Gen X Assemble !!!

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I’m off out, I’ve got a carton of Um bongo and some opal fruits. I’ve got a wham tape in my Walkman and I’m wearing leg warmers and my best ra ra skirt.
Who’s coming and what are you bringing ?

I’ve got a bottle of sprite that’s actually vodka

Wearing button down Levi 501s, docs, and a Nirvana t-shirt.

Bringing Smashing Pumpkins and Pixies for my Discman.
Drinking Tab and eating Ghost Pops.
Maybe we'll play a little Mario Bros or Adventure Islander on the Nintendo, or Skype with friends in NZ.

I’m wearing my Twilight Teaser lipstick and hair spiked with sugar and water. Drinking Taboo and lemonade

I’ll have a can of cider with some tasty blackcurrent juice added to enhance the flavour.

Also, I’ll be wearing my charity shop rabbit fur coat. 🫣

shit!! I still wear Heather shimmer

I’ll be the one in second hand Levi 501s, DM shoes with grolsch bottle tops on ( luckily this will be a v short phase). I’m just finishing scrunch drying my permed hair, quick spritz of anais, anais, then grabbing my regal king size and my thunderbird , I’ll be with you in 10!

I’ve just googled Twilight Teaser, that stuff was blue/Purple!! We must have looked like corpses 🤣

Oooh Consulate menthol, my faves….for far too many years till they stopped making them…

I’ve got my naffco54 bomber jacket in case it gets cold later.

I’ll bring an acid house mix I taped off pirate radio in the ‘lounge’ when my Mum was out, 10 B&H and a packet of Rizla .

I’ve agot a bottle of Peach Canei if anyone fancies a swig?

Oh, and I’ve stocked up on 10ps (raided my NatWest pig piggy bank!) in case anyone needs to call their parents from the phone box to tell them you’ll be late home tonight.

Was there a baby on that poster too??!!

I'll be the one on the orange space hopper, still the only cool way to travel!

I’ll be on roller boots

Corset, cyberpunk skirt, stunt-defying black boots with metal plates all the way up, Sisters, Fields of the Neph and Screaming Banshee Aircrew on the hi fi, CND earring on one side and a metal skeleton in the other. Menthol cigs and a jug of diesel. Backcombing. So much backcombing.

Where in the hell did I get the time for this?

I’ve got the bottles of lemon HOOCH and my boot cut jeans with ‘nice top’. We’ve also bought some cans of special brew, as my friend has a penknife. She’s going to make a hole in the bottom of the can then we’ll turn it upside down and down it. Then the hooch.
then the student club night where we get 50p pints of Flowers and some jaeger bombs.
then afterwards we’ll walk home because we’ve spent the cash our dads gave us for a taxi.

In the morning I’ll spend 4 hours on the pay phone to get tickets to oasis at Loch Lomond

Assuming as we are Gen X we are all under age drinking and using a mates paper driving licence in case we get asked for ID (highly unlikely I know)… in which case 16 year old me is waiting for grunge to become a thing but doesn’t know it and so is wearing a long mostly black but with bits of very dark red crinkly cotton ankle length skirt with waist ties that are bells so they jangle ever so slightly out of sync with all my cheap silver bangles (which are slowly turning my arms green) I’m wearing a black vest top and black Chinese slippers from one of the oldest head shops in the country that is still selling them today (iykyk).

We did all our drinking in pubs and so I will either be drinking vodka and tonic or snakebite Pernod and black depending on the pub and who I’m hanging out with. If the latter one of my dad’s mates will see me and later ring him to tell him I was in the pub (it was the one with THE REPUTATION) and cos slack arse boomer parenting my dad will go “was she with three lads? Yeah she plays in a band with them they’ll take care of her” and to be fair he’s right.

I’ve got some Quattro, black jacks and fruit salads

Me too!

To drink: 4 pack of hooch to share around and one of those small bottles of cheap vodka plus a 2L bottle of coke.

White musk bodyshop perfume

New outfit: floral slip dress, possibly bought from the nightie section of miss selfridge. My stacked high heels will not be easy to walk in when I get to the top field. Perhaps I should bring my ellesse trainers.

Oh my god thanks so much for inviting me, I was scared I would never ever get to go out with the cool kids. I’ve got rid of all my scented erasers and pearlised stickers to show you all I’m sophisticated and my lips are pale mauve with Constance Carrol silvery lipstick. I’ve got orange blusher in two streaks high on my cheeks and fat crumpled socks in kitten heel court shoes. I’m ready in my pencil skirt and slouchy jumper - I just need to prop the little hat in the back of my head and go and buy a big 2l bottle of cider whoch I’ll pretend the offy sold me beciase they think I’m 18, not because they don’t give a fuck.

If we’re going up town I’m changing into my psychedelic patterned leggings, smiley face t shirt and pink fila trainers

A bottle of Thunderbird - meticulously worked out to be the cheapest ABV per pence!
Iron Lady lipstick from Miss Selfridge (of course), menthol fags and A LOT of hairspray.

And a tambourine, because I so wanted to be Stevie Nicks (TBF, still do)

Oh yes.. Marlborough lights or menthols. Failing that we’ll finish stubs that any kind soul has left us.. (it Is 1am by now).,

And a few leather wrist wotsits a la Aha

@Absentmindedsmile and beg people not to put them in cans - in case we got really desperate at 2am and necked a can of ends - blah!