"We Are Gen X" - Original Song 

Lol exactly

Nailed it.

Always inserting themselves into our spaces.

I'm sorry... I did that...

Tooootally!!!!!

You think GenX got to go to college? That's hilarious!

​@@crptniteI can assure you I am Gen X and I did go and graduate college.

@@crptniteOh we went to college. We were told we’d be guaranteed a 6 figure salary if we majored in anything. Hahaha! We were the first generation to invent student loan debt with nothing to show for it. The only reason millennials think this is a new thing is because Gen X didn’t complain about it. We assumed it was somehow our own faults, since our older boomer siblings all got great jobs right out of college.

​@@WonderfulWorldofAwesomenessPretty much. And the ultimate insult? We were called SLACKERS because of it. As If!

This is the truth….😂😂😂

remember standing next to a car as a kid while an older kid tried to explain the time,money and technical ingenuity that had gone into the enourmous industrial r &d that had produced the central locking system on it...sensing my waning interest,he then produced half a tennis ball from his pocket,and popped it open in about 0.7 of a second...i don't say this as a challenge to younger people though...what would be the point...

We were just clever like that. Something in our DNA.

Creative strategizing. That is why the other generations should truly fear the feral generation.

Ditto

​@@TheBaumcmhell yeah.

Remember writing down the directions on paper? Anytime you finished making a turn in your journey, you had to pull over to read the next instruction.

I had whole bunch of maps in my glovebox from various cities I'd visited. I lost them all in 2016 when my car went under in a flood. I guess I'm GenX, I was born in 1968.

I worked at AAA in the 90's and we offered map folding classes 😆

I passed a map to one of my kids and asked them to fold it the right way The map went out the window lmao

@@redstickham6394 Hey, 1968! Me too! We're toward the last birth year of Gen X.

Oh definitely, without a doubt. They don't have music anymore this century, it's a very strange century.

Yes! 70's, 80's and 90's!!! Well I can claim 60's too. My parents took me to see "Easyrider" as a tot at the drive in. That music stuck with me.

​@@dalerushton1394That's kind of literally true. Data compression on all the streaming services means your brain can't process as much emotional response to music. This has been proven through brainwave scans of listeners in a controlled environment.

Especially Australia's Gen Xers 🎉

No more interesting key or tempo changes. The death of melody. All vocals are now auto tuned. Basically that’s why we find most music created today simply boring in comparison.

It's weird when your children don't believe you, when you show them how it was taught to write some cursive letters.

yes to cursive...how on earth do you sign your name if you can't write cursive....i made my kids learn enough cursive to sign their names

Thankfully, my kids do learn cursive in school!

Not all of us. They TRIED to teach me cursive. It never worked. Eventually my teacher gave up and gave me special permission to just print.

I got goosebumps listening to that dope ass anthem 🙌

Hahahaha 😂

😂 Here's a funny story. When I turned 30, AARP wrote me a letter. But when I turned 50, it was crickets. 😅 AM now 54. I finally joined.

I cried when I got that damned letter.

And Medicare junk mail... still 40s here, thanks.

Lol, ya got me 😂

Maxell or TDK?

And then the DJ would talk over the end of the song and ruin it, and you had to rewind and wait another hour.

TDK@@anymajordude87

ALWAYS!!!!! LOL @@kelsijodryer6348

Oh I had a whole tape side 1 and 2 that had songs with DJs talking over the end of songs 😂

What parent would you ever hear say, "Get out and unless somebody is dying, I don't want to see you again until the streetlights come on!" these days?

You're also the generation that has the highest amount of kids missing and still missing and dead because of exactly that kind of lack of supervision You guys had prolific serial killers walking around and child molesters and killers so congrats You see it as freedom meanwhile some poor killer in jail you're the one that got away 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Every generation blames the one before

@@hq9344 And all of their frustrations come beating on your door :)

@@vaughanjones5933 👍great song too

"Be home when the street lights come on" - I haven't heard that line in 38 years, and oh my god I'm dying!!

And the teen lines. Does anyone else remember the emergency breakthroughs when your friend’s phone was busy?

I was born in '96 and I remember housephones with long spiral cords.

The first boy (his name was Tom) I really had a crush on called me finally after a year of my trying to get him to notice me. My dad picked up the phone downstairs and holding the receiver in his hand, he yelled upstairs, “A boy named Tommy is on the phone for you!” The first words he said to me were “Tommy, huh? Was that your daddy who answered the phone?” I was mortified. But then after an awkward three minutes I heard my dad’s voice saying, “Leesee, are you on the phone?… Oh, okay. I’ll hang up now,” acting as though he hadn’t been silently listening in on us from the downstairs phone from the moment I picked up the call. It was ridiculous! And embarrassing.

@@Blessed_by_Yeshua oh my god my mom use to do that to me too lol

Because we don't wanna share our survival secrets

Or watch a block of Saturday morning cartoons

And then get a whoopin if you come home after dark.

They never found Timmy.

When that street lamp turns on you better be in this house

*used to

Exactly!

Omg I still do that! Old habits are hard to break

In my neck of the woods, none of us even carried backpacks, that was for nerds!

@@ambrosiagalt8670 true. I was one of those nerds that did homework so I carried my books home. At least I attempted coolness by carrying it on my shoulder lol

@@ambrosiagalt8670 not in hs, but once college started, as a commuter, no choice

Never had a hidden key but my dad had one of those phones in a bag that went in any of his cars. We thought that was cool back in 1980-something.

@@chiarac3833The huge blocky cell phone is even featured in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" when Gordon Gekko gets out of prison. 😄 I remember how the car magazines extolled the benefits of a cellular car phone for business executives. It could turn a traffic jam into a concluded business deal!

On the day that I was promised an Atari 2600, my parents told me there would be a delay in getting it. I cried on the staircase (like the spoiled brat I was). I could play Asteroids on and on forever. Remember how that blocky joystick eventually put a blister in your thumb?

My uncle had one😂 only very important business man will have it in TV show😂

Lol that's easy. Born in 96 and I can still do this. 50s bibs can't touch me kid. Ya I was raised my one but don't test me son because I broke his nose with my 50 cal machine guns. I'm the best no contest I will mess you up. Work ethic get in line I'm the best they come. You can't see this when I bleed this. Put your glasses on and eat this. You're retired I'm the game I owned the rest. Nobody mentions us cause we're the best. Last generation to overcome the doubt and we're just getting started while you're rolling up to the nuthouse. We own the times you will never be fine when we decide to take over this world one last time. I see the pain written all over your face you made a big mistake doubting us cause we don't play end of days big boy plays all the same. Truth be told guy I can do all you can do and more. Good luck in your retirement note that the economy will be in good hands.

@@DrillSergeantApex I graduated when you came out of your momma. This was well before Obama. We’ve all been sold out by the Right, Left and the Far, but I don’t rap much I just play guitar. And while I play pretty shitty this ain’t no little ditty… about Jack and Diane in Taiwan. I’m talking about China, son. They smell our vulnerability, cause Security is trivial and tricky. So you’re lookin at the future my man, about a world owned by Asia, sans Japan! ✌🏻 🎤 ⬇️

@@abalt3019 okay okay I see you old man trying me. You're old news though man just a hipster wanna be. You don't rap much I see that. We still the best hot wheels can't even beat that. All you have are conspiracy theories we have actual delimeas that your generation left us with in an apocalyptic era. We'll be just fine without you guys there's no better time then here tonight. You play guitar and you're on beat so far. Don't try too hard or you might get a little tart. You seem too wanna be just like me. Matter a fact isn't that why you copied me? I told you we're the best there ain't no contest. Truth be told old man. We'll all be just fine and all these conspiracy theories ain't helping a damn thing and we both know that.

@@abalt3019 sorry that was a little mean. My bad. Got a little too personal there.

@@DrillSergeantApex we’ve got synergy and I’m finding my energy. Thanks!

😂😂😂

@@420luvsounds lmao poor kid

Cant identify a busy signal OMG 😂

Anyone else remember the ad “you have a collect call from ‘bobwehadababy eetsaboy’” “who was that?” “Bob. They had the baby. It’s a boy”

I'm a millenial but I did the collect call thing while other people had cell phones

Notice how us Gen-Xer's say please and thank you and can actually spell correctly using proper grammar and punctuation; we can even write ✍ in cursive or script. It's refreshing. We can also make change without a fancy computer 🖥. We don't need the superdooperpooperscooper with all the bells and whistles from Radio Shack. No offense.

@@dalerushton1394 You said it! Manners, writing, speaking coherently, and eye contact, are sadly out of vogue these days.

actually I didnt know that Jurassic Park made more cash at the box office than Avatar did but then I dont tend to remember stats on movies anyway.

Stupendous articulation of that generation go hard do more it’s such great content watching from Adelaide sa

I still have my childhood numbers memorized and even with a cell phone if I have to dial the number a couple times without storing it I still memorize them, which is helpful bc what would these kids do if their cell is dead or lost and need to call someone even their parents bc I highly doubt they have even those numbers memorized

@gothgirl4evr881 ..and let's add a few quarters in their pockets too 😄. Today everyone carries debit! I still carry mostly cash. lol

Still know some!

I started using the phone number of the house I grew up in as a password. Still remember it cause it never changex

@@lolahernandez6871debit ?! What’s that ?! Haha 😂I’m 44 and if they don’t have tap to pay at their store/restaurant I’m out. Thankfully 80% of places do.

So true!!!!😅

Very sweet of you! Many parents would thank you for abating their anxiety of where their kids were!

🤣🤣 I was one of those kids

Anybody remember a party line telephone? For probably the 1st 7 or 8 years of my life we shared A-line with the neighbours.

You, Deb Glab, are an angel. 😁👍

You were an Angel, thank you!

Love It!

@ All Girl Review.....Hell yea!!

I’m in

Yeah, we are definitely Gen X & will be doing stuff our kids can't figure out how we did it...lol. Count me in!

I'm thirsting I know how to do it all I'm also country

yup. we are the first generation that figured out giving up your toys was a b.s. move.

I'm in my mid 50's and still go to hard-core shows! Rheumatoid Arthritis be damned.

@@mariawesley7583 Haha that's amazing!

​@@xenoscootdon't lose your dinosaur

@mariawesley7583 Pit or bust! It's usually my back, hips, and feet now 😂 I'll mosh till I can't

Don't cheat the phone company...😄

That was the funniest commercial Because it was what we all did

😂😂😂

Pay phones were analog. All you had to do was record the sound the phone made when you put in a quarter, then replay the sound at anytime for free calls.

I’m crine 😂😂😂😂

There was nothing rock about this. It's a lame millennial auto-tune style. I don't even think these two are legit X'ers, just early millennials who were not teens in the 80's.

@@peterbelanger4094 wrong

@@peterbelanger4094 tell me you're a bitter spiteful prick without telling me you're a bitter spiteful prick.

@@peterbelanger4094 Debbie Downer. You probably have no idea who she is. 😂

Say croissant toosii double to C lie

Hive your daughter a HUG!

Duuuude, that's awesome ! Gen-Xer's rule 😎

nice nod to mr dangerfield

And Clark Kent used to transform into Superman - in a phone booth.

What amazes me is how many words we could get out in the four seconds they gave us to record it... #GenerationalSuperpowers

"Spider-Man's in the house" was even a song lyric in Color Me Badd.

That would be Awesome! I'm an '83 baby. So,technically I'm a millennial.My father had a road atlas and I was the map reader in my family.

I still have maps in my car! Gen X rocks! Ill order the tshirt.

"And write in cursive"

Me too

@@TheWeepingSeraph Yes, my superpowers are reading maps and cursive!

Yes! It’s crazy! You are so right. We GenXer’s have seen it all! I constantly talk about the Jetson’s to my kids and how life is actually kind of like that now.

That all wears me out.. We are pretty awesome the whole computer age from the beginning. Slow dial ups.. Then losing everything!! I hated the slowness.. The whole make sure u use some kind of technology in lesson plans.. Then after the smartphone.. MY FAVORITE BS.. All the damn apps that they though we needed..amd we never ever used...LOng meetings by either.. Baby boomers who.wanted to look good or older milinials.. Just to do something.. We made IT!!

I replied below.. WE actually have major talents. We survived the whole entire tech boom.. BUT THIS GEN X GIRL WANTS TO PUKE EVERYTIME I THINK...WHY DIDNT I BUY MORE APPLE..AOL..STOCK IN THE EARLY 90's..

It took me a while to make it through this perfect comment because I got stuck for a minute at "like a maniac". The Flashdance soundtrack was my jam for a long time & I wanted "Going on a Man Hunt" played when I tossed my bouquet at my wedding in 1989! 😉 💐

@Digby Dooright I still keep a spare a flip phone as a backup phone 😂😂

YES hahaha that was the first thing I thought of. Jeez, commercials are forever.

So good!

LMFAO I literally just commented the same thing! Also, I remember magazines suggesting calling cards as a good practical gift for college students

Yes!!!!

That was the funniest!!

The phone call I did it lol 😂

​@@carloszarzoso1724every weekend either pick up at the mall, movies or skating rink then hang up, and know our parent would be there eventually😂 If they were taking a long time we couldn't call or text and ask where are you, bc once we left the house we were unreachable.

Where's the Beef !??

Or slamming it down!

​@@7SideWayswas coming to say the same thing or throwing the cordless against the wall then having to find where the battery went flying after you calmed down😂 There's just not much satisfaction and release trying to hang up a cell phone angrily

I saved the tape-recorded phone message from my first date for years. It was in college. She was the girl who was previously voted, "Best Looking" in my high school senior class. I worshipped her. At the time, that first date was the best day of my life.

And the slam *chef's kiss*

I’d like to publicly tell BB and M to shut the hell up.

Silence is golden. Every kindergarten teacher from '65 to '82, what's up!?!

We discuss with each other though!

We are the middle child of generations. 🤣

That's because we can't be pigeon-holed. The marketing people gave up on us. That's how we got the name "X", they couldn't even figure out a proper name to give us. No two GenXer's are the same. We all got in to a wide range of different things.

That nod to Kid n Play was epic 💗

I know right!!?

I didnt notice that, probably because when he sings, " In the house.." 3 or 4 times I cant quit laughing. lok

He did the "running man". lol Aint seen it in years.

We see. We get it.

Agreed 🤝 My daughter calls me that.

We are called Boomers because the Millennials and Gen Z are idiots.

Seriously! That proves how clueless Millennials and Gen-Z’s are….

@@denisek292I think for most it’s just their way of calling us old!! 😖

My teenagers call me “boomer” all the time, and I say, “nope, that’s your grandma. She’s a boomer. I’m Gen x”, and they say “okay, boomer”.😂😂

U mad sus bro

@@annabelle6877 🤣🤣🤣

Typical GenX’er, writing in complete sentences...

@@rationalicthus And he has the fancy portrait photo too 😂

@@annabelle6877 Said the Zoomer! 😆💯

More like 48 MINUTES......

4 TO 8 hrs Not 48 hrs

Basic survival skills include map reading.

I can read a map. I'm old enough to remember Tomtom. But when I got my first Garmin it was life-changing. It's not the map reading that's the problem for me, it's knowing when to take the exit. My ADHD makes me so engrossed in the conversation or the scenery that I won't notice my exit went by until half an hour later.

We will survive the zombie apocalypse. Our kids are screwed tho

Actually my parents were The Silent Generation. Born '39 and '42. My mom later married a Boomer '49 and had a boomer '64.

EXACTLY!!!!

The gap between boomers and Gen x is very tight. I’m pretty sure Gen x was born when their boomer parents were like barely 20 years old or something. Most of gen x parents were the silent generation I believe

That line us hilarious to me because, it’s relatable My father was a 30 year old Boomer when I was born in the mid 1970s, mom was in her early 20s My grandparents were the Silent Generation (born early 30s)

@@lm1314 you’re not the one n the video

I thought that was all automated! But, no doubt, better to put the call through than have the 911 an hour later.

OMG! I just read, this comment to my daughter. She had NO clue what I was talking about!

That must have been an expensive Walkman. All of mine only allowed fast forward so you'd have to flip the tape, fast forward, then flip the tape again and press play. 😁

@@EthanKristopherHartley Wow. The memories!! 😮😁🤣

I remember having one that had a reverse switch so you didn't have to take the tape out. That was so cool.

@@Andrew-it7fb Well, *someone* clearly got official branded toys for Christmas and not 'Human and the Misters of the Universe' 😂🤣😁

Omg yes! And also turn off the tv because we were watching soap operas and we weren’t allowed.

@@JenniferBrown-hm4sx or turn off MTV because it wasn't allowed. That is old school because those were the days when MTV actually had music videos.

Yes!

@@dianem3429 best mtv was music vid mtv

For sure! We lived in the country so only 3 stations...on a good day, but we had some 'Leave it to Beaver' to watch!

WE DO!! Finally someone acknowledged our existence… we really need to speak up more...

The millennials think they are the first generation to be called spoiled tech kids.. Nintendo's and Atari.. but still.

@@michah321 and we're the MTV Generation!

Yes!!!

@@seanryan3020 we are!! And I still always watch music videos!

For me, it was PacMan.

Atari! PacMan, Frogger, Astroids...

Best game ever!!!!!

Best game

@@shannon2180 oh my gosh, yes! We never played Oregon trail but we begged my mother for an Atari! I am the youngest, I was in my teens when we finally get one! My mom became so addicted to Space Invaders and Frogger along with us that she gave herself carpal tunnel!

My husband is the very end of boomer and I'm gen X. My kids are gen z, and alpha. We are a mixed bag lol. Glad to hear there is a younger one taking our knowledge and using it. We know a lot but usually get dumped on 😕

I never understand why kids and young adults think Gen X should not be online. We were using computers in the 80s and 90s too, and yes I started going online when I was 19 in the 90s, technically still a teenager. I'm 45 now, why the hell should I quit? What's wrong with me being on RU-vid? Now the only thing I hated was when was 19-23 and went on the internet to a pop culture thread or forum, everything was dominated by kids aged 10-18, so it felt like even when I was really young, I was still old compared to everyone else online. Today people who are 22 or 23 online don't have to feel old, but back then it was like everything was dominated by middle school and high school kids so you were 20 and made to feel super old when you logged online. I could only find older people if I went to something political, and then everyone was usually way older then me, like over 30 or my age now or older. But Gen Xers were told we were old before we hit 25, I was 23 or 24 when I first heard of the Millennial kids coming up behind us. Now those guys are like 37 and people are still talking about them like they are kids. 37 or 38! That's way older then the age I was when I first heard of them.

@@John-ct9zs Yes, I wasn't using them when I was 19, but I started using computers when I was in graduate school at 21. I really don't understand why they think we are not good at technology. I was unofficial Tech Support person on my floor at work for many years.

I can set an IRQ, thankyouverymuch.

Agree, an most Important Us Gen X'ers had common sense, something SERIOUSLY lacking today.

O my gosh I had forgotten about hanging up before the answering machine picked up and the phone ate your money!

But you didnt know you could stick a pin in the receiver and touch it to the housing for free calls.

@@amidon3116 Survival skill when you're broke.

Haha, YES! Totally forgot we had to do that 😂

I remember using dimes for payphones, but maybe that was in the 1970's when I was a boy ( ? ). We had an emergency dime Mom sewed in our ToughSkin fake jeans from Sears, in the pocket. We always ripped it out and used it for the ice-cream man. But yea, I guess it was a quarter in High School, I was class of 1987. I do remember arcade video games at the mall being a quarter. The food court was awesome. Escalator tag was the best ! They would always make us put our shirts on and carry our skateboards in the mall though. We really did wear those checkered slip on Van's in The Valley. Topanga Plaza usually, or The Northridge mall sometimes, way before the earthquake, if we couldn't bum a ride to the beach to go surfing, we didn't drive yet. Lol 😆 🤣 😂. Great times !!!

So Strange. I had a couple of friends with similar experiences....

100% 😂

Are you me? Same!!!! My older siblings are all boomers (one tries to claim Gen X status, but she’s totally a boomer,) and got picked up from school every day by our mom who didn’t work. I got a different mom who was at work when I got off the bus, where I’d then dodge bullies who also weren’t being parented. Then I’d go home and make myself snacks and watch After School Specials and reruns of Brady Bunch, Gilligans Island, Gomer Pyle, and I Dream of Genie until my boomer siblings got home and took over the livingroom TV. That’s when I’d either go outside to play with friends, or go up to the room I shared with an older sister and listen to the radio, read books, magazines, and write “I hate my family” in my diary. ❤

I got chores too! Starting dinner Which I always forgot Other ones I did lol

Kinda funny. I'm the tail end of Gen X, but being raised by my grandmother, I basically got the same treatment. My uncles were away at college too 😂

What?? When did they decide it's no longer a planet?!? Totally Gen X of me...

I don't care what "they" say. Pluto is a planet. 😂

I know, it was my favourite planet. Also the rhyme to remember them isn't so good without Pluto. Mr Vampire Eats My Juicy Steak Using No Pepper 🤣

Same

@@tamarastone141 they found out, pluto is in a belt with many asteroids (?) like it. Also Pluto's distance to the sun varies strongly, it doesn't travel like the other planets do. That's why a committee of astronomers decided to vote him out of the planets. It's been like 15 years.

@@CalypsoGD1 okay child

The song sucks. It's not even in a Gen-X style. So much good music out of gen-X and they make a millennial era auto-tune song? F-ing pathetic.

References are good, music is unbearable.

We quote that line all the time in my house

Yes! I was going to say this. Glad someone else remembered that.

I was about to write about that. As I recall, they ran the words together into something like "Weeottababy Eetsaboy" or something like that. To make it sound more plausible as a name.

Oh yeah !!!!! And they tried real hard to make it sound like a real name so they didnt get caught by sayingit reallyfassssst. 💬 ☎📞☎📞☎💬

@@lostwizard "Collect call from: 'We'ottababee Eetsa'boi'. Do you accept the charges?" Click. "Who was that?" "That was Dave. They had a baby. It's a boy."

Me too!!!

I’m 39. The oldest millennial 🤦‍♀️. I used to know how to read a map but I just realized the other day when my Waze was messing up I’d be so screwed cuz I forgot! 😩

Who remembers using those huge fold-out Trip-tik maps from AAA with your route outlined for road trips 😃

@@vpnath75 Yes!! I loved those things!

as a kid my mom was always so lost and could never read a map . I wish gps had been around in the nineties!

My texting was cb radio 😄 Or notes passed in school

That was "pet-shop".

​@@MAMliferemember the feeling of opening your locker to find that someone slipped a note thru the slats to you during the last class change. That was our texting in school. We could also fold notes several different ways just to pass time in class.😅

We were the MacGyver generation, we could fix or rig anything with just a few odd items😂 Made countless pipes and bongs that way during high school, there weren't as many head shops or rather vape stores now back then and the ones that were around were really not cheap

I remember my mom's Air Force metal pager (she was a pediatrician) and my dad's Xerox pager (he was a repairman). Later in college after I learned how to use Windows on a PC, my father refused to learn it because it was uncomfortable for him. Then Xerox got with the times and issued him a work PC as a replacement for his pager. He had no choice but to learn.

No, the 70s childhood was THE BEST...NO VIDEO GAMES OR COMPUTERS AT ALL. And our mothers didn’t work outside the home. We ate HOME COOKED MEALS!

Except y'all kept memeing 70's stuff well into the 2000's.

Sucks to be them 😎

Right on

Born in 81! Feel blessed to have played outside as a kid and played with my peers instead of a smartphone.

Dude, this one time at the Drive-In, I forgot what movie and who snuck the beer in, but I just got done breaking off that weird new "filter" thing off my Marlboro Red and turned it around backwards to put it in my mouth and light it but my Bic lighter got lost at the concert, my girlfriend though it was in her purse with the bong, it was too painful for her to look because she burned her knuckles holding it up at the concert, then that one chick she knew walked over to our car from the snack bar and.............never mind, it's a long story but at least she didn't ruin her fake nails, she was already mad that her hair wouldn't fit in the car and it kept sticking to the headliner, she always used too much Aqua-Net hair spray. It was fun though.

You can spot the Gen X in the comments of music videos because they are the ones not posting thumbs up if such and such game/cartoon/ supernatural teen drama brought you here.

@@dalerushton1394 then she found the lighter and said "SIKE!"

you're actually the worst generation of all and you think you're better then everyone else

@@nibbahater please grow up kid.

Our parents and their parents, ad infinitum, thought the same. Gen X is awesome but because of how we grew up and the social climate, some didn't get over some frustration and resentment. I love, absolutely love, my Millennial and Gen Z friends and fam. They're amazing kids. We've all gotta learn to be inclusive, not exclusive. Let's not behave like a lot of the adults before us.

@@nibbahater I'm sorry you've had such negative experiences. I hope your viewpoint changes as you get older and meet more of us.

@@aimeeariel1990 Being inclusive is not a virtue. Many things should be excluded. You are being exclusive of previous generations superior thought process in your post lol. This is one of the problems with people now, they pretend to be inclusive while excluding everyone who doesn't agree with them, making you a hypocrite and a fool.

Lol as a fellow Missourian I can confirm your location's timeline. Welcome to GenX.

You can be in our club 😂

I use GPS as a supplement to maps: it helps when street signs are hard to read, and I like the ETA feature. But I couldn’t fathom using a GPS blindly. If I’m going somewhere new, I always find it on a map first.

GPS is basically an interactive map. You can scroll through the entire trip and the whole area where you are going as if it is a map. And then you have other resources, such as Google street view to actually see the street and buildings, which a map can't do. Or look up things like restaurants, etc., in the area. Plus, maps don't update when roads change, let alone when there's temporary construction that changes your path or even traffic backups. The only use of a physical map that GPS doesn't have is that you don't need power. Hence backup.

@@danmichaels9613 I use mapquest to find the route then study the map so I know where the F I am going so I don't even need the darn GPS which gets me lost half the time anyway.

I'm an older Gen Xer -1967. Listen to the GPS if it suddenly tells you to go some weird way. It will save you a lot of time in traffic. The few times I've ignored it, I've been very sorry I did. Thank goodness for Waze! It gets us to the Denver airport on time, which is 65 miles SW of where we live. Paper maps are great back-ups, but they can't give you real time traffic situations. (I'm directionally "dyslexic," so navigation is challenging anyway. Ambidexterity is not always a "gift.")

omg, right? I love maps! I prefer to use maps to GPS and I love using topographical maps. And a normal old compass. I find this 'low tech' way of orienteering a lot more fun.

Napster was a millennial thing. If you were in high school or college when Napster was free, you're def a millennial - not Gen X!

@@Heather-ko2lv I was born in 1980 so some things were more Gen X and some things were more millennial. (Some people even call us "Xennials" for this reason.) It would also matter where you lived, what money you had, etc. on which generation you act more like on some of these things (e.g. cable TV, malls, home computers).

I love being a generation X we learned how to be responsible

everyone ignores you because your egos are huge

@@sexychocolateable you call yourself responsible yet blame everyone else for problems in the world

I JUST explained the term “dial-up” internet to my kids (I’m an older parent), because they heard it used in a song, and I included how you’d hear “do-do-do-do-do-do-do - Kkgggssh*#^

...and you had to pick one of the "good" phone numbers from the dial up list. We all knew the first few were slow and crappy.

My building has wifi that is as slow as dialup used to be. That's why I'm at a café right now.

Modem sound put a smile on my face X-)

I thought that was the generation that fought the wars, haha.

@@richardmahn7589 😂haha!

And you were the first ones to say "whatever" ;)

And saying "for sure" and "like, totally "😊👍

Somewhat embarrassing. I had to look it up on Google to find out if I AM Gen X!

I thought the same thing. I would think that at least restaurant workers still call them apps. I still do!

I didn't know, so thanks for saying this.:) I'm gen x, but English isn't my first language, so we'd never call anything an appetizer.;)

Go see if it will work in the last Blockbusters in Bend, OR, haha

Me too, I miss those Blockbuster days.

I’m Gen Z (1996 September) and I remember that!

My town has two video stores left. One is a nonprofit with an extensive VHS collection, a store that's a museum. The other is DVD and Blu-ray only. My personal internet has been out for a week; I recently rented two DVDs from that store, that I played on a 14 year old laptop.

and that gas was under $1 a gal

pay phones here in Phoenix were around plenty even in 2012. That was around the last time I used one

Gas is still unleaded.

@@catmandoo2674 sorry, meant leaded gas

Yea, I miss leaded gas ⛽.