Don't Mess with Gen X!

Don't Mess with Gen X!

We are the most dangerous generation on the planet! We were raised with thick skin, grit, determination, and respect. If Gen X did something wrong, they got their A** Kicked while other generations get a hug. Gen X receives trophies for winning, not just for showing up.

Please don't mess with Gen X people, we are older than Google, and we fought in real life, not on the internet. Our parents made everything violent and threatened to kill us every day.

"I brought you into this world, I can take you out!"

"Shut up or I will drop you off on the side of this road!"

( and they would do it too)

We didn't have anti-bullying campaigns. Our parents bullied us. If we got hurt, our parents didn't comfort us; they got pissed!

"Stop your whining, walk it off, you are fine." or

"I'll give you something to whine about!"

(This was said as blood was running down your face)

The best one is when non-Gen Xers question why we didn't go inside the house and get a drink of water instead of drinking from the hose. I'm going to tell you right now, we weren't allowed in the house...EVER! Personally, my mother was always "Mopping the floor" every day all day long, and our kitchen was a 10x10 square....There was no water! So, no, my friends going inside was not an option! It was the hose or nothing.

Gen Xers are actual survivors and indestructible. We were in smoke filled cars with no car seats, no one has ever given us swimming lessons you got thrown in and was told to "sink or swim", no one even heard of sun screen we would burn so bad our blisters would have blisters, we were shot with BB guns or stabbed with darts, and our parents thought it was hilarious, for fun we would use a knife and repeatedly stab between our fingers or shoot an arrow in the air and everyone had to freeze and see who gets hit with the arrow that was our entertainment. We were self-reliant and independent; we came home to empty homes and had to fend for ourselves. The TV station had to remind our parents that they had children. Every night on the 10:00 news, a voice would come on and say, "Do you know where your children are?"

Gen X is bad ass; we are tough, chill, and quietly powerful—survivors of analog childhoods and digital adulthoods, raised on rebellion and seasoned by reality.

Wolves raised us, ignored by Boomers; we have old-school grit with just enough 'don't give a damn' to be lethal. So I suggest not messing with Gen X folks!