For the younger people who don’t understand this one, this is how they used to check for pregnancy. If they injected urine from a woman into a mouse or rabbit and the animal’s ovaries enlarged, the woman was pregnant. (It’s a misnomer that the animal would die if she was pregnant.…
But, back before cell phones, you used to have to pay a heftier price to get an “atomic watch” or “atomic clock”. These were the only clocks and watches guaranteed to be set to the correct time. Because of that, if there was a group of 5 of you, you probably had 5 watches with 5 different…
Waiting until a certain time in the evening to call friends on your cell, b/c night and weekend minutes were free. And paying extra to have nighttime minutes start at 7pm, instead of 8p.
And how, because of that, we blow on all sorts of things that aren’t working. 😂 Cell isn’t charging? Blow in the charging cable receiver. Toaster’s not staying down? Blow in it. Remote’s not working? Take out the brand-new batteries and blow in the battery hole.
It’s a problem.…
Totally forgot about calling “Time and Temp”! It’s one of the many numbers I had memorized back then. That’s another odd thing, btw—I can remember the phone numbers of friends and family members from 30-35 years ago, but I don’t even have any of my siblings’ numbers memorized now.…
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