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I remember when I could cross the USA / Canada border with a paper library card.
I remember when I could pick up a bag of Hostess BBQ chips for 25 cents.
I remember hesitating purchasing more Pop Rocks (candy) when my friends told me the story of the kid whose throat blew up because he ate too much. Yeah no interweb to consult back then lol.
I remember when I could cross the USA / Canada border with a paper library card.
I remember when I could pick up a bag of Hostess BBQ chips for 25 cents.
I remember hesitating purchasing more Pop Rocks (candy) when my friends told me the story of the kid whose throat blew up because he ate too much. Yeah no interweb to consult back then lol.
I have never once had to show any type of ID to get into Canada, nor to US border guards on the way back. That was right up to the late 1990s. Just answered their stupid questions and I went on my merry way.
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I remember these sayings.
See how many of these sayings you remember!
You sound like) a broken record
What's your Fax Number?
Be Kind-Rewind (movie videos)
Listen to the A or B side? (record)
Would you like to be seated in the Smoking or Non-Smoking? (restaurant, airplane)
"Get off the phone, I'm down loading a song!"
Eject the cassette
I'm watching reruns
"You have a collect call"
"Roll the window down" (car)
That's what I used on my face as a teenager. I still had pimples.
I remember having to defrost the freezer section of the refrigerator. I also remember when the only "freezing compartment" was the little cubicle where we froze our ice cubes.
Having a crush on a grown-up movie star. And I think "crush" was the only slang word from those days that is still in use and understood, maybe even by millennnials.
I remember when men and women wore garters, which were really crucial articles of clothing. Before WW2, synthetic stretchable textiles had not been invented yet. and natural rubber degraded quickly.. Garters around legs or waist weere needed to keep gravity from pulling socks and stockings down.
I know what that is although I remember them in red.
Spoiler
an adapter to play 45s on a phonograph meant to play 33 1/3rd
They also made fixed ones that you could use to stack 45's.
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