• DrSleepless
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    162 months ago

    Wouldn’t you be listening to Living on the edge by Aerosmith?

    • @jqubed@lemmy.world
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      62 months ago

      I rode in an older luxury one (I’m not sure how luxury a Chrysler New Yorker was seen at the time, but it had clearly been a premium model) years later as an adult and it was plush and comfy. Kind of annoying to get in and out of because it really grabbed at your clothes, but I can understand why it was once seen as a luxury feature, especially compared to the vinyl in my dad’s pickup truck!

  • No special car seats, either, except for babies/toddlers. I know I used a booster seat when very small, and grew out of it when I was “tall enough to see out the window.” Then a few years later (some point in the mid-90s), the law extended the age that required car seats.

    Thankfully I was above the age cut off - I’m pretty sure that after being told I’m “a big girl” and that I “grew out” of my booster seat, I would’ve put up a fight over needing to use one again.

  • TomMasz
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    82 months ago

    Now your mom has to turn her oxygen off before she can light up.

  • CubitOom
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    72 months ago

    When you get home, she turns on the TV and it’s 3/4 of the way through a rerun of the Beetlejuice animated show premier. You hear your mom cough and light another.

  • @Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works
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    72 months ago

    Lol reminds me of everyone’s back seats with all the little (and sometimes not so little) holes melted through from the cigarette embers flying back.

  • @aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    62 months ago

    I grew up in the back of a messy station wagon, but at least I wasn’t the kid who grew up in a smelly station wagon.

    I can still smell my friend’s car. Was it because of cigarette smoke or did an opossum DIE in there??