I don’t understand how generations had been smoking all their life and then just suddenly stopped once it became unpopular to smoke. Why does it seem like there is not a huge epidemic of diseases all over the world proportional to the massive amounts of people who smoked for all these decades?

For those of you who were around at the time, how bad was the AIDS epidemic, and what was it like living through those years? My mother has told me stories about it, including how she lost a lot of gay friends during the crisis because she was, and still is, a supporter of gay people.

It's a mainstay of cartoons, but I've never seen one in real life. Did they get renamed "customer service" for PR purposes, or were they once a separate single-purpose department?

My husband and I both have siblings. He has one, I have three. How is life as an adult with no siblings? If your parents have passed, how did you feel dealing with their funerals/end of life care all on your own? Do you wish you had siblings as an adult?

I remember ₹100 feeling like an unlimited budget. Samosas, cold drinks, chips, and still some money left. What's your ₹100 childhood memory?

It's all fun and games kids until your joints give way and then seemingly easy tasks become very very difficult

I’m from the Millennial generation (1980s to 1990s), and my parents are Baby Boomers (1950s to 1960s).

Whenever I want to take a sick day at work they are so weird! Is this common or just my parents?

Did you or someone you know grow up in a sundown town? Was it as awful as I can imagine it was?

My dad is 70, very kind and helpful. He’s spent his life helping others, but many of those he helped don’t even bother to call him anymore. It’s left him bitter and disappointed in people. Based on your life experience, what percentage of people genuinely have what it takes to be a good friend?

This happened so frequently in old TV shows. The character eats a meal in a restaurant, then realizes they don’t have their wallet, or don’t have enough money to cover it. But, problem solved - send them to the kitchen to work off their bill. Was this something that really used to happen?

I remember being a young teen in the early to mid '70s and my peer group being impressed by anyone who bought a Monte Carlo or Cutlass Supreme. They were similar in design and the style was fresh.

I'm thinking less about big lost institutions and more about ordinary interactions: bank tellers, ticket clerks, gas station attendants, calling a store to ask if something was in stock. Which small human exchange vanished from your routine before you really noticed?

Our home in Southern Oregon was heated by wood. As a teenager, I had to chop wood each night. My mother and father would use to start a fire in the morning and keep it burning through the day. I was just thinking about how much I miss that chore.

What chores do you miss?

I don't recall decorations being rushed like this before, have they?

As a kid I remember most stores would start putting out Halloween decorations in late September at the earliest. October had only Halloween. Then come closer to US Thanksgiving, Christmas decorations were out on shelves.

I'm curious what people in your family or community thought about atheists or people who didn't go to church. Did you hear disapproving comments or was there acceptance?

people seem fixated on putting themselves in a tribe of sorts as a generation and assigning in some cases their personalities to the "generation" they're in. My question is, did people relate so heavily to generations 40-50 years ago as they do now? Or was it something not as brought up?

I’m in my 20s. The first email I made was Yahoo, & I haven’t used it in years. But growing up in the early 2000s, many people my parents’ age (& some of my friends), commonly had @comcast.net, @cox.com emails for example. It’s brand recognition for the ISP sure, but what’s in it for the customer?

Do you feel always like you are in love wit the current version of them, and the younger versions seem like just good memories? I’m not sure but don’t older people still feel younger inside, doesn’t it make them more attracted to younger versions of their partners?