Don't feel to bad. $1 was one Hot Wheels car in the late 60's and it was probably the same in the late 80's. Kid inflation probably isn't the same as adult inflation.
The Christmas of '67 my aunt decided it was time to tell her kids Santa Claus didn't exist. They were 4 and 6, I was 5 and was just collateral damage with this information. While my cousins were busy crying and whining that Santa was real, I took a different tact...I looked at my mom and said "If you're Santa, you're also the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. Why didn't you get me what I really wanted?" I was an awful child.
It was a multi-multi-million dollar campaign to make everybody hate Van Halen. Crystal Pepsi tasted like Diet Pepsi crossed with 7-up. It was good-looking but bland. The Kevin Costner of sodas. I think it was gone faster than New Coke. Once people tried it they didn't try it twice.
You take it back! You leave Kevin out of this! He didn't do anything to you. Sorry, I get emotional when it comes to Kevin Costner.
I remember my dad swore up and down we'd never pass a blind taste test between Crystal Pepsi and regular Pepsi. We did, but we drank Pepsi products so we all lost. I do wish they had a zero version of Surge though. They brought it back and I got a case. Still working that off.
Since VI is slacking on posting weekend forgotten music, I'll submit this one. It's not great, it's not even really good. But my band played it and seeing those 80's girls brings back some great memories. EDIT: If you wanted to get laid in 1983 you had these Canadians in the cassette deck. Especially this song. We didn't play this one, but damn we should have. I could've faked that keyboard line.
I went to a beer festival today while it was 100 degrees out. After we went to a pool party that turned into skinny dipping with college chicks. I was then invited to participate in a 4 some. 2 guys 2 girls. Being a fat man this made me feel amazing. Being a married man it weirded me out. I did the correct thing and told them I'm flattered but married. This offended one of them telling me to stop looking at them. I ubered back to where I was staying alone. Being an adult is weird.
Lost our 2nd and last cat today. Little black cat. I grew up with a horrible cat allergy and then I met my (then future) wife, who had cats. Lots of Claritin facilitated our relationship. When she moved in so did the cats. More Claritin until one day I noticed I didn't need it anymore. Had spent enough time with them that i actually acclimated to them biologically. He was 16 years old, blind for the last 3, took 5 pills in the morning and 5 in the evening every day for high blood pressure and heart disease like an old man. Kidney failure and cancer got him in the end. All he wanted was a quiet life of sleeping, eating, pooping in his box, and sitting on your lap. That's what he had, more or less, but now that's all done. Now we have all this cat stuff set up and nobody to use it. Tomorrow we'll have to clear away the food bowl and the water bowl and the litter box. Fold up the couch covers. I was in my office and instinctively swung my arm behind my chair before rolling back just to make sure there wasn't a cat there. That got me.