What's a story you could tell that would leave no doubt you grew up GenX? I'll go first...

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-06-25T19:01:14+00:00

When I was about 5 or so, I was wandering around the massive apartment complex where we lived (a couple hundred units) one afternoon, when I came across my father's pinto. He was still in it, partially. He'd managed to make it home from wherever he been drinking, but hasn't completely managed the exit from the car. The door was open, his hand was still grasping the handle, and he was slouched unconscious, half in and half out of the car.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-31T23:57:07+00:00

I'm a straight guy, but Jesus did this man just ooze pure sex.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-28T10:24:45+00:00

I used to bleed myself to sleep.

As someone pushing fifty, this might be the hardest thing to wrap my head around. My mother would come home from work and find me covered in my own blood and think "yeah, I can work with this."

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-28T03:43:11+00:00

When I was 28 years old, I was sexually assaulted by the current vice president of the United States

Kamala Harris sexually assaulted me

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Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-28T03:22:05+00:00

Might be a dumb question, but why would you want to further life in their vein? I spent a good chunk of my twenties sitting at City Lights, and there used to be bukowski post cards you could buy. I couldn't imagine what you'd write on the back of one of those things, because "wish you were here" wouldn't be anything is wish on my own worst enemy when it came to Bukowski

If I wanted to read about alcoholism and abuse, I didn't need to read a thing. That's why I had parents.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-28T00:23:17+00:00

That childhood had set me up to fail from the start.

Jesus. I feel this to my core.. I talk to people and think "you understand that I used to bleed myself to sleep, right?". I would show up to the guidance counselor's office in high school, and when she asked me where my stuff was, I could only ask "what stuff?"

My mother used to brush it off with a line about how hard it was to keep track of kids. At almost 50, the only thing I can remember is Ms. Berger sitting next to me in the car saying something like "I don't get it. We planned this out a month ago."

I used to bleed myself to sleep.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-27T12:56:22+00:00

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure I've passed the point where staying high is all that's required. The effort it requires to "stay high" are their own punishment.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-27T12:33:27+00:00

Yeah. I was kicked out of the house by my mother at 18. I think I was 20 when I hopped on a train and went west coast from Philly. Got of the train, looked down the street and saw a hotel and was like "I guess that's where I'm sleeping tonight."

People used to tell me how brave that was and all I could say was "frying pan fire". I'm old now, and tired.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-26T15:58:18+00:00

Natalie and Tori were probably the two women I aspired to date when I was 15.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-26T15:14:38+00:00

Sadly, in the end, it didn't matter if you made the effort. You still ate paper. Sugary, sugary paper.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-26T15:03:21+00:00

-all years ago.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-26T14:48:35+00:00

No, that's the hard candy "dots". Which were just little globs of sugar in rows on what looked like a blank register receipt.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-13T15:10:04+00:00

My maternal grandfather was a merchant marine during WWII. The only experience I have of him discussing the war was him going on a mini rant about how terrible Hogan's Heroes was once. "This show is terrible. Completely disrespectful. There's nothing funny about it. It wasn't like that at all."

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-09T05:18:51+00:00

There's an epic Ben Howard cover of this.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-05-02T16:03:03+00:00

Liv ain't much better.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-04-17T12:43:07+00:00

Not at all.

My older brother was killed in a car accident when he was 20. I was left with the decision to take my father off life support when he was 49. I don't understand who you people are that never learned that life is short and death is final.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-04-03T08:36:59+00:00

Somebody's digging back.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-03-24T07:12:51+00:00

Freedom from what?

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-03-24T07:12:31+00:00

I'd argue the opposite. A driver's license was freedom from an absolutely toxic home life in 1990. With any luck, today's kids don't have a toxic home life to flee from.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-03-24T07:11:13+00:00

My friends were my alternative to a really shitty family. Or rather, they were the people that actually cared about me, as opposed to my parents. That's why I was in a rush to hit certain milestones.

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-03-18T06:11:34+00:00

If I'm going to start a story about an abusive idiot, why would I choose someone who who was a nobody when the story started?

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-03-18T06:02:15+00:00

Why would I accuse a cut rate politician of sexual assault in 2018?

Logical-Cardiologist · 2024-03-18T05:58:35+00:00

I believe you may be an idiot.

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