[identity profile] laplor.livejournal.com 2010-08-09 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
And driving and holding down jobs and buying cars- I have one of them and I still can't believe it!

[identity profile] franklanguage.livejournal.com 2010-08-09 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
You have a job and a car or you have a kid?

[identity profile] laplor.livejournal.com 2010-08-09 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a kid born in 1992 who has a job and car.

[identity profile] mystical-chickn.livejournal.com 2010-08-10 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
ALSO these are people for whom the USSR never existed and Germany was always one country.

(I think both those changes happened when I was in fifth grade. I know the fall of the Berlin Wall happened then, as I remember my fifth-grade teacher going to Germany--and we had to get used to not calling it East/West Germany anymore--and bringing back a piece of the Wall.)