmissydog

Ай бұрын

Man I wish people would go back to that frame of mind!

@rockrollangel1972

29 күн бұрын

or ennie meenie miny mo catch a tiger by it's toe

@marythecontrary

19 күн бұрын

I'm rubber and you're glue. Anything you say will bounce off of me and stick to you.

You must know what a payphone is. You must have used an old-school map. You must have have had an answering machine.

@Laiuka1

2 ай бұрын

Old-school, as in made of paper, not a Garmin gps.

@exofunbun7785

2 ай бұрын

Must be able to recite any phone number from memory.

@krystynasmyth1891

2 ай бұрын

What about the pager 😂

@AbsolutelyNoOne12

2 ай бұрын

Ah the payphone... n when caller ID came into play... "you have a collect call from..." "call me back at this number!!!" Click... 😂😂😂

@jeremyhess7977

2 ай бұрын

It's not an "old school" map.... it's an actual, folded paper map. We're not charting the seas for a northern route to fuckin' India to trade exotic spices.

Love this. Although I was born on the "baby boomer/gen x borderline (Jan 1963) I completely relate to this. I tell people all the time how fortunate I feel to have grown up in a country where you could purchase firearms, ammo, explosives (fireworks), live animals and chemistry sets containing a chunk of U235 through the mail!!! God help us. Lol

Gen x if remember the cabbage patch doll shortage at Christmas time. 😂 I learned mine came from a stolen truck 😮

@mariavenner2823

2 ай бұрын

My first one's name was kora. Got her in 1984 or 1985. Wish i still had her.

@3173kiki

2 ай бұрын

My mom had to actually make one because they were sold out! 😂 Me and my bobo Cabbage Patch doll😂

@rachelhall4808

2 ай бұрын

I remember cabbage patch but never had one. I do remember collecting garbage pale kid cards and stickers. I had them hidden! My mom would’ve been grossed out and disappointed. And then I would have been grounded.

@page_one

2 ай бұрын

My grandfather asked his best friend drive 2 hours to get me one. Still have it.

@lmward510

2 ай бұрын

My first one came from Mexico. My grandparents bought it while they were on vacation. 😂

🤣👍🏼 Thank You! 11. Playing outside All day until the street lights came on. 12. Riding our bikes with No Helmet. 13. Cramming as many people as we could in the back of the truck for the Drive In on Saturday Nights. 14. Bon Fires at the beach 15. Hokey Pokey on Roller Skates

@Pressity1

3 ай бұрын

YESSSS! Ahh, so few good memories from childhood and those are some of them!

@princezzpuffypants6287

3 ай бұрын

I hated the hokey pokey on skates and I was always bullied into participating - and consequently falling breaking my ass

@fylith6378

2 ай бұрын

These! 💯

@42ayla

2 ай бұрын

The Roller Garden, even if you didn't skate

@gabrielinsley4908

2 ай бұрын

No seatbelts too. How did we make it this far? Lol

You can still remember your best friends phone number 49 years later!

@victoriabostick2935

4 күн бұрын

@@sassy2215 isn’t that crazy and my friends parents still have that same number 🤭

If you weren't babysitting your younger siblings at 9 years old, while your parents were at the bar until 2 am.

Don't forget the Rainbow Bright or Jem!!!

@angeliaisastar

3 ай бұрын

I had a Rainbow Bright sleeping bag and a Jem coloring book!

@anyanin77

3 ай бұрын

@@angeliaisastar still have the doll AND the misfits.

@cck6740

3 ай бұрын

And Strawberry Shortcake..the originals, not the crappy remakes.

@krkb13

3 ай бұрын

Yesss

@phlogistanjones2722

3 ай бұрын

Well that is just Truly Outrageous!

I’m the oldest of Gen X, born in 1965 and no I did not go through the DARE program, but I was, “Scared Straight”!

@martialartess

2 ай бұрын

1966 here and no DARE program here. But my Gen Z daughter won the DARE essay contest in elementary school. I do remember "Scared Straight." But the one that really terrified me way "Stranger Danger".

@jasonkelley2651

2 ай бұрын

Technically we 1965 kids are the last of the Boomers. But we filled the roles of the first Gen X without breaking a sweat.

@karmao2024

2 ай бұрын

Me 2 😂❤❤

@gronk1965

2 ай бұрын

​@jasonkelley2651 No, we are X. Starts in '65. My big sister is only a few years older than me, and the generational difference between us is stark.

@benzydino1

2 ай бұрын

Was it any better? I'm at the end of Gen X,1980. I snuck in right at the end, thankfully.

If don’t remember “Mr Bill from SNL” then you can sit down! Lol 😝

If you missed the Christmas specials and didnt have to wait another year to be able to see them, sit your ass down

"Where's the Beef"? Lol

@rain0069

3 ай бұрын

siamese cat shaped avon bubble bath virgin mary plug in night lights vintage mounted doorbell's

@amandalibby3239

3 ай бұрын

Yup, right along with "time to make the donuts"

@MamaMOB

3 ай бұрын

I've fallen and I can't get up!

@patriciabusch4599

3 ай бұрын

OMG ALL THESE! 😂😂😂 YES! Check, check, check, and check!

@JessicaLee.3

3 ай бұрын

YES!! And "punch it Margaret!"

Or once a week you got a tv guide in the mail with listings of all the shows coming up the following week

@emeraldjonz.

3 ай бұрын

Whoooo Hoooo Yeah!!! That was good reading!

@williamsexton3078

3 ай бұрын

We used to look in the back of the TV guide at what was showing on HBO or CINEMAX. Write a letter to our grandmother who lived out of state with our movie requests. She would record them on VHS and ship UPS to us. We had a massive library and all our friends wanted to know what new movies we got.

@rmcnally3645

3 ай бұрын

I had to explain this to a Gen Z the other day 😅 she looked at me like, "and what was it like going to school riding a dinosaur?"

@user-bh1ne9tv7s

3 ай бұрын

@@rmcnally3645 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Some days that’s what it felt like

@phlogistanjones2722

3 ай бұрын

Oh ho! Ya'll was rich!

If you didn't sing "Conjuction Junction" or "I'm Just A Bill" to help get you through tests you're out.

To this day, I can't watch the Challenger launch without yelling "NO, DON"T GO WITH THROTTLE UP!" Was sick that day so I didn't make it in to school and watched from home.

Boys had shop class. Girls had home-economics 😂

@silvertarot25

2 ай бұрын

My school was progressive, they forced boys to take home ec & girls had to take shop. Ftr I'm a woman & I hated home ec, but loved shop.

@stephy369

2 ай бұрын

​@@silvertarot25they let us choose

@silvertarot25

2 ай бұрын

@@stephy369 I wish we could've had a choice, but in middle school it was mandatory. So 9 wks of home ec, 9 wks of shop, 9 wks of art & 9 wks of computer - in which getting to play the OG Oregon Trail was the highlight of the wk.

@1mouseman

2 ай бұрын

I took typing, me and 20 girls😁🥳😉

@silvertarot25

2 ай бұрын

@@1mouseman I was forced to do "keyboard skills" in middle school & sucked at it, so skipped typing in high school. I still can't type, but my kids being brought up on comps, well they can out type me any day lol.

100% right on.... That screeching sound of trying to hook up to the internet via landlines. Or getting kicked of line when somebody called. The art of making a collect call without having to pay, by saying"come pick me up" instead of your name. Sitting on your mom's lap when driving into town. Not being allowed in the house until after 5p.m. The taste of garden hose water in the summer. The sound of an icecream truck song(where you bought your candy cigarettes). Knowing how to spell words when paging a beeper. Knowing what a beeper/pager is😅. Learning to type on an electric typewriter. Knowing what "Be kind, rewind" meant. What the sound of a belt coming out of your dad's belt loops made just before you got it. Getting a "trapper" binder at the beginning of the school year. Not sure if your listening to the beginning of Ice Ice Baby, or Pressure. Sorry, got me remembering 😊

@CatrinaTeverbaugh-if2zr

2 ай бұрын

Woooooow....the garden hose 💧...😅Cuz if u go in the house, you staying in the house😂😂😂

@jjcc5338

2 ай бұрын

@@CatrinaTeverbaugh-if2zr Or....you weren't even allowed in the house till after 5p.m. these new generations wouldn't know what to do

@aprillowe8383

2 ай бұрын

I was two when the challenger exploded 😢

@JHabc

2 ай бұрын

Shoot, we never even got internet at home. Sit down

@misskris117

2 ай бұрын

Trapper Keepers!!!!!

I felt like we hit the lottery when we got cable for the first time.

As an older millennial, grew up with all of this. I still have my atari and the cartridges. My tv, until middle school, was the black and white box floor tv; had pliers next to it to change the channels. First computer was a typewriter. Had both the rotary phones and wall phones, with cords long enough to walk through half the house, while you twirled the cord around your fingers. Didn't care for smurfs or fraglerock, but loved Thundercats. Memories...😊

Sketchy homemade wooden bike ramps 😂😂

@donice88

3 ай бұрын

WoOoOoOoOoW, hell yeah brother!!! 😂🎉😮🎉😂

@grumpyoldguy4817

3 ай бұрын

This one got me. I read that and instinctively touched the bottom tooth that I chipped trying to jump my cousins BMX bike. My aunt only asked me if the bike was OK... How did we all survive?

@j348011

3 ай бұрын

And for Big wheels!

@christiesmith978

3 ай бұрын

Requirements: ANYTHING flat & wide and a brick... or two! Ta-da... a ramp for anything that rolled.

@gretahoostal8565

3 ай бұрын

We did this, but a bit before we were that old, we made ramps around the unfinished basement, and rode a pedal car around on them with the lights off.

If you have never owned a Walkman, played in the sand ash trays at the end of the grocery aisle or knew that Mikey would try anything. Please dont let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

@joycee5493

2 ай бұрын

Mikey hated everything!

@ninamason5877

2 ай бұрын

Mikey would try anything - good one!

@ninamason5877

2 ай бұрын

Radio Shack

Lol love your humor,born 1976 live in Berryville Arkansas, everything you mentioned I laughed so hard.... funny but so true!!

That sound......when you notice your tape is being eaten up and you run to save the cassette 😂😂from across 3 rooms

@stoopidbastid6420

Ай бұрын

ah the crinkle. I found out the hard way that you couldnt use rubbing alcohol to clean the pinch roller. Zeppelin 4 RIP

@danielbeltz1914

Ай бұрын

This actually made me chuckle.. I remember jumping from the upstairs to the landing to the downstairs and running into my room coming from the kitchen to save a tape.

@radolfkalis4041

29 күн бұрын

Yeah, that noise burns into your SOUL!

@EB1878

28 күн бұрын

​​@@stoopidbastid6420actually you can clean the pinch roller and the head in a cassette player using rubbing alcohol as long as it's 90% alcohol (less water in the stronger rubbing alcohol), swab with q-tips and let it air dry. The only time I experienced my tapes going crinkle cut French fry on me was when the cassettes themselves wore out, became tight (due to age, humidity chages, and repeated playing). I actually had some success salvaging some of my cassettes that became crinkled. I usually bought random cassettes, unscrewed them, switched out the spools, and labeled them, artist/album/year. It was tedious, sure. But those cassettes lasted me clear until 2012, then finally became oxidized due to their age. I managed to transfer a handful onto CD, then put them onto my MP3 players. I dubbed nearly all of my LP'S onto CD, then transferred those to MP3 and the same for my 8-track cartridge tapes, which by 85' those were being phased out entirely. They were a novelty to me and my hobby when I was 12 in grade school. 😊 Do I miss those tapes? You bet! I held onto my beloved Kiss 8 tracks, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath. The only 8 track players I owned were LLoyds (crappy home units in all actuality), one Weltron space helmet, one Weltron "Aquatron" both units wore out completely though. I believe those were sold for looks back in the day and less about quality and performance. The best 8 track player I owned later on was a Panasonic Dynamite (plunger style) red portable one, and a home unit, Realistic. Those actually lasted me several years since I maintained them well. Most all of my stereo stuff was either given to me and others I'd buy from thrift shops. It was always like striking gold if I found anything by my favorite bands or found another 8-track tape that I didn't have already. My first 8-track tapes were: Alice Cooper- Goes to Hell (my mother's tape), Cheap Trick- In Color (still have this, belongs to my mom), Kiss- self-titled 1974 (contains Kissin' Time so it's not the extremely rare pressing), Kiss Alive!, Kiss- Love Gun (fixed this myself at 12 years old and it played okay), Kiss- Dynasty ( I bought this for a huge .25 cents in 89' from an overpriced junk store), Kiss- Alive II both vol. 1 and 2, ZZ Top- (truck stop bootleg album, black cartridge with a generic label), .38 Special, Jim Croce- best of hits. My favorite was always the first Kiss album on 8-track. I loved hearing the rich, full music from a pair of those clunky pillow cushion headphones. I also had the big adapter to hook up modern headphones too. In way of music, we had it! In fact, growing up we had good music. 😊

@crisl9079

25 күн бұрын

😂 Ah yes, good one!

She just reminded me… there was no counseling after challenger blew up. Nada just like, “well there’s some trauma for your life” don’t make it drama… keep it pushin’!

@christis7217

2 ай бұрын

And we all survived

@matrix0027

2 ай бұрын

I remember my teacher quickly turned off the TV. They didn't acknowledge what happened at all. Our teacher was holding back tears and we got sent home from school early. My best friend who had the day off of school for an orthodontics appointment met me at the bus stop and that's how I found out that what we saw on tv was not only a burst of smoke but was the Challenger exploding and everyone on board dying. It was sad.

@priestessofkek2406

2 ай бұрын

I had just gotten out of boot camp and saw it on the barracks TV. Yah I'm first wave Gen-X just like my Boomer parents were proper Boomers (Dad was born 9 months after VE day)

@SarahMichelle777

2 ай бұрын

I watched it in the sky nearby in florida. What a nightmare. scarred forever. but…Ok everyone get to your next class now!”

@StaceyQTPie

2 ай бұрын

Our school had an assembly the next day to talk about it and offer counseling. I don't think anybody said a word.

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