I remember when I was 15 and living in Kannapolis I could call the local cab company and order a 12 pack of Budwiser tall boys and the cabby would bring it to my door for a twenty....what you got?
Good old days
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I remember when I was in high school, they use to sell Thunderbird in the grocery stores and I would steal bottles of it by sticking it in the front pouch of my Texas A&M Starter jacket.
I remember when cigarettes were sold in machines. And during the summers when I was in middle school, me and 4 of my buddies would all meet up at the country club and each one of us would bring 1 quarter. We’d pool our money together and buy a pack of Merits for $1.25 and spend a summer afternoon smoking down at the maintenance shop of the golf course.
The first OOTB Death Pool?
I remember when you could pay $2.00 to see a movie and then when the movie was done, you could walk into another theater and see another movie. And another and another.
I remember when you could smack a girl on the ass and not get locked up for it. In fact, it was usually step 1 in courtship.
Hell, my high school had a smoking area where everyone would head between classes. Used to love seeing the teachers bum cigarettes from the students.
Yes, we tricked out our rides and played grab-ass with the girls, who would smack the crap out of us and not sue us.
I remember dudes duking it out between classes or after school without knives or guns, then were seen partying together that weekend like they were old friends.
We used to carry our hunting rifles in our cars and leave them there during school, most of the time in a rack proudly displayed for the world to see in the truck window.
And we actually had to talk to girls we wanted to go out with and plan a date where the only thing you could do is talk to each other. Most of the time you went to the movies, where, if you were lucky, you got to make out. We cruised with our girls up and down the strip and more than once had a race with someone on some country road.
Yes, we tricked out our rides and played grab-ass with the girls, who would smack the crap out of us and not sue us.
I remember dudes duking it out between classes or after school without knives or guns, then were seen partying together that weekend like they were old friends.
We used to carry our hunting rifles in our cars and leave them there during school, most of the time in a rack proudly displayed for the world to see in the truck window.
And we actually had to talk to girls we wanted to go out with and plan a date where the only thing you could do is talk to each other. Most of the time you went to the movies, where, if you were lucky, you got to make out. We cruised with our girls up and down the strip and more than once had a race with someone on some country road.
I caught the tail end of that craze actually. People still "hung out" at the mall when I was in middle school
Forgot to mention you could buy beer at 18 in NC. They changed the law to 19 before I turned 18, then changed it to 21 right before I turned 19. Dammit! (or damnit, whichever you prefer)
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My brother's birthday is September 28, and those laws took effect on Oct 1. So he turned 18, got to drink for 3 days, they changed it to 19. The next year, he turned 19, got to drink for 3 days, and they changed it to 21. He had to wait another 2 years to drink legally.
I remember being 16 years old drinking pitchers of beer sitting in a Charlotte restaurant/bar that all the kids from my high school hung out at. We'd go there every Friday night to plot the rest of the evening and to meet up with all our friends.
Swiping guidance counselor appointment slips when I was a guidance assistant as a junior. I learned to forge a couple of the counselor's signatures and would get my girlfriend out of class.
Swiping guidance counselor appointment slips when I was a guidance assistant as a junior. I learned to forge a couple of the counselor's signatures and would get my girlfriend out of class.
Me too. I had 3 different fakes from the age of 16 until I was legal. But I didn't have "fake IDs" in the sense that they were not a real ID. I had IDs of older friends that looked enough like me. So there was really nothing fake about them. I just had to remember that I was Joseph when I was 16, Jeff from the age of 17 until the age of 19 and Kelly when I was 20. This was back in the day when the DMV allowed you to keep your old license when you got a new one. Or you could just go into the DMV and say you lost yours and they'd issue you a new one. Meanwhile some kid who looked like me bought mine for $50. We all kind of looked out for each other that way. Good times.
I also worked in membership at the YMCA when I was in high school. I used to make fake IDs for my friends because we had a DMV style camera that took headshots and a laminating machine. They weren't driver's licenses but a Y card with a birth date on it worked in some places...back before people cared. Those were the days.
Mine was real as well. In fact me, the guy's ID I had and his brother(my age), would go into clubs and drink beer at the Pizza Inn using the same duplicate drivers license. Hell I still remember the birthdate and other details on it.
I remember hearing my mom's voice yelling for me to come home in the early evening, when I'd been playing with my friends in the neighborhood all day, and I came a'runnin'.
That's one thing that I do not miss about NC- car inspection stickers.
Nor in NE. Won't stick to the horses anyway.
WTF? Why did I not know this? SC is literally a quarter mile down the road from me, and if I knew that, I would have just bought my house there.
Load your couch up and move!
I didn’t realize malls were such an ancient relic that millennials don’t know about them
Inspection? Heck, if it made it to the gas station and you knew the guy, he would pass it. I knew places that wouldn't even inspect the car that pulled in, but would hand over one for the car back in your driveway you were working on at the time.
Speaking of Pizza Inn, my oldest son (who is 20 today, BTW) LOVES the place. Only time we got to go was when we went to Wilson visiting the wife's family. He is a sophomore at WCU and just found out there is a Pizza Inn in Cherokee. Kid is stoked. I had to remind him he is a poor college kid and that is still a treat!
Speaking of Pizza Inn, my oldest son (who is 20 today, BTW) LOVES the place. Only time we got to go was when we went to Wilson visiting the wife's family. He is a sophomore at WCU and just found out there is a Pizza Inn in Cherokee. Kid is stoked. I had to remind him he is a poor college kid and that is still a treat!
My Dad farmed so I was in a damn tobacco field, damnit.
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