They call us “The Elderly”.

[Snattlerake]

When I hear a song on KATT from Black Sabbath or Led Zepplin some kid at work is listening to and commenting about that song being good I just say yes it was when it came out in the '60s.

I also feel kinda sad people born in the '90s and later completely missed the space race and going to the moon, later on the shuttle. Having a space station manned for decades is a marvel in itself.

Both of my grandmothers came to Oklahoma in a covered wagon. One from Minnesota and another one westward from east of the Mississippi through Arkansas, Siloam Springs and finally Fairview, OK. I have written letters and a diary. I have another three diaries from a grandfather in the Civil War.

You want to talk about history?

 

[Snattlerake]

I just want to go on record as a Gen X saying I didn't get the AIDS.

I heard they couldn't find a cure for AIDS because they couldn't get two monkeys to buttfk each other.

 

[Cold Smoke]

Talk a span of a life. My great grandfather fought in the civil war and lived to see the Cold War go into full hustle. Imagine seeing the American Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish American War, Philipine Insurrection, Blackjack Pershing in Mexico, the First World War, Prohibition, the repeal of Prohibition, the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Korean conflict. You would have a pretty solid grasp of trends I would like to think.

 

[caliberbob]

I’ve got 15 and 17 year old grandkids and wonder what their lives will be like. Both have done great so far. I’ve done ok, made a lot of mistakes and learned life’s lessons the hard way a few time. If I could go back I’d probably make different mistakes so I’m fine with where I’m at.

One mistake was changing your username. Thankfully you changed it back. Missed you @Pstmstr

 

[THAT Gurl]

One mistake was changing your username. Thankfully you changed it back. Missed you @Pstmstr

Right?!?!? I kept seeing MichaelCox and thinking who is this new uppity mother****er. And I KNOW the man! ☺ I've shot enough matches with him I could pick his ass outta a line-up in 2 seconds flat!! It's embarrassing ... Lol

 

[Pstmstr]

Right?!?!? I kept seeing MichaelCox and thinking who is this new uppity mother****er. And I KNOW the man! ☺ I've shot enough matches with him I could pick his ass outta a line-up in 2 seconds flat!! It's embarrassing ... Lol

Ah, I didn’t know you cared. The good old days. A lot of good people on OSA and at the pistol matches. Some not so good but they are easily ignored.

 

[Mr.Glock]

Yep. The economy in the 80s was much like it is now. I had a co-worker who got married. She and her new husband took on a mortgage loan that was 24%. Yep, you read that right -- 24%.

I was a wild woman but used protection -- took the Pill. Some times that **** doesn't work. I could have gotten an abortion I suppose but I'm not cut that way. So ... I had a baby and proceeded to work 2 jobs until he was 3 and I married. Back down to one job. Alas ... My taste in men back then was atrocious. My ex- turned out to be an alcoholic (nope, love is blind -- I really didn't realize it until I had another). The day I accepted a job offer from a hotel in Dallas I also found out I was pregnant with my third. Back then if you were pregnant and looking for a job you were SOL.

I wound up single, unemployed, on welfare, with 2 and 1/2 kids and cooking, in a single-wide trailer I paid $75.00/month to rent. Oh yeah, no heat or air. Those were GLORIOUS times.

I have heard it all -- I am:

a heathen (yes),
a whore (if I'm honest, yes, but if I'm supporting myself what I do in my off time shouldn't be anybody else's business but mine. That's how it works for men. You guys couldn't "be boys" if it weren't for women like me willing to do the deed without strings. ),
not good enough to keep a man (see above),
a bad mother (see above),
a bad daughter (because I chose to shelter my kids from the physical abuse I suffered as a child)
a ***** (usually because I stood up for myself but sometimes, yeah, I was a *****)
gonna die old and alone (Grumpy asked me to marry him in 2000 -- WELL after my prime and with 3 teenagers in the house. Of course if I hadn't been controlling him with sex (his ex-'s take on things) or pregnant (also his ex- but I had a hysterectomy in '86 so THAT would have been a feat in and of itself),
homeless (I bought my house when I was 40?? 41?? I'd have to go back and look)

I mean the list goes on and on and on. I didn't get the things I have from family money, or because I was smarter than the average bear (quite the contrary), or because I married well when I was young.

I got where I am (comfortable) because I worked hard and I got lucky. No ****. I had NO ILLUSIONS about what was gonna happen to me. I was gonna work until the day I died. I knew that.

Why? Because the only person I could rely on was ME. Grumpy was a surprise. Nothing I could have ever planned prepared me for him. And that is both good and bad. But honestly mostly good. I don't know why he stays but then he will say the same about me. We are a match made in heaven I guess.

My point is ... Things aren't that much different than when we (Boomers) started out. Well except we didn't look for someone to blame for our problems. It NEVER occurred to us to be professional victims.

Y'all want something?? Then stop looking for someone to blame about how hard life is and get to work. Work as many jobs and have as many roommates as you have to to get enough money in the bank and then go get the things you want.

I was a single mom, collecting NO child support, with 3 kids, working 3 jobs when I bought my house. EVERYBODY except my realtor said I was wasting my time and my money. It has turned out to be the single smartest thing I have EVER done in my life -- right after cutting my entire family off (should have done that WAY sooner than I did) and marrying Grumpy. I still have NO idea why he thought that was a good idea but I'm glad he did.)

I hope when you are my age you can look back and smile like I can. Was it hard? Well it wasn't a lot of fun sometimes but we live in the greatest country in the world. No where (especially if you are a woman) do you have the freedom to live your life like you want to. Thing is that's a double-edged sword. Sometimes it's good, sometimes not, but either way, at least I had a choice a lot of people do not. Same for you guys. Y'all have choices other folks around the world dream of.

Ooops ... Sorry ...

Good write! You made it through it and you know who you are, most go through their whole life trying to figure out who they are, and sadly most just copy their lives from someone else!

The man that raised us taught us to “Say what you mean, mean what you say“! As well as “Own your Life, walk with your head up”! You done good Lady! You survived.

Your a mirror image to my momma, red headed, 4 boys, 3 different daddys, wild as the wind, and walked a hard hard road till she met a mean ass Cowboy to settle down with! Oh the stories I have being raised by a wild ass red headed crazy woman who thought she could tumble the world. She had to be, didn’t know anything different, she was raised by one that was twice everything she was!

 

[TedKennedy]

And divorce, destruction of the family, mainstreaming homosexuality, media control, uncontrolled immigration, feminism, leftism, and destroying the entire economy so they wouldn't catch a cough.

Some of you are all right, but by in large the worst, most selfish generation in history.

We weren't all on board for that crap. Some of us were actively trying to stop it. Exposing the BS and the people pushing it is now called "hate".

It really will have to get worse before it gets better.

 

[Gadsden]

And divorce, destruction of the family, mainstreaming homosexuality, media control, uncontrolled immigration, feminism, leftism, and destroying the entire economy so they wouldn't catch a cough.

Some of you are all right, but by in large the worst, most selfish generation in history.

People are all different and just like skin color and ethnicity you can't judge someone by the generation they grew up in. The only thing your comments tell me is that you are under the misguided assumption that you can and therefore you do.

 

[HillsideDesolate]

People are all different and just like skin color and ethnicity you can't judge someone by the generation they grew up in. The only thing your comments tell me is that you are under the misguided assumption that you can and therefore you do.

Everyone is an individual, hence the "some of you are all right."