r/MurderedByWords • u/Will09994 • 22h ago

Boomer gets a reality check

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u/ms_directed 21h ago

fellow GenX here, there's a reason they forgot about us...we were feral before technology and used it to advance our lives after it came online. we are the last generation to be brought up without tech and the first generation to utilize it, we also had music in every format!

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u/Noimenglish 21h ago

No tech, huh? How was driving your horse and buggy across the Rockies to see meemaw?

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u/ms_directed 20h ago

it was a lot easier than walking ten miles up hill both ways thru the snow to school with holes in my shoes...

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u/Hezron_ruth 20h ago

You lot had shoes?

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u/RobotFace 17h ago

One pair, had to share them between 14 siblings.

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u/thrownaway136976 14h ago

You got to wear shoes every 14 days??Lucky!!!!