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15 Jul 2015, 5:08 pm

Having a smoking section in a restaurant is kind of like having a peeing section in a swimming pool. It just doesn't work.


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15 Jul 2015, 6:12 pm

Walmart stores where you can't make a full grocery shopping trip.



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15 Jul 2015, 6:50 pm

Gas stations, where they pumped the gas, checked your oil and washed the windows.



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15 Jul 2015, 6:54 pm

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Gas stations, where they pumped the gas, checked your oil and washed the windows.


I miss those days. Many also had mechanics that could change your oil and do minor repairs to the vehicles.


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15 Jul 2015, 7:31 pm

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Clothes lines where you hang clothes out to dry.

These are still in use, today.....









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15 Jul 2015, 7:34 pm

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Also, the other day I remembered that as a boy the doctor's office had ashtrays in the Waiting Room. I mean, I'm a smoker and yet when I remembered that I was like: WTF?

Oh, yeah----and, I totally remember smoking being allowed in hospitals, as well----even, patients could smoke in their rooms!!







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15 Jul 2015, 7:36 pm

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I remember when airplanes had ashtrays at the end of the armrest.

Oh, yeah----me, TOO----and at the end of arms, when you sat under the dryers, at he beauty parlor!!








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15 Jul 2015, 7:39 pm

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Having a smoking section in a restaurant is kind of like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.

OMG, you KILL me!! LOLOLOL









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15 Jul 2015, 7:42 pm

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Gas stations, where they pumped the gas, checked your oil and washed the windows.

It's so funny that you mentioned this, when just yesterday I read where there's actually TWO states in the Union that don't ALLOW "Self-serve" gas stations----one of them was New Jersey, I think; and, I can't remember what the other state is. Isn't that WILD?







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15 Jul 2015, 7:47 pm

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chapstan wrote:
Gas stations, where they pumped the gas, checked your oil and washed the windows.

I miss those days.

Me, TOO!!

Many also had mechanics that could change your oil and do minor repairs to the vehicles.

Yeah, they still have a couple of gas stations like that, around here----where they have a mechanic that can do all kinds of stuff----even state inspections----but, they're EXTREMELY few-and-far-between!!







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15 Jul 2015, 7:49 pm

Someone may have already posted this but there used to be cigarette vending machines on corners and outside stores. I remember packs sold for 35 cents.


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15 Jul 2015, 7:56 pm

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Someone may have already posted this but there used to be cigarette vending machines on corners and outside stores. I remember packs sold for 35 cents.

Ooo, that's a GOOD one----no, I don't think anyone's mentioned that, yet. I totally remember those----I don't remember them being 35 cents, though; maybe, 65 or 75.....







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15 Jul 2015, 7:58 pm

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NewTime wrote:
Clothes lines where you hang clothes out to dry.

These are still in use, today.....


Yeah. But people mostly use dryers these days.



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15 Jul 2015, 8:03 pm

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justkillingtime wrote:
Someone may have already posted this but there used to be cigarette vending machines on corners and outside stores. I remember packs sold for 35 cents.

Ooo, that's a GOOD one----no, I don't think anyone's mentioned that, yet. I totally remember those----I don't remember them being 35 cents, though; maybe, 65 or 75.....


Yeah. That's going back, maybe before you were born.


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15 Jul 2015, 8:09 pm

Cars with no place to plug certain things in like cell phone chargers. The cigarette lighter being just that, a cigarette lighter.

Coffee cups from coffee shops that don't warn you that the coffee is hot.

Pagers also known as beepers.



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15 Jul 2015, 8:47 pm

Campin_Cat wrote:
chapstan wrote:
Gas stations, where they pumped the gas, checked your oil and washed the windows.

It's so funny that you mentioned this, when just yesterday I read where there's actually TWO states in the Union that don't ALLOW "Self-serve" gas stations----one of them was New Jersey, I think; and, I can't remember what the other state is. Isn't that WILD?
Oregon is the other state.