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This is so so so so true!

The Dodge ball was also the kick ball in gym class.

I was nine and it was stick shift! 😂❤

Love you! So true about growing up in the seventies! Thank you so much. The way the big pink dodgeball smelled when hit you in the face. Shake it off, 5 yr old girl. We were OK. Everybody gets hit in the face somehow; Everyone gets bruises, shake it off. Sports are not always totally safe and you might not win! Have some necklace candy, play outside and be happy. Ride bikes, no helmets, if you climb a tree and fall, then be embarrassed and Climb better next time. There are no grown ups here, they’re busy. They are grown ups on their own; you be a kid in your own. Come home when the street lights come on. Gen X, take personal responsibility for yourself and suck it up. Yep but it was so free and so fun as well!

She’s right, at 12 years old, I washed my own clothes, made my own meals, no one ever told me to do homework, but I did it. I’d come home everyday after school and my sister and I would be home by ourselves until 9:00 pm when our dad got home, and 10:30 pm mom would get home. In the summer I’d go weeks without seeing my parents. I’d call from a friend’s house asking to stay the night and go from friend to friend It was a great time. I was 14, sister was 15 and our parents went in vacation for two weeks and left us at home. It was a crazy time to be a kid.

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Don't forget dodgeball in 20 degree weather during recess!

Only difference here? We would go to the store to get our parents cigarettes (and ourselves baseball cards) via? The storm sewer! lol Great set!

Great Ted Talk...

So funny !! Great comic 🤩

Gene Wilder was creepy! I still can't watch him to this day, I don't mind the umpa-lumpas, but Gene Wilder creeps me out!

Home Depot parents. LOLOLOL!!! Facts.

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Luxury, lived in gumboot in middle of road.

We drove 2 hours to get to a thene park once when i was sbout 10. I was in the boot with packet of crisps with a torch.

I was 10 and 76

Born in 1970. Latch key kid and I liked it!

Also the worst parents of their own children at that time. All the “helicopter” crap began with the X’ers as parents. And looked how splendidly successful that offspring ended up.

Gen X right here. Born in late 60’s. Had first job at age 10 (paper route), rode my bike everywhere, walked to school on occasion never complained, kept my room cleaned. Did what my parents told me to do and I did good in school. Stayed hard-working and I never took anything for granted I knew things were not for free. Didn’t have cell phones at the time, did not need them. We had made actual phone calls to friends.

12 sets of stitches from different incidents before I was a teenager and nobody cared or cautioned me. I find myself still being a bit crazy.

😂😂😂😂😂 Can ANYONE imagine 70s kids winning WW 2 ??? Worldwide kids born in the 70s ??? WTF ??? NO !!!! 👎🏻 An opinion from a karen 👎🏻👎🏻 😂😂😂

Had a banana seat by and I will carry your friend on the back behind me, and on the handlebars…no helmets…often barefoot in summer😂

Clackers.

Bought my 1st album, 1975, with babysitting money...Black Sabbath Paranoid, I just turned 10.

Secret Dive Bar...😂😂😂😂

GenX 65 here too.

ONG aa a Gen Xer she described my whole childhood 😂X100

1972 here, at 15 years old we hitchhiked for 15 miles to the beach everyday of the summer and be home before parents arrived from work at 5:30 pm everyday ( yes we had a friend or 2 drown) They were the best summer of my life ! Just to mention one experience!

Every kid in my neighborhood in the 70's got shot with a BB or pellet gun. You could fully expect it. We were all raised outside like feral kids. Remember the public service announcement "Do you know where your children are". ?

Totally agree.

This is hilarious! So glad I stumbled upon this.

I'm a boomer and in the 70's rode in the cab of my daddy's pickup on the wheel wells, and I was a city boy.

Romper Room I love that lady

I've never heard about genX! In 74, I started my first job at 15yrs old working at a cotton mill making jean material for Levi's/plus; brought home $75. less than my last job in 2017! Those were the days! There weren't so much popularity and applause then, it was all about survival... as today nobody wants to work anymore!!!

Late mid life crisis

This was my life-except the cigarettes. We also would dive in the dumpsters for cans to recycle to get money. My brother and I took turns being the lookout vs the diver. 😂. We were definitely told to “go outside and play and don’t come back til lunch.” We rode our bikes (no helmets) to the library, then would stop at the “Toot & Totum (Texas) for a Big Gulp. Then we rode home with our books in one hand and 32 oz of pure sugar in the other !

Born in 71 and learn how to drive when I was 4. Sat on my dad's lap, of course no seatbelts, steered while he had a Marlboro in one hand and a Budweiser in the other. I have no idea how I'm still breathing.

Ate raw veggies from our garden, drank from hose...sometimes went to pick up bittles from the ditches in our neighborhood with friends and walk together a quarter mile to get 50 cents and split a bag if chips and a 10 cent crappy soda like no name grape soda. Broke up dogfights, no lease laws, lucky we didn't end up in the ER but our folks would just have treated it at home with hydrogen peroxide, meruachrome and bandaid. St Joseph's aspirin maybe.

So my dad wanted me to date a fella from church, so at 16. He sent me with this guy to Saturday Night Fever, rated R. Nobody cared.

Do true about those GP rated movies

Bragging about what generation you're in is basically demanding a participation trophy.

My mom had a huge Mercury station wagon and since we were all crazy, my sister and I folded those seats down in the back and used a blanket to slide around on the metal surface.Seatbelts? We weren’t even in seats. 😂😂

We was playing a medieval battle or tournament and since i was a little larger and stronger than the other boys i always ended up to be that freaking horse for someone.

70s kids are the strongest because that's when my dad grew up and he's the strongest dad

Loved this! I am Gen X, and you are spot on. It was a great time to grow up, for most of us!

I love her Gen X shtick. Finally someone is speaking up for us overlooked, poor little latch-key, forgotten kids!!!! Instead of "rub some dirt on it" I always got "take an aspirin." "Ma, my appendix just burst." "Take an aspirin. You're going to school!" BTW-even scarier than Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka was that dude in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang who stole children. I'm in my 50s and I'm still traumatized. I was just telling a Gen Z'er today about the terrible days before TV remote controls when you got in fights over who was going to get up to change the channel, or fix the vertical hold on the TV by jumping up and down in front of it, or banging the top or the side of the set with your fist. When those didn't work you felt around back for that little vertical hold knob, but you could never quite see the screen while turning the knob so you needed an assist to tell you when the picture had stopped rolling....

Are you sure your Gen x are you sure your not generation strange? 70's kids or 70's teens think about it.

Bike helmets? Seriously, I don't even think we would have known which store to go to buy one.

Your routines are my childhood. Thank you

Gen Xers are the best, Karen! We KNOW this!! You're hilarious, gorgeous! Best wishes to my fellow Class of '94....has it really been?!? Milford NH Spartans 🇺🇲🗽🇺🇲🎗️🇺🇲