Non cruising nostalgia

I’m showing my age here but …..

remember when……..

Cracker Jack had good prizes.
Cereal boxes had license plates

The best toys, were also the most dangerous ( like lawn darts and chemistry sets )

Buying a book from the bookmobile at school.

School field trips .

Sleeping under the rear window in the car.

Full service gas stations where the attendant would ask ; leaded or unleaded .
Cap guns ( or just dropping a rock on a roll of caps )

Punks ( to keep mosquitos away ) or you could light a cat-tail aka pussy willow.

Vud-Vuts . Okay, you may be shaking your head at this one. Back in the day, if you lit a whiffle ball bat in a campfire, the molten plastic would drip off. The sound it made would go vuuuut, vuuuut, vuuuut. We just called it a vud-vut.

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Ha ha Auntie, Good for you as I am still trying to work out the quotes :)

Well done you !

Lynn is fantastic

Lots of movie quotes mixed up in that post. I think I unraveled most of it!?!?

“ I’m an award winning charity worker”

I’m also a troll.
I have many awards, mostly for participation and 12th place.
It’s a good thing I have voice recognition software, because I can’t type while they have me in this jacket. I love hugging myself. I also love my padded room. They won’t give me sharp objects like pencils, only crayons( I eat those).
did I mention I’m a troll ?

your father was a hamster, and your mother smelled of elderberries. Now go away before I taunt you a second time

Drinking out of the garden hose.

playing until the street lights came on

watching Bugs Bunny and Wile E coyote on Saturday afternoons

Going to the 5 and Dime with your allowance.

Having an operator answer your phone to place your call. and getting a Brand New Black bakelite phone with Chrome highlights for the kitchen wall.

Obviously, some folks aren't old enough to remember the license plates. I do!

I don't think so dear.

Surely some mistake ?

Lynn is wonderful.

I think Honey Comb cereal had mini license plates

I remember the good prizes in Cracker Jacks but I do not recall Cereal License plates.

I was looking at archived threads, and I started a similar thread years ago. The first two here, were the first two there too. I must really miss Cracker Jack prizes and cereal license platesBig Smile

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