The Things For Which Kids Today Have No Context (another list of how things have changed)

[Siam_Sam]

@Tremblay

I browsed the thread-- and sorry if I missed this one- but people who bagged at the grocery stores that were not cashiers. I’m not sure if any grocery stores have people who bag anymore!

I’m not that old yet (under 30), and I was trying to explain to the young cashier at my local grocery store how there was a person besides the cashier who bagged groceries. He was amazed there was such a job.

Separate baggers are alive and well at Western-style grocery stores in Thailand.

[Procrustus]

@Tremblay

I browsed the thread-- and sorry if I missed this one- but people who bagged at the grocery stores that were not cashiers. I’m not sure if any grocery stores have people who bag anymore!

I’m not that old yet (under 30), and I was trying to explain to the young cashier at my local grocery store how there was a person besides the cashier who bagged groceries. He was amazed there was such a job.

We have that at our grocery stores in the greater seattle area.

[Mister_Rik]

@Procrustus

We have that at our grocery stores in the greater seattle area.

Yup, still plenty of Courtesy Clerks at Safeway.

[DrDeth]

@cochrane

I’m a bit disappointed Seth MacFarlane’s proposed remake of The Flinstones never got past the script stage.

Seth MacFarlane?:eek: He would have shit over it so bad that there would be a new highest mountain of poop.:mad:

[Evil_Captor]

@Tremblay

I browsed the thread-- and sorry if I missed this one- but people who bagged at the grocery stores that were not cashiers. I’m not sure if any grocery stores have people who bag anymore!

I’m not that old yet (under 30), and I was trying to explain to the young cashier at my local grocery store how there was a person besides the cashier who bagged groceries. He was amazed there was such a job.

Baggers work in Atlanta area Kroger. They may be people who can switch to running a cash register, though there are several at my Kroger whom I have never seen running a cash register.

[DrDeth]

@marshmallow

The idea that using the shiny new graphing calculator is cheating.

There was a black and white device called a newspaper that would be delivered to your house, sometimes by a child on a bicycle. It had all sorts of stuff smashed together, like news, stock prices, lame comics, sports stats, advice columns, political editorials, crossword puzzles and advertisements/coupons, etc.

.

The idea that using a *calculator *was cheating.

There still is.

[Tremblay]

@Procrustus

We have that at our grocery stores in the greater seattle area.

@Mister_Rik

Yup, still plenty of Courtesy Clerks at Safeway.

Thank you for the clarification. I did not know that.

[Tremblay]

@Evil_Captor

Baggers work in Atlanta area Kroger. They may be people who can switch to running a cash register, though there are several at my Kroger whom I have never seen running a cash register.

Giant Eagle is in my area (and I think they are somehow tied with Kroger) and the cashiers both ring and bag.

[Machine_Elf]

@DrDeth

The idea that using a *calculator *was cheating.

There still is.

It is cheating, if you’re using it to perform functions on which you’re being tested.

Using it to multiply conversion factors sample weights and other numbers on a high school chemistry exam? OK. You’re being tested on your knowledge of chemistry, not your ability to multiply a series of five-digit numbers.

Using it to come up with derivatives of polynomials during a calculus exam? Not OK.

[etv78]

My Boston area Shaw’s has baggers. I don’t know what gives you the idea baggers don’t exist anymore.

[Thudlow_Boink]

@njtt

Are you under the impression these are obsolete? I bought a new one a couple of months ago. There were a wide selection available.

Yep, clock radios are still a common thing; but it’s been a while since I’ve seen an analog clock radio, like I had growing up.

[Revtim]

@etv78

My Boston area Shaw’s has baggers. I don’t know what gives you the idea baggers don’t exist anymore.

No doubt it’s simply different in the region he lives in, and separate baggers are rare or nonexistent there.

[Mister_Rik]

@Revtim

No doubt it’s simply different in the region he lives in, and separate baggers are rare or nonexistent there.

I wonder if it’s a union vs. non-union thing. Safeway is a union shop, and maybe the union requires them to keep the position around. (FTR, I worked for Safeway, briefly, as a Courtesy Clerk in 1985).

Outside of Safeway, I have no idea which chains are and are not union; I suspect that many independent grocers are non-union.

[Kimballkid]

@Leaffan

What?

Headlights are controlled on one of the two arms protruding from the steering column.

Back in the day there was a knob somewhere on the dashboard, and as mentioned, some cars had the “bright” switch on the left floor, along with the manual windshield washer pump.

I didn’t realize 2012 was ‘back in the day’.

You really need to broaden your database of cars. Not all are like you describe.

[cochrane]

@marshmallow

There was a black and white device called a newspaper that would be delivered to your house, sometimes by a child on a bicycle. It had all sorts of stuff smashed together, like news, stock prices, lame comics, sports stats, advice columns, political editorials, crossword puzzles and advertisements/coupons, etc.

@Justin_Bailey

I’d wager that few people under 29 have seen teenagers delivering newspapers on a bike.

Hey, I remember seeing those in a video game. You had to control a kid on a bike and make him throw those whaddyacallum? Newspapers? It was called… Wait, I’ll remember. Oh yeah. Paperboy.

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@Folacin

For some period time (mid to late 1970’s), one of the chain stations (I think Conoco) had pumps with a selector dial where you could get 5 or maybe 6 different octanes. I assume it was just mixing the high/low octane gas - I imagine it didn’t last long because how many people knew exactly which octane their car would run the best on?

I’ve seen that relatively recently (in the past 5 years or so) in some QuikTrip gas stations (I think; maybe it was RaceTrac)- I got the impression they had 3 tanks- 87,89 and 93, and then mixed the others 50/50, since their grades were 87,88,89,91 and 93.

[doreen]

@Thudlow_Boink

Yep, clock radios are still a common thing; but it’s been a while since I’ve seen an analog clock radio, like I had growing up.

Were they ever popular? I sure remember analog alarm clocks, but I only remember ever seeing one with a radio.

[Rick_Kitchen]

Slide rules.

[Digital_is_the_new_Analog]

@Thudlow_Boink

Yep, clock radios are still a common thing; but it’s been a while since I’ve seen an analog clock radio, like I had growing up.

Well, you know what they say about analog…
On Topic…um…car radios that work without the key? My Dad’s VW Bug was like that. I was just a kid, so I don’t know how common that was. I remember we used to sneak into the car after he got home from work so we could listen to the radio.

[sinjin]

@eschereal

“Second-run” now can mean three or four weeks after release. We found such a place near here where we were able to see a movie less than a month old for $2.50.

One thing that I never fully grasped as a young-un was that console-thingy at the front wall of the grocery store that had a bunch of various patterns of small holes in it. Anyone remember those or have any idea what I mean?

It was to test your tubes.