Pot Pie

[hafoc]

When I was in graduate school near Chicago, I lived on a little stipend from the University. They deposited my checks on Friday. That afternoon I'd go down to the bank and withdraw a little cash so that I'd be able to buy groceries for the weekend. The bank had one of these new-fangled ATM machines, so I didn't have to make it down there before the

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[foofers]

Do NOT read the nutrition info on the Marie Callender's chicken pot pie, or you'll have a Creosote Moment.

[foofers]

Ermahgerd, remember pneumatic drive-up banking? (Last time I was in PA, which was a few years back, there was a bank that still had this...I'm guessing maybe it's not entirely phased out in places where it snows?)

And the vacuum tube tester inside Thrifty...

[thewayne]

Actually, I used to own one, and I have no idea why. I was a kid, interested in electronics, and thought it was cool. A high school "electronics" teacher in the late 70's burned it out of me by thinking vacuum tubes were still the way to go when microprocessors were just beginning to make it big. No 555s, much less anything more sophisticated.

Actually, a lot of banks still use those pneumatic tubes. I unfortunately remember a clothing store (I think) that had a pneumatic tube system for taking cash sales and delivering change.

[thewayne]

35 cent chicken pot pies? Can't say I remember those. But I do have notes in my gas mileage spreadsheet showing me paying less than $1.00 for a gallon of gas.

Yeah, Marie's chicken pot pies are very good. Haven't had one in quite a while, but I remember.

I probably also ought to use an 'old fart theater' tag, that way I can complain about kids on my lawn. ;-) (ignoring the fact that I live in a forest and don't have a lawn, just a bunch of trees.)