Penny candy - and the drug store clerk fuming while you made up your mind over a nickel's worth.

Had a real soda fountain too with Green River.

(Getting old but not THAT old. Like 1st grade in a small rural town where things like that die slowly.)

Also picking up things for Gramma at the local grocer and having it put on a tab for Grampa to settle when the paycheck came in.


The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.