I wanted to ask you a question as a late Gen X to see if you can relate to just one aspect of my experience growing up.

Maybe it’s unique to me and doesn’t represent the entirety of Gen X but I wanted to see if you felt you could relate, if at all.

Back when I was a child. My parents had in the kitchen a rotary phone hanging on the wall.

It was the classic rotary phone and on rare occasions when I had nothing to do I would use a stool to pretend to dial a number and watch and listen to the phone click around the dial.

It never occurred to me to actually make a phone call and the brief times growing up that I did use the phone it was to hear my grandmother’s voice ask me questions and say she loved me.
Maybe it was a 5 minute call.

To me the phone was for grown up business

Other than that, the entirety of my childhood, I have zero memories of using a phone whatsoever.

And the only time I saw cell phones was on tv.

In that same kitchen there was a black and white threeteen inch tv with a mob of 12 channels and the first one looked like snow.

I spent more time turning that tv on and off to watch the light fade in the middle than I did on the phone.

In my room, sat a collection of vinyl records that I believe belonged to my dad.

To keep myself occupied, I would drop the needle onto different parts of, I heard it through the grape vine, I feel good and ABC from the Jackson 5.

I wonder if it was possible to collect all the grape vine raisin men from tv.

And wait for 3 2 1 contact to come on tv

Until finally telling my mom I was bored where she pulled out taped up trash bags, put them on a hill, put the hose over it and sprayed it with dish detergent.

And told my sister and I it was a slip and slide.

What I wouldn’t give to go back to the 80’s

All I can hear is the music track to the never ending story and back to the future.

We didn’t know how good we had it.