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Long time ago they used to let kids bring a note to the store to purchase cigarettes for their parents - anyone else dread when parents wanted you go to the store to get their smokes?
aluckygrl
Omg I do remember ; Virgina Slims lolllll
IDoPictureStuff
Any change?, your parents ask. Time to give them the look like you don't even know what the word change is.
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
*from a gas station vending machine, with an actual attendant who had to decide whether the note was pure forgery*
PubMed12927120suckssobad
When I was in elementary school I could walk across the street & buy a beer from a vending machine-Good times. Now I'm a recovering ?-ic
beoluves
I was never asked for a note. Even at 5 the store knew it wasn't for me, but I lived in a tight community
PoisonInJest
When my friend's mom found out we convinced our local convince store I was 18 to buy my own cigarettes she said she wouldn't out me so /1
PoisonInJest
Long as I went and got hers when she asked /end
natachan
It once worked that my dad gave me his driver's license and the cash... To this day I am not sure how
weave
The worst was when you were sent with all the returnable bottles you were going to bring back for money to blow at the arcade
redfeather1
I used to tie a wagon behind my bike and ride all over town collecting bottles. Even washed them to be polite.
CommonRazorKyleWhite1000AnalGirlCornQueen
I used to buy alcohol for my mom when i was 10 people didnt give a shit in the 90s
fredhoffman1968
being in 5th grade crossing 4 lanes of 35mph traffic buying my mom's salem menthols 100's ..nowdays a 5th grader is not doing that
youreathing
A loaf o' bread, a container o' milk, and a pack o' Marlboros.
FirePrinceZuzu
Bring a note? I would just go in there and buy them.
NatesSauceLab
I used to sneak/drive my parents’ cars at age 13. My neighbor would have me drive her for smokes in exchange of not telling my parents.
Xenarion
No? Are you ok?
GoriddleGorilla
have memories of walking to store with my sister for cigs for my dad. Leftover change for penny candy. Dad just died today so this hits hard
CairoLen
Oh no. I'm so sorry. I hope one day you can think of him and only smile. Grieve well.
redfeather1
Hey, you ok? Here is a hug from an internet stranger. I know it hurts, but time heals all wounds.
GoriddleGorilla
Thank you.
BirdBeakEggPlant
No notes only the hope the person at the register would recognize me knowing who my mom was. Sometimes it didn’t work
redfeather1
Note... HAH. I jusy went in starting at around 7 and said mom wants benson&hedges lights 100. They handed them over.
kyzentun
And you never used this opportunity to turn the joke back on them and just disappear for years?
JCBalance
Cigarettes were cheaper back then, you couldn't survive for years off a single cigarette run like a kid could nowadays.
redfeather1
Nah, I look terrible on milk cartons.
Amousewithchees
Might sour the milk inside with your mug shot?
redfeather1
Probably. And sour milk makes cereal taste like crap.
sashisushi
It was super convenient when I started smoking at 15.
parm3san
2 Packs of Kent Golden Lights 100's please... oh and a snicker bar.
quade
Who the fuck had to have a note?
StrangePaegan
Our nearest store was ran by distant family, but in small towns that everyone knows everyone else. And they knew I wouldn't have $10 myself.
AshesVonDust
Jfc, at least my mom waited til I was 18 to ask me to go get her cigarettes. Still said fuck no though. Love her too much.
MurialsCourage
Unfortunately yes. And a lot of other unpleasant stuff related to the p's smoking.
Huor
When I was a kid my alcoholic mother used to send me to the liquor store to buy her vodka. She wrote me a note but they never asked for one.
NSAgent
I did this all the time as a kid. My favorite scam was taking a food stamp to the corner store and buying a candy bar for 50 cents and using
NSAgent
the change to play Street Fighter. Good times on a budget!
ioncewBaroness
We will drop Grandma at church then Grandpa would take me to the corner shop send me in for a six pack of beer a carton of Winston's and as
ioncewBaroness
Much candy as the change would buy me
SoundFuture
My grandfather also smoked Winstons. I don't think I've seen anyone under 70 smoke those in the last decade.
ioncewBaroness
My father in law does. He turned 70 last june.lol
Kbantar
Some of us are old enough to remember unmonitored vending machines with cigarettes.
Kbantar
I'm also old enough to have momentarily blanked on the term, vending machine. I had to ask my GF what convenience dispensers are called. lol
navagon
You guys had notes?
AnApologeticCanadian
Yea you can take them once you learn to read and write.
NergalJester
Right? My grandma gave me $50 for the carton and sent me hiking.
KillerTofu615
Our icecream truck sold cigarettes. And the local 7/11 guy didn't need a note he knew my parents. Its literally how I started smoking.
katyna31415
I had a note. I was just talking about this with my husband. Such a weird thing that was accepted as normal.
BMRSNR6868
I never had a note. The dude always sold them to me. I like 8!!
RuricOrhlandis
I would get sent walking to the store about a mile and a half away with money to buy my father a carton of cigarettes no note needed.
RuricOrhlandis
And if I wanted some for myself I bought them at the same time just made sure my father got the correct change back and hid mine in the barn
PoliticalWanderer
I didn't, but my house was on the corner of one block and I went to the corner store across the street . Owners were locals so they knew us.
oldshot
We had pensioners sittin out in chairs at our rural store. Smokes were 25 cents and for one thin dime one they'd make your buy.
RedRoan24
Anybody remember going down to the local bar and bringing back a beer in one of those paper like containers for dad?
Orcus424
I've seen pictures of cigarette machines next to gumball machines in grocery stores. No notes needed for those.
PubMed12927120suckssobad
When I was in elementary school I could go across the street and& buy a beer from a vending machine-good times. Now I'm a recovering alky
aluckygrl
Bowling alley too!!
astrangehop
You guys had parents?/s
ThatAwkwardMedium
This is actually sad, are you okay?
astrangehop
I was joking, hence the /s tag
grumpabeme
I remember going to the 5 & dime to buy a .22 rifle with paper route money. The clerk wouldn’t sell me the ammo without a note though.
dogmatix
Does my head in that guns are so cheap in the USA.
grumpabeme
This was in the 1950’s…. I saved for two years to buy that thing.
cannibl4
Thanks, Obama ?
BubblesTheFish
DEY TERK ER GERNS!
NM156
I used to buy chewing tobacco when I was seven or so and people never believe me when I say I kicked nicotine in the third grade. - 1970's
BubblesTheFish
Well, as long as this flimsy chicken scratch paper note says it's okay, I guess I'll sell you the bang bangs too.
Noahbalboa82
SpoonsTheBard
Only thing I ever got at the 5 & dime was my very first six string
kman42097
Did you play it until your fingers bled?
CrippledLemur
In the summer of '69?
jorr2944
Yeah, but then Jimmy quit. Don't even get me started on Joey.
skywards
You should have known you'd never get far.