BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
(FOUR) K-MART SLURPIES
I’ve not taken the time to check up on this, but I’d like to assume they’re extinct now. Remember when K-Mart had a little cafeteria in it? In the early 90’s, the K-Marts around my area had these little shitty areas set off to sell people food. It always smelt like gravy and popcorn, but I don’t know if either was actually sold. What I dug was the K-Mart Slurpies. It’s nothing too different than an Icee Surplee you can find at any old school gas station… except it was from K-Mart in the early 90’s!
(THREE) WALLET CHAINS
I’m only saying this one because I’m still using the same wallet I’ve had since 2002. It still has this weird fish-eye hole and hook on it to attach a wallet chain to. I recently went through some old stuff and came across the actual chain that came with it. I don’t know why I didn’t throw it away. I sorta think that the trend will return and I’ll be able to bust out my “vintage wallet chain” and be cooler than EVERYONE else… Wishful thinking? Probably.
(TWO) OLD BEER CHARACTERS
I miss Spud Mackenzie, the Budweiser frogs, the “Whaz-Uuuuup!” assholes, and all those old beer characters. I was too young to really drink during any of those mentioned characters. I never had a huge urge to drink beer and I still don’t, but these characters were part of my upbringing. I’d see these characters in every commercial block on television. Is it so wrong that I sometimes wonder the fate of these long lost characters? MGD delivery dude be warned… they WILL kill you.
(ONE) RENTING VIDEO GAMES
I had this really weird flashback to being a young kid recently. I remember when Nintendo and SNES games were coming out new. I didn’t come from a wealthy family by any stretch of the definition. We were broke. Still, I had a nice collection of games. Not every classic game that I love was in my collection or borrowed from a friend. It was really cool to go to a Blockbuster or a mom and pops VHS rental place and check out the games. I know you can get games sent to you like Netflix now, but it’s not the same. It’s not like going to a shitty place, waiting like a maniac to rent the game you’ve been dying to play, and then going home with something completely different because the one you wanted was already checked out. Also, it was a cool variety. If you liked a game you’d get your own, if you hated it you weren’t stuck with it. Renting games saved my parents and grandparents A LOT of money, I’m sure.
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