I was bored, so started this thread, because I was outside and saw a vehicle that looked like my friend's second car. A 1997 Honda Accord. His first car was a Toyota Corolla. Both cars, from that era that seem to be neither collectible or really around anymore The flip up headlights were in! I had a Nissan Pulsar with T-tops!! Don't hold me to it, but if anyone ever sees a 1996 Nissan Pulsar on the road I'll give you a dollar and buy you a beer.
I remember how snazzy both were when my friends got various cars. Jesus, the fucking Geo Metro was one of my friend's graduation presents from his parents. You no longer see those jalopies unless maybe someone homeless has bought one and lives in it along with his/her posessions. The Galileo probe to Jupiter had just gone into orbit -- he called it Galileo. Old Ford Festivas, Ford Pintos. You name it.
Then, of course on to pay phones. The ones you see today you would touch just as readily as the water in a shit filled public toilet.
Perhaps,will cash itself be next? My parents used to make me always carry "at least two dimes" so I could page my dad on his pager when I was away from them -- you know, just in case. So I would page him and would wait for the pay phone to ring. If he was busy, he would take some time, but sometimes I ran out of dimes and would stand around waiting. Then the pay phones ceased accepting incoming calls. Then came ubiquitous cellphones with hefty roaming and long distance fees.
Then came hand sanitizer -- just alcohol marketed in a different way right along with cell phone ubiquity.
Just discuss and just throwing it out there as a possibly very interesting walk down memory lane and what members here recall from their lives thus far.
