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LuckyCharms

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3. Check this out! You used to be able to buy cigarettes...

Reply to markodochartaigh (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 6, 2026, 07:33 PM

23 hrs ago

sold by a candy striper at your hospital bed!

Click here to purchase valentine hearts!

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I got in a really interesting phone conversation with a young woman last night. [View all] LuckyCharms 23 hrs ago OP

Things have changed so much. markodochartaigh 23 hrs ago #1

Check this out! You used to be able to buy cigarettes... LuckyCharms 23 hrs ago #3

Sure, markodochartaigh 23 hrs ago #9

I'm a few years older and I did all that stuff too FakeNoose 23 hrs ago #2

I remember dropping mine in the snow! LuckyCharms 23 hrs ago #5

You didn't have a sort machine? unblock 23 hrs ago #4

I don't think so... LuckyCharms 23 hrs ago #6

Wow, what a memory! FakeNoose 23 hrs ago #13

That you are able to share that story; priceless. cachukis 23 hrs ago #7

OMG, I remember typing out those punch cards Ocelot II 23 hrs ago #8

LOL LuckyCharms 23 hrs ago #12

Hahahahaha!! unblock 22 hrs ago #15

so luckycharms is code for insert real name here? msongs 23 hrs ago #10

Yes LuckyCharms 23 hrs ago #11

SHE WAS A HUMAN RIGHT??? and she WILL remember all you said, ok, May-be half of what you told her... a kennedy 22 hrs ago #14

I'll bet that young lady put LuckyCharms in the front of her Rolodex FakeNoose 22 hrs ago #16

Yes! Definitely human! We had a long conversation... LuckyCharms 22 hrs ago #18

"I got in a really interesting phone conversation with a young woman last night" True Dough 22 hrs ago #17

What is a 1-900 number? LuckyCharms 22 hrs ago #19

I've seen True Dough 22 hrs ago #20

Do you have these numbers... LuckyCharms 22 hrs ago #21

I could check, True Dough 22 hrs ago #22

Things have changed so much and so fast Wicked Blue 20 hrs ago #23

The safest jobs in America are the plumbers and electricians, they will never be laid off FakeNoose 9 hrs ago #24

I told my daughters many times to learn plumbing Wicked Blue 5 hrs ago #32

At TAM my husband could not use the mainframe until night when it was available. efhmc 8 hrs ago #25

That sounds familiar! LuckyCharms 7 hrs ago #31

I remember that from university. The Madcap 8 hrs ago #26

Did you ever ask her how she got your phone# and knew your DU Name? Fla Dem 7 hrs ago #27

I didn't ask, but I'm a regular contributor to the university LuckyCharms 7 hrs ago #28

OK, thanks. Just found it ominous that she was able to connect your DU name with your phone #. Fla Dem 7 hrs ago #29

I'm sorry, I don't think I worded my OP well... LuckyCharms 7 hrs ago #30

Attending ticker tape parades in NYC though several decades there was the time that.... electric_blue68 4 hrs ago #33

Former "batch station operator " here WestMichRad 22 min ago #34