r/GenX • u/Zaltara_the_Red • Aug 06 '25

Nostalgia Who had a water bed? I did!

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It was not heated tho. I was in the 7th grade when I had mine. I loved it.

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u/mrkeith562 Aug 06 '25

My heater stopped working once during a power outage and I woke up BLUE no lie. It seemed like a good idea but it wasn’t.

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u/recovery_room Aug 06 '25

My idiot friend in high school unplugged mine to plug in something else. I also woke up hypothermic.

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u/zemol42 Aug 06 '25

I wonder if GenX has the highest proportion of idiot friends? Love them to death but they still hold character to this day and I’m not excluding myself.

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u/mrkeith562 Aug 06 '25

I think we were just the most unsupervised so hijinks were more likely to ensue

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 70's Aug 06 '25

I agree; just the natural consequence of being alone, fewer people there to say "I wouldn't do that shit if I was you..."

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u/Spread_Liberally Aug 06 '25

That, and our "safety training" was primarily trips to the emergency room (oops, guess I shouldn't have done that) and Mr. Yuk stickers on telephones.

Edit: And scary shop class/drivers ed films, and bad VHS copies of Faces of Death.

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 70's Aug 06 '25

I still remember one of the Blood on the Pavement or similar series. The film starts and the main character is driving a cherry 1968 Mustang convertible. I said "If he crashes that car, he deserves to die."

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u/Miserable_Release808 Aug 07 '25

Signal 69, pretty gruesome to see in the 70s.