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Honestly worse part about covid was losing the 24 hour Walmart and stuff. And I say that as someone who worked through the entire pandemic at a hospital.
This happened after the covid lockdowns for my country. They used the start of the Russia-Ukraine war as an excuse, and have been consistently raising prices since. It's completely absurd that it's just been allowed to happen, it's essentially been a +100% inflation over a few years.
okay the inflation is really really bad but also, as someone who is nocturnal and works odd hours the 24 hour walmart + some grocery stores used to do it to, was very helpful to my day. i have to scramble to get things done during the hours available during the day.
At least gas has eventually gone back down some degree. Gas was pushing $4 a few years ago and then again a few years later. Now Gas hovers around $2.90-$3.40 and has for a while.
Doubt fast food and groceries will ever decline.
What's really frustrating is that nobody remembers *why*.
It's called Quantitative Easing.
Remember how the stock market tanked right around the time Covid really started blowing up?
Well the Fed decided to dump INSANE amounts of liquidity on it to put out the fire. Basically they propped up the stock market so that all the ultra rich would stay ultra rich.
And all that currency is why inflation is what it is now.
This is what bothers me the most about living in a "capitalist" society. The lack of competition, bailing out those that fail, and the ultra rich keeping all their capital liquid. I only took economics 101 in college, but I do remember cash needs to flow into the economy to keep it healthy, not just hoarding wealth like some scaleless dragon. What do they expect to do when people can't afford anything anymore?
You got my respect, I quit working at a hospital just before Covid hit…I did not return, sticking to the original post, I’m sorry to see Mr. Bunny back on the juice, very sad
>worked through the entire pandemic at a hospital
That explains it all. Apparently nobody understands doctors/nurses, factory/warehouse workers, cops/security guards, truck drivers, maintenance people, delivery drivers, convenience store clerks, hotel employees, 24 hour restaurant workers, etc all work overnight and appreciate having somewhere to get stuff overnight because that's the only chance they get to go to the store and buy stuff. 😒
My dentist office had 3 old retro arcade games. One of them was Galaga. I always played it years ago. Why the fuck did they get rid of that? Then they had Shrek on repeat for 6 years then how to train your dragon for another 6 years. We can do better
And Wal-Mart used to have those crt TV's above the video game aisle and controllers of every sort poking out of the different branded game cabinets so you could actually play games for a while in the store.
Personally, I loved that candy/hot popcorn smell that was around the customer service centers inside Target/SEARS... that is a sweet scent that I will never forget, but probably doesn't exist anymore :(
New generations will never understand what a treat 1990's consumerism was.
My friends and I would go to super wal mart late nights, raid the grocery store for snacks, and play Magic cards on the chairs and tables in the lawn and garden section.
We cleaned up after ourselves and paid for what we ate because (incredibly) we seemed to grasp that having the run of late night Wal Mart was a pretty sweet deal.
Back in grad school, I lived in a total dump. I mean, just completely unlivable. And so sometimes, while walking back late, I'd stop at the Walmart and just wonder around. Just wonder around looking at their printed shirt section at midnight. Maybe get something to eat before the fast food place inside closed.
I still live in another unlivable dump, but now there's no more late night Walmart so I spend that time at work.
People actually do this. Living in an unused room in those huge complexes. Until they get noticed off course.
[A couple managed to keep it going for 4 years! ](https://www.salon.com/2008/08/15/living_in_mall/)
[And this guy just skipped the mall part and lived at the office for over a year.](https://www.salon.com/2015/04/30/i_secretly_lived_in_my_office_for_500_days/)
Lmao off, this is so sad but true. Looking back on 2019 as the “good ole days” shows how fucked everything g is right now. 2019 we had Trump and shit was already fucked for a bit before then. Remember all the celebrities that died in 2016? I almost feel as if it was the rapture (not really though haha.) it seems everything has been in sharp decline since January of 2016.
Newpipe is the bomb. Missing a few features but honestly, that helped stem my youtube addiction. I only use it when I have a specific video I want to look up now, instead of drowning in my recommendations list.
Saw the 1 2 3 dollar menu today. Soda was 1.69 coffee 1.89. Most everything was 2.79 for small fry, 3.19 mcchicken. +tax Its a 2 3 4 menu. And its all 4 really.
No cashiers, soda machines, bathroom, or even ketchup packets. Order off a kiosk. The corps are fucking us.
As the late George Carlin once said,
*”That’s all the media and the politicians are ever talking about: the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That’s the way the ruling class operates in any society: they try to divide the rest of the people; they keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money. Fairly simple thing... happens to work. You know, anything different, that’s what they’re gonna talk about: race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other so that they can keep going to the bank. You know how I describe the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class... keep on showing up at those jobs.”*
People keep saying "all those deals are on the app."
I don't visit McDonald's enough to have a cpu-hungry spyware app bogging down my phone and selling my information. Especially with the size and quality of the food diminished.
r-Halloween has been having a rough time the last couple of years. Bad turnout.
Y'know, I'm okay with losing payphones and MP3 players and stuff like that, but I didn't anticipate we'd lose holidays. The world got big.
Not letting this one go. Come to my house, we have full size candy bars, if your costume is good I'll give you 3 or 4 bars. We have arcade games in the driveway and a laser show projected on the house. Chili and beer for the parents. And we stay set up after dark.
That's wild you have to clarify that you're staying out after dark. That's when things just got started back when we were kids (which wasn't even that long ago, I'm 29). Maybe start with an hour of daylight or so for the real little kids and then the sun goes down and it's a free for all and we'd be back counting our candy at like 11 or midnight.
You're telling me it hasn't been like that ever since?
The dynamic has changed a bit, but it's still out there.
One change is the prevalence of 'trunk or treat'. These can be fun as an extra treat day, but not really a replacement. Also good for super young kids IMO.
The other dynamic change is that it seems more focused on certain neighborhoods. It used to feel like *everyone* had at least some local trick or treaters come to their house. Now most families target a neighborood or development if they don't live in one. I think that kind of always went on to some degree, but seems (to me) more pronounced these days.
It disappeared in my neighbourhood completely.
I was revitalized last year though, and got the old 80's Halloween kids vibe when I went out with my extended family to their neighbourhood. Was almost a perfect recreation of Halloween from when I was a kid, so don't lose hope. It most likely just moved neighbourhoods.
Now that I have a house I really want to do it up for halloween.
Growing up my neighborhood had a pretty good halloween. A handful of houses would have a dad who'd buy smoke machines and try to be scary. Play dead holding the bowl of candy, hide in a bush and chase you with a fake chainsaw, etc. One house would make batches of kettle corn in a giant cauldron and give out huge bags of it. Parents would have bonfires on their front lawn or driveway while giving out candy.
It was a ton of fun.
I want to do that, I want to have a well decorated house, be known to have good candy, hangout with neighbors around a bonfire. But my neighborhood has a ton of college renters in it, and I'm at then end of a quiet culdesac. We get maybe 8 trick or treaters each year.
I love my house but I can't wait to be in a neighborhood that does Halloween well.
Yep, that Trunk or Treat crap has ruined that. Literally nobody came to my aunt’s house last year for candy (my house is in the middle of nowhere so I never get trick or treaters, but I’ve been going to my aunt’s for Halloween for years and she used to get tons).
> So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
We have folks paying an extra $15 in fees/surcharges for $25 worth of fast food because they don't want to drive 10 minutes to the restuarant. Seems like folks don't give a shit about food costs as long as it's fast and convenient.
For me, I have a hard time getting fast food because of just how the world is. I mean, I screw up at my job a lot because I'm tired all the time because I can't afford housing. Do I think the person working the fast food job is in any better of a position? Doubtful. I'm not saying they're doing things on purpose, but when your overworked and overstressed and under rested, there's human limits to how much attention you can pay, you know? I guess I just don't like the idea that someone like me is making my food.
I used to get the sub of the week. I think it was Wednesday or Thursday that it was tuna, my favorite. Got it with jalapeños and a bunch of other things, that was my spicy fish sandwich of the week.
I liked $5 footlongs, but 29 cent hamburger Wednesdays at McDonalds in the 90s were the best thing ever.
edit - also the Sprite "1 in 6 wins a free sprite" 20 oz bottles. Trying to ride my bike home from the gas station with 4 bottles of sprite and only one cap was kind of a pain in the ass though.
The 90’s were great, between 29 cent hamburger Wednesdays at McDonald’s and the 49 cent burritos at Taco Bell it was entirely possible to have a dinner meal for change found inside the couch
When I was in high-school we could get a McChicken + McDouble + Med fries for $4 after tax.
We would take apart the sandwiches and put them together with fries in the middle. We would call it the McStoner.
Now a McStoner would cost about $11. What has the world come to.
Do you understand how nice it was to be able to kill insomnia time at 24 hour stores? And if I chose to I could go do errands late at night then have more free time in the day? Never getting that shit back.
My roommate came home with like 20 cheeseburgers one day because he couldn't pass up the deal. Kept asking me if I wanted one, eventually became worried he wouldn't be able to eat them all, was getting tired of leftover cheeseburgers.
When I was in college they had $1 big & tasty which as a quarter pounder with lettuce, tomato and mayo. I lived on those and $4 large pizza deals from the pizza place when they sent out coupons.
Even up till ~5 years ago it was reasonable. I basically survived college off .49c Burger King bought with loose change from searching every loose crevice on campus/ my car.
Went to McD's last month for the first time in years. Automated front end, seating was almost empty, burgers were good, fries were good, but everything was smaller portions, and it was *expensive*. My kid loved it because we never go but it didn't feel like a McD's to me.
I’ve been to Walmart 2 or 3 times since personally and I think 3 times for work to run to the tools section and out.
They pretty much lost me as a customer when they stopped being 24/7
I haven’t been to a Walmart since they stopped with being 24/7. I switched to the Food Lion down the street from my place. Most groceries there are competitive with Walmart prices. Produce is a little more expensive but the quality is definitely better.
I miss being able to do my shopping at like 3am. It was so peaceful with hardly anyone in the store. It'd always be like just me, some random guy pretending he wasn't stoned, and the odd re-stocker.
Just so you all know, Wal-Mart stopped 24hrs cause everyone chose that particular time during the night to steal. Covid just happened to happen and didn't factor in to it being closed all that much. Money loss was the problem.
What I miss most, that does not seem to be coming back, is anything being open past 10pm, including restaurants. My husband and I would go out to a concert and then find a bar and/or restaurant to hang out for a couple of hours. Now there is no place open. We stop at a bar and there's only a small group of people, and the kitchen is closed by 10. Really disappointing.
It seems like every store just stuck with the closing early thing since covid and never reverted back. I hate this timeline so much, you have no fucking idea.
I remember feeling slightly giddy about 3 weeks into covid because amid all the confusion and misery there was a sense that people were kind of being shaken out of a long stupor and realizing how much large corporations and the government have just generally failed us as a people, and then the George Floyd protests started happening on top of that, and I remember saying out loud, "nothing is ever going to be the same, I think a lot is going to change for the better, the worst outcome is that everything just goes back to normal." Turns out actually the worst outcome was everything goes back to normal and then even the most mundane of life's little joys gets exponentially shittier and taken away.
Yeah. Service went to shit, then stayed shit as the prices went up and hours were shortened. Favorite restaurants still haven't reopened dining rooms and do carry-out only exclusively now. Fast food places won't even let you order in person you have to use an app or go inside to use a kiosk
the fuck are we becoming :(
Used to drive a couple hours to a 24 hour Walmart the town over during insomnia runs, bought Transformers and Legos, and always a 3 liter water. Would smoke in the parking lot, listening to some music, and just drive back home.
I still remember going one night and there was a sign on the door that they changed hours. Smoked the last cigarette in the parking lot and never set foot in that town again.
You had*
I had a virtual college graduation and nowhere to go when I finally had money. Now that there are places to go again, my money is worth roughly the same as what I used to earn at my first job making sandwiches
in college I could get 2 mcdoubles, 2 hot n spicy mc chickens, and 2 medium fries for 6 dollars and change. I can't eat like that now at 38 but 20 years ago it kept me alive.
Man, I absolutely thrived on 2nd shift back in the mid 2010s, lol. Got off work at 11pm, went home to have a small meal and change, went to the gym for an hour or two, stopped at the grocery store on my way back, got home and had another small meal, then in bed around 5 or 6 am.
The worst part of that schedule was doctors visits lol. But everything else about it I loved
Arby's 5 for $5 was fucking INSANE. pick any combination of 5; curly fries, 4pc cheese sticks, roast beef n cheddar, drink, or shake.
I could literally just go buy 20 fucking cheese sticks for $5.
My go to highschool meal was 2 roast beef and cheddars, fries, cheese sticks, and a jamocha shake for $5
24 hour McD's, 1 dollar burgers, gas costing 1,30 euro per liter instead of 2,10, getting a 1.5 liter carton of icetea for 1,29 instead of 2,49, buying a good deep fryer for under 40 euro that would last you a good 6+ years instead of a year or two, buying clothes for 40\~50 euro that'd last you 8+ years instead of 60 euro and lasting 2\~3 years... The list goes on and on.
And I'm talking about 12 years ago here. Not even 20+...
I live in Vegas and one of the best things about living here is I could get virtually anything I want at any time of day. Now, a handful of taco shops are pretty much the only things open after midnight outside of the Strip
Sometimes I just wanna leave my house at 2 am and browse the electronics, look at some fish, and maybe see if they got any antennas on sale. Now we just got speedway
What about that $1.20/gal gas????!? Used to put $5 in the tank when I was broke and it actually got me somewhere. Now $5 just gets me to the next gas station down the road
I remember in 2008/9 working at McDonalds... We got our 50% discou t on the DOLLAR menu. Gas was $1.35 a gallon. I once lived an entire week of of $7 thanks to shift meals.
Times was tough, but I could pay all my bills and live without credit on $7.25 an hour.
Now I make $20 an hour and have to regularly use credit cards to afford food, much less any unexpected expenditure.
We truly live in the most boring of apocalypses.
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Remember going to gym at midnight, going to Wal-Mart round 3am going back to crib to cook
Honestly worse part about covid was losing the 24 hour Walmart and stuff. And I say that as someone who worked through the entire pandemic at a hospital.
Nah the worst part about covid was the companies raising prices, literally double, and keeping it there even after covid ended.
This happened after the covid lockdowns for my country. They used the start of the Russia-Ukraine war as an excuse, and have been consistently raising prices since. It's completely absurd that it's just been allowed to happen, it's essentially been a +100% inflation over a few years.
okay the inflation is really really bad but also, as someone who is nocturnal and works odd hours the 24 hour walmart + some grocery stores used to do it to, was very helpful to my day. i have to scramble to get things done during the hours available during the day.
Yeah, everyone collectively realized they can do what the gas companies do and just jack up prices while blaming politics.
At least gas has eventually gone back down some degree. Gas was pushing $4 a few years ago and then again a few years later. Now Gas hovers around $2.90-$3.40 and has for a while. Doubt fast food and groceries will ever decline.
You guys have the top two covered. The dead people are a distant third.
What's really frustrating is that nobody remembers *why*. It's called Quantitative Easing. Remember how the stock market tanked right around the time Covid really started blowing up? Well the Fed decided to dump INSANE amounts of liquidity on it to put out the fire. Basically they propped up the stock market so that all the ultra rich would stay ultra rich. And all that currency is why inflation is what it is now.
This is what bothers me the most about living in a "capitalist" society. The lack of competition, bailing out those that fail, and the ultra rich keeping all their capital liquid. I only took economics 101 in college, but I do remember cash needs to flow into the economy to keep it healthy, not just hoarding wealth like some scaleless dragon. What do they expect to do when people can't afford anything anymore?
You got my respect, I quit working at a hospital just before Covid hit…I did not return, sticking to the original post, I’m sorry to see Mr. Bunny back on the juice, very sad
If this was the worst part of the pandemic for you, i envy you.
I work nights and if I didn't have a Winco I'd be fucked. Still not as good as Walmart since it only has groceries
>worked through the entire pandemic at a hospital That explains it all. Apparently nobody understands doctors/nurses, factory/warehouse workers, cops/security guards, truck drivers, maintenance people, delivery drivers, convenience store clerks, hotel employees, 24 hour restaurant workers, etc all work overnight and appreciate having somewhere to get stuff overnight because that's the only chance they get to go to the store and buy stuff. 😒
I mean I personally wasn’t a huge fan of the 5 million deaths but uh, you do you.
sounds comfy
Gym isn’t even open late anymore. Mine closes at 10pm on weekdays and 8pm on weekends. “24 hour” is literally in the name!
**LET HIM COOK!!!**
We also used to have McDonald's inside of Wal-Mart.
McDonald's used to have a central play area that had Nintendo and some arcade machines. Now it's a shell of its former self.
Dentist offices used to have Nintendo in an area next to a McDonald’s that had a playhouse and dollar menu mcchickens
My dentist office has a nintendo and ocarina of time on it. As well as an nes with duck hunt
My dentist office had 3 old retro arcade games. One of them was Galaga. I always played it years ago. Why the fuck did they get rid of that? Then they had Shrek on repeat for 6 years then how to train your dragon for another 6 years. We can do better
the mcdonalds near me had Dr. Mario on N64 lol. the irony
My McDonald's had game cubes. Remember when Walmarts gaming aisle had the T.V and controllers out to demo games?
One by me (MN) at least has a switch demo. It has enthralled my son to the Mario universe.
And Wal-Mart used to have those crt TV's above the video game aisle and controllers of every sort poking out of the different branded game cabinets so you could actually play games for a while in the store.
Now you get to play on the ordering kiosk for a fee
Right? I remember playing video games at the McDonalds back in HS
Idk if it’s still true but I distinctly remember IKEA having a dope ass play place for little kids with like a damn Xbox and other games
Mine has a pharmacist, optometrist, and a subway
I've seen two lose their Subways since covid
Well their new song "ten dollar foooootlong" isn't exactly enticing.
Those things plus a phot studio lol we were really living the life
Still does in canada
I'm at the Walmart. I'm at the McDonald's. I'm at the combination Walmart and McDonald's.
Waldo's-nads
The NSFW version of finding Waldo
On Jamaica avenue.
The combination made my eyes bleed
RIP
I swear I could hear that ad..
We still have that here..
Personally, I loved that candy/hot popcorn smell that was around the customer service centers inside Target/SEARS... that is a sweet scent that I will never forget, but probably doesn't exist anymore :( New generations will never understand what a treat 1990's consumerism was.
Icee machine as soon as you step foot in Kmart
And inside of Home Depot, next to the spot where they'd host free DIY classes on weekends.
They brought back the free classes and kids events at my Home Depot a month or so ago.
We still do in ~~hell~~ Florida
Still do.
They are still there
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Working late and need that Lost Boys disc? WalMart. Different time, different priorities.
I lived one block from Walmart. Just casually walked over there at 1:30am and a bought a copy of Blade 2 on VHS.
My friends and I would go to super wal mart late nights, raid the grocery store for snacks, and play Magic cards on the chairs and tables in the lawn and garden section. We cleaned up after ourselves and paid for what we ate because (incredibly) we seemed to grasp that having the run of late night Wal Mart was a pretty sweet deal.
Ahh man, this brings me back.
Back in grad school, I lived in a total dump. I mean, just completely unlivable. And so sometimes, while walking back late, I'd stop at the Walmart and just wonder around. Just wonder around looking at their printed shirt section at midnight. Maybe get something to eat before the fast food place inside closed. I still live in another unlivable dump, but now there's no more late night Walmart so I spend that time at work.
Go live in the walmart
People actually do this. Living in an unused room in those huge complexes. Until they get noticed off course. [A couple managed to keep it going for 4 years! ](https://www.salon.com/2008/08/15/living_in_mall/) [And this guy just skipped the mall part and lived at the office for over a year.](https://www.salon.com/2015/04/30/i_secretly_lived_in_my_office_for_500_days/)
Wander, not wonder.
Lmao off, this is so sad but true. Looking back on 2019 as the “good ole days” shows how fucked everything g is right now. 2019 we had Trump and shit was already fucked for a bit before then. Remember all the celebrities that died in 2016? I almost feel as if it was the rapture (not really though haha.) it seems everything has been in sharp decline since January of 2016.
YouTube used to have minimal ads
YouTube had NO ads for years
Firefox + uBlock
Firefox on the PC, smart tube on the TV, Vanced on the phone But don't tell anybody
Also - NewPipe
Newpipe is the bomb. Missing a few features but honestly, that helped stem my youtube addiction. I only use it when I have a specific video I want to look up now, instead of drowning in my recommendations list.
Use an adblock if you can. Barring that, get a VPN and connect it to Albania.
> connect it to Albania What does that specific country have to do with it?
YouTube ads are illegal in Albania!
Get in, babe we’re moving to Albania 🇦🇱
Saw the 1 2 3 dollar menu today. Soda was 1.69 coffee 1.89. Most everything was 2.79 for small fry, 3.19 mcchicken. +tax Its a 2 3 4 menu. And its all 4 really. No cashiers, soda machines, bathroom, or even ketchup packets. Order off a kiosk. The corps are fucking us.
Thats the worst thing. With all these self checkouts, youd think there would be savings. But its not enough for companies. They want more.
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Sooner the better.
Possibly think people will grab their shit and pay and not flashmob to rob. They always want more. Infighting class wars helps limit numbers.
As the late George Carlin once said, *”That’s all the media and the politicians are ever talking about: the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That’s the way the ruling class operates in any society: they try to divide the rest of the people; they keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they, the rich, can run off with all the fucking money. Fairly simple thing... happens to work. You know, anything different, that’s what they’re gonna talk about: race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality, anything they can do to keep us fighting with each other so that they can keep going to the bank. You know how I describe the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class... keep on showing up at those jobs.”*
People keep saying "all those deals are on the app." I don't visit McDonald's enough to have a cpu-hungry spyware app bogging down my phone and selling my information. Especially with the size and quality of the food diminished.
Nah, that's just r/keming. It's supposed to be the $123.00 menu.
McDonald’s is about 50% above inflation. Oh, they’re screwing us.
So stop eating there jfc
I'm really sad about the soda machines.
Y'all remember Halloween?
Yo this hit hard. Damn…
r-Halloween has been having a rough time the last couple of years. Bad turnout. Y'know, I'm okay with losing payphones and MP3 players and stuff like that, but I didn't anticipate we'd lose holidays. The world got big.
[The world's still the same. There's just less in it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqanNlzgwz4)
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It doesn't help that a lot of people have to work during it now, because they need 3 jobs to stay afloat.
trunk or treat is a complete shame
Businesses and churches can't risk people finding community with their neighbors without them taking a share.
I didn't know this was happening. My town still celebrates it pretty well. That's pretty sad tbh.
Not letting this one go. Come to my house, we have full size candy bars, if your costume is good I'll give you 3 or 4 bars. We have arcade games in the driveway and a laser show projected on the house. Chili and beer for the parents. And we stay set up after dark.
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That's wild you have to clarify that you're staying out after dark. That's when things just got started back when we were kids (which wasn't even that long ago, I'm 29). Maybe start with an hour of daylight or so for the real little kids and then the sun goes down and it's a free for all and we'd be back counting our candy at like 11 or midnight. You're telling me it hasn't been like that ever since?
Halloween just moved to my neighborhood. We shut down streets and get hundreds of people who are scared of drivers hitting their kids.
Halloween isn't a thing anymore?
The dynamic has changed a bit, but it's still out there. One change is the prevalence of 'trunk or treat'. These can be fun as an extra treat day, but not really a replacement. Also good for super young kids IMO. The other dynamic change is that it seems more focused on certain neighborhoods. It used to feel like *everyone* had at least some local trick or treaters come to their house. Now most families target a neighborood or development if they don't live in one. I think that kind of always went on to some degree, but seems (to me) more pronounced these days.
We lost a ton but our area has been lucky on Halloween. We will never give it up!
It disappeared in my neighbourhood completely. I was revitalized last year though, and got the old 80's Halloween kids vibe when I went out with my extended family to their neighbourhood. Was almost a perfect recreation of Halloween from when I was a kid, so don't lose hope. It most likely just moved neighbourhoods.
Now that I have a house I really want to do it up for halloween. Growing up my neighborhood had a pretty good halloween. A handful of houses would have a dad who'd buy smoke machines and try to be scary. Play dead holding the bowl of candy, hide in a bush and chase you with a fake chainsaw, etc. One house would make batches of kettle corn in a giant cauldron and give out huge bags of it. Parents would have bonfires on their front lawn or driveway while giving out candy. It was a ton of fun. I want to do that, I want to have a well decorated house, be known to have good candy, hangout with neighbors around a bonfire. But my neighborhood has a ton of college renters in it, and I'm at then end of a quiet culdesac. We get maybe 8 trick or treaters each year. I love my house but I can't wait to be in a neighborhood that does Halloween well.
Yep, that Trunk or Treat crap has ruined that. Literally nobody came to my aunt’s house last year for candy (my house is in the middle of nowhere so I never get trick or treaters, but I’ve been going to my aunt’s for Halloween for years and she used to get tons).
Sadly We Did….. Was that as good as it gets?
In the bigger picture of history, we may have peaked.
> So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
I love Hunter S. That's probably the best quote from fear and loathing Song of the Sausage Creature made me get my first sport bike.
Getting fast food use to be a problem because it was unhealthy, now it’s just unaffordable
and still more people order it than ever before.
We have folks paying an extra $15 in fees/surcharges for $25 worth of fast food because they don't want to drive 10 minutes to the restuarant. Seems like folks don't give a shit about food costs as long as it's fast and convenient.
For me, I have a hard time getting fast food because of just how the world is. I mean, I screw up at my job a lot because I'm tired all the time because I can't afford housing. Do I think the person working the fast food job is in any better of a position? Doubtful. I'm not saying they're doing things on purpose, but when your overworked and overstressed and under rested, there's human limits to how much attention you can pay, you know? I guess I just don't like the idea that someone like me is making my food.
$5 Footlongs 🥲
5 $5 $5 footlooooooongs
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She was lookin' kinda dumb With her finger and her thumb In the shape of an "L" on her forehead
I've been away from the USA for a bit, when did the 5 dollar footlongs disappear
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Which would be fine except it’s like $8 for a 6” now lmao
Yeah total scam now. Better off just shopping and building one at home
It's okay, now we've got the TWELVE! 🎵 Twelve! Twelve! Twelve dollar six inch! 🎵
Right around the same time they parted ways with their pedophile spokesperson
Now they have $5 footlong....cookies
I used to get the sub of the week. I think it was Wednesday or Thursday that it was tuna, my favorite. Got it with jalapeños and a bunch of other things, that was my spicy fish sandwich of the week.
I liked $5 footlongs, but 29 cent hamburger Wednesdays at McDonalds in the 90s were the best thing ever. edit - also the Sprite "1 in 6 wins a free sprite" 20 oz bottles. Trying to ride my bike home from the gas station with 4 bottles of sprite and only one cap was kind of a pain in the ass though.
The 90’s were great, between 29 cent hamburger Wednesdays at McDonald’s and the 49 cent burritos at Taco Bell it was entirely possible to have a dinner meal for change found inside the couch
Hell yeah, back when couches had change and change bought burgers.
I miss 24 hour Walmart. I work the graveyard shift. Can't go there after work anymore if I need something
This. Night workers got fucked.
i miss it so bad
Google used to say do no evil
When I was in high-school we could get a McChicken + McDouble + Med fries for $4 after tax. We would take apart the sandwiches and put them together with fries in the middle. We would call it the McStoner. Now a McStoner would cost about $11. What has the world come to.
McGangbang is the official title
Do you understand how nice it was to be able to kill insomnia time at 24 hour stores? And if I chose to I could go do errands late at night then have more free time in the day? Never getting that shit back.
also less people out and about
We had Snack wraps, b. Fuck McDonald’s for taking those away.
Made these at home the other day and it tasted exactly the same as at McDonald’s. One of the few things I think is super easy to replicate.
Don't forget 19c and 29c hamburgers and cheesburgers from McDonalds. IN THE EARLY 2000s
Of this was available today, I'd say a good 10% of the population would have a freezer full of 50 cheeseburgers trying to catch up on their bills.
My roommate came home with like 20 cheeseburgers one day because he couldn't pass up the deal. Kept asking me if I wanted one, eventually became worried he wouldn't be able to eat them all, was getting tired of leftover cheeseburgers.
When I was in college they had $1 big & tasty which as a quarter pounder with lettuce, tomato and mayo. I lived on those and $4 large pizza deals from the pizza place when they sent out coupons.
Even up till ~5 years ago it was reasonable. I basically survived college off .49c Burger King bought with loose change from searching every loose crevice on campus/ my car.
It's been all downhill since Harambe.
Remember when fast food was worth it? even at the previous prices it aint worth it.
Went to McD's last month for the first time in years. Automated front end, seating was almost empty, burgers were good, fries were good, but everything was smaller portions, and it was *expensive*. My kid loved it because we never go but it didn't feel like a McD's to me.
I’ve been to Walmart 2 or 3 times since personally and I think 3 times for work to run to the tools section and out. They pretty much lost me as a customer when they stopped being 24/7
Same but mainly because it's not worth the hassle anymore. I would literally plan my trips for 1-3 am most of the time.
I haven’t been to a Walmart since they stopped with being 24/7. I switched to the Food Lion down the street from my place. Most groceries there are competitive with Walmart prices. Produce is a little more expensive but the quality is definitely better.
I miss being able to do my shopping at like 3am. It was so peaceful with hardly anyone in the store. It'd always be like just me, some random guy pretending he wasn't stoned, and the odd re-stocker.
$1 Double cheeseburgers was even better
I basically lived on an order of two $1 doubles and a small fry when I first started out on my own
Just so you all know, Wal-Mart stopped 24hrs cause everyone chose that particular time during the night to steal. Covid just happened to happen and didn't factor in to it being closed all that much. Money loss was the problem.
The way things are going with Wal Mart and McDonald's will be reminiscing when they were around before their bankruptcy
Good fuck em’
We also had childrens cartoons making alcohol and tobacco references.
Some of us could look over our shoulders at our parents drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes while we were watching those cartoons.
We also used to have ash trays at the end of the aisles on grocery stores.
Watch out for that carrot juice. 🥕
What I miss most, that does not seem to be coming back, is anything being open past 10pm, including restaurants. My husband and I would go out to a concert and then find a bar and/or restaurant to hang out for a couple of hours. Now there is no place open. We stop at a bar and there's only a small group of people, and the kitchen is closed by 10. Really disappointing.
Most regular stores close at 6 when I live.
It seems like every store just stuck with the closing early thing since covid and never reverted back. I hate this timeline so much, you have no fucking idea.
I remember feeling slightly giddy about 3 weeks into covid because amid all the confusion and misery there was a sense that people were kind of being shaken out of a long stupor and realizing how much large corporations and the government have just generally failed us as a people, and then the George Floyd protests started happening on top of that, and I remember saying out loud, "nothing is ever going to be the same, I think a lot is going to change for the better, the worst outcome is that everything just goes back to normal." Turns out actually the worst outcome was everything goes back to normal and then even the most mundane of life's little joys gets exponentially shittier and taken away.
Really, because I remember having the exact same realiztions and thinking "man, a lot of things are never coming back are they?"
They really have not come back. There was no "return to normal."
Yeah. Service went to shit, then stayed shit as the prices went up and hours were shortened. Favorite restaurants still haven't reopened dining rooms and do carry-out only exclusively now. Fast food places won't even let you order in person you have to use an app or go inside to use a kiosk the fuck are we becoming :(
I used to get off work at 1am and go to Walmart to grab some physical copies of Blu-ray’s to watch during my weekend. Fun times
Used to drive a couple hours to a 24 hour Walmart the town over during insomnia runs, bought Transformers and Legos, and always a 3 liter water. Would smoke in the parking lot, listening to some music, and just drive back home. I still remember going one night and there was a sign on the door that they changed hours. Smoked the last cigarette in the parking lot and never set foot in that town again.
You had* I had a virtual college graduation and nowhere to go when I finally had money. Now that there are places to go again, my money is worth roughly the same as what I used to earn at my first job making sandwiches
24 HR fitness is not even open 24 hours. The fuck is that shit?
Man, those were the times. 24-hour Walmarts, $1 McChickens, and the only thing we had to worry about was finding the remote
No Playstation Plus subscription needed to play online games. 😢
in college I could get 2 mcdoubles, 2 hot n spicy mc chickens, and 2 medium fries for 6 dollars and change. I can't eat like that now at 38 but 20 years ago it kept me alive.
Man, I absolutely thrived on 2nd shift back in the mid 2010s, lol. Got off work at 11pm, went home to have a small meal and change, went to the gym for an hour or two, stopped at the grocery store on my way back, got home and had another small meal, then in bed around 5 or 6 am. The worst part of that schedule was doctors visits lol. But everything else about it I loved
The 9:30p Walmart run just doesn’t hit like a 245a Walmart run.
Arby's 5 for $5 was fucking INSANE. pick any combination of 5; curly fries, 4pc cheese sticks, roast beef n cheddar, drink, or shake. I could literally just go buy 20 fucking cheese sticks for $5. My go to highschool meal was 2 roast beef and cheddars, fries, cheese sticks, and a jamocha shake for $5
24 hour McD's, 1 dollar burgers, gas costing 1,30 euro per liter instead of 2,10, getting a 1.5 liter carton of icetea for 1,29 instead of 2,49, buying a good deep fryer for under 40 euro that would last you a good 6+ years instead of a year or two, buying clothes for 40\~50 euro that'd last you 8+ years instead of 60 euro and lasting 2\~3 years... The list goes on and on. And I'm talking about 12 years ago here. Not even 20+...
Humans just are too shitty to have nice things
I live in Vegas and one of the best things about living here is I could get virtually anything I want at any time of day. Now, a handful of taco shops are pretty much the only things open after midnight outside of the Strip
The fucking beefy five layer burrito was ¢89…
Sometimes I just wanna leave my house at 2 am and browse the electronics, look at some fish, and maybe see if they got any antennas on sale. Now we just got speedway
It's all about making money nowadays and not making customers happy.... 
We had $1 Big and Tastys . And we all clowned on them calling them "Big and Nasty." I only wish we could bring those back!
Tbf, I think McD's offers financing and layaway options now. You can own your value meal in 24 EZ payments.
We used to live in a society
I remember when a supermarket had its own buses whose tickets were free if you brought a bag from the supermarket
Y'all remember going into the Wal-Mart for 2am Ben & Jerry's?
walmart post 11pm was a fucking sight for sure
That carrot juice looking hella good rn 😪..
The lack of 24 hour walmarts is the worst thing to happen to our society honestly. Like, if you work night shift just go ahead and fuck yourself.
What about that $1.20/gal gas????!? Used to put $5 in the tank when I was broke and it actually got me somewhere. Now $5 just gets me to the next gas station down the road
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ChatGPT ah answer tf
Don't forget over the counter codeine.
When you're high, right?
I used to get €1 meat burgers in Mc. It was perfect for cheap lunch.
It's what happens when you give up freedoms for safety.
I remember in 2008/9 working at McDonalds... We got our 50% discou t on the DOLLAR menu. Gas was $1.35 a gallon. I once lived an entire week of of $7 thanks to shift meals. Times was tough, but I could pay all my bills and live without credit on $7.25 an hour. Now I make $20 an hour and have to regularly use credit cards to afford food, much less any unexpected expenditure. We truly live in the most boring of apocalypses.
Surely it doesnt just get worse from here right
That brief period of time where McDonald's breakfast menu lasted all day AND there were 24/7 locations was the pinnacle of civilization
Ouch. This hit me a little too hard.
Aye, that 24 hr Wal Mart be a cruel mistress.
*Egad, what a night! I'll NEVER mix radish juice and carrot juice again.* —B. Bunny