35 GenX Childhood Snapshots to Give You a Burst of Nostalgia (April 4, 2024)

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John Summers • Contributor
Apr 4, 2024 9:00 PM EDT

I love being a Gen-X. It means I am old enough to remember a time when we didn't have the internet, the TV only had 3 channels, there were no cell phones and it was considered okay to just walk around your town looking for stuff to do. It makes me appreciate all the comforts of life we have today while also making me less anxious about life in general. people are so afraid of everything today but I still remember drinking from the garden hose and going to my friend's house without any actual way to call my parents to tell them where I was going. 

I'm old enough to remember playing with sticks in the forest, but also playing video games with my friends. I guess what I'm saying is that I can appreciate modern life AND the simplicity of the past, bridging two worlds with fond memories from each.

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    Some of us 80s kids could've passed as a middle age secretary named Debbie totally80sroom
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    Them: What was it like growing up in the 80's? Me: WBOY TOMBSTONE 00 WILD DOM PIZZ
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    McDonald's Making the Filling for their Apple Pies in the '80s MOUND
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    Nintendo predicted this fight back in the 80s PAUL TYSON @thenespage
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    Our parents in the 70s/80s:
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    I'd like to dedicate this to my mom it's called "I asked for Transformers, and you got me Gobots"
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    When the Sears family photo is right before the Whitesnake concert!
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    I've watched Predator many times, and the most horrifying part is still Mac relaxing himself by dry shaving.
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    Danny Glover was just 41 when he decided he was getting too old for this shit. Let that sink in.
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    EVEN AS A KID @totally 80sroom YOU KNEW THIS SHOW WAS ON A BUDGET
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    My friend and I going out past 9
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    when you're four coors light deep at Applebees and "eye of the tiger" starts playing
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    *cashier checks my ID in half a second* Me: "Wow that was fast" Cashier: "Yeah, I saw the 19." Me:
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    If you know how this works welcome to your 40s RCA CAR CONNECTING A PACK COMPACT DISC CASSETTE ADAPTOR totally 80sroo disc
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    Hello. My name IS INIGO MONTOYA There is a YARD SALE on RAYMOND Circle May 14th 8-1 PREPARE to BUY!
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    Before the internet These people would take your order, write down an address and deliver a pizza to your home in less than 30 minutes by using a paper map like some sort of mystical land. pirate. 914 VZZid SONIWOO @totally80sroom 10
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    How bad do things have to be for both of these to be in town?
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    Me in the 80s "these graphics look so real" the graphics: @thenespage
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    1983 - back when you could be 7 and smoke a candy cigarette - and no one batted an eye. lol
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    **GET TO INVITE SEVEN FRIENDS OVER FOR MY 11th BIRTHDAY PARTY** My dad when they walk in:
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    Here's a photo from the unaired pilot episode of Full House before recasting took place
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    Bon Jovi cassette que'd up in Buick. Don't wait up
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    Person: How old are you? Me: I owned a beeper and replied via payhone.
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    IRON MAN AND ULTRON WERE HIGH SCHOOL BUDDIES!
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    Female PE teachers now Female PE teachers when I was a kid ORKLEY AUTHENTIC YOU
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    Your mom thought you were riding your bike around the block for 8 hours. But in that time you went 5 miles away, explored an abandoned house, jumped over some garage roofs, attempted a ouija board, built a den in the woods and made your own fire
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    BEFORE THE INTERNET @totally80sroom SOME KID TOLD YOU PAUL FROM THE WONDER YEARS WAS ACTUALLY MARILYN MANSON AND YOU'D GO ON BELIEVING IT FOR 20 YEARS
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    The first and original Karen
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    Middle School really had us eating pizza at 10:30am in a room with a stage in it
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    @totally80sroom IN A MOVIE FOR 30 SECONDS WORLD FAMOUS FOREVER
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    WHAT 5TH GRADE LOOKED LIKE 1985
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    Ordered a gen x bomb shelter today
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