Younger generations thinks she making this up..... NOPE. This is the truth, this is gen X. I'm so thankful to be able to raise myself during this time. 😂

@hummingbird027

9 ай бұрын

Gen x'rs are the most hard core people on the Earth. We don't take 💩 from no one!!! We were the pioneers of childhood. 😎🤣🤣🤣

@peggyhawkinson3061

9 ай бұрын

The only things she got wrong was the gen X was way earlier… born in 60 not 65.

@emilyaustralis

9 ай бұрын

Exactly like that for us 70;s babies .. here in Australia, it was exactly as she describes it …

@donnaaranda7175

9 ай бұрын

😂

@uncommonsense5276

9 ай бұрын

@@peggyhawkinson3061 Gen X is 1965-1980

Millenials invented safe spaces. We (Gen X) invented mosh pits.

@ZFern9390

2 ай бұрын

And Bamboo bongs 😂

@metamourphosis

Ай бұрын

And raves

@melissak8892

Ай бұрын

Did they really? I think their parents did. Millennials were destroyed by their parents, who I guess were boomers and older gen xers. As annoying as they are, you can't really blame them for being raised that way.

@1blastman

Ай бұрын

Yeah, but you kept your clothes on. At Woodstock and other festivals of that era, we did all that stark, raving naked --- and we loved it!! [of course now if you'd see our generation do that, you'd probably vomit at the bar.] Unlike the Who song, we didn't die before we got old.

@theetonster

Ай бұрын

Hell yeah!! 🤘😈

HOSE DRINKERS UNITE!!!😂 we lived...

@denisebutcher7717

Ай бұрын

I have never found that taste ever, but I never did drink from the hose. Snakes would crawl up the hoses in Southeast Texas . We would disconnect the hose from the faucet and drink from that. It’s that strong iron taste I guess…The other thing is the smell of rain on the road. The best smell ever when I was a child.

@librarianlovesrick

Ай бұрын

We sure did! I was watching my DVD of "Chips" the other day and Poncherello was drinking from the hose! LOL

@user-xr3pr2uh6h

Ай бұрын

Nothing like a big drink of cold water from a new vinyl hose!

@resurrectedwreck

Ай бұрын

Still the best water I've ever had!

@isacare360

Ай бұрын

when we were thursty in winter, my dad (born in 1934) was making us eat snow and that's it. No complaints alowed 😅

Gen X here. Came home with blood gushing out of my knee and my mom actually said to me “don’t bleed on the carpet !” 😮😅

@BBMc107

9 ай бұрын

Cut my knuckle to the bone, no doctor required, apparently. Just bleed over the sink, wrap it with toilet paper and an Ace bandage and the bleeding will stop, eventually.

@cjhoward409

9 ай бұрын

@@BBMc107 My mom who was a nurse had seen worse but she did take me to the ER… eventually. I needed about 10-12 stitches

@EarlHayward

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@BBMc107 My dad only took me to get stitches if he didn’t think superglue would work… The only time I had to get stitches was a slingshot projectile to the head, the rest was home triage ending with bandages and/or superglue… I got so used to pain I spent most of my senior year playing football with a broken wrist as I didn’t want a cast as I wouldn’t have been able to play…

@dawngw26

9 ай бұрын

... and let's put some BACTINE on it!

@Deb_BG

9 ай бұрын

Boomer here. I ran into a car on my bike. My knee was gushing blood, running down to my ankles. I washed off in the basement and threw my socks away so my parents wouldn't know. Lol.

I don't care what anyone says: coming home to that 80's hose water after a long bike ride just hit different.

@jbm0866

6 ай бұрын

That tasted just like the rubber in the hose after sitting out in the sun all day. Ahh yes

@pauldegregorio6432

6 ай бұрын

We drank from a storm drain.

@eligebrown8998

5 ай бұрын

Yes it did

@eligebrown8998

5 ай бұрын

​​@@jbm0866I learned to let it run a couple minutes first. You can't forget that taste

@neoneherefrom5836

3 ай бұрын

No one from that era would or should use the expression “hit different.”

I'm gen x and I truly believe this was the best generation. The last generation to learn manners, and how to build their own dirtbike!

@KarenMorganComedy

8 ай бұрын

😍

@stulawson

Ай бұрын

Right on! You damn well bet is!! 😎 👍

@user-xm1me4uq3i

Ай бұрын

Yea buddy

@calicokush

Ай бұрын

@@KarenMorganComedy also the generation of reattached limbs, digits and adult teeth before they came of age to join the military... everybody knows, at the very least, someone that lost a toenail, if not a toe, to a backyard swingset.

@proberts34

16 күн бұрын

We had a mini-bike, with the long-throw brake lever on the left side. Make sure that return spring isn't stretched, or the brake pedal might dig into the ground and flip the bike over. Happened to a friend of mine. Good times. 🙂

I remember: TV dinners, Outer Limits, Nestle’s Quick, Pixie Sticks, skateboards, Etch-A-Sketches, 64-Crayons, Archie comics, climbing trees, transistor radios, knee socks, saddle shoes, swinging by our knees upside down on the playground bars, galoshes, digging to China, Five and Dime stores, water balloon fights, penny gum-ball machines, reading past bedtime under the covers with a flashlight, Red Rover, tetherball, mini skirts, Poorboys, President Kennedy assignation, Twiggie, saving up my allowance to buy Rubber Soul…how very lucky my childhood was.

@juliemoore6957

3 ай бұрын

I'm a boomer and I did all that stuff too!

@VickiConstan

3 ай бұрын

Ditto ditto

@LSeverusPertinax

3 ай бұрын

President Kennedy "assignation"? Well, he had those too....

@mammyrammer4209

2 ай бұрын

If you remember the assassination of President Kennedy, you're a boomer.

@kellysong2256

2 ай бұрын

You forgot about playing "kick the can"

Gen X isn't fighting with anyone, we just want to be left alone but we will set you straight if you want to include us in your silliness.

@apextroll

9 ай бұрын

The big difference between the generations and gen X is we grew up between wars and there was no pressing social issues to fight against. We were never ideologically driven the way early boomer and the other subsequent generations are. In simple terms, we make for great grifters and think twice if your movement is lead by a Gen Xer. The saying used to be, to never trust a person over 40. I'd modify that.

@NotSunShinehere

9 ай бұрын

This!!

@aw4724

8 ай бұрын

Hilarious!! I thought I was the only family that had the big embarrassing station wagon with the rear facing seats, Home Depot parents, and a Mom who seat belted us with her arm when she slammed on the breaks! HA!!! My sisters and I LITERALLY had all these things. I was the oldest though so I’m the only Gen X-er in the family. SO strange that was a generational thing. I’m just blown away at this. Now I don’t feel so sorry for myself. 😂😂Other than that though, truly Gen X-ers had it the best. Such a good time to be alive. The 80s was an indescribably fun, sultry, moody, sexy, dreamy decade.

@travishendrix7026

5 ай бұрын

Amen to that. We are a scrappy bunch all involved are afraid of. Boggles the mind. Lol

@eligebrown8998

5 ай бұрын

Amen

Loved it. Gen-X is the shit. No other generation will ever live as we did and have to be as strong as we are.

@cjprice3219

2 ай бұрын

You should've said no other gen After gen-X... Earlier than gen-X generations were stronger. Having to live through WW2, The Depression & previous tough living of the past. Rougher childhood, stronger in long run as adults.

@emmanuelraylive

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Being proud aside, I think we Gen X lot also have a well earned ego and swag!

@user-bn4jk8gn1k

2 ай бұрын

and programming a VCR to record a show next Monday at 10pm was next level shit that no other generation could do, even today.

@BlazinRiver1

2 ай бұрын

I am 65....Gen Jones...You must be REALLY full of yourself to make a statement like that. I was working by the time I was in the 4th grade...morning/evening paper route...365 days a year until I was a jr in hs. Bought my own school cloths out of the Sears catalog. We grew up wondering if we would have to go to Vietman....we watched our freinds and cousins go and not come back. WE gave the world HEAVY METAL......We were having firecracker and BB gun fights in 1967....WE gave you the Stingray bike..... EVERYTHING YOU HAD WAS HANDED DOWN FROM MY GENERATION CUPCAKE.

As a Gen-X guy, I can confirm she is absolutely right on the money. She brings back so many memories of growing up in the 80's. The younger generations have NO idea what they missed out on. This is pure nostalgia. Thank you.

@nodoboho

25 күн бұрын

We have things in common (beyond our taste in avatars) 😉...late Boomer gal here and growing up in the '60s and '70s was pretty much everything she described about Gen X! No helmets, parents-arm as seat belt, drinking from a hose, staying out 'til dark, etc. I had one of those red rubber balls.

@paulinerulon2230

4 күн бұрын

@@nodoboho it's all been done before. Nothing exclusive about Gen x. Revolting generation. Stomach churning. Wars??? I don't think so

Gen X here! She speaks the truth. It was a wild fun time with no adults around to watch us.😂

@aw4724

8 ай бұрын

Hilarious!! I thought I was the only family that had the big embarrassing station wagon with the rear facing seats, Home Depot parents, and a Mom who seat belted us with her arm when she slammed on the breaks! HA!!! My sisters and I LITERALLY had all these things. I was the oldest though so I’m the only Gen X-er in the family. SO strange that was a generational thing. I’m just blown away at this. Now I don’t feel so sorry for myself. 😂😂Other than that though, truly Gen X-ers had it the best. Such a good time to be alive. The 80s was an indescribably fun, sultry, moody, sexy, dreamy decade. My parents were 60s hippie children so they were too busy partying to pay attention to us. Pretty hilarious what we got up to. Kinda sad too but also funny.

@IndianaBones

8 ай бұрын

@@aw4724 My grandparents had it and that was so dangerous but the best when young. My twin, My two cousins and me use to squeeze into the back

@czarcoma

2 ай бұрын

Was fun until you came home late, and you're left, locked out of the house until "after" dinner

@Capricornsrule

2 ай бұрын

People want to protect todays ‘freedoms’. Their freedoms are already gone. No one could be as free as a 70s kid

@izodman

Ай бұрын

@@czarcomaThat happed to us once- we all sneaked out the slider and that was the one time they got up to do room checks and saw we all snuck out. We returned to the slider locked and had to sleep on the patio. Good times!

Gen X here. I'm proud to say we are the last generation of feral children. Great stuff, Ms. Morgan! 😂 ❤

@KarenMorganComedy

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! GenX rocks!

@gaston8512

3 ай бұрын

Feral, lol you nailed it!! 😅😂

@misslora3896

3 ай бұрын

I've also heard "free range children" which I like. It was a great time to be a kid. We learn best by doing and thats what we got to do.

@jdsguam

2 ай бұрын

I grew up in the 60's - We were the last of the feral children. Get a grip

@wrotenwasp

2 ай бұрын

And the last generation to remember the old America

I’m a late Boomer, and raised myself along w/my 3 younger brothers. As long as my parents didn’t get a call from the hospital or police it was all good.

OMG!! My favorite line. "We don't care!" Gen X 😂😂😂

@queenreg7

7 ай бұрын

So true. I care, but not enough to get but so ruffled about stuff.

@QuillSeabrook

Ай бұрын

We don’t !!! 😂😂😂

First year of Gen X here…… everything she said is 100% legit…… that’s really how it was! She didn’t embellish one word for the sake of comedy. That was all true 🤣😭😂

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

😍

@aw4724

8 ай бұрын

Hilarious!! I thought I was the only family that had the big embarrassing station wagon with the rear facing seats, Home Depot parents, and a Mom who seat belted us with her arm when she slammed on the breaks! HA!!! My sisters and I LITERALLY had all these things. I was the oldest though so I’m the only Gen X-er in the family. SO strange that was a generational thing. I’m just blown away at this. Now I don’t feel so sorry for myself. 😂😂Other than that though, truly Gen X-ers had it the best. Such a good time to be alive. The 80s was an indescribably fun, sultry, moody, sexy, dreamy decade.

@BenjiSun

7 ай бұрын

cinder block and plywood ramps with nails sticking out of it childhood. yep.

@KieranMckean

4 ай бұрын

100 % truth 👍 I was born in 65 during the race riots and remember the Watergate the oil embargo president Ford election.

@misslora3896

3 ай бұрын

​@@aw4724Born in 69", I was the youngest so, I rode up front with mom and dad a lot, I remember the arm as my seatbelt and airbag well. When I was 5 or 6 we hit someone who pulled out in front of us and mom wasn't quick enough. Wasn't too bad though, the heater had been on because it was cold out which made the vinyl so slick I just went sliding off into a heap under the dash instead of flying. Took a chunk out of my chin on the way down and bruised it, but other than that I was fine. Ahhh the 70's.

Boomer here. One of my most treasured memory is my dad placing me on his lap while he was driving and letting me steer the car and he would work the pedals. I did this with all four of my Gen X godsons, earning me favorite “aunt” status for life

@KarenMorganComedy

8 ай бұрын

Learning to drive like that was precious memories

@user-bn4jk8gn1k

2 ай бұрын

oooh, I remember doing this as a (genX) kid!

@cathy1775

Ай бұрын

My dad did too. Of course, he was copilot with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. I don’t think the car had seatbelts and even if it did they were decorations.

@tracyjohnson5023

Ай бұрын

lol right? I remember that, I remember driving 2 beer drinking uncles around back roads when I was 13 and I remember driving 3 on tree truck in hayfield at 9/10. Had to slide seat all way back and stand on floor to push clutch in. Good times 😂

@justwayne4785

Ай бұрын

I remember doing this, then when I was 9 or 10 I graduated to putting the car in the garage when my dad wasn’t home because mom didn’t like doing it 😂 Happy days!

Hell yes! I loved my childhood, born in ‘71🤘🏻 💜 to all ya Gen-Xer’s

@wadopotato33

3 ай бұрын

Also '71...best time.

@gracecase998

Ай бұрын

Yep fellow '71, rock on.

She really nailed Gen X, described my whole childhood

@kristiny4727

7 ай бұрын

Me too!

@conk449

5 ай бұрын

Shoot, my mama cared so little I moved out and into my own apartment 6 weeks before graduating high school! My child didn't move out til junior in college.

@Thi-Nguyen

Ай бұрын

Right?! SO exactly what my childhood was like, right down to the metal skates. 🤣🤣🤣

“Your Star Wars has Jar Jar Binks in it and there’s no coming back from that.” Lol!!!

I am technically a Boomer, but everything she said about Gen X was my childhood.

@kathrynletchford5114

9 ай бұрын

Same here. Those were the days, my friend. ❤

@OffRampTourist

9 ай бұрын

Me too. Blurred lines.

@debby8428

9 ай бұрын

same here. 1963 but definitely Gen X

@denisee9807

9 ай бұрын

me too Coolest generation Ever!!

@elizabethhopkins7582

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. Gen acts like they invented all these things that were Boomer things. It's weird.

As a millennial myself, I hate my generation too! I demand a refund lol 😂

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

😍

@akiram6609

8 ай бұрын

Why would you hate your generation? Millennials are fine. I’m Gen X by the way. No one should hate anyone based on what generation they were born in.

@kate2create738

7 ай бұрын

@@akiram6609 The best way I can describe my generation is lack of gratitude and perspective. Too many have burned down the whole as a solution to "fix" the problems instead of being the big person and confront a lot of issues stem from their immaturity. Meanwhile, I admire the generations before the Boomers cause they understood the value of doing their part to actually fix things that needed to be fixed without destroying everything in the process. There is a moral fabric of doing their part for both themselves and the community, my generation is spoiled by pleasures they were gifted to not understand the hard work it took to get to small things taken for granted. Now there are some hard working millennials that are WAY ahead the curb, but I'm honestly revolved how many barely understand simple principles that has contributed to, imo, hindering our society. I speak as someone who wants something BETTER to be a part of, I just can't relate to a lot of those in my generation.

@spooogey8417

6 ай бұрын

Traitor! 😂😂

@Secret65548

2 ай бұрын

😂 it's hard to want to fix anything with the scraps we've been given. Almost all of my milenial friends are extremely hard working and still drowning in debt, unable to get to the surface because of inflation. The boomers left us with nothing and honestly? Most of us are just fucking burnt out. We have nothing left to give, but we're forced to treck on anyway while getting shot at from every angle. You should look at where the problem started instead of blaming the generation it got dumped on.

I'm GenX and still alive! That was my childhood.

"Go outside and play!" 😂😂 That still echos in my brain to this day. God forbid ya have to come inside for ANYTHING. Us kids had lived off the land in those days. We, literally, knew where every single apple tree, and tomato plant was in town. 😂

@andreabradley5837

3 ай бұрын

Me and my best friend knew the best tasting weeds to eat. We would put them in a bucket with salt and pepper and call it soup.

@DyzrLotsapoppa

2 ай бұрын

Yes yes we did indeed lol

@ZFern9390

2 ай бұрын

We Collected bottles and bought a big slurpee to share and two bazooka gum!

@DERISNER

2 ай бұрын

@@ZFern9390 Yes, we did the same thing. I couldn't believe people were throwing bottles away when they could get two pennies for them. I would pick 12 of them up and take them to the grocery store, put them in the wooden crate, and then I could buy a 16 oz Barqs red cream soda and a pack of Twinkies. And that was living!😂😂

@ZFern9390

2 ай бұрын

@@DERISNER Hahah damn right! I remember my little cousin and I doing that!

"nobody brought sliced oranges" ... I laughed out loud!

@user-wh5ir4fo4r

7 ай бұрын

I grew up in California. We'd steal oranges off the trees.

@tammirn1516

Ай бұрын

Same. I played on a softball league in the summer months. I can't remember anyone even bringing water to practices or games, just our gloves. We played in t-shirts and jeans. So we could slide, no one was gonna fix a scraped up knee, and we kept score. 😂 Dad taught his girls how to play. ❤

@virginiaf.5764

Ай бұрын

@@tammirn1516 Yep, funny but true. I grew up playing outside from dawn to dusk (and sometimes darkness) with absolutely no supervision. The only time I was reminded I had parents was when my mother came outside and yelled for me and my sisters to come in for dinner. We all survived.

@paulcolburn3855

Ай бұрын

You drank out of the hose

@virginiaf.5764

Ай бұрын

@@paulcolburn3855 Yes! That too. We also ran through the hose, with a sprinkler attached.

Gen X here...born in '71. Thanks for the memories and laughs!

Moment that says it all for gen X: The space shuttle Challenger blew up on our lunch hour in high school (w/ a female teacher on board) and we were told to go back to class. 😮

@AsTheWheelsTurn

9 ай бұрын

lol I was in middle school and watched it, our teacher straight up said "wow looks like they blew up" and then we went on with class.

@nekograce7914

9 ай бұрын

5th grade and we were there for the rest of the day ofc. Honestly though I could tell our teachers had no idea what to do. So they let us go outside. The entire school was on the playground (we had a HUGE playground). And we were fine by the time we got on the bus.

@jamescampbell390

9 ай бұрын

I remember that day our parents where called and said well what had happened was.. and my Dad picked me up early and was like wtf I have to explain this to him damn it

@sam12587

8 ай бұрын

I was in grade school and remember it well.

@curiousobserver97

8 ай бұрын

Krista McAuliffe was the teacher's name on the Challenger. We were all excited that an ordinary teacher was going to space. So sad and shocking was the explosion.

I just taught my 4 year old granddaughter how to drink from a hose. It was hilarious. Especially her parents asking "Why would you do that?"

@nativega1266

9 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 “Why would you do that?” LOL!

@jaewok5G

8 ай бұрын

someday, when the world is coming to an end, they'll survive for another day. did ya tell 'em about waiting for the cold water to push out the warm water and the bugs n stuff?

@agdoren

8 ай бұрын

Hose water was delicious and convenient.

@denisee9807

8 ай бұрын

My daughter used to 'try' to tell me about my granddaughter " You can't let her be outside without shoes,and do not not teach her how to pee behind a tree and she can't wear 'That to the Store" ....Granny gonna do Granny lol

@bluesunset245

8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

I love intelligent humor. This is a classic example.

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

We would go sledding in Wis with zero adult supervision. I hit a tree, got a bloody nose, lost a tooth, and broke one of my lenses from my glasses. My mom made me go to school for a week with one lens before she made an appointment to replace it. She smoked three packs a day of Marlboro 100s. I miss her.

@travishendrix7026

5 ай бұрын

That's awesome dude. I would for sure be a running buddy of yours. The cost of battle....Priceless!

@cathy1775

Ай бұрын

I didn’t get eyeglasses until I was 12 because my mother was sure I wanted them only because my friend had them. I am sooo nearsighted.

I’m a proud mid-60s baby and ya, she’s spot-on!!! “Home Depot parents” …. Too funny!!

I died laughing omg. Battle plans in cursive almost made me fall from my seat. And the home depot comparison omg rofl

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

😍

@jeannebrassil9288

9 ай бұрын

😭😭🤣🤣🤣 true!

@annsparta2222

6 ай бұрын

Too bad I Can actually read cursive, and I’m Gen z 😂😂😂😂

Gen X is so much more scrappy and resourceful. We came up on Red #40 in everything, drinking straight from the hose, and being totally MIA all day after school (with no cell phones- gasp!) until the street lights came on. There were no "playdates." If we got a beatdown nobody came to save us. Then we let ourselves in the house and ate Cap'n Crunch for dinner in front of MTV. The Challenger blew up in front of us on live TV when I was in 1st grade and our teachers sent us to lunch like nothing happened. We took our Halloween candy to the supermarket to have it scanned for needles and razor blades and that was NORMAL. Adults thought all of us were either becoming satanists or joining gangs depending on which Parental Advisory music we were into. People can say what they want about us, but if any generation is most likely to survive a nuclear holocaust it's definitely gonna be Gen X. Just listen to our music. We're the "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" generation. Kids coming up now don't even know how to sign a credit card receipt and their icons are (gag) Taylor Swift and random people on Instagram that open boxes and expect you to send them money..

@TheChimpoko1

9 ай бұрын

You took your Halloween candy to be scanned? No, never ever. We just ate it. What kind of padded cushy nerf life were you living? 😂

@EarlHayward

9 ай бұрын

Till the street lights came on… We would play till mom came out at 8 or 9 screaming that the food was cold and she was going to throw it away if we didn’t come in and eat… Speaking of food, when we got in trouble we would get hit with the belt and be sent to bed without dinner - today parents would be charged with child abuse for that…

@sgmsmiles

9 ай бұрын

Scanned? Lol….& don’t be knocking TT..

@virginiaf.5764

9 ай бұрын

Boomer here. First day of summer to the day before school started in the fall, the kids on my street did the same thing. Out the door in the morning, called to dinner, ate, then back outside and left to our own devices until nightfall. It was a world kids today could not imagine. No cell phones, no social media, only three channels on the tv ... and our Halloween haul didn't need to be x-rayed, nor did we have to go to retail stores for candy. We went to real houses because we knew the neighborhood residents.

@AsTheWheelsTurn

9 ай бұрын

haha yeah we were just told to bite down slowly in case there was a needle or razor blade.@@TheChimpoko1

Love this 😂😂😂 I nearly choked when she said “stood there with candy jewellery on” I remember those necklaces and bracelets with cheap really sweet candy…… and a bag of rainbow drops 😂😂

@aw4724

8 ай бұрын

And jelly shoes

@teresastaggs7923

7 ай бұрын

Smoking our candy cigarettes 😂

@KieranMckean

4 ай бұрын

Don't forget candy raisins my grandma's favorite 😁

@Thi-Nguyen

Ай бұрын

@@aw4724YES!!! Someone else who remembers these!!!

Hi fellow Gen Xers! All of this is so accurate and eerily identical to my childhood as well. Great memories! Glad we are all still here to reminisce together 😂

@KarenMorganComedy

5 ай бұрын

😍

"We were trying to kill each other" omg it's true 😂

I'm a boomer but her description of gen x was my childhood.

Everyone of your Gen-X jokes landed with me.

@Jaxmusicgal23

9 ай бұрын

Me too and I am an old Millennial with older Boomers who had kids late. Pretty much neglected growing up… unless I made too much noise or did something she didn’t like…. Then I got it bad. Feral childhood.

Broke my collarbone playing tackle football after school walked 4 blocks home told my mom she said watch some cartoons til your dad gets home and let him look at it…. Yep gen x the indestructible generation and proud of it

@breakshot7451

Ай бұрын

road my bmx waved a friend didnt saw the car stopped in front of me banged with my face on trunk lid. had a very big blue lip. my mum said. the kids will really laugh at you tomorrow at school. boy what an emotional support and yes the kids laughed. and yep no day off. boy was i mad;)))

@AdrianHague

Ай бұрын

I've had every limb in a plaster cast at some point in my Gen-X life. I once walked 2 miles with two broken arms and on another occasion spent half a day at school (including a one mile walk home) with a broken leg. Young bones heal easy! 😀

I'm a boomer. Everything your saying is funny as hell because it's true. I like how you can make people laugh at themselves.

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

🥰

@MrTL3wis

5 ай бұрын

No, you can't fucking scam into X, Boomer. There is no transgenerational. You are who you fucking are.

@emmanuelraylive

2 ай бұрын

Boomers are my favourite generation! I have many friends that fall into that category.

@MrTL3wis

2 ай бұрын

@@emmanuelraylive The generation as a whole has absolutely fucked our country.

Those were the days huh? Man those of us that survived have lots of great memories🤪😇💃

@ZFern9390

2 ай бұрын

Still have PTSD but on the right side of the grass 😂

It was 1980, and i was 11 yrs old. My grandma would give me a note that was an IOU to buy her cigarettes and a six pack of empty Dr. pepper bottles to buy candy as my reward. I miss you, Gma ❤

@terihall1974

3 ай бұрын

I'm a Boomer, in Los Angeles. In the 60s you could buy cigarettes from the Helms man. Gave him the same note. Great stuff Ms Morgan.

@nodoboho

25 күн бұрын

@@terihall1974 L.A. Boomer here, too. Helms Bakery was near my childhood home! I remember their little navy and yellow delivery vans. Never heard of them selling anything but bread, but I remember cigarette machines in restaurants and (later) bars. I got my mom to quit smoking when I was little, but my uncle tried to bribe us kids to get him a pack from 7-11 (in the '70s) and I don't think we needed a note. (I hated cig smoke and by then we knew it was bad for you, so I refused.)

Gen X 1965. That was my childhood.😅 The hose, killing each other, outside all day until my mom calling my name to come home at night. Buying my dad his cigarettes, and getting a face full of smoke in the backseat of the car. I need some candy cigarettes.

@Thi-Nguyen

Ай бұрын

Oh my gosh!!! My sister and I were arguing in the living room one afternoon. My mom got fed up and told us to go outside and finish it. She was seriously telling us to go outside and argue. She didn’t care what it was about. We had better be arguing. I remember my sister and I went outside and stood there looking at each other. Then we suddenly started laughing. 🤣🤣🤣

@Thi-Nguyen

Ай бұрын

And Nip and Sip bottles!!

Born in 65 My parents were silent generation and they had the furniture with the plastic on it.... Remember that?

Totally my childhood😂

@gabez8

9 ай бұрын

My late mom too 😂🎉❤😢😮. I am a millennial.

@SheOfCertainGait

9 ай бұрын

I've always felt this way too.

@janiceshanks7923

9 ай бұрын

Mine too, especially could relate to the Dodge Ball reference, I still have a forehead scar from my head bouncing off a brick wall after being slammed in the face with a Red Dodge ball 😆

A few extra Gen-X activities: If it was more or less vertical and over three stores in height, we'd try to climb it. Trees, fire towers, those big power line poles, grain silos, smoke stacks with little ladders on the side. Unsupervised fun with power tools. Sometimes we were even building things. Chemistry sets that did more than just make stuff in your test tube change color. Chasing tornadoes on our bikes (fortunately never caught one). Spear fishing while dodging the game warden patrols. Good times. At the same time, I much prefer being an adult. Lots of things about being a kid in the 70s were really rough.

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

💛

@denisee9807

9 ай бұрын

The roughest thing I remember is the feeling of wanting my ma's love There were 10 of us kids and as an adult I mostly understand but dang where were the grown-ups idk it may have been the disfuctional alcoholism crap too..anyways aside from that life was good, families hung out played cards,baseball camping holiday suppers We had it all really GenX Rocks

Proud Gen X here! Don't forget about the rusty metal playgrounds with the gravel, concrete or asphalt for landing on. I should be dead all times I flew off the merry-go-round or fell off the monkey bars!!

@elizabethjohnston3549

Ай бұрын

I remember our monkey bars were up to 25 feet high ,i nearly died at least two times, but I could swing on them and could walk the highest part like a tightrope walker when I was about 9 , im happy to be here

Apparently,if silent gen are celebrating 63 years married, the lard hasn't hurt much.... just saying!😅

@kamilahynas2327

9 ай бұрын

@@Rayvn7 Exactly.

@shadowsilverlight1651

8 ай бұрын

the reason they survived is cause they did exercise to counter the lard....unlike the youth today who are allergic to exercise.

@rustyshackleford4338

7 ай бұрын

My silent gen mom used to make chicken soup, skim off the fat, and use it to make chocolate chip cookies.

Very nicely done. We ‘silents’ were kids of people who were kids during the depression and adults during WWII. They didn’t want to hear us complain, and could top any gripe we had by a lot. “Suck it up, Buttercup”. They had no vaccines, no novocaine, no smoke detectors, no CPSC, so tits in wringers were real unfortunate events when electric washers came along. Our dads and uncles were the GI’s of WWII. Our moms were Rosie the riveter. Our older brothers went to Korea, and when Viet Nam came along, off we went.

@jq8974

9 ай бұрын

Bless you - we stand on your shoulders ♥️

@rondanakamura2655

3 ай бұрын

"If I have seen further than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants." - Sir Isaac Newton

@mikek0135

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Our lives are much, much better because of your work! Way way better cars, so many medications, so many conveniences, the beginning of the STRONG push towards equality, better homes in every way, I could go on and on. Your generation made my generation's lives great. Thank you!

@ZFern9390

2 ай бұрын

My mom would yell " don't rock the boat"!!!

"Nobody came to our athletic practices" That's so true. Now all the parents are hovering over their kids and analyzing the practices. Bottle rocket wars and roman candle wars been there done that. No helmets for sure. I bought cigarettes for my neighbor when I was 7 on a regular basis. Now if the electricity goes out and my mobile data goes down and I can't search for something on my phone I don't know what to do except maybe find some neighbors to have a bottle rocket fight with.

@adeleennis2255

9 ай бұрын

I lived in a neighborhood where the transformer blew during bad thunderstorms. It South Carolina. Most of them are bad thunderstorms. After the second time, I put together our candle kit. We spread lit emergency candles from Dollar Tree throughout the kitchen, bathroom, and living room. Then we’d pull out a boardgame.

@1blastman

2 ай бұрын

@@adeleennis2255 Heck, I live in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, and we still do that. We lose power when the wind changes direction. And we always upgrade our hurricane kits.

@IndianaJoe0321

2 ай бұрын

I still keep an atlas in our cars, just in case the GPS goes down/out. I bought atlases for my two youngest kids' (Gen Z'ers) vehicles and they said they couldn't read an atlas. My wife & I had homeschooled our two youngest ... and I failed to teach them about reading an atlas. What is the world coming to? 🤔

@cathy1775

Ай бұрын

And putting lady fingers in metal garbage cans to make them louder.

@1blastman

Ай бұрын

@@cathy1775 Anyone ever flush an M-80 down a dormitory toilet - it really makes a mess 😁

First year Gen X here. My older siblings would put me in a large box and slide me down the basement stairs to see what happened. Folks would just ask "is she hurt -no,,,well ok then knock it off", which they did not.

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

🤣

@brianmgrim

15 күн бұрын

To see what happened…Hilarious! Experimentation and observation teach so much!

"We will write out our battle plans in cursive, and mail it to ourselves on envelopes" Words of wisdom! Gen X rules!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘

Lol! Gen X, here…yep to the hose drinking, yep to bottle rocket wars, yep to outside all day. We had crab apple fights-you dodged or you got hit, it was just that simple. I had forgotten about the bubble gum cigarettes and candy jewelry, lol. We also played on real swings, monkey bars, teeter totters & merry-go-rounds that you could get injured on, but it was a lot of fun & that’s how you learned to adapt to the rules of the real world.

@truthunfiltered314

6 күн бұрын

Don't forget about lawn darts.

@crisl9079

5 күн бұрын

Lol, yes, the most dangerous family game ever invented.

Me and my friends were hose drinkers and we were also the ones that would play a game knowing that you might lose knowing that you're going to get hurt

@kathyfritz9962

9 ай бұрын

My friends and I

@mikerepairsstuff

9 ай бұрын

Truth or Dare.

@EarlHayward

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@kathyfritz9962 I’ll take that error any day over all the people who incorrectly use the term phobia… Go correct all those woke idiots and then lecture people on the proper use of possessive determiners…

@joannejoannerodemer0769

9 ай бұрын

We would also put peoples in our mouths to get the saliva going if there was no hose available like in the woods.

@ZFern9390

2 ай бұрын

​@@joannejoannerodemer0769dang 😂

I'm GenX and can confirm. But, I mean, I don't really care... 😅

@morganseppy5180

8 ай бұрын

"Whatever" 🙄

Battle plans in cursive on paper and mail it. I am Gen x and I died laughing!

I'm a Gen-X, proud to say. I remember standing on the front seat of the car, holding on to the head rest, when I was a toddler, while my Mom drove. No seat belt or car seats were used. I remember walking 8 blocks home, at age 5 and letting myself in the house until one of my parents came home after work. At age 11 I was actually allowed to babysit 3 younger neighbor kids or my other neighbors 1.5yr old, AT NIGHT, ALONE!!! Me and my brothers were also locked out of the house during the day when my Mom needed a break. We had a gang of kids in the neighborhood that hung out, ages 3 to 12. It was like that old show "Our Gang". I can't believe we didn't all end up dead or missing. Two of us (including myself) from the gang ended up as Registered Nurses and one a social worker, who knew!?!

Ahhh Generation X . This lady is spot on 😂

I'm from the quiet generation. She is right on when it comes to my gen and boomers lol

@mikek0135

2 ай бұрын

Tell us?

I held the record in my neighborhood on the plywood ramp with blocks propping it up bike jump. 18’ jump on a 26” ten speed with a 24” tire in the front. Go genx

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

😍😍😍

And that's what makes us from Gen Z so scary! We're all still feral.

I'm the Oregon Trail generation. We never get any love because no one else knows we exist.

@MrUnknownbfreak

9 ай бұрын

I loved that game lol

@DepDawg

9 ай бұрын

I always died of dysentery 😂

@MicahScottPnD

9 ай бұрын

@@DepDawg was there a different way the game ended? 😂

@crisl9079

9 ай бұрын

Lol. I never beat that game. Ever. It seems like I never had my supplies balanced right and always ended up dying like 1/2-2/3 of the way there. I still think they didn’t give us sufficient money to get the supplies needed to succeed in that game.

@nouvelhomme8990

9 ай бұрын

We had the one or two computers at school that we sometimes got to play that on, and I was so terrible, I hated computers for the longest time.

I was born in '64. I have no idea how I can be a boomer. I am Gen X all the way.

@helloDobson3259

8 ай бұрын

I've seen here and there where they cut off at 1960, which I agree with. '63 here. My life very different than someone born 51. NOT the same generation. For one, they went to Vietnam. It was over before we were 18. They had hippies. Dressing as a hippie was literally nostalgia day at my high school.

@Joannegrace111

8 ай бұрын

Same here, latchkey kid and all. Born in 64 and for sure a gen X’er.🤗

@davidbrayshaw3529

8 ай бұрын

In cultural, economic and technological terms, "generations" are really about 5 years apart, not the 15 to 20 that we're led to believe. @@helloDobson3259

@joanneolsen5635

8 ай бұрын

64 here, I’m gen x for sure. Our elementary teachers were hippies.

@diamondgirl7519

4 ай бұрын

Gen X starts in 65.

Born in 1963. I may be a late boomer but I lived just like this and loved it.

Everything she said is true. I grew up in that generation. I miss the 70's. We will never see that again.😢

I didn't even have to have a note to pickup mom's cancer sticks. And with the change I got the candy cigarettes, Now Or Laters, and the wax lips among other things, lol! 💃🏽

OMFG this was Literally my childhood! Every single thing and then some!!! 😅😂

I scaled the side of a highway overpass every day as a kid, clinging to roots in the ground, because it was a mile to walk around it and a waste of my playtime. 😂 Gen X wisdom !

I have to say, I’ve been a fan of many comedians who work blue, but you are genuinely funny without the need to curse. That is no easy task. Thanks.

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

OMG! I am from Athens, Ga. Just realized you were, too. Did you ever go to Five Points and get dime ice cream from the pharmacy? Cut my knuckle to the bone, no doctor required, apparently. “Just bleed over the sink”. Wrapped it with toilet paper and an Ace bandage, myself, to stop the bleeding. Mom was busy doing needlepoint and could not be bothered. At 3yo, mom would send me out to play with the dog as my protector. She would whistle the dog home and I would follow.

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

Yes! I spent a lot of time at Hodgson’s for ice cream and Add Drugs for grilled cheese at the counter 😍 I may need to add “Bleed over the sink” to the list 🤣

Late boomer (1962) and all of this definitely applies to me.

@lmor7110

3 ай бұрын

Same here. We’re actually Gen Jones - supposedly enjoying life like the boomers did, but living in Gen X reality as adults in the workplace. Every decade (1980s to present) has had an economic downturn; struggling to survive. I hope to make it to retirement & maybe have some fun before I die…

Omg, she nailed Gen-X. This is not an exaggeration. As a father of a 6 year, I am shocked how bad my parents were. I wouldn't allow my my child to do a 10th of what my parents let me do.

@SunnyForestTarot

7 ай бұрын

Your parents were not bad …..they were getting you out of their hair but in a different way then parents do today where you just put your kids in front of devices. Less dangerous……wait…..maybe more dangerous actually.

@NikkiaSings

Ай бұрын

But, did you die tho?! Lol 😂 Late Gen X’er here

@jackdillon5903

Ай бұрын

You wouldn't let your child do what exactly? Maybe your parents aren't the bad ones...

@jaysw9585

Ай бұрын

@@jackdillon5903 oh, you dont know what my parents did. My mother would send me to the bar half a mile away to buy her cigarettes. I not only played on the train tracks, but also played at the train yard at the end of town. I went hiking in the mountains with no supervision. I would jump out the window of moving cars like dukes of hazard because I never wore a seat built. I found an old barn in the woods with a bunch of pornos and my mother let me keep them. Both my parents drank and smoked pot around me. My dad would take me to the slaughter house to watch them kill pigs. My brothers would shoot me with pellet guns and throw me in the poison ivy and pricker bushes. The local bar had a children's playroom. I road in the back of the pickup into town. I would go rafting in the Potomac River with nothing a but a string to my parents raft that would drag me. My dad would send me outside in a lightning storm to turn the antennia so he could watch his footbal game. When I was 9, I walked a mile to school, and would cut across the mountain, where I would be followed by a mountain lion every evening. My dad would

@jaysw9585

Ай бұрын

@@jackdillon5903 oh my parents were horrible. When i was 6 years old, I would wonder all over my town, including playing on the train tracks and the train yard at the end of town. I would walk to the other end town to visit my grandparents. My mother would send me half a mile to the local bar to buy her cigarettes. The same bar that had a children's play area and a Pac-man arcade game that I had the top score in. My parents drank and smoked pot around, sometimes when I was in the car with no seat belt. I also road to town in the back of the pickup. My mother would put me in her lap and let me drive the car. I was a big dukes of hazard fan and would jump out the car window when it was moving. My dad would send me outside in a thunderstorm to turn the antenna so he would watch the football game. My brothers would shoot me with pellet guns and throw me in the ivy and pricker bushes. My parents let them, because they said it toughened me up. My dad would take me to the slaughter house to watch them kill pigs. My dad also gave me chewing tobacco (the pouch kind). I would go hunting with my dad, with no reflective gear. My mom took me rafting in the Potomac with nothing but a string attached to her raft. I couldn't swim btw. My mother was in nursing school and would practice giving shots on me. My baby sitter would take me to the mall and leave me in the theater all day while she made out with her boyfriend. I must have seen Gremlins and Return of the Jedi a hundred times each

Wow, there is so much truth to her act! We kids would roam blocks and miles from home during the summer months. Do that today and Child Services would take you away!

😂❤ Laughed so hard I may or may not have peed 😂 Ride our bikes all summer long all over town

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

🥰

Guess I'll join in on the comments. She is a jewel. The way she told everything was amazing. Hell I still drink out of the house. When my granddaughter was 5 or 6 she saw me came over took a big drink also. She thought that was so cool. I enjoy teaching them all the silly things we did. We home school then today. I really miss all the old days. Neighborhood kids were all like family, to a point lol

"We'll just write our battle plans in cursive!" EPIC! Yes!!!!

My parents bought me a pony in third grade. My dad was never home only on the weekends. My mom kept me away by telling me to ride my pony everyday. So I did. My mom never knew where I was going or when I would be back and she didn't ask. We lived in a remote area in the mountains. I asked her about it as an adult she just said she always knew I'd be okay.

Most of what was said about Gen X applies to Boomers as well, certainly mid to late Boomers. Same treatment by parents, same amuse yourselves, same stay outside all day, etc etc.

@donnyarmstrong9559

9 ай бұрын

Yup... born in '59, and everything she said about boomers & gen x rings true!

@frankhage1734

9 ай бұрын

'59er. We had neighborhood hide and seek, crab apple fights with wrist rockets (sling shots) and set up our plastic army men on opposite sides of the creek and threw firecrackers and launched bottle rockets at them without worry. One day we even added a poorly built model destroyer, doused in lighter fluid with firecrackers attached to float through the battlefield. No adults involved at any point.

@fridayschild19

9 ай бұрын

Agreed. She is describing Boomers to a T!

@lesliedefilippis2150

9 ай бұрын

Yep. Born 1951. Was a hose drinker. Sent to the store for mom's cigarettes. Bottle rocket fights. Parents did not care what your school life was like. They just wanted the report card. Never worried about where we were or what we were doing. No seatbelts. And parents smoked all the time. Boomers and Gen X sound the same to me

@johntrainer3454

9 ай бұрын

N you. I’m

Gen X from Brazil here. Even being far from the US, I relate to almost 100% of what was said. Congratulations on this, very good.

@KarenMorganComedy

7 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

@diamondgirl7519

4 ай бұрын

I always wonder how gen x outside of the US grew up.

And OMG the toys we had - something tells me us early gen x kids really shouldn’t have been blowing bubbles with goo from a tube of something I think was called “Superelasticbubbleplastic” or using a plug in hot plate (you know-for kids) with some goo that hardened into creepy crawly bugs that the younger kids would always try to eat

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

🤣😍

@lynnehuff7059

2 ай бұрын

OMG! I think about that weird bubble stuff. It really was my older brother's and I couldn't blow a bubble. You are the first person to mention that. It makes an impression.

@ranuelthebard3751

7 күн бұрын

I'd forgotten that stuff. I never could get more than a tiny bubble.

This was my childhood to a "T"!! (Generation X unite)

Brilliant. Clever. A voice for our generation….thank you

@KarenMorganComedy

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Love this. I thought the second type of candy cigarettes was going to be the chocolate ones

@bellaterra3578

Ай бұрын

LOL, me too!

Buying cigarettes at nine with a note from mom. That was exactly me also!

@JefferyAshmore

8 ай бұрын

I did same at 6 had that note and cash, travel 1/4 mile to grocery store to get Salem lights for mom, 1968.

@JefferyAshmore

8 ай бұрын

By bicycle. Alone.

@freshstart8540

8 ай бұрын

@@JefferyAshmore Winston 100's!

Very nice comic. But before that, what a lovely nice lady. First class comedy.

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

🥰

I can’t stop laughing!! The note for cigarettes. I did that soooo many times. Penny candy and smokes.

I laughed so hard watching this, especially when the audience helped her finish her sentences. I was able to buy cigarettes for my mum at age 10 so this tracks. No one else has commented on Karen's gorgeous pants so I'll be first. I would love to know where they came from ?

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Love this woman!! Maybe it's because we grew up in the same era!!!

My brother and I created a game called “Dodge Darts” where we invited friends over to our garage and much like today’s paint ball, broke into teams, grabbed the metal darts normally thrown at a board with a wood backdrop and started throwing at each other. We only stopped playing when my brother ended up with a dart sticking out the side of his head.

@carolglover3582

9 ай бұрын

Crying 😂

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

🤣

This is so true about not being taken to the doctor unless bones were visible poking out of your skin. 😂 I was age 14 and I just suffered a foot long burn on my leg from my mini bike muffler. My dad calls me out of the bathroom "come out here and eat your dinner! It's not going to stop hurting anytime soon!" Finally after a week I got taken to the ER because it was oozing liquid. Classic "walk it off" mentality.

@Joannegrace111

9 ай бұрын

So funny and so true. When I was 13/14 I had a mini bike as well. I got pulled over by the cops trying to take it to the dirt trail a couple blocks away. They made me do traffic school 2 years before I even had a license. I remember hanging with the adults at traffic school and drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes, I thought I was so cool.😂🤣😇

@denisee9807

9 ай бұрын

yep I feel ya I used to get horrible earaches No doctor I'd wrap a towel around a nice hot iron keep it pressed to my ear for relief

It's like you grew up in my neighborhood.! This is the most accurate description of my childhood I've ever heard...from the bottle rocket fights to my mom watching "Dark Shadows" 🤣

@KarenMorganComedy

9 ай бұрын

😍

Got hit with a brick from a kid next door, ran in the house crying. Mom looks no blood said " cant you see im on the phone"? Traumatized but harden, that shit never happened again!!😂😂😂

I thought I was a boomer but now I realize I’m a Gen Xer 😊

I was born in 83 and lived her childhood, hoses and bb gun fights, no cabel no internet as a child... only rich people had that crap.

@brianburkart

9 ай бұрын

@@Rayvn7 I was 10 when the internet came out .. and it sucked back then and was expensive as hell

@brianburkart

9 ай бұрын

@@Rayvn7 I lived in the bay area too, Marin County, you should look into the area and rethink your assumptions. My friends and I were rich... still ran in the hills shooting each other with bb guns, the late 90s is when the real shift towards gaming online happened

We rode our bikes all over finding neighborhood kids & then we’d ride all over town with the group getting bigger

'They cook with lard, stay away from the microwave and are in their nineties'. So they're right to do so.

Super funny!! She’s spot on with the childhood memories, so true!! 😂

Gen Xer here 🙋🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️😂😂

TY for the laugh! Gen Xer here and I remember you could leave laundry out overnight, still had high diving boards at the rec, playing mush dog in the snow... Lol thank you!!

It's amazing, especially regarding the candy jewelry and smokes, as well as the rest of it, that 4000 miles away in northern Alberta, we were doing the exact same stuff, with the addition ofwinter stuff like "chomping" ( i.e.: sneaking behind a car as it stopped at an intersection, grabbing on to the bumper, and getting a free ride to school on the ice). X'ers seem to know how to make up a solution, AND THEY'RE ALL DANGEROUS! If there was no risk involved it was boring, and voted down by whoever you were with. I mean we consciously decided to crash our toboggans into each other from converging paths on the same hill, at 40mph. If life and limb weren't threatened, you were chastised for having a lame idea, and you knew you had been branded a wuss. Oh my god, we were nuts.

@MicahScottPnD

9 ай бұрын

Chomping! One i haven't heard before 😉 bumpershining, skitching are two others. I used to know more "collect them all!"

@kimadams2995

9 ай бұрын

Northern Alberta....you! You were that kid! Or somebody just like you😆😆 Its universal.

Same here, Gen X… I used to go to the corner store to buy my mom cigs, rode BMX and Diamond Back bikes all over the neighborhood with my friend Blanca all day until dusk, we climed trees and fell just dusting ourselves off, played dodgeball, had water balloon 🎈 fights (L.A. always summer) and came home fried from the sun, zero sunscreen… had quad skates, played baseball in the middle of the street as cars drive by etc etc.

@KarenMorganComedy

7 ай бұрын

😍

@nodoboho

25 күн бұрын

The generation lines are blurry. I was born end of '57 and my childhood in L.A. was the same as you describe. Except we played kickball in the street, I didn't like dodgeball, and I hated cigarette smoke so my mom quit when I was 5.