Gen X

[Duncanpup]

Our parents still do not know where we are and that is ok.
Stay Feral.

Read on twitter made me smile.

[LudwigPastorius]

1. Gen X is roughly 44 - 59 years old.

I'd say their parents don't know where they are because their parents are dead or in a nursing home.

[Skittles]

2. huh?

there are still plenty of active Boomers out there

[yorkster]

10. And a fair number older than boomers.

Oldest boomers turned 78 as of Jan. 2024.
Activity levels may vary, however.....
Insert rueful smile here.

[The Wandering Harper]

14. my dad was born in '42

and he's neither dead nor in a nursing home.

And for some reason whenever he sends me anything he feels a need to confirm my address

[BlueTexasMan]

15. He's a Warbaby

Just like me, 1944
Still kickin', recently got a Tesla model 3 (incredible car, runs on excess power from my solar array, no fuel bills ever) will start framing on a new front porch soon. (Really honey I'll start on it soon!) stayin' slim with alternate day fasting ( not hard to do)

[The Wandering Harper]

18. nice

He once remarked to me "I'm hard to kill."
They said his grandfather, my great grandfather,
was the meanest man in California and that's why he lived so long.
But my dad's not mean at heart, but he's been through some stuff.
He's recovering from radiation treatment for lung cancer,
which they say cleared it up, so that's awesome.
He sounded good when I talked to him yesterday

[yorkster]

27. '46 here. I started a version of

intermittent fasting sev. months ago.
So far have lost about 15 lbs. Hope to lose 10 + more. Keep on keepin' on. Sounds good.

[MotownPgh]

28. What is your version. Would like to try

IF. For about 25 pounds

[yorkster]

31. Have an early dinner, like at 5ish.

Then in the am have breakfast after 9 if you can do it. Be sure to have enough water and don't push it if you any weakness, etc. Maybe check with your doc. I've also lost weight just cutting back. Good luck.

[slightlv]

20. I'll second that rueful smile! n/t

[Skittles]

22. YES!

I just read where Kris Kristofferson turned 88 years old! And there's a current DU thread with a pic of Dick Van Dyke and Carol Burnett, in their 90's!

[txwhitedove]

19. Thank you, Skittles! This 1950 Boomer knows exactly where her feral kids are, including Gen Z

grandkids. All here in Texas, except traveling son who will return next weekend, meanwhile I get tales from the road and encouraged to exercise so I will be here for the great grandkids.

[Skittles]

23. PREACH IT

not going out without a fight!

[PatSeg]

21. Whoa, I am still alive and in my own home

Also, when my daughter would reveal to me all the places she'd been over the years, I covered my ears. What I don't know won't hurt me, but damn if she doesn't feel like she has to tell me everything!

[The Wandering Harper]

32. I wonder if I ever fessed up

about the time I was "spending the night at a friend's"
when actually we were trying to go to a reggae festival a couple hundred miles away.
We literally got there just in time for the last song lol

[PatSeg]

33. If you didn't, it is just as well

I really didn't need the added stress, not to mention guilt, of knowing that things were far worse than I thought.

What you did sounds a lot like one of my daughter's escapades. Fortunately, we all survived!

[FirstLight]

3. Feral and Fantastic!

LOL

...and drinking from the hose never hurt anybody

[marble falls]

4. Boomer: our parents have no idea who we are, let alone where we are. My kids don't want me to know where they are ...

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... I show up unannounced and stay three months and they act like I'm an imposition. Cripes, where's the love?

[Duncanpup]

5. Ungrateful children.

[marble falls]

6. I should have known getting the stripped down models was a mistake.

[Skittles]

24. huh?

you let them stay for three months?

my parents have been gone for some time now but they would have kicked my ass out fairly quickly, ESPECIALLY if arrived unannounced!

[marble falls]

25. My son resented me showing up without a "warnining" and over staying. Not like it was six months or something like that.

[Skittles]

29. why show up unnannounced at all?

it's....rude

[marble falls]

30. Ruder still he wouldn't invite me! If I'da asked then I couldn't ask for forgiveness. I wouldnta been able ...

... to feign ignorance. You gotta use psychology on kids these days!

[MOMFUDSKI]

7. My son loved it!

Thanks, Dunc. I am still laughing

[Duncanpup]

11. Your son is like me then

Easily amused

[MOMFUDSKI]

26. Oh

yea

[Bok_Tukalo]

8. Here it comes Gen-X!

60

[Duncanpup]

9. I'm 58

[johnp3907]

12. Wild Youth ..... FOREVER!!!!

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[AKwannabe]

13. Effing hilarious!!

And true!

[Yavin4]

16. Gen X, our parents were either too old or too young to have us. n/t

[sanatanadharma]

17. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, early 1970s (69-73?)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, early 1970s (69-73?)
Every night at eleven PM the TV's and radios would announce,
"It is 11 pm, parents! Do you know where your children are?"
The college kids were children so the sheriff enforced the curfew, against the 'boomer' kids.