I'm so old I Remember when:

[BigBlueHen53]

Shhh... . No one tell her about penicillin.

I wondered how long it would take for someone to throw penicillin at me.

Phht, there's mold ... and then there's mold! I ain't gonna lick anybody's shower, I promise you that.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Wish I had a ‘guy I could call’ who didn’t charge an arm and a leg!

Well, I guess if he charges an arm and a leg you'll only call him twice.

 

[jxp]

I'm old enough to remember my parents telling me not to waste food because there were starving children in India. I offered to send them my dinner. I can still see the look on my Mom's face as she tried to respond on the fly to my innocent and genuine offer. The explanation went along the lines of "by the time it gets there it would be bad." That just confused me further, because if I couldn't send it to the starving children, why did it matter if I finished it or not - either way, it was trash. So much for my father's insistence that we be taught logic!

"my innocent and genuine offer"

 

[jxp]

It’s big! I can’t lift it likley one of the last CRT TVs ever sold. Bought it at Sears, I worked there and received a hefty 25% discount on merchandise I bought.

I remember when Sears was the Amazon of the day - catalogues were sent out all the time. Makes me mad that Sears didn’t jump all over the internet sales, they were too slow to realize the value of the internet.

And also today’s business model that Amazon has with their ‘throw away’ merch didn’t fit with the quality brand that Sears modelled.

No one wants quality anymore, they want cheap and throwaway.

Don't remind me of what Lowe's did to Craftsman hand tools.

 

[jxp]

For us growing up, the family room was where the tv was. The living room was for visitors. Now, my parents have a tv in both rooms and we hang out wherever we want

In Other Words, you're finally civilized enough to be respectable beings in public.

 

[jxp]

I just KNEW it was a personal slap-in-the-face when, just as I started driving, you could no longer get two gallons for a dollar!

And during the 70's shortage and resulting price wars, one of our local stations went out of business almost overnight, leaving their $1.99 a gallon sign abandoned. We drove past that sign for years, shaking our heads We marveled at how crazy things had been "back then" and grateful that we'd survived that insanity. The World had learned its' lesson ...
It's scary what we'd give now to have that ridiculous price back in effect, today!

I don't know about where you live but the average in my state was at or below that for most all of the last 2 years of DJT's first term. ('19 & '20)

 

[Evadig]

I don't know about where you live but the average in my state was at or below that for most all of the last 2 years of DJT's first term. ('19 & '20)

I remember that. Too bad I couldn’t take more advantage of it and travel around LA more.

 

[tripletfeb]

In Other Words, you're finally civilized enough to be respectable beings in public.

We were always respectable in public. My parents were not afraid to punish us properly if we needed it

 

[jbj25]

Don't remind me of what Lowe's did to Craftsman hand tools.

Lowes hasn't done anything to them. Craftsman is owned by Stanley Black and Decker. Lowes is just one of the retailers for them.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

What's wrong with Craftsman? They were always a good name. I thought...