They were everywhere when I was a kid, I used to buy the cherry ones most of the time, and the lemon ones the rest. A couple of years ago, a friend and I went to one of those “old candy” displays in a store, and there they were. I bought a whole box of the Cherry, 10 rolls, I think, and went through them pretty…

Ordering ahead, in my long experience, is asking for them to screw up your order. It happens about 50% ordering ahead, but maybe only 30% on arrival. My dogs used to get a lot of messed up food because of the mistakes made.

I never got a pet for Christmas, but I got to pick out one for my birthday, and it worked out well. One time it didn’t was in 1990, a friend of mine spent like $75 on this huge dog treat assortment. It was a great deal, the “bones” in that box were like $12-14 each normally, and I warned him before he opened it up,…

No mug shot of her with tears running down her face? No video of them fighting with her? So disappointed..

2001:A Space Odyssey being #1 on one of those lists is crazy to me. I saw it when it first came out, and thought it was an overlong boring drag, with great special effects. I’ve watched it several times since, and my opinion doesn’t change at all. If I had to pick a #1, it would probably be The Godfather: Part II. I…

A friend of mine had a leased (One of the few times leasing made a lot of sense)Windstar, and it had 7 transmission replacements over the 36 months he had it. On one replacement, it’s lifetime was measured in feet as it died before it got off the lot. I’ve known him for over 35 years, and even though every Ford (and…

Sadly, he’s high on my list of children of celebrities having a not too distant in the future story about them that’s titled something like, “Chester Hanks: His tragic story!”, or something similar on Huffpost or People magazine at the checkout counter.

Sounds about right. He almost always had either some work done on the engine, like the Imp’s 440, or he got a “dealer installed” one. His cousin the dealer told him the Ventura “Is pretty much the fastest car I’ve ever sold here” and he had some pretty hopped up cars for sale, he retired about the time the gas crunch…

I remember someone at a cookout back maybe about 1963 or so putting cream and something else in her Pepsi. Not a fan at all, make mine just the way it comes out of the bottle...

My late mom loved Fazoli’s. A lot of the time, when I was taking her to the doctor or whatever, I would get something somewhere else, as I despise tomato and cheese anything, and she would get a couple of things, and have half for lunch the next day. I remember going over there to get her lunch one day, and it was…

10. Chocolate Orange

I don’t normally have fantasies about politics, but seeing real pics of Gaetz and/or Trump in an orange jump suit would make me happy as hell. 

When I was 5, my aunt and uncle gave me a set of drums. Really nice barely used ones that weren’t toys, they came from a neighbor’s estate sale, and my mom was super pissed at them for giving them to me. My mom asked me about a week later, would I want to keep them or sell them to a neighbor’s kid who played them and…

I remember the turds better than the decent ones. First place on the turd list is, by a nose, or second blown head gasket, dad’s ‘66 Thunderbird. It would almost be the end of Ford anything in our house and probably is what has kept me from ever pulling the trigger on a Ford product. I didn’t like their styling at all…

I don’t know how a friend and a friend’s dad could stand to do the conductor and engineer jobs for over 50 years! I don’t know how many times when we were kids and we would make some little bit of noise and wake up the one friend’s dad, who usually wasn’t angry about it, just kind of, “It happens, I’ll live!” sort of…

A friend of mine is overjoyed they are back. I wasn’t impressed with the one I had, it was ok, but not worth the price. I can’t say gristle came to mind at all, just “How much was this?”. I could have bought a couple of Classic roast beefs and been happy.

My mom had a year old ‘72 Cutlass that was my daily driver. It had endless minor problems from the day she got it new. A flat spot on take off from idle bugged me the most, at first, but then it’s habit of eating alternators and starters started making me pretty much hate driving it anywhere except to the dealer. I…

Finally, a movie I actually want to see. Yeah, it’s trash, but it looks amusing as hell. Seriously, there aren’t too many movies I give a shit about at my age. One sure thing in it’s favor, I won’t be bored out of my skull like I have been so many times recently. 

The last time I heard Shatner interviewed, not too long ago, I was thinking, “Wow, I hope I’m half as sharp as he is in 25 years!”, absolutely positive I won’t make it nearly that long. But mom said the same thing, and made it to 87, able to recall phone numbers from early 30's Lincoln Nebraska all the way until…

When my mom made a turkey, the leftovers would usually go bad, because my dad didn’t care about it enough to bother with them, and I wanted and still want nothing to do with eating any kind of bird (I don’t hate poultry, but I don’t like it), so she would freeze most of it, and when it was to the point there wasn’t a…