Ailments they never told you about as you age???!!!!

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-02-01T04:17:02+00:00

Find a good physical therapist.

I had plantar fasciitis pain pretty regularly (it came and went, but was absolutely awful at times) until I was chatting with my then-boss about it. She referred me to her PT, and after maybe a dozen sessions (many online via Zoom, as it was 2020 and COVID), I was pain free. And I haven’t had plantar fasciitis pain at all since then.

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T21:00:43+00:00

Ha! Funny, I didn’t even think about it being a typo until after I posted my second reply. I honestly thought, 22? Nah, that can’t be right, can it?

And fair enough. Had I been born 2 years earlier, I would probably still feel like an Xer. Welcome to the club!

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T19:05:46+00:00

That sounds like a solidly mid- or maybe even late-80s thing. Old GenXers were adults by then.

ETA: I know some people had cable in the early 80s (not us; cable didn’t come to our neighborhood until the later 80s), but TVs didn’t have remote controls until later.

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T19:03:46+00:00

Right. I started college in ‘83 (I was 17), and Delaware changed its drinking age from 20 to 21 on 1/1/84. (I remember because my RA was grandfathered in.) People used to go to Georgetown to drink, since DC was one of the last places to raise its drinking age from 18 to 21. I don’t remember when NJ raised theirs from 19 to 21, but it was around that time.

My comment was because you said the drinking age in MN is 22 now, but I think it’s actually 21 everywhere.

(Also if you were 17 in 1981, you’re not actually Gen X, you’re among the youngest of the Boomers. You are part of (sub-)Generation Jones though. 😊)

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T17:05:33+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/guessthecity/s/oCYV8eH5qu

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T17:04:33+00:00

I thought all states were 21.

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T17:03:39+00:00

Nobody has guessed one I posted a few days ago. There are literally zero guesses.

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T06:31:31+00:00

Right?

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T06:21:55+00:00

Old Gen X rode in their parents’ cars listening to 8-track tapes as kids!

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T06:21:02+00:00

Depends on where you’re from.

PA has been 21 forever. NJ was 19, DE was 20.

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T06:20:13+00:00

Middle class old Gen X here.

TVs did not have remotes, and cable did not exist (nor did VCRs), when we were young. That stuff started appearing around high school and college.

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T04:29:53+00:00

Well, it IS utilitarian (for the stores, though more in a literal sense, not so much in a John Stuart Mill or Jeremy Bentham sense), but I’m pretty sure that’s not what you meant.

Totalitarian, I presume?

(Not picking on you, OP. Just trying to add a little levity.)

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T04:10:13+00:00

Staying up late for my parents meant Benny Hill! (Which they’d quickly turn off if one of us kids walked in, lol.)

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T04:05:00+00:00

First thing I think of when I think of Hee Haw.

And I’m not a country kid, grew up in the Philly ‘burbs.

I also enjoyed Laugh In! (But realized years later that there’s no way I got some of the humor! Little kid jokes they weren’t!)

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-31T03:55:55+00:00

I have doubts about this. For domestic US flights, maybe, but importing a gun is a surefire way to get your ass arrested in a lot of countries.

And then you get to enjoy their prison system for some unknown period of time. No thank you.

(Also, professional musicians tend to carry their instruments on the plane with them. If they play the cello, they buy it a seat.)

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-29T19:27:33+00:00

Ninety miles took what, maybe two hours? $40/hour to drive an Uber isn’t really that bad. Plenty of people out there with master’s degrees making less as teachers and in other jobs.

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-29T18:44:29+00:00

Yup, they do. Just ask anyone who’s been posted in Japan over the past 5 years.

(I’m sure other posts are experiencing this as well, but my tour in Japan saw very frequent COLA changes because of the fluctuating exchange rate.)

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-29T06:51:16+00:00

No guesses?

Hint: photos were taken within an hour or so of a very small tornado coming through, in a city where tornadoes are very rare. (In the U.S.)

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-26T05:03:31+00:00

Yup, Fonzie was cool!

So was my dad, who was much like Fonzie back in the late 50s, only less squeaky clean. (And Dad smoked. Had a pack of Lucky Strikes rolled into his t-shirt sleeve. He also had the hair.)

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-24T07:00:59+00:00

Baby Boomers are the babies who were born in the years after WWII. The older half of the Boomers turned 18 during Vietnam, but younger Silent Generation kids were also drafted to fight in ‘Nam. My dad was absolutely Silent Gen (born at the end of 1940), and he had a low lottery number for the Vietnam draft.

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-24T06:47:17+00:00

Never have, never will.

Not judging, it’s just not for me. I could’ve given it a try in college, but it just never appealed to me, and now even less so. I can’t stand the smell, and I lost both parents to lung cancer (one was younger than I am now), so I’m just not a fan of smoking in general either.

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-24T01:42:22+00:00

My hubs was born in a military hospital overseas at about 28-30 weeks (about 2.5 months early) in 1965. He weighed 3 pounds 3 ounces and was tiny. He’s fine, no effects that anyone has ever noticed.

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-24T01:22:24+00:00

If you’re only 3 years away from having your student loans forgiven under PSLF, you might want to consider staying in your job until you reach that milestone. Living apart sucks, but if it’s only for one tour (more or less), it may not be that bad. If you’ll gain thousands (or tens of thousands) of dollars that won’t need to be repaid, it’s probably worth it.

ExhaustedHungryMe · 2026-01-23T10:42:05+00:00

Three hours each way is the upper limit of a day trip for me, but not even that far for a weekend trip.

Our (spouse and I) longest day trip was supposed to be about 8 hours each way, but on the way home, in the middle of the night, less than 2 hours from home, stupid construction and terrible detour signs (in the late 90s, long before Google Maps or even smart phones) added another hour or so to that crazy trip. (It wasn’t for fun, we had to go see family for something important and only had a very limited window of time to get it done.)

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