She probably lived in a small town where it was safer for children to meander to the store for mom. 8 years old was never too young to go buy candies and milk. Even I got to do that in small city, Hull, Quebec way back when. Life was very much safer then….Just a few black leatherjackets around in those days.
When I was a teenager I often went to the store for my mom but she demanded every penny of change back. Lucky Elizabeth. I didn’t even get to have a candy bar.
When I was 8, I was given 10 bucks and a note: Cigarettes, a bag of milk (yes it exists-look it up), a container of margarine, and was told I could keep the change. Mom KNEW the change was only 20-30 cents, but I didn’t care, whoppers and a can of Beckers cream soda! That was 1981.
Ah, you silly Canadians. What fun is there going to school when you don’t need armed teachers and metal detectors at the entrance? Now, where did I leave my grandkids Kevlar sweater?
It used to erk me as a kid, when my mom would send me to the store with a grocery list and $30 and tell me I could keep the change. Inevitably, the groceries would cost around $29.97 !
Of course, it did teach me at a very early age, to be a comparison shopper and a bargain hunter.
I remember my father taking my brother and me to the corner store after Sunday mass and buying us each $0.05 worth of candy. I used to get a whole bagful, which he doled out to us each day. I used to go to the same corner store to pick up his cigars and pipe tobacco.
When I was a kid I’d walk a mile to the store to buy something or my uncle and a mile back. He’d tip me a dime. Once I asked him if I could have the dime while I was at the store so that I didn’t have to walk another two miles to buy my penny candy. Boy was he mad.
I ran into a wonderful idea for spoilers on another strip this morning. The first person to make a comment that would be a spoiler posted just the word “Spoiler”. Then he replied to his own comment and opened up a thread where several people also made spoiler-type comments as replies to that first one. That way, if a newbie doesn’t want to see spoilers, they just pass over that comment and its replies. We ought to try it here.
When I to the store o buy our weekly groceries, my mother would estimate the amount I would need and give me the money. If it wasn’t enough, I knew the order to return stuff. If it was less than the order, II had to return the change. My pay for doing the shopping was I kept the “Plaid Stamps”. From that, I was able to get a record player and other items I wanted. I’m wondering if anyone else remembers Green or Plaid Stamps
When I was about 10 years old, back in the early 1950s; I mowed lawns for my parents and a couple of neighbors with an old push- reel type mower for my money.It was hard work but I really appreciated having my own money to spend like I wanted. I think the benefits of that experience have extended far into the future to now, when I am 79!
To see the presence of those stores, in today’s times, one has to know the neighborhood from a bike riding or walking perspective. They are easy to miss if one drives by on the way to somewhere…If you live in a city, you’ll be familiar with a “corner store”, located on the street level of a high rise condo tower, where children are sent to buy a carton of milk and/or a loaf of bread. There are no “corner stores” in an sterile suburb of a new development. We live in an old suburb. There is a “corner store” right across from the school where kids shop by themselves every day. It is walking distance from our house.
Templo S.U.D. over 6 years ago
By the time Elizabeth gets home, either Elly or John will ask where the change is after buying only milk.
howtheduck over 6 years ago
This is not a strip that would work today:
1. Candy is so expensive that you can’t buy it with change any more.
2. The idea that you would send your 8-year-old kid to a corner store to buy groceries all by herself.
Argythree over 6 years ago
Another reason why this ‘toon wouldn’t work today: we have fewer and fewer ‘corner stores’…
kfccanada over 6 years ago
She probably lived in a small town where it was safer for children to meander to the store for mom. 8 years old was never too young to go buy candies and milk. Even I got to do that in small city, Hull, Quebec way back when. Life was very much safer then….Just a few black leatherjackets around in those days.
alondra over 6 years ago
When I was a teenager I often went to the store for my mom but she demanded every penny of change back. Lucky Elizabeth. I didn’t even get to have a candy bar.
keltii over 6 years ago
When I was 8, I was given 10 bucks and a note: Cigarettes, a bag of milk (yes it exists-look it up), a container of margarine, and was told I could keep the change. Mom KNEW the change was only 20-30 cents, but I didn’t care, whoppers and a can of Beckers cream soda! That was 1981.
chuck_sa over 6 years ago
Ah, you silly Canadians. What fun is there going to school when you don’t need armed teachers and metal detectors at the entrance? Now, where did I leave my grandkids Kevlar sweater?
coffeeturtle over 6 years ago
The only drills we had at school were fire drills.
Linguist over 6 years ago
It used to erk me as a kid, when my mom would send me to the store with a grocery list and $30 and tell me I could keep the change. Inevitably, the groceries would cost around $29.97 !
Of course, it did teach me at a very early age, to be a comparison shopper and a bargain hunter.
ladykat over 6 years ago
I remember my father taking my brother and me to the corner store after Sunday mass and buying us each $0.05 worth of candy. I used to get a whole bagful, which he doled out to us each day. I used to go to the same corner store to pick up his cigars and pipe tobacco.
whiteaj over 6 years ago
When I was a kid I’d walk a mile to the store to buy something or my uncle and a mile back. He’d tip me a dime. Once I asked him if I could have the dime while I was at the store so that I didn’t have to walk another two miles to buy my penny candy. Boy was he mad.
Jan C over 6 years ago
I ran into a wonderful idea for spoilers on another strip this morning. The first person to make a comment that would be a spoiler posted just the word “Spoiler”. Then he replied to his own comment and opened up a thread where several people also made spoiler-type comments as replies to that first one. That way, if a newbie doesn’t want to see spoilers, they just pass over that comment and its replies. We ought to try it here.
Great Wizard Nala over 6 years ago
When I to the store o buy our weekly groceries, my mother would estimate the amount I would need and give me the money. If it wasn’t enough, I knew the order to return stuff. If it was less than the order, II had to return the change. My pay for doing the shopping was I kept the “Plaid Stamps”. From that, I was able to get a record player and other items I wanted. I’m wondering if anyone else remembers Green or Plaid Stamps
kodj kodjin over 6 years ago
When I was about 10 years old, back in the early 1950s; I mowed lawns for my parents and a couple of neighbors with an old push- reel type mower for my money.It was hard work but I really appreciated having my own money to spend like I wanted. I think the benefits of that experience have extended far into the future to now, when I am 79!
1JennyJenkins over 6 years ago
To see the presence of those stores, in today’s times, one has to know the neighborhood from a bike riding or walking perspective. They are easy to miss if one drives by on the way to somewhere…If you live in a city, you’ll be familiar with a “corner store”, located on the street level of a high rise condo tower, where children are sent to buy a carton of milk and/or a loaf of bread. There are no “corner stores” in an sterile suburb of a new development. We live in an old suburb. There is a “corner store” right across from the school where kids shop by themselves every day. It is walking distance from our house.