It amuses me when people discover that I have a dark side and often a very dark sense of humor.
51 years of near constant trauma PLUS being born in 1971 will do that to a person.
@Shelter Try being born in the fifties. You had it easy: No Vietnam, No Children's March
Is it a contest?
@zacnewman
Also I recommend going forward that you never say to a stranger that they had it easy.
Thanks.
@Shelter My comment was light hearted. Perhaps you took it to seriously. Who knows what other individuals go through and the generation they grow up in is of little consequence. Other matters are more important determiners.
@Shelter Obviously your remarks affected me and I have been thinking about them. You are an intelligent and I think capable person. You have dealt with adversity. WE all do. Few of us become winners. My jury is still out, though I am optimistic. Yours?
@Shelter I have often been thankful that I was only 2 years old when Kennedy was murdered, else my childhood would have been much worse than it was already going to be. I wouldn't go back to those years for anything. They sucked and I hated them.
@XaoslordErie
Later Boomers and Gen-X had to manipulate ourselves into dealing with the threat of annihilation daily.
You did good.
You're still here.
@Shelter Thanks! You know, I still remember being a second-grader and doing bomb shelter drills in the school basement; that was around 1968-9. Scared the hell out of all of us.
@XaoslordErie
By the time I was in school we all just assumed that we would die and no drills would save us.
GenX actually assumed we wouldn't live to be 25.
Younger GenZ is dealing with this right now.
@Shelter You know, I'm not at all sure what we thought, but I do know we were scared. None of us wanted to be blown up. Beyond that, I don't really know what other children were thinking. I guess I was wrapped up in my own mess and trying to deal with an alcoholic parent who had a revolving bedroom door.
@Shelter @XaoslordErie
Oddly enough, I don't remember being concerned about Russia nuking America. I remember being annoyed at the Russian and US government. I remember feeling worried for the Russian people.
And then there was Germany and the Wall. I feel like that had a bigger impact on me.
@Shelter @Shelter I'm from Gen Jones and finally got the balls to tell my abusive mother to piss off in 2016 after my second husband died and she said some of the most hateful things to me I've ever heard. Lots of us born in the last century had traumatic upbringings. That's why we get along so well.
I'm so sorry.
@Shelter Thanks. No worries. I'm alive.
@Shelter Hey, try being born in 1970 when the music died! 😁
I have a pretty twisted dry sense of humour as well. Most of the time it goes over people's heads. I really don't belong in America with what I think is funny.
@see_the_sus Come to that, neither do I. My attitude is more European and Asian than anything, with a healthy dose of British dry wit.
@XaoslordErie I can't stand most American sitcoms, they annoy me.
@see_the_sus Argh! Really, I don't care for American TV in general, with the exception of PBS, and even that can sometimes be questionable.
@XaoslordErie I have a few guilty pleasures in American TV but yeah, I much prefer non-American. Same goes for movies.
@see_the_sus I hear you loudly and clearly and I agree.
One of my favorite moments living here was years ago on the way home from school drop-off I stopped my vehicle, dragged a stiff doe out of the road into the ditch, stopped in the gas station, and said, "Do you have any hand sanitizer? I just dragged a deer out of the road," and the guy who used to own it said, deadpan, "Was it dead? With you there's no way to know."
And I laughed and laughed.
#DarkSides