“Where are the pliers? I want to change the channel.”
I always keep my eye on my order. I lost a number of canvas bags because the bagger thought it was for the person in front of me. THEN the store wanted to charge me 10 cents apiece for plastic bags because they screwed up.
Pissed me off it did.
Thomas Guides! I had L.A. and Orange Counties. And later got one for Ventura County.
ETA: I was surprised they weren’t a country wide enterprise.
Taping a TV show on a VHS tape.
We had them for Phoenix metro but, so far as I know, not Tucson.
8-track cartridges. They were popular in home stereo units and car stereos, but by the 1980s, they were obsolete. I remember a friend of my nephew picking one up at our house in the mid-90s and asking, “What’s this? A video game?”
8-tracks were awesome, until they changed track in the middle of a KERCHUNK song.
“I can see para – KERCHUNK – dise by the dashboard light …”
And having to manually set it up to tape! None of this easy peasy dvr business. You couldn’t tape two shows at the same time, and you had to be on the channel of the show you wanted to tape.
On my first VCR, none ofthe channels were preprogrammed. IOW, you turned a know ever so slightly right or left until Channel # was looking good, and then you locked it in.
lol, ninjaed… I was going to say Thomas guides also … the libraries used to be full of old ones and we’d use them in social studies to see how this town or that grew or shrank in size and find other pertinent info…
We had one of those too. There were tiny little gear-type wheels that you had to move with a little toothpick-type thing. Our VCR was on a shelf underneath the TV, so I had to lay on the floor to program it.
I don’t know if this has been mentioned, but:
“Punch-A-Bug!”
A. It’s “Bunch bug” or “Punch buggy”.
B. I never heard of it in childhood, or early adulthood. I found out about it from kids a generation younger than me. So, for me, this was a vice-versa situation to this thread.
We always said “Punch-A-Bug” where I grew up. I suppose the saying depends on your region.
And Beetles were more numerous then. Even the new Beetle has been discontinued.
The cat knocked a glass inkwell onto the hard floor. What a mess! And, now, where am I going to get another inkwell?
“Slug Bug!”
I had to google that punch bug thing. I’d never heard of it before, and I’m old.
Ditto. Never heard of that game, regardless of what it’s called. Boomer speaking.
Listening to the Wolfman late at night in Northern Idaho when the am radio signal would bounce off the atmosphere and bring us stations from LA, San Diego and sometimes even Mexico.