You know you're GenX if…

What'd I miss?

Enjoy this ten-speed-bike ride down memory lane (at dusk without lights or a helmet).

You know you’re GenX if….

• The words “Rolodex,” “stick shift” and “insane” still come out of your mouth.

• You remember when luggage didn’t have wheels.

• You've gone to a drugstore to develop photos.

• You can write a check and address an envelope without asking for help.

• You’ve used hydrogen peroxide as a hair product and feathered your bangs...

• …or you rocked a mullet without irony.

• You know what orange juice from concentrate tastes like.

• You remember the chemical-sugar coating on bubble-gum cigarettes.

• Your high-school classmate turned in a story for English Comp about a kid who shoots up a school, and the teacher just rolled her eyes.

• You grew up drinking water from faucets and garden hoses.

• You’ve read porn.

• You have childhood memories of getting up to change channels on a TV set.

• You understand old peoples’ references to Rudolph Valentino.

shout out to @yamanashiliving123 for this one.

• You and your friends walked to elementary school without parents.

• You remember seeing a middle-aged colleague brushing his teeth after lunch in the office bathroom and thinking, “Weirdo.”

• You kept a spiral-bound street map in your glove box.

• You understand why a glove box is called that.

• You know what “Breaker 1-9” means and remember the chorus to “Convoy.”

• You would have killed to own a Trans-Am with an eagle on the hood.

• Some small part of you still feels a little bad walking down the sidewalk staring at your phone.

• Your grandmother referred to phone numbers with mnemonics like “Springfield 26873.”

• You were a teenager when mountain bikes were invented.

• You know who Leather Tuscadero and Suzi Quatro (and that they’re one person).

• You know what a banana seat and a princess phone is.

• You tied different colored bandannas around your ankles to look different like everyone else.

• “Queer” still feels like a slur, but you have fond memories of playing “smear the queer.”

• You had a friend who thought Sabrina was the hottest Charlie’s Angel.

• ”OP" stood for an aspirational brand of surf wear, not the person who starts an internet thread.

• You paid your high-school classmate in beer to tune up your car.

• You remember when flight attendants served free meals and didn’t walk around asking for trash.

• Your mom had no idea where you were for hours at a time, when you were 10.

• You've heard a dial tone through a telephone handset.

• You vaguely remember luncheonettes in the back of drug stores.

• “588-2300" and “867-5309” still make you involuntarily break into song.

• You had peanuts in your school lunch and didn’t get in trouble.

• You remember curbs littered with soda can pull tabs.

• You vaguely remember watching “Canon,” “Barnaby Jones,” “Ironside” and “McCloud,” which seemed like plausible TV crime dramas.

• You miss the smell of burning leaves in October.

• You can name four or more Patrick Swayze movies off the top of your head.

• You remember when fanny packs and Rollerblades were cool.

• Ricky Schroeder, Heather Locklear and Spicoli meant something to you.

• You’ve owned phonebooks and record players.

• The overhead music at the grocery store is from your 20s.

• Your first car was a Japanese beater.

• You know what a Datsun B210 was.

• You remember the euphoria of finding a $10 bill.

• You've seen a movie at drive-in theater.

• Your parents owned a VW camper because it was affordable.

• You’ve eaten a “tv dinner” for dinner.

• You had a drawer just for leg warmers.

• You know what “flash cubes” are.

• You learned to tell time on an analog clock before you were a teenager.

• You wanted to own a pager.

• You’ve seen, or know somone who has seen, Earth, Wind & Fire.

• You grew up thinking Lean Cuisine was health food.

• You’ve stretched a phone cord into another room, for privacy.

• You’d rather go back to cassette-tape answering machines.

• You and your friends chased mosquito foggers on your bike in the summer, to your parents’ amusement.

• You wish college kids weren’t such wusses.

• You wanted to be on “The Gong Show.”

• You know Lynda Carter spells her name with a y.

• You can remember seeing signs for 99¢ gas.

• You know that ¢ goes after the number.

• When smoking in bars and restaurants was banned, you weren’t immediately sure it was a good idea.

• Your first email address ended with @AOL.com.

• You remember where you were the first time you heard “My Sharona.”

• “Jane you ignorant slut” still makes you laugh, but you’re slightly offended when people say “fuck” on Zoom.