Normally, I would not give it a second thought, but I guess with Memorial Day and cookouts I thought about dad grilling steaks in the back yard and drinking ice cold Cokes from a real bottle when I was just an annoying little tyke.
I miss hearing the bottles clanging in the store. They even made a neat sound when you busted one on the floor because you jumped when you got caught trying to lift a pack of candy while swiggin' a NuGrape straight from the cooler.
I used to watch my dad buy a pack of Lucky Strikes at the checkout. That's a joke now. Even I am stared down when buying some, and I don't even smoke! Piss, I even miss seeing the little, lowly T.V.Guide at the checkouts too. Even the bread is not the same. It takes a week or more for it to get stale! That's not bread!
No more sawdust on the meat department's floor because some bastard said it was too unhealthy. Ever heard of cooking your meat first? Poultry and fish are "fresh frozen" whatever the fuck that means. All I know is that the crap has ice in it when I buy it from the "fresh" meats section!
The biggest change of all I think is now even small, local groceries have security walking around. The only security I can remember seeing at the grocery store when I was a kid was the manager, Mr. Lewis. He was fast for an old man. He'd rip the shirt right off of your back too when he grabbed you.
Shit happens though. That's the sort of thing that goes on in my mind when I have too much free time on my hands. See, I did some yard work yesterday, and now it's raining again. Hehehe... what can I say? Oh, by the way, did I ever tell you the story about used condoms and dirt roads? Well, you see...uh, never mind.
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I distinctly remember the sawdust smell of our local butcher's department when I was a kid. TV guide, too, that rang a bell with me.
Ah, the good ol' days.
my dad was more of a marlboro man
funny stuff!
I guess this was all before my time. But as for the glass soda bottles, I have to be thankful as I worked for Pepsi for 3 years and had everything been glass, not only would it have been that much more heavy, I would have been breaking bottles left and right.
I can't count how many times I dropped a bottle and it safely bounced onto the floor, saving my ass.
I don't recall anything about grocery stores that are different from the way they are now, but I won't ever forget what the back room looked like in the little grocery store in town. Bugger caught me stealing when I was 11! LOL.
Oh and enlighten us on the used condoms and dirt roads sometime eh? :)
Chris @ Maugeritaville: I used to love that sawdust. It always looked fun to me to be able to walk on that stuff. Duh.
JD: I just remembered the old Chesterfields too. Do they make those anymore? Guess all of their loyal smokers are dead now.
Frye: No doubt there would have been heavier lifting, but keep in mind. The cokes came in a 12 oz. bottle and a 16oz. bottle. That was it. You did have wooden cases to deal with too though.
Lady Sarcasm: A lot of things have changed. Some for the better. Those sawdust floors were nasty, but damn they had character. Much more than a concrete or linoleum slab for sure.
I miss the candy cigarettes--man, what a great messege to the kids, huh??
When I was a kid, my parents sent me to the store to buy cigarettes for them, and it was legal. Couldn't have been more than 10 or so. Today, they'd send parents to jail, and fine the store for selling to a minor.
Matty: 'Sup Matty? Yeah, I forgot about those. I imagine I had my share of those too. Dad used to bring some home to me so I could train to be a real smoker like he was.
Da Old Man: I know. I remember that. I would run in to a little store with like two or three bucks and buy a carton of Kool for my mom. My roommate smokes and paid $40 bucks for a carton last week. That wasn't for the premium brands either.
OK, I did read this whole post....I'm just stuck on the used condom part.Explain?
Thinkinfyou: Should have known. Hahahaha....you.
I'll try to remember to put up a post about the used condoms and dirt roads. True story too.
I'm going to hunt for my food. And eat the animals raw.
That's the REAL nostalgia going back a few million years.
Mike: Go for it. People do it all of the time. Well, some of the time...
Could be worse. You could be eating a bucket of KFC original recipe chicken!
I can remember kicking all the sawdust into little mounds at the butcher while we waited for my mom. It takes very little to entertain me.
Lin: It didn't seem like we needed much to entertain us then. Not sure why, but it sure was fun most of the time.
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