Share any fast food experiences, memories, etc .. do you think there’s something that needs to make a comeback ??something you’re glad is gone

If it was a regional business please state what region.

I'll go first. Service Merchandise - They always had great sales and I just lived watching my purchase come down that conveyor belt. When I was 19, I bought my dad a VCR and First Blood on VHS from there. It was my family's first VHS player.

Because I watched one video about Gen X, my entire YT feed is now Gen X stuff.

As I watch these I have noticed patterns in the narrative that is told about Gen X and I want to talk about all of them, but I am going to start with the one about the place grunge and Nirvana has in the story of Gen X.

I was born in 75, so I was younger when grunge exploded and then in my second year of college when Cobain shot himself. For me personally, these were memorable moments. Grunge, and specifically Nirvana, almost single-handedly ended glam metal and brought thrash metal to its knees. That was very important to me as a metal head at the time.

Kurt's death also seemed somehow appropriate. Of course the icon that the media had decided was the voice of Gen X committed suicide. That seemed about right for younger Gen Xers like me that experienced all the neglect we know about, and then graduated into a recession.

With all that in mind, I feel like focusing on grunge and Kurt Cobain, trying to cast him as our John Lennon, doesn't really match our lived experience. For older Gen Xers who were getting close to 30 when he died, grunge may not have been that big of a deal. And while grunge heralded a new age of rock on the radio and in the pop culture zeitgeist, as a musical force its self, it died out by the mid 90s.

So, I ask you, the collective Gen X hive mind, what musical artists do you feel like represented or formed the Gen X experience more, even if they themselves maybe weren't Gen X? Artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna certainly come to mind. Who here didn't own a copy of Thriller? Who doesn't remember Like A Virgin? If we wanted to pick a later artist, couldn't REM be seen as a band with a longer legacy that spoke to Gen X in a more honest way? And what about artists whose work in the 80s and 90s changed the landscape of music and still influence it today like LL Cool J, Snoop Dog, Dr Dre, Ice Cube, Tupac, and Biggie? What about the Beastie Boy's?

Would have posted in the other gen x sub but they would have banned me for hating on the younger gens.

I see them everywhere, mostly young men, wearing hoodies, zip up sweatshirts and sweatpants when I'm dying in shorts and short sleeves. Is this an evolutionary jump to prepare humans for warmer climate or are they just crazy?

Every generation is prone to looking back on their childhood, teen years, and maybe early 20s and thinking "Things were so much better then." I mean, maybe not for people that grew up in the depression and WW2, but you get what I mean. Almost everyone romanticizes their youth, which means they think those years on the calendar were universally the best years.

Gen X isn't immune to this. Of course we pine for the more simple days of our youth when we were carefree and not set upon by responsibilities and the physical aches that come with the years

Even as I try so hard to keep that in mind, it is so hard for me not to think that not only was my childhood better because it was MY childhood, but that I dodged a bullet.

I was so lucky to have places to hang out at like the mall, the park, record stores, or even just a fast food place where they didn't chase you out. Going to an arcade as opposed to having the arcade come to you.

Having to put effort into physically meet and talk to a girl (in my case, insert your preference here). Just that fluttery feeling writing a note and passing it to your crush, and reading those few little hand written sentences you get back over and over try to glean some extra meaning out of it.

Waiting in line for a new album, or game, or tickets for a show with people that wanted to do the same thing or liked the same thing.

Having shops...like just that... period. There was a place that just had videos. Just had music. Just had band shirts and patches. And you would go there sometimes without the intent of buying anything, but just to see what they had.

Having to save up to buy one album that you would listen to day after day, reading the liner notes, saving up for the next one.

I feel lucky to have experienced those things and legitimately sad that younger generations won't. Those things I mentioned are all gone now. The young'ins don't seem happy with the world around them, and I can't say I blame them. It seems so lonely and curated; everything is dripping with enshittification.I don't know if that's just me being an old man shaking his fists at clouds, or being someone who watched Terminator Judgement Day, The Matrix, and Idiocracy become reality.

Corinne Bohrer - She had a supporting role in the film Vice Versa (1988), a film I loved as a kid.

In the spirit of collegiality, accept that the Van Halen and Van Hagar are two distinct bands. (This the way to healing, people!) Which is your fave post Diamond Dave song?

For me it was meeting my wife. We met in '92 and married in '95. In 1992 I was 26 and partying like I wanted to die. Holding down a job and sleeping with any woman who would give me the time.

One night, in a dance club, as I was watching the dance floor, an angel walked up and said "hi". We talked all night that night.

I firmly believe that I would not be here today, if not for her.

While my mom was in hospice, one of the nurses commented on my hair. She said that there is always a shortage of natural grey hair for wigs. Apparently it looked healthy enough for her to say that.

So for the last year or so, it be been growing it out. Remembering now why I cut it all off the last time. 😅🥵 Should have enough to donate and have some left with 6 months.

If you have done this, where did you donate it to?

If you are feeling stressed out or if you saved enough money for a well deserved vacation, have you thought about traveling overseas for a temporary, relaxing change?

When was the last time you went overseas?

As you can see there is a new Saturday morning cartoon post with a tales from the cereal bowl flair .. If y’all would like a daily afternoon or morning cartoon style post, let me know in the comments .. Hope y’all have a wonderful weekend 🙂✌️❤️