And sneer while doing it!
I used to really get annoyed when I saw someone pulled the tape out of a cassette and left this bird’s-nest of tape by the side of the road, but I kind of miss that now.
Rocky was a beagle who owned the neighborhood. We would meet up with him while out and about and hang out together, occasionally urging, “Go get 'em, Rocky”, which would result in adamant baying. I am not sure who he “belonged to”.
I suspect the days of the neighborhood dog are past.
Baltimore suburbs. I honestly don’t remember exactly how we phrased it back then, but I know we were mostly too embarrassed to mention it.
Side note hijack - my MIL used to hide snacks in empty Kotex boxes to keep her 3 boys from eating them all up. She knew they’d never touch those cootie-laden boxes! 
Oh yes. Registering for college classes at the gym. You were given a time slot when you could go in to register. Seniors had priority and frosh were last.
Go from department to department. Wait in the line will cards filled out for desired classes. See what was still available, hand in your class card, add it to your schedule card, get your schedule card stamped.
I also ended up working the department table. I remember one student in particular who asked which level of Stat classes was suitable for her (a non-major). I told her.
She’s downstairs now making something in the kitchen.
(It wasn’t our first meeting, but it’s something that both of us remember clearly.)
You can’t have a memorable chat with someone using online course registration.
Fun story. Very cool to derail someone’s sobriety.
Er, how many beers do you imagine were actually bought?
People hauling water with them everywhere may be recent, but drinking water sure isn’t. There used to be drinking fountains everywhere, and they got used. At home, we drank plenty of water out of the faucet or the refrigerator. And restaurants would automatically provide ice water, in addition to anything else you might order.
I love it!!
Did anyone mention granny carts yet? Through the 1970s and 1980s, in the neighborhood I grew up in, little old ladies pulling a bag or two of groceries down a sidewalk in two-wheeled wire baskets were a common sight. There were a LOT of older women on my block that didn’t drive, too.
Granny carts seemed to be on the decline in the 1990s, but I still saw them a lot in Polish neighborhoods. It was as if it was illegal to pull a granny cart without wearing a babushka kerchief. Today, granny cart sightings are rare. Why? A few guesses – gender equality behind the wheel; supermarkets are larger and beyond little old lady walking distance; and better paratransit.
At the University of Florida (I started in 1996) it was “Thank you for calling teleGator!”
Another one I don’t think we’ve mentioned: photo albums. I was born in ‘78, and my mom had several photo albums covering my first two years. She wrote captions under the pictures. Now, people don’t necessarily need to keep hard copies of pictures, and it’s sort of inconvenient to get a printout of a picture compared to just keeping or sharing it in a digital format.
That may have been me
I haven’t called the Moviephone line in a long while.
Nor have I seen anyone with a pack of smokes rolled up in his t-shirt for a time. Haven’t seen anyone wearing plain white t-shirts in public either come to think about it.
Drinking* bottled* water is recent. When I was younger, the idea of selling bottled water was looked at as a fool’s venture, equal to selling snow to Inuits, because everyone had perfectly good drinking water right at home out of the tap. Funny thing, most people still do.
I got tired of everyone wearing ironic sayings or [shudder] concert T’s from bands they’ve never seen.
So I started wearing white T-shirts. No cutesy anything on 'em. Now that I’ve read this thread, I’ll be sure to roll up a pack of something in the sleeve. Don’t smoke anymore, but wait, I know, a pack of candy cigarettes!
hey now …they still make something like that and I own one lol since I can’t drive …Amazon.com : shopping carts with wheels
mine looks like the one for 32.95
My experience with these things is basically exactly the opposite. I never saw them back in the 80s and 90s, but, while they’re still not super common, I still see one most times I’m on the bus.
Might have something to do with living somewhere where there’s a functional transit system, and where walking to places is possible.
Ah, Christ, I hope you actually do this. Bonus points if anyone notices that they’re candy cigs.
Except, please, no yellow armpit stains. You can start a thread here asking us how to prevent/remove them … or I guess, just ask the googles.
I ended up buying him, and then later my gf, a milkshake. The bar/restaurant has an area with ice cream, a milkshake mixer, and an espresso setup. No sobriety derailed.
If you’re ever in Saltsburg, check out the place.
They are still going strong in 2019’s Krakow.
I help at least one old lady per week with her cart getting on or off the tram here, and when they thank me (in Polski, naturally) and I give them a hearty “Your Welcome!” with a big smile, I get some very surprised reactions.