Cezary Jan Strusiewicz: You KNOW you're Gen X if you: - drank from the hose - called your friend's house on a landline to talk about drinking from the hose - consumed liquids from a flexible tube in the yard - had a big-ass book of CDs with sounds of ppl drinking from the hose - played Hose Drinkin' on NES - are depressed

You KNOW you're Gen X if you: - drank from the hose - called your friend's house on a landline to talk about drinking from the hose - consumed liquids from a flexible tube in the yard - had a big-ass book of CDs with sounds of ppl drinking from the hose - played Hose Drinkin' on NES - are depressed

Some of my favorite memories are the days I would drink from the garden hose while my brother and I threw Jarts at each other

Then we would cool down with some nice tall glasses of hose

I read this with the fancy pronunciation of ho SAY.

And rinse off your puncture wounds

Some of my favorite memories are the days I would drink from the garden hose while my brother and I threw jorts at each other

That's what millennials did!

Same! Was your hose all patched up with tape from all the Jart piercings too?

Yes but only duct tape because that was the only kind of tape Gen X was allowed to have

I hope it's obvious I'm making fun of all those obnoxious Karenish "I'M Gen X" videos on TikTok and not playing to them

Millennials are starting with we're the last generation to play outside as if the little assholes on my lawn are robots or something

Absolutely

Thank goodness, the line is increasingly thinner

Right, right--Pop-Pop's electrical tape was out of bounds after the Tape Cousin Timmy to the Garage Door incident of '77

Who among us did not try to tape at least one family member to a wall

It wasn't taping to a wall that was the issue, it was taping to the garage door and then trying to open the garage door and burning out the garage door opener motor. We were just trying to stretch Tmmy out, help him grow. The grown-ups couldn't appreciate our vision.

I got yelled at for wasting perfectly good duct tape. How was I supposed to know Dad needed it to repair the washing line I crashed my BMX into.

kids today get Cornhole if they're LUCKY, they'll never understand the majesty and splendor of the humble Lawn Dart

jarts (jean darts)

We actually DID throw jarts. But not at each other. We had some elderly family friends with a cabin in the mountains, and on weekends when we'd go visit, they had jarts in a box. I don't think ANY of us knew what they were for, so we just threw them as far as we could across the meadow. We lost them

Also if you: - remember Eddie Murphy on SNL as Velvet Jones, pitching his book "I Wanna Drink From the Hose"

I snort-laughed at this one!

Does Hose Drinkin' 2: Return of the Sprinkler count?

Sorry, that's a Millennial game

It was for SNES, so that makes sense. Some of us borderline x/millennials have trouble remembering which is which.

People forget that Hose 64 was almost as popular as Goldeneye.

The Golden Hose was way OP, tho.

𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒

I’m cackling my ass off.

Read new reports about hose drinking leading to cancer and depression.

*has depression & beat cancer* Nonsense, wasn't hose drinking did that, it was the CFCs.

To be fair to our neglectful boomer parents, the erosion of public services wasn't on the same of level as how bad that would be to do now. They'd only just started voting Republican at that point 🤷‍♂️

But how often did we *really* drink from the hose? There was no one telling us we needed to drink 96 oz of water a day. Either way, we definitely did not drink filtered water.

The only 2 liquids I ingested as a child were milk and soda

Milk and Tang for me (we weren't allowed to drink soda.) I still have to force myself to drink water.

when mom would go on a “no soda” kick it was powdered iced-t mix, doubled for the extra sugar

I feel like the '70s were entirely devoid of nutrition.

Also more likely to use "drinking from a fire hose" as a metaphor. Source : I was born in the 1970s.

So, 30 years ago? Sorry if I'm wrong. I'm a Millennial. It's perpetually the year 2000 in my mind.

Somebody once told me The world is gonna roll me I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed She was looking kind of dumb With her finger and her thumb In the shape of an "L" on her forehead

I graduated HS in 2002 and semi-seriously wonder if the ease of figuring out time intervals made certain aspects of learning history easier for me.

- describe messed-up things as being “hosed.” (In Canada, anyway.)

We also had a dog who drank from SEE IF YOU CAN GUESS

Gen-Rex

Back in those days we didn't have our faces stuck in no phone, sir; we talked to each other, face to face as the whole town took their turn at the hose that was being alive, not like now

"my, the hose certainly is warm today" "no pressure!" "is that straw?" So many memories, not like the nameless hell of to-day

True, so many people were alive back then who aren't alive now.

it seems that way, but that's a common misconception

We had cassettes with hose drinkers also. CDs came later

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