35 Gen X Memes for 80's Kids Raised on Hose Water (April 24, 2024)

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Apr 24, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Being a latchkey kid sounded like the dream back in the 80's. Like every kid's comic or TV series, all of a sudden there weren't any parents around. No adults? It's the dream! But for us Gen X kids, bidding farewell to our parentals before hopping on the bus to go to school was our reality–and it meant that we were on our own making meals, being in charge of our younger siblings, and making sure we were looked after. 

Gen X kids were their own parents back in the day. 

So while we smother our children with the affection and attention we lacked when we were a youngster, we can still reminisce on the good ol' days of riding our bikes to a friend's house after school, mowing down our weight in bologna sandwiches, and watching Full House to find a semblance of family ruckus flowing in the empty house. Because there was a simple delight in being completely free without a cell phone in sight and only the streetlights to guide us home at the end of the day. 

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    You are definitely Gen X is you grew up believing this was cheese...
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    one day you are young and the next:
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    Maybe people wouldn't be upset about working from the office if it looked like this
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    Me in bed in the morning, trying to summon the courage to face another day in an Orwellian clownworld where my memes are fact-checked by people who believe that men can get pregnant:
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    WE'RE THE LAST GENERATION THAT GREW UP WITHOUT INTERNET AND CELL PHONES. WE DIDN'T REALIZE HOW GOOD WE HAD IT. LIFE WAS SO SIMPLE BACK THEN. SHREDFIN FISHING
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    Them: how long ago did your OCD issues begin? Me: m
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    Boomers when a spam email contains a virus link Sounds legit, let's click on it
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    Me when younger generations talk about music Those peasants know nothing
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    NeverEnding story when I was a kid NeverEnding story as an adult
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    the internet used to come through the phone and it sounded like screaming robots Sure grandma, let's get you to bed
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    Omri Elisha @AnthroOmri We memorized phone numbers. We memorized driving directions. No one knew what we looked like. No one could reach us. We were gods.
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    BLOCKBUSTER DED The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal
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    Kids today don't know how satisfying peeling the Styrofoam label off a 1980's Pepsi bottle was... 25% MORE 25% MORE 25% MORE ONE CALO DIET PEPSI PEPS OUNE
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    BEING SICK IN THE 80'S the PRICE UP VICKS Right NABISCO PREMIUM SALTINE CRACKERS Campbell CONDENSED The c CRUNCH Chicken Noodle SOUP
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    I'm "melting your eyeliner pencil tip with a Bic lighter so it goes on blacker" years old. The Ultimate Eighties Page albery MAYBELLIN NEW YO MAYBELLIN NEW YO
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    If you ever got an actual physical mix tape from someone who was in love with you, you're Gen X. MIX TAPE-
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    Moms in the 80s watching you find the McDonald's gift certificates in your stocking @totally80sroom
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    CHILDHOOD TRAUMA EDTION ARTAX Photagra REAL MUD! APPITA
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    I'm old enough to remember the very first TED talk. It was most excellent.
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    12 year old me: I can't wait to grow up, get a job and have my own money Me now: 216-2 16
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    People my age know what this is immediately
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    Me, listening to punk music about burning down the system and smashing the state, while I fold laundry.
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    One minute you're young, then the next you're falling asleep like this at 6:30 pm
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    It's 1980 and Santa smells like Whisky and Marlboro 100's
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    Just remember, for every boomer that hates millennials, and every millennial that hates boomers, there's a generation in between that hates you both.
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    SO GLAD I GREW UP DOING THIS NOT THIS
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    KIDS TODAY WILL NEVER KNOW THE PAIN OF COPYING NOTES FROM THIS! THAY BO Instagram.com/That80s And90sPage
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    Life before internet..
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    -12:00 MAGNWICK OUR TVS WERE NEVER STOLEN IN THE 80S @80s.deennice
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    Don't make me pull this car over.
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    NO INTERNET IN THE 80S, NO PROBLEM
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    You are graying if you know what this is lol
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    Two truths about the 80s: 1. Malls were awesome. 2. The record store was their heartbeat. DISCS
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    Life before video games and cell phones.
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    I'm this old BABY CHERRIES
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