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re: Post # 948243, Reply # 266:

Actually the dream took place right at where you enter Roseville North of the freeway, I-696, opposite of Eastpointe, which is South...

At a part of the turnaround on Gratiot where you can't actually turn but go straight onto another street, forcing me to go to the next turnaround so I can go to the record store there BLAST FROM THE PAST, along w/ Eastpoint's MELODIES & MEMORIES that I also frequent...

However, while I am not all the familiar w/ that Laundromat in Mt. Clemens that you speak of, I am fairly familiar w/ that Mt. Clemens area & Macomb Township, where I'd hung out at a lot in my past...

And, regardless, here's what must have been playing long ago, at what was probably my first Center Dial Experience,--when I had, as a very young child, first seen such a Maytag! And I wasn't even playing"Sweet Caroline" or anything by Neil, just quite a flashback in my dreams, vs. my life Today...--at which "Damp Dry" seemed to have been pounded out by the notes just as the song starts:

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w-_Vtttrfc
 
I never did tell the manager of the Subway at the store I'd worked at that I had a dream of her getting the mall (most-likely OAKLAND Mall) to open a Subway there--she'd come out of the corridor where the mall offices are (through solid-metal-windowless fire doors) w/ a stainless steel cart (much like what my store deli uses) w/ samples of her product...

I'm waiting for right opportunity to tell her that--it's been months, and months ago!

-- Dave
 
When the plot, scene, etc. of a movie or show on tv presents a kitchen or laundry appliances and the focus is, "what was that? what was that?" Or..you buy two or more of the same thing just in case one breaks. Or storage becomes just another utility bill. :-)
 
Oh, Grandpa's Ford Ranchero 500--when the cab filled up w/ the three or more it was only meant to hold--and I got to ride by myself in back in the BED!

Well, there was a cap over it (Sportsliner, made in Zanesville, OH and San Jose California) and we never got pulled over by the police--and I guess I could ride there safely with nothing to hang onto--and the tailgate was even left open & the cap door, up! (Think my sister only once rode with me there) and could say a few bathroom talk words, but alas, I can recall Gramps saying something about Carbon Monoxide and there was the safety matter that ceased riding back there, and just going in an additional vehicle for more people to his garden/fields where he grew his own produce...

-- Dave
 
Give me an old appliance nameplate (three Kelvinator Product of American Motors) and I'll make a FAKE appliance!

I went from ONE fake air conditioner in my old bedroom made from a cardboard box hung over a window on an outside wall (that I almost made and hung one outside with a handwritten name plate and hung over that window, to two more, hung over/between two windows next to each other and even my bedroom door...

Talk going around a few middle school friends, one who'd been in that bedroom, and the other who'd been told (Chris) telling me: "Marvin said you have a fake air conditioner in your room..." "You have THREE fake air conditioners in your room"...

I was 12 to 14 in Junior High at the time...

-- Dave
 
"Dave got a fake air conditioner in his room!"--Yes, over heard Marvin saying that (after Chris rapping to be about it--"You got THREE fake Air Condtioners!" he whispered)... The FAILED attempt to hang a box for the 1st outside led me to just hang the two more, showing the units INSIDE!

Is it Potpourri, (Poh-porrey) or POT-POREY?!

My mom had me bring a vacuum cleaner into the shop, when I was about that adolescent age to be as frequently corrected by the repair man there as I kept on pronouncing it in the obvious spelling... (And in high school, just a year or couple of years or so later, were posters on the hallway walls about a production of--You Guessed it!--POTPOURRI, that looking at it recalled my awkward mis- pronounciation every time I'd seen them!

-- Dave
 
Well, yeh, the previous post of the potpourri sucked up in the vacuum was done by poor lil' ol' ME! --Probably had to pay for it being repaired for it being clogged up & promised to never do it again, as well...

Have you ever foraged through a loaf of moldy bread w/ a knife and a jar of peanut butter tearing off every piece of each slice that was covered with blue spots just to find as you were eating it, MORE BLUE SPOTS?! --That was my sister and I years ago...--the things you find in a broken or neglected home of neglected, impoverished children, which neither of us were, but still--... (Well, how DID those spots of blue mold get there, or the bread get to be like THAT there?!)

OK, had a dream long ago to 'RLJ' being on the CD player of struttin' through el barrio while "Willie & The White Boys Cool" was comin' on--a speaker on the street played the horn solo, a Walk/Don't Walk-type sign had the lyrics up in lights citing "my pals, Angela, Perry, and Mario", w/ some street player doing the accordion solo, and the vision of the Cheech & Chong van backing up a driveway--probably trampling flowers on the way up there too...

And although I program my CD's in a prefderred order, surely the remaining track "Company" is the wistful image of sitting on a porch on that quiet night that walk through the dusk turned into, and then I woke...

(Well, there was the image of "Danny's All Star Joint", a track that comes several before it, and the 'goings on' in it, but right now not as significant...)

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGFEFncDYQc
 
I mimicked the father "thinking work comes first, who ain't got the time to quench a thirst" while me & my soon-to-be-one-year-old-daughter were listening to this, jumping off the bed, waving my hand on her, opening the door--AND:

--...She sang out every "No, no, no-no-no, no-no, no, nooooooo", just right, & every word & syllable!

-- Dave

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cYilQ6sVOU
 
 

 

. . . you read or hear some genius write or say "Don't get used to shopping at ALDI*.  They're going to close in a year because Americans will never rent a shopping cart or bag their own groceries.  It's just too different and it'll never, ever catch on in the USA." and can smell a competitor's shill.

 

*feel free to substitute Lidl.
 
You go back and watch the washer customer demonstration video a second time, because the first time you were concentrating on what the machines were doing, and the second time you're wanting to get more of a look at the svelte but curvy MILF in her low-cut top...

...or is that just me?! Seems most of the guys round here are gay.
 
 

 

ALDI Finds have included full-size blenders, toaster ovens, countertop convection ovens, electric skillets and griddles, and in the UK and other countries, personal computers.

 

In the summer, gas barbecues and patio dining ensembles appear.  They may even have sold lawn mowers and string trimmers.

 

Just have to keep the ol' peepers peeled.
 
More Childhood Flashbacks, just now jotting down on AW-Forum

We went to this house, a long, long time ago, where this Brady-bunch-sized family lived, and there was even a waterfront behind the house, and a treehouse as well (I have no idea who these people even were!) but guess who stayed inside and played with the play kitchen (it had a sink with a garbage disposal underneath--but a picture of against the back of the cabinet, and with the On/Off switch on it--Yes, it was ME, probably making a make-believe dinner for every one, that instead of everybody going in for, we juts left...

Mom criticized me, for doing that & me saying, that the real kitchen had a green gas stove with an upper/lower oven, (either a Kenmore, Caloric or Roper--really forgot which, but it could have been a Caloric, as I think the grids were wire, as opposed to the standard cast-iron) so she did even more if that's what the visit meant more to me, than my sister, who played outside w/ the rest of the kids... Don't know how my folks knew them, at all...

There was also a relative of my mom's who lived in Ohio we visited, also around that long ago, who somehow lived in a house with the same floor plan as ours (but the bedroom where my sister's was had a door that opened on the back stairs landing (even with a lock) and Copper appliances, with a Kenmore roto-rack dishwasher, top-of-the-line, EXACTLY JUST LIKE the one across the street from our house (it also had "our" floor plan)... Forgot what the stove was, but I remember it being an electric, and I think it could have even been a Frigidaire "Super" Radiant-Tube, while if the refrigerator wasn't a Sears Coldspot (like that house's 'cross the street from us ALSO was) Automatic Ice Maker Frostless 19, then maybe a Philco/Ford built by GE...

-- Dave
 
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