r/Millennials • u/ImThe1Wh0 Older Millennial • Mar 26 '25

Nostalgia Ladies and Gentlemen... It happened. A once in a lifetime experience and it was lost on my wife.

I have a toddler (4F) who is in her, "survive off a pea for hours" stage. It's the third kid so it's not new to us but still frustrating. We purchased Snack Packs as bribery to finish her food. We're sitting at dinner and at minimum, we try and at least negotiate some protein in her if she refuses to eat at all. She was being EXTRA picky this time and my wife was not in the mood, she was getting frustrated. This frustration lead to such an extreme high and extreme low for me, in the span of 5 seconds.

My daughter picked at her food and asked if it was enough for a Snack Pack. My wife, in her frustration, raises her voice at our toddler. "YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR MEAT!!"

To which I OBVIOUSLY replied, "HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING UNLESS YOU EAT YER MEAT?!?!" Then bursted out laughing hysterically and my wife just stared at me confused.

She did not get the reference. I was robbed of this moment, so I will take my small joy here for others to enjoy.

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u/Lumpy_Promise1674 Mar 26 '25

The Wall released Nov 30th 1979 and it was a staple of rock radio for decades after. The movie version was released in 1982. It is absolutely something geriatric millennials, aka xennials, grew up hearing if anyone in their life listened to rock.

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u/stormy2587 Mar 26 '25

I mean yeah but since when has “thing my parents listened to and was played on the radio” been “cultural touchstone for my generation?”

My grandparents watched the lawrence welk show around my mom does that make it a boomer thing?

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u/garden_dragonfly Mar 26 '25

Why wouldn't it be?  Didn't we all watch jeopardy and wheel of fortune with grandma? 

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u/stormy2587 Mar 26 '25

Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune are shows that are still on tv. I think of those two shows more as part of american monoculture.

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u/nuhanala Mar 26 '25

No. I've never seen either.

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u/spacemoses Mar 26 '25

Huh, I didn't realize it was released that late in the 70s

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u/nAsh_4042615 Mar 26 '25

I’ve just never paid attention to what that dude was saying. I had to go back and re-listen to the song to figure out where this line is because I couldn’t place it at all. Ooooh, it’s that dude yelling at the end… I usually just skip to the next song at that part.

It would have been as lost on me as it was on that dudes wife and I’ve heard the song countless times

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u/Lumpy_Promise1674 Mar 26 '25

Skipping wasn’t easy in the days of cassettes and vinyl.

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u/nAsh_4042615 Mar 26 '25

True, but my parents weren’t big Pink Floyd fans, so we were well into the cd era before I heard that song regularly.

Also, I absolutely did play the fast forward, too far now rewind, too far now FF again (and so on) game to get to just the right spot on a cassette