Reskeet how old you are, using a vague proxy.
When I was 19, swimming was banned at the beach where I was a lifeguard because medical waste was washing up onshore. It made national news and popped up in We Didn’t Start The Fire.
Worth noting, if you use the app, they have a very respectable secret combo meal on there for $5.99.
But yeah, gone are the days when you could plunk down two bucks, eat well, and still have a quarter left for the arcade next door.
One of my earliest memories is seeing some old commercial of the McDonaldLand Fry Kids squealing and jumping around like pom-pom superballs, and being utterly, UTTERLY terrified of them.
And also thinking that the scrubbers in the car wash might be secret Fry Kids, and freaking out.
Reskeet how old you are, using a vague proxy:
I was born when the Soviet Union was still a thing. My wife, who is very slightly younger than me, was not.
My first "crumble into dust and blow away on the wind" moment was when a coworker had never heard of the Berlin Wall. I vaguely remember it coming down, and have a cousin that was there when it happened.
The coworker in question was born in 1993, so ~3.5 years after the wall came down. Still somewhat amazed that they'd never heard of it, but at least they weren't older than its destruction...
I was taking German in college that year, and during the lead-up we'd practice on newspaper articles from Berlin talking about various ways in which the effective wall was already crumbling.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first major political event I was aware of contemporaneously. (I think. My memory doesn’t store things by time very well.)
Ohh, I used to get 2 big bean burritos for a buck when I was in college. Slathered them in the free hot sauce packets and it kept me going on days when I couldn't afford much else.
Taco Bell started their descent when they stopped putting three olive slices on every enchirito. It was over when they discontinued the enchirito itself.
I always got the tostada supreme that had the taco meat, sour cream, and olives added to it. Along with tacos and a bean burrito. It all added up to like three bucks.
Neither of which is traditional to Edmonton.
Also: this topic is like saying Beetlejuice 3x the way I can be expected to show up and drop some Leafs memes.
They totally should!
I’m just a hockey fan from California, but almost literally lifelong - my dad really did hold me as he watched that Stanley Cup. And I learned early sports 💔when the California/Oakland/SF Seals left town.
Rebloot, you mean? 😁 OK, you could get a 20-pack of smokes AND a box of matches AND a beer for 50 cents in what was Salisbury, Rhodesia. And tip the waiter 5 cents on top of it 😁
The year I turned 16 they were selling two tacos for a dollar at the KenTaco Bell I worked at. (KFC/Taco Hell combo store I worked at.)
Later that year, two large passenger planes would be crashed into two very large buildings on the east coast and very little would be the same ever again.
When I was five, the Lego lunar lander's legs were made from an eight-step staircase of blue 2x2 blocks, capped by sloped pieces. So chunky, and only vaguely suggestive of the actual lander's shape.
