Had to be that timeframe, because i hadn't yet met my (late) husband. Was at a party. On the grill was some steak and some chicken - these were for the adults. The, ugh, hamburger didn't look so good - that was for the children.
But things worked out...that time. You see, while the (ugh-hem) "grownups" were over there getting smoked/coked up, the good stuff was ready, and the children had some steak and chicken. Frankly, i believe the "adults" were a bit too high to either notice or care.
That was 1990, or maybe early 91. Either way, those children are now approaching middle-age. Gen X? Y? Don't know, or even care. But i'll bet those 30-somethings haven't forgotten certain things from 30 years ago.
Yeah, like that Halloween party a year or so earlier - ugh, why'd the adults have to take down the cardboard haunted house? The kids wanted to play in it - instead, the children were predictably shoo'd elsewhere. Oh yeah, that's right, the large painted cardboard boxes had been placed a bit too close to the smoke-n-coke buffet...silly me;/
Today, those kids surely wonder if there will still be a job next season, if there will be any social-security funds for them when they reach 68 or 69. All the while, noticing the retIred boomers going out for breakfasts and dinners.
Uh yeah! Who wouldn't feel resentment?
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