"You're Old!!!" moments

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally posted by Undertoad
The best "soda pop" machines are still those where the bottles are right there but you can't pull them out of their little metal holder thingie until you put the money in.

And then you still try to beat the mechanism by pulling out two bottles at the same time, but it doesn't work because the mechanism is just right.

I'm sure these old machines are wasteful of energy, with the door letting the cold air out of all the bottles. And the glass bottles would break and wreak havoc, and they were heavy, and they didn't hold much, and if they were returnable somebody had to haul them back to the bottler.

But it was better dammit.

Before Harley Davidson made their dealers remodel for the yuppies, Hanums in Media, had a Coke machine that sold the heavy glass 6 1/2 oz bottles. That stuff would take the scum from a 3 day binge, off your tongue. Or the chrome off your bumper.