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12/31/2004 Archived Entry: "Gen X Confessions"

Posted by antle @ 06:19 PM EST [Link]

GEN X CONFESSIONS: This isn't good New Year's Eve fare, but this item from Joshua Clabyorn, guest-blogging at Radley Balko's The Agitator, is a pretty good rundown of the Gen-X yuppie life.

"That'll be $67.53," she said. I handed her my TJ Maxx gift card, but I didn't really care how much of the total I had to pay on my own. I had plenty of money, especially after all the Christmas gifts. I think the remainder was thirty-something, but I didn't care. I simply hadned her the plastic debit card, which I knew had more than enough to cover it.

As I stepped out of the store and onto the downtown sidewalk, two men in their 50s were crouching on the pavement, jingling fast food drink cups that had a few coins in them. The sight is neither common nor rare, it just exists. Occassionally I'll stop and offer a dollar, but today I lied and said I had nothing. The truth was that I didn't want to whip out my roll of cash and reveal the two $50 bills.

When I look at my level of material comfort and compare it to the images of the tsunami victims, somehow it just doesn't seem right.

Read on.

Replies: 2 comments

I agree but never, ever, ever put the words "Gen X" and "yuppie" together again :-) I realize yuppie is a generic term but I only associate it with the souless Baby Boomer generation.

Posted by Steve Martinovich @ 12/31/2004 06:35 PM EST

Something to add to the ESR stylebook! :-)

Posted by W. James Antle III @ 12/31/2004 07:53 PM EST