Remember when

I remember as a kid always needing C and D batteries for toys. As I got older, always needing AA and AAA batteries for portable cassette and CD players. Now on rare occasion I need AAA batteries or a disc battery for a remote control.

 

Remember when you were a kid and picking empty bottles for the deposit money,.02 cents each, summer time was money time

 

Remember paper boys, I had a paper route. You had to be at least 12 years old, so you could ride in the streets
Do they even make newspapers anymore?

 

Do they still have comics in the paper?

 

I had a route for a while. Roll it up with a rubber band and fire it off your bike in the general direction of the front door.

 

Made me think about trying to find those 6v batteries for the light.

And then how much flashlights have evolved since these.

 

And to follow up.....

 

Had 3

 

Remember scoring these bad boys at carnivals?

 

Big time, Had a couple of those mirrors..

 

Was 5 cents each here.

I wanted a daily route at age 10. My dad said no. I called the town paper which was weekly and they had no routes, so I started one. Got a daily the next year and still kept the other one. From there started mowing lawns for people myself.

Found a ton of those 6Vs cleaning out my uncle's house this year

 

You used to look forward to weekends to play Super Nintendo at Fedco in Pasadena.

 

Yea, but you can't beat the shit outta someone with that little light

 

That's the only reason I still keep a mag light in my truck, but mine is LED. The batteries last forever.

I've been diving since 1986. Underwater flashlights have evolved exponentially. My primary cave light now is 4000 lumens and will burn almost 4 hours. We used to use motorcycle batteries with HID headlight bulbs....

 

They call them...nevermind

 

1984 - TDY road trip from Pope AFB, NC to Little Rock AFB, AR .... made great times both ways, avoiding radar traps (many) along the way. Good times ... trip made in my '81 Toyota 5Spd pick-up.