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[joeekaitis]

Quarter to unlock the cart . . .

. . . chain it back up to get your quarter back. Keeps the parking lot neater and the store staff inside where they belong instead of rounding up carts. Works like a charm!

 

[chachp]

That makes sense

 

<span style="font-family: courier new,courier;">I've just never seen that before.  I guess I must get out more.  </span>

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Does this count?

I have an Aldi near me, too...  Only one time I had no quarter, so that meant carrying the rear-ward facing child seat around the store juggling my groceries & trying not to drop my newborn...

 

--And hearing "I'm glad that--(Blah, blah, blah...)--crap about the baby being grown & not needing to be toted around", instead of people being heartless & popping me 25¢, as maybe I would have done...

 

OK, more from the archives, so I don't make a whole bunch o' posts for:

My sis & I each had to have OUR OWN dollhouses, each with its now furniture, and Fisher Price Little People--of which an additional set provided a washer & dryer, and a toilet the family it could actually sit on & a bathtub they could fit in--and somehow the pairs all, each had their mates, though one dryer accompanied the Fisher Price Farm Silo used as a wash tub for hand-washing (I had a ladder for the wash board--and some string for a clothes line--and unlike my daughter who plays with REAL WATER, it's OK for me to just pretend!)...

 

 

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGzk2O9QhB8

 

[chachp]

It makes perfect sense...

 

<span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">to ask people to put down money to use the cart and then get it back when they return the cart all in an effort to reduce the clutter in the lot and to avoid having to pay people to chase them down.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">I'm just so surprised by it because I've never seen it before.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">I wonder though is $.25 enough?  I am pretty sure if it's pouring rain I am going to leave the cart next to my car and say screw the quarter, but if I had to put down say $5 I might reconsider.  Just sayin....</span>

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you bump the thread with a new observation like . . .

. . . you notice that the women at the laundromat throw detergent and bleach into the washer like one of Grandma's recipes ("a splash of this, a dash of that, a pinch of the other") while it's the MEN who are carefully scrutinizing the dosing instructions and measuring like chemists in a laboratory.

 

[whirlykenmore78]

When you know more about the dishwasher at work than:

Your boss, His boss, The maintenance guys and their boss, and the Ecolab Guy.
Also the Physical Plant Director followed your recommendation for what machine to put in.
WK78

 

[whirlykenmore78]

It's taken me a long time to admit this:

You have a Kinky Sunday morning with your Girlfriend and want to get the sheets in the washer before showering with her.
WK78

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

The tabletop juke box, three selections for fifty-cents at a restaurant... (This was the '80's...)

I was so geeked over the operation, and the songs I picked-well, I only remember two: "shake it up" (the cars) and "centerfold" (j. geils) and my mom not appreciating my ear-to-ear grin, giving it some "other" undesirable term... --And nonchelantlantly begging me: "Don't smile when a record comes on", but which I couldn't help...

Think I liked the '70's better, where my dad and I were at the local Coney Island: "Rock The Boat" by The Hues Corporation, that one of the help, a guy working there, put the money in and played it for us...

Remember "Hey, come get your love" by Redbone playing before it, prompting me wanting my favorite... (well, I like that one, too...)

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

Yes Dave,

I remember both of those songs. How about this one; "Oh it's so nice to be with you" I love all the things you say and do. I forget right now who sang it, but they were from Detroit. I also recall gas was like 33 cents per gallon that year.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Gallery! The last non-Motown act from the Genuine Detroit Music Scene...

 

Think those photographs on the front & back album covers were even on Belle Isle...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . the food you make least-often in your toaster oven is . . . toast.

 

[johnb300m]

.....when you drop by Home Depot for a box of screws and a paintbrush.....yet walk through the appliances section anyway, spending most of your time there!

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you can buy 5 or 6 1,000-watt or higher-powered microwave ovens big enough to hold a 5-quart casserole for the money you paid for your first 800-watter that could barely take a dinner plate with 2 slices of leftover pizza.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . no one leaves without first seeing the "I can boil water on a napkin!" and "I can put my hand right next to the pot and not get burned!" demos of your neato cool portable induction cooktop.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

You see a post from one of your friends on Facebook who just got a freezer, then share a couple pics of your situation ranging from a golf tee-sized amount of space left in your over-loaded refrigerator's freezer, to the ideal location (well, to share w/ you guys, too!) of where to put a separate freezer, though I've been offered a pint-sized cube that sadly broke (it was a no-name <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Montgomery Ward</span>) then possibly could'a gotten a very inefficient vintage Gibson Frost Clear Sovereign upright, that it replaced, each from my mother-in-law (sorry I never took any pictures of the latter) that a month or two before she moved, flooded the laundry/utility room (& most-likely got discarded by the new homeowners)...

 

Too bad that I didn't get a response or even just needed at least a "Like"...  (A pint-sized cube is what the F-B friend went out and bought; don't know the brand--or even what store...  Best Buy, Home Depot or Lowe's, I'm sure...)

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

[whirlykenmore78]

You remember fondly,

Being able to run a #50 Wascomat Giant at the laundromat which did a wonderful job for only $3.50

WK78

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . when the cashiers at the ALDI in Highland, California no longer ask "Did you find everything?" because they recognize you as the guy who always answers "I didn't find an ALDI in Rialto."

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . 12 years old was the age at which you were deemed capable of going to Sage's (San Bernardino-based 1960s-1970s mega-store) with a bag of iffy tubes that your father extracted from the Curtis Mathes black and white TV/AM/FM/FM Stereo/BSR 3-speed record changer home entertainment center and coming back with working replacements.

 

[vacerator]

Oh gee's

I remember those too. Try telling a young person that stereos and TV's used to have tubes, and some think you mean like a pipe organ.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I remember seeing a TV tube tester that was like a Your Weight & Fortune Scale, and the quality of your tubes ranging from Good to Replace, w/ a lot of "suggestive" words in-between...

 

Here's a "Rock The Boat"sound-alike from almost the same time:

 

 

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJHyyHn1HME

 

[vacerator]

I remember

that one as well. It looks like it was filmed in Amsterdam. I spotted a Vauxhall Victor, or Viva, and an Opel Kadette.
I was about 14, listening to it in my room, when my grandma came upstairs. She visited on Sundays usually, or we her. She said I was growing up, and would soon be interested in dating, and asked would I want to someday get married and sleep with a woman. I asked her how will I know? She said, you will know when you get the "ding".
I let it just go over my head. I eventually got the "ding" alright, but not for a girl. LoL.

 

[tolivac]

Yes,remember those well!!!Some were rigged,though-so you would think you need to buy new tubes at the stores inflated prices.When I needed tubes-got them from a commercial supplier-MUCH cheaper-and you could get real name brands like GE,Sylvania,Mullard,Tung-Sol,not the unknown white box stuff many of those tubes testers were stocked with.Show this to young people-they wouldn't have a clue.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you demonstrate the preparation of the meal you're making to an invisible TV crew when no one's around.

 

[laundryshark]

Still Collecting Old Washer Demos

Although I am too much of a Facebook junkie, I still love checking back into AW, as I still love collecting computer videos of old washers, along with classic household cleaning commercials. Always ready to receive more as I keep finding and others share. I also am glad to contribute a few old ads as well.--Laundry Shark

 

[sarahperdue]

...you'd rather knock off old country churches for the appliances than rob a bank.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you don't mash potatoes with a masher, scramble eggs with a fork or whip whipping cream or beat egg whites with a balloon whisk. Those are jobs for your vintage still goin' strong American-made hand mixer.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

You wait by the radio for your favorite songs which I did even as a kid--and got "Evil Woman" by ELO (got a teaser from some knock-off instrumental sound-alike that came out at the time by---????) and Styx "Come Sail Away"--and more to the Starland Vocal Band than "Afternoon Delight"--That was "The Light Of My Life"--teary eyed, from the idea it would NEVER to come on, to the relief that it DID!!!!

 

And that was a General Electric lighted dial clock radio w/ AM Only, that at our local toy store, Kiddie Land there was an AM/FM version of, while for nostalgia's sake more-than-ten-years-ago, came the AM Only version at a flea market bought for $4 out of the $5 it was marked for ($4 was all I had "You can give me another dollar, next week..." --the person selling it) but the clock didn't glow, and shortly got rid of, as the alarm was hard to set, as it became on my old one, too...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

I remeber AM stereo

My '92 GMC Sierra had it, but why? $22 used to fill that truck up.
You have to be carefull whipping potatoes with a mixer, or they get sticky. A potato ricer works best, then fold in the butter, milk, sour cream, etc. Sure, a hand mixer is gentle enough.

 

[joeekaitis]

. . . you honestly and sincerely believed that once family and friends saw the beautiful picture quality, even at the extended recording speed, they'd buy a Beta VCR like yours but they all went with VHS.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

FluffY: R.I.P. Sept. 29, 1991--25-years-ago!

My cat Fluffy meowed over the bed every morning before my clock radio went off to wake me when it was time to go to trade school... And got the "No School" whispered to her purring on weekends, as well as "Bad Kitties!", said, when I had my work smock on, going off to my job at Arbor Drug Store, interrupting "our time together"...

 

One time the clock-radio went off before she could climb up on the bed to meow at me, playing "Goodbye Stranger" by Supertramp, then she'd meowed along with the cat-noises the instruments made, over me waking up... --And my mom looking in, admiring everything...

 

Memories with Your Favorite Pet! --That is what makes a Member of AW.org...!

 

 

-- Dave