And they had cell phones, 500 plus tv channels and IPOD!
When Gen-Xers were growing up, cell phones were carried in briefcases, Cable only had 20 or so channels and there was no such thing as an IPod. get your timelines straight.
X’ers grew up with Cell Phones, IPods and 500 channel Cable TV??? Hardly...
I’ve got plenty of vinyl and cassettes (no CDs till I was OUT of High School), cell phones were for rich wall-street types and were the size of bricks when they first came out when I was at least in Jr. High... Cable? I remember ON-TV that we got free for something like 2 years when they had to run the cable through our yard — still I KNOW there were less than 80 stations — once you got to the higher numbers it started duplicating channels...
I’m afraid your thinking regarding generation X is WAY off base...
Sorry but there were no cell phones when I was growing up. (born 1971) One of five kids and there was no coddling going on in my house. We never had cable until I was about ten and I got my first “walkman” when I was about 12. Oh, and we were never pampered, either.
The kids I grew up with weren’t overly spoiled. We were just normal, American kids who had a pretty decent life. We were not the children of the overindulgent boomers. We were the children of the boomers who lived decent lives and had kids at a normal age.
The next generation is full of kids who were born to those boomers who postponed “adulthood” so they could “live out their dreams”. These are the lazy, spoiled, overindulged, coddled, brats that I think you are thinking of. (my 2 cents)
Those of us born in the 60’s and 70’s did not have any of those things.
And they had cell phones, 500 plus tv channels and IPOD!
You missed it. He was talking about Gen X'ers. We grew up in the seventies and eighties. It wasn't rough, but there was no cell phones or ipods in sight, and 30 channels with HBO was the expensive plan on this new cable service.