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18 Unwritten Rules for a Geezer Breakfast Club

18 Unwritten Rules for a Geezer Breakfast Club

I was scrolling Reddit the other day and found something interesting in the /r/GenX subreddit about male breakfast clubs. That got me thinking about the movie The Breakfast Club (1985). I know it’s a tad different, but nonetheless, what a perfect slice of GenX. The Breakfast Club, for those of you who might not know, was a GenX-defining movie about a ragtag group of high school students, who, for disparate reasons, had Saturday detention. Iconic for its depiction of the various personalities that defined a generation, not unlike Dazed and Confused (1993) did almost a decade later, The Breakfast Club stood as a middle finger in the face of authority and its “I don’t give two shits about what you think, even if I get into trouble” attitude. I feel that swagger is sorely missing from our discourse, but that’s a whole other post. The point is how the characters bonded over the shared space and experience. The post that got my attention was “What are the unwritten rules for an old guy fast food …