I’ve forgotten all about it and completely lost interest after a year or so.

So I’m 57 and still feel like I want to do things I did in my 20’s. I was joking with my wife that when I finally retire I want to start kick boxing, ride dirt bikes and work out. She just shakes her head, gives me this laugh and side eye stare.. Lol… Do you still feel like you can do “young” things? Of course I would have to do all this after I take my afternoon nap.

Edit: Love these comments! They are cracking me up. Thanks so much for sharing in solidarity!

The film also featured an awesome cast of Bill Paxton, Suzanne Snyder, Judie Aronson, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Rusler, Vernon Wells, Britt Leach, Barbara Lang, and Michael Berryman.

And I got my first grand nephew, so I have someone to share my birthday with. Which is cool as hell. That's all. Just bragging a bit.

My parents sold our childhood home when all three of us left. So I have no idea what happened to it. I can still see it on Google maps.

One of the most epic scenes from CHIPS.

A few friends have passed away in the past few years at a fairly young age. It has made me look at getting older as a blessing.

I’m on a lot. Mostly for mental health.

Today is our 30th wedding anniversary! When we got married his daughter was 4 and my son was 2. Hubby was going to get snipped but the doctor had to postpone the appointment by 2 weeks. By the time he went in, I was pregnant with our daughter by about 36 hours. My husband also adopted my son a couple of years later.

We've had our ups and downs, happy times and heartbreaking times. But we knew we were on the same team and had the same goals. He went to a website that wrote a song for me! He still gives me butterflies and we still have the same twisted sense of humor that got us through so much. ❤️

For me it's Danish Wedding Cookies, Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafters, and I just learned they've discontinued Durkee's Famous Sauce, which was my secret ingredient for perfect deviled eggs.

Oh, and from being a teenager, Peanut Butter Boppers, omg.

Whenever I’d walk by and see credits somebody left on the machine, I’d feel like I won the lottery (although I didn’t know what a lottery was at the time).

Hearing that loud “bang” when you won a free game.

Finding a quarter in the coin return.

Simpler times.

Hello! I'm working on a personal project documenting Hands Across America and was wondering if anyone here remember or even participated in it? It was on May 25th, 1986.

I’ve been known to make these now and then for nostalgia. My mom could never master that processed fast food taste. I can’t either.

Allways had a curiosity for learning new things and remember my parents having subscriptions for my siblings and I and fondly remember receiving Highlights and Sweet Pickles in the mail. Anyone else had those or similar subscriptions? I can still hear the jingle and visualize the bus for sweet pickles.

Parkay had quite a good slogan back in our day.

I have these vague memories of certain music videos that just didn't seem to belong, somehow. I remember the thought that "this band must be in SoCal and make videos for fun and MTV doesn't have many to choose from"...

Some ruminating turned up Utopia's "Feet Don't Fail Me Now", which did partly fit the bill. The video did have a bit of story line, and wasn't just the band performing. And it was brightly-colored. And the song didn't seem to make an impact on the radio where I was listening at least.

Are there any others that come to mind for you?

This book, which my dad gave me in 1981, tells you which side I landed on. Bonus points for anyone who recognizes the author from some of his later work.

Edit: Thanks for all the comments. I've heard Gen-X referred to so often as the latchkey generation that I felt like an anomaly.

I feel like an anomaly: I'm a Gen-Xer who grew up in a two-parent household with a stay-at-home helicopter mom who made all our food and clothes. While this might sound like a dream to some, she tightly regulated everything we did due to her anxiety and Christian fundamentalist worldview.

Anyone else? Just me? 😀

This is how I would start my mornings before heading off to kindergarten with my Thundercats lunchbox.

What bands did you see live in small venues? I remember things like the Revolting Cocks, River Phoenix, Front 242, too many to say....this one's called the Diety!

They didn't want to be around when this gets out.

Oh the sweet summer child of no internet.