Cinemax after 10 you can see if you hit both buttons on side of channel…sometimes then tech of wavering arm up and down horizontally you could get in phase almost to minimize lines interference

That is all

Working on a theory .

Was at a brewery with a bunch of X friends and then conversation switched to pets.

Then we noticed that everyone’s cell phone screen was pictures of their dogs, not their kids ! lol.😆

Is this a Gen X thing ?

I have lived in the same town for fifteen years. The main grocery chain has moved the bread aisle four times. Four. They shifted pasta to where the cleaning supplies were, put cleaning supplies where seasonal used to be, and now seasonal lives in some kind of floating pop-up situation near the front.

This is not about efficiency. Someone in an office is getting paid to justify their job by making us all wander through impulse buy territory hunting for black beans.

I finally snapped last week and asked an employee where they hid the peanut butter. She said, and I quote, "Have you tried the app?" No. I have not tried the app. I tried learning where things are, which used to be a reasonable life skill, and now that knowledge expires like a television password.

My parents had the same store layout for thirty years. The manager knew their names. There was a butcher who would cut things to order. I am not asking for much. I just want to walk in, get ingredients for one dinner, and leave without needing a map and a software update.

Anyone else stockpile favorites when they find them just to avoid the scavenger hunt next time?

I was 12 growing up in Denver. Best live band IMO ❤️

Yesterday while hiking I walked past a guy smoking a pipe. Ahhh, the memories came flooding back of when I would be sitting in the back of my dad's Datsun B210, windows rolled up, listening to Waylon and Willie. Other smells that were huge...Polo cologne, arcades, fried food at the state fair, newspapers, cigar smoke, cloves, old engines. You?

Been a good day and all, and I don’t have anything to complain about, but it’s really sobering realizing that I have more birthdays behind me than ahead of me. Honestly, I don’t worry about myself dying—that’ll happen and it’ll be the end of it. I worry about watching loved ones go before me being left behind, especially my wife. We don’t have kids and are the best of friends (I’ve very lucky to have such an amazing partner) and I just don’t like the thought of being without her. I knew you all would get it so thanks for letting me just say this somewhere.

It seems to be a universal GenX experience to have found discarded porn mags in the woods. I know I did. Did you? And, who the hell leaves a porn mag in the woods? Playboy. Oui. And more gynecological publications. Was that as universal a GenX experience as I think it is? Or did I hang out in areas where more periodical porn was randomly discarded in the shrubbery than the norm?

My mom always kept a an opened box in the fridge. She never baked anything or did anything else with it but it was always in the fridge.

---In the 1970s, Church & Dwight (the parent company of Arm & Hammer) was facing a decline in sales because home baking was becoming less common. To sell more product, they launched a massive advertising blitz pitching a brand-new concept: placing an opened box of baking soda inside the refrigerator to absorb food odors---

---By the 1980s, the ad campaign was so successful that more than half of American households had an open box sitting in their fridge. The ads even encouraged consumers to replace the box every 30 days and pour the old box down the drain to freshen garbage disposals—a genius strategy to keep people buying it month after month.---

I didn't know about the marketing campaign but my mom sure must have.

As I lubed my shoulders up tonight, my husband was showering and came out and said what's that smell? Hahaha, I said get used to it, it's going to be a staple in our house till the day we die. I actually love the smell, it makes me feel special, like patchouli or something. Like a wild night out! Aging.....ugh.

Checking to see if this was just a California thing. In middle school (1982-83) kids used to sell sheets of paper that had been soaked in cinnamon oil for kids to tear off pieces of paper and chew them. This came after the toothpicks were banned. It was like a quarter for a sheet of cinnamon paper.

I can recall the school nurse referencing my medical record every time I was sent for another spontaneous nosebleed. Stuffing some gauze up there, being told to pinch my nose, and sit on that stainless steel rotating stool.

So when my dad was young they made 50s/60s diners with Elvis and marylin Monroe on the walls and jukeboxes playing music from this time period. We still have those around. Shouldn’t their be diners for Gen ex? Pacman arcades, grunge music? What would you like to see at a place like that but made for us?

Photo of cafe 80s from back to the future two.

As our hair becomes salt and pepper with shades of silver and gray, at what point do we change the color on our license to reflect that? Overall, my hair is still brown, but I have quite a bit of silver and white around my face. Do we have to update it, or is this like our weight, and they just let us stay our “goal weight” for decades even when it’s clearly not accurate?

I read they peaked in popularity in the late 90s, with about 750 locations. Now there's about 20. I remember the one in my local mall was always busy. Yes it was a bunch of cheap plushies and toys but still nostalgic. All of these "fun" places seem to be gone.

You guys seemed to like yesterday's love letter from 1985, so here's another one from the archives.

This one is from August 30, 1991 (I know the date because I still have my old diary entry from that night), when I was 19 and she was probably 17 or 18. She was really cute, and we'd danced together and made out a little bit that night at our local small-town teen nightclub. This made my closeted secret boyfriend jealous enough to call me a poseur, which, as I'm sure you'll all recall, was one of the worst possible things you could call somebody back then.

Back in the late 80s, in jr high and high school, the teachers would do a daily “jock check.” The male teachers would go row by row, and have us all pull our shorts out so they could look down our pants to see if we were all wearing jock straps, or potentially, see little boys privates. Was this a normal thing, or were they just sickos? I grew up in the Inland Empire, Southern California.

I should be fixing the big hole in my roof but instead I'm putzing around in the garage and poking through ephemera in my old filing cabinet. 

I took a swig of my drink tonight (watermelon salt electrolyte powder in ice water) and it transported me to 1989 and a specific watermelon or green apple candy.

I found it most often at concessions of sporting events like little league baseball, softball or football games. I don’t remember ever seeing it at an actual store or I’d know this answer. It came in a square and was like a hard laffy taffy. The wrapper was waxy and not plastic. The flavor was printed on the outside of the wrapper.

By about the third time I popped a bracket off of my braces because of it my mom was fed up and I think I gave them up for good. Please help! What were these sour delicious guys and do they still make them? I specifically remember green apple, grape and watermelon flavors. Help, fellow X!

Was choosing the so called radio station, on YouTube music and was annoyed they called it a station. Get off my dirt patch!

I'm re-watching it and oh, wow!

What a great spy show!

Yes, it was cheesy at times but most shows back then kind of were. Great cast though and the show didn't fall off a cliff as the seasons progressed, in my opinion, as much as so many shows do. Although it did change quite a bit when they went to college. I thought the storyline was good too.

Edit: and this is coming from someone who grew up in small town Louisiana. Everything about the show was so foreign to me 😂

I got caught in a mental rabbit hole on that and came out with only one: I was invited to Burning Man as a DJ and didn’t for reasons I can’t even remember. What do you have?

Here’s what I have so far:

Dorothy Zbornak - Janeane Garofalo

That’s it.

So who would play:

Rose Nyland
Blanche Devereaux
Sofia Petrillo

Maybe The Go-go’s cover the theme song???