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Start a List with Carol and Stacy
Episode 24: Back to School Flashback
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It's almost back to school time so Carol and Stacy think back on what it was like to get ready to go back to school when they were growing up. Take a trip down memory lane to hear about first day of school outfits, supplies, lunch boxes and so much more.
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Good stuff. Hey everybody, welcome to Start a List with Carol and Stacy. I'm Stacy. I'm Carol. Um, welcome. It's sorry, we've had some technical difficulties, and then I had to step away because the dog was barking. Now my husband was calling. Well, I I was I there was no light.
SPEAKER_01Your light is pretty though, and you look very nice. I am sweaty. Thank you. I had to turn away from the window.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god, are you wearing long sleeves? It's 100 degrees out there.
SPEAKER_01Well, only well, it's a very comfy shirt, and I've been doing some work, so I wanted to be comfortable.
SPEAKER_00Um, I'm sloppy sloppy today. I've been to work, I went to walk, and now I don't have any makeup on. It just is what it is. You're doing great. She've been exercising, y'all. I haven't lost a pound. As a matter of fact, I think I gained a couple, but it's okay. It's muscle. I'm moving and I'm grooving.
SPEAKER_01You are moving.
SPEAKER_00Speaking of moving and grooving, before we get off in this. Wait. Okay, go ahead.
SPEAKER_01If if it we hear drills and hammers and stuff, I'm having a little construction in my bathroom. So if you hear construction, it is you are hearing it. Okay, you're freezing. I did.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Whoopsie. Okay. Well, if it happens again, we'll stop and try again. But okay, sounds good. Um yes, I've been going, I've only been averaging two times a week, maybe three. Okay, but I'm anyways. So I I had heard that they were now, mind y'all. This is a community center, basically. So the classes are included with your membership. It's not like I'm going to some fancy schmancy gym. So they had advertised that they were bringing back this dance class. And I was like, that is right up my alley. Because you know I love to dance, right? Yeah. So I drag a couple of my friends over there with me. I'm like, let's go do this dance class. It was in the evening. So we show up, and there's a variety of ages, mostly people I'd say middle-aged to people much older than me. And this gal starts teaching, and she was fine. I mean, whatever, but she was excited to say the least. And when I say dance class, I mean somebody's gonna teach me some eight counts and I'm gonna learn a couple routines, and we're gonna do them, and we're gonna work out. Right. We she she just says, Hey, it's gonna be a little bit harder the first time because it's gonna seem longer because we don't know the dancing or the routines and blah, blah, blah. I'm like, okay, whatever. She hits some music and off we go. And there was this gal in front of me who was in extremely good physical shape, beautiful lady. And she had a tech top on, and then she had like shorts on that have the built-in liner, like the underwear. Oh, yeah. Not like bike shorts, but like the underwear.
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SPEAKER_00And if I looked like her, I would have worn those as well. I just want to say that. Yeah. We start, and it was not what I thought it was gonna be. It was more like Zumba, and I hate Zumba. I I hate feeling like I'm just chasing somebody doing this. Well, this gal in front of me, she starts. I don't know if she thought she was performing. I don't know what she starts doing as much extra as you can. Well, I immediately got annoyed. You're looking at her like at one point she kicked her leg so high. I'm like, she looks like she's in one of those 1980s aerobics competitions. She's bouncing in and kicking in and down as low as you could go. I 10 minutes into it, I was like, I'm at I'm done. So I turned around, looked at my friends. I'm like, this is not what I thought it was gonna be. But we would do something do a song, and I'm not even sure. I felt like I was salsa dancing. It just was not my jam. And I like a little bit of instruction ahead of time. The lady in front of me ticked me off. She's and when it was time to like squat, she's like back basically down on the ground. I'm like, okay, we we know you're good. Yeah, if we've been over it all, her boot butt cheeks are out of those shorts. That's always nice. I'm gonna tell y'all, I go to classes over there and I tough it out for an hour. I left 20 minutes before this class was over. I was annoyed. I felt like it was a lot too, it was a full hour of cardio and I'm just not there yet. No, no, I don't want to be in a Ricky Martin music video. I don't want to be in a hip-hop music video, and it just was not what I was hoping.
SPEAKER_01Maybe it was training for the rockets. I could do that.
SPEAKER_00Um but like I said, I'm not trying to salsa it up and do my hips, and I'm not trying to be in a meat rap video. Um I was as annoyed as you could possibly be.
SPEAKER_01So anyway, so you did what a normal person should do, and you just stopped and looked at it.
SPEAKER_00I did.
SPEAKER_01I went and got on the treadmill.
SPEAKER_00I did it, I made it for 40 minutes and then I went and got on the treadmill because I was annoyed. And my friends came out, they were like, We started doing the cooldown after you left. I was like, I don't care. I could not watch that lady perform one more second of my hour. So, yeah, I would have just gone to another position in the room. Well, I the whole thing was just annoying me. Anyways, I'm not gonna waste any more breath on it, but I was thinking it wasn't what I was hoping. I tried to work out that day. So I'm gonna I went today for a little while and then I'm gonna go back again tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01That's awesome. Anyway, um I did find I've been fine. I did find out um the name of the toy we discussed on one of our other podcasts where you put it on your ankle and you it swings around and around. It's called skip it. Skip it, yeah. Okay, that sounds familiar. You would you would I guess you would get the gyration going and then you jump every time the ball would come around. So, and how many times did we crack our ankles with it? I probably tripped over it a million times too. But yeah, that was a little known trivia that I felt like you needed to know. Well, our topic this week. Now it is hot as everything. Oh my Lord, it is still summer, but my goodness, it'll be summer till October. October.
SPEAKER_00And um which it didn't used to be like that.
SPEAKER_01It used to turn fall at normal time. It did, it feels like it did, but I don't know. Maybe we don't remember. But I've been out shopping some and I literally got so mad when I saw Halloween candy. Like, is it out already? It is July. Do not put Halloween candy out. So I have it. Well, I'm mad. It should be. You should be. I should be. Well, start a list. Well, it's dumb. Um, the other thing that's out, and that's the topic of our podcast today, is all the school supplies. So we were thought we would go back in time and talk about what it was like when we were little and school like three weeks before school started, we everybody started getting hysterical.
SPEAKER_00So and I I saw some I remember being hysterical, but okay.
SPEAKER_01Well, I did see some people this morning. Uh I was shopping at at Walmart and the sweetest little old lady had 40 packs of the 50 cent crayons, probably for the um shoebox ministry or something.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, maybe she's got grandkids or something. She helps out with their school supplies.
SPEAKER_01Maybe, but anyway, uh that was it just reminded me. I thought, uh, so we've been talking about our memories from when we were getting ready to go back to school.
SPEAKER_00And getting ready to go back to school isn't all that different than it used to be. The the things have become different. The um well, the timeline has become different because now we go back to school um here at the very, very beginning of August. And when I was a kid, we didn't go back to school that early. Um summer feels like three weeks here. Some of the stuff has become extra, you know. Uh just a little bit. But we what do you want to what topic of this would you like to touch on first? Well, not so much.
SPEAKER_01I think well, let's just talk about going school supply shopping and school clothes shopping, I guess, like the first day of school. We that was the goal. You had to get to the first day of school.
SPEAKER_00And I still feel like now most people come in with their new outfit or their moms have bought the girls a special cute little dress to wear. Uh and I'm talking about elementary school, y'all. Um, so and I remember probably having a special outfit for the first day of school, too.
SPEAKER_01Well, I'm so old that my sweet mother sewed mine. She made mine. And I think you have some of them. Yeah. And uh I actually still have the dress that I wore on my first day of first grade. So that's kind of, I guess, weird or cool. I don't know. Sentimental. But anyway, and I have a picture of myself standing on the front porch, just standing there grinning, you know, and there's the dress. But um, yeah, we'd always have to go, seems like uh you had to have a new outfit, and you had you would have grown since the last year. So we had to have new shoes. Seems like we got maybe one or two new outfits and then mixed it with what we still could fit into.
SPEAKER_00So I asked, because you and I had already talked about this. So Sunday after church, I went to lunch with my mom and dad, and my sister was there. And I said, Okay, help me remember, because I'm not having clear memories if there was specific, like, I mean, we always get went school supply shopping, but I was thinking more along the line of clothing and I was like, What did what do you guys remember? You know, and mom was like, Well, I don't think, I mean, like, we might have gone and got you like a new outfit for the first day, but we definitely weren't buying you like a whole new wardrobe, you know. Like if you outgrew stuff, we would replace it, but it wasn't like you were getting a whole new wardrobe. And we remembered that I can remember my mom dragging out boxes of clothes that had been mine, and she would make my sister try them on. So if they fit, then Kara could get the hand-me-downs or whatever, and um which is great, yeah. And uh, but we did always get new shoes. That was a given. You got one probably one pair of new shoes, you know, and then you just mingled them in with what you already had. Yeah. And where did y'all shop? Gosh, well, I don't have a probably cast or not. I mean, my mom was she was sharing memories of her mom taking her school shopping at um downtown and Harvey's and Kane Sloan and all those places. So she had memories of doing that, and she shared something interesting that I didn't know about. She said they went to one of the department stores. I mean, this was back in the 60s, you know, and she said the downstairs had a more affordable area.
SPEAKER_01So I don't yeah, I don't remember that either.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, she said they would go and you know, get whatever they needed. So I guess forever and a day, people have been back to school, clothes shopping and clothes shopping, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, um, I remember we would always go, we'd hit up Kmart, and um I know you work there as a teenager, but what do you what do tell our listeners what they're famous for? The their blue light special. Yes, the blue light special. Well, I looked up some trivia about it because I'm like, why is there or why was there a blue light special? And uh one of the managers at one of the stores decided he had either the truck had sent him too much of something or he had ordered too much of something. He wanted to get move it fast. He went into the automotive department and got a blue police light and set it on a pole and turned it on and made an announcement, and they said it was like a living game show, like people come run, came running over, and um shooting and then he would he would like sell them really fast and it started working, so they kept doing it. And the last one they did, they ended it in 1991, and I thought, dang, it was a great idea.
SPEAKER_00I loved Kmart and I shopped at the one in Lebanon until it went out of business, until they closed it. I worked at the one in Hermitage. The blue light, you're right, it looked just like a police light, even the updated version.
SPEAKER_01Why were they selling police lights? Like I mean, it was just gone. I could have gone in there and just put one on my vehicle and what tried to citizens arrest somebody.
SPEAKER_00So they'd probably been upgraded from actual police lights. I'm sure somebody specially made them for Kmart, but I know I worked there, I was a cashier, so I was usually up front, not out in the store so much. But they still, this was in the 80s, made an announcement or early 90s, I'm sorry, and they would say today's blue light special is, and they'd give a description, and then the blue light would be placed near or around wherever the item was. But when we when I worked there, people would come in and do a lot of clothes shopping and shoe shopping for back to school, but we had layaway, and I would work layaway a lot. And so they'd either come in and make a payment or they they were like, I'm paying it off, and you'd go retrieve it out of the and there was always jam-packed full of stuff.
SPEAKER_01It was like having it like you were gonna rent, you're holding it until you could pay it off or whatever. Um, we did that was on my list of things to talk about about layaway and how I can remember that I didn't remember what we had put in layaway. So it was like we were getting brand new clothes again.
SPEAKER_00I wonder what average, because I know my mom and dad, uh layaway is not a thing anymore, I guess. But um, I guess if you don't have the money for it, you either don't get it or you put it on a credit card. And you didn't pay interest, they were holding it free of charge, to my knowledge. I don't believe there was any interest on it. I don't know. I I should look it up, but I don't remember, but I um but yeah, we would do that. You would um, you know, people that's how they could get things because you might not have enough money to get everything you needed at that moment. Right. And I think you had to put a certain percentage down on it to begin with. You couldn't just load up a shopping cart and give them two bucks, you know.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so this says layaway is a payment plan that lets you reserve an item by paying for it and installments before you take it home. For example, if the television was $500, you might pay $50 up front and pay the remaining $450 uh over the next several weeks. So by now, pay later, basically. Um interest, you're right.
SPEAKER_00So I don't remember it being like that, but anyway, so that's one way people would get their their clothes and shoes for back to school.
SPEAKER_01And do you remember we I feel like we always had to have a pair of new pair of those knee socks that were like sweater knit knee socks and tights. And they never were tall enough and they would creep down during the day.
SPEAKER_00You'd take about 20 steps and they'd be like oh, and they're not they don't fit good because there would be little girls still when I was teaching wear them, and then it'd always be the top part that wasn't the cute type part showing, and then the uh yeah, yeah. Well, when you were growing up, like I remember being very excited. So, this is a lot about my personality. I remember being very excited to get ready to go to school. I loved getting all my things and being as organized, and then about I don't know, good three weeks into it, that had all gone to heck.
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh. I can remember, I think student. Yeah. My favorite part of school shopping or school supply shopping was the brand new crispy um um school box, the one that says this belongs to, and it had kids running with a cardboard, the old cardboard ones. The cardboard like a cigar box. It was like a cigar box. And by the end of the year, you'd have to jam your pencil down in it to get the lid out because it would fall down inside it. It was falling apart. It probably been taped together a couple times. It was, and then all the crayons had you know scratched the inside. I mean, they literally would just throw them away. But I surprisingly, I have two in my basement, right? I mean, I remember you do. I do want to say it. One of them says, This belongs to Carol Garrett. Oh, that was my yep, and I put my elementary school on it and my snack teacher's name. I can't believe you still have that. Oh, yeah. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00I got, I think I got a new lunchbox every year because those were pretty funky by the end of the year. Don't you feel like?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I mean, I did graduate to a paper sack eventually just because it was I think in high school I did, but I can remember I had a couple cute ones in um yeah, I don't think I carried a lunchbox in middle school.
SPEAKER_00I don't remember, but yeah. In elementary school, I had a couple cute ones. And then do you remember this? Tupperware was a big deal back in the day, y'all. I had a Tupperware lunchbox and it had the handle that you unsnapped and your lid popped off.
SPEAKER_01I do remember it was orange. I can remember them being in orange. The orange or dark red orange color, yeah. Or rust. I had one of those for a while. I remember too, um, mom would let me pick out, they would say, Okay, you need some folders, and it has to have the brads in it. Well, at some point, I think we had transitioned to a notebook with the clampy clips that would just pinch your finger off. But they had the two top and bottom buttons, and you could open them and close them. Well, then we could put our folders in there because they had the whole punch. Well, I always picked out either kittens or puppies. Um I don't think there was a lot of other options. No, there were kittens and puppies, and then I remember plain notebook paper. We'd have to buy that. And even what, up to about five years ago, they'd have a one cent sale at Staples, and you could get a whole pack of notebook paper for a penny. And 'cause all the teachers would run in there, and I think they let you buy whatever your height was, you know, like you could buy it and stack to however tall you were.
SPEAKER_00I mean, we I think when we were getting ready for school, and it's been a thousand years ago. I think we just got the basics. You got whatever pencil box you had, or maybe you had a pouch. I don't know. Yeah. You had a box of crayons, you had your pencils, you had um scissors and glue. And I don't mean glue sticks, people, because that's that's been a newer thing. We didn't have glue sticks, did we?
SPEAKER_01We had the old school Elmer's glue, the kind that you could never get out of the tool.
SPEAKER_00Told her this weird rubber glue that had the rubber tip on the I don't remember it working.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that was in a brown bottle. It looked like an hourglass. Uh-huh. And it had a rubber tip on the that was like uh uh, yeah, it was almost like rubber cement. Yeah. But the opening was like a nipple. It opened up weird.
SPEAKER_00But you people don't understand like trying to work with a five-year-old as a five-year-old trying to control your Elmer's glue. I wouldn't let a five-year-old have a thing of Elmer's glue right now if you paid me money, but they're terrible. Terrible. So the glue stick, congratulations on whoever invented that. Wonderful invention. But what yeah, that's basically oh, and no, I mean, like you said, depending on what grade you're in, you'd have a notebook with paper. And of course, when the trapper keeper came out, we all ran like our our pants were on fire to get one of those suckers.
SPEAKER_01I have I have trapper keeper on my list too, because the good thing about the trapper keeper, folks, is that you no longer needed a school box, you had the zipper pouch because it too had a hole punched binder. So you had all your supplies in one big holder, one big notebook.
SPEAKER_00It came with folders already in it. It did, and then maybe it had a zipper pouch in it or a built-in pouch to the back of it. I can't they re brought them out several years ago, and I bought my sister one one year for her birthday. Oh, cute.
SPEAKER_01She was, I still use it. Do you remember it had a uh built-in, it was literally riveted in in the very back, a paper clip. I mean a um clip, a binder. What's it called? Well, it was designed a like a clipboard.
SPEAKER_00It was designed to open it and then fold it. Yes, you know, you it was designed to do that if you didn't have a million things in it. Yeah, it was a trip. You could use it as a uh clipboard on the back. Home office all in one. That makes me remember. So my mom and dad have friends that they my mom has known since high school, the the wife. And so they're just family friends of ours since forever. I've always known them. Her husband worked for mead for years, and when He worked there. Anytime we'd go visit them or they'd come see us, they would bring us like like I remember him bringing a trapper keeper or the fun, like you're talking about folders with oh my god, rainbows and cats and whatever it had on it, you know, and notebooks and everything else.
SPEAKER_01That reminds me about the year that the Lisa Frank junk came out and it was all like pink and all the neon colors and the leopard and everything. Uh the best, the the most surprising thing about all of this is it had absolutely nothing to do with learning. We just had to go buy all the junk. I mean, pencil grips, really. I didn't know I needed to grip it.
SPEAKER_00Well, now we use those to help kids hold their pencils the right way, but they designed them better. Back then it was just a cushion so you didn't get a callus. But now they're designed to actually hold your pencil a certain way. We're very particular as teachers. We don't want all that crap. Like, don't send me a Lisa Frank folder because it's got and I would tell my families, I'm like, if you want to get like if they just really want the pencil pouch that looks like a slice of pizza, that's great. Get it and they can use it to keep their supplies in at home or something. But don't send me a pizza pouch, what you know, to put your stuff in. Or if they want the cute folder, I mean I still got one downstairs of Lewis's. It was Star Wars, and I kept his paper in it at home. Yeah. So he knew where he could get notebook paper if he needed it or whatever.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Um that reminds me too of uh I always wanted to buy mechanical pencils, which were the worst.
SPEAKER_00I'm too heavy-handed at those because I throw them off.
SPEAKER_01Pop, pop, pop. You spend the whole day trying to refill them. And then and then do you remember ever biting into your pencil? Oh, yeah, all the time. As a elementary kid. I don't know what I saw a kid doing that, but get that out of your mouth.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but we did that. We grossed it. We like it. There was a something about the whole thing would be covered in tooth marks. Like, yeah. I don't know why we did that, but everybody did it. Did we? I guess we had some type of bag or a bagpack, I don't recall it being like a a super big deal. Like we had them, but we didn't really well. I think they called them side chills. Yeah, we sometimes I mean, literally, we just carried a bag sometimes.
SPEAKER_01I feel like like a book bag. Yeah. A book bag. Um and I remember um dyeing for the scratch and sniff snick stickers. Oh heck yeah. And um, yeah, we wanted to put those on our notebooks, and then of course you'd scratch all the smelly off, and then you keep trying to scratch it to see if it still smelled like a strawberry or whatever.
SPEAKER_00Okay, this you that makes me think, not the sticker, but the part you said about the book bag or the satchel. Uh-huh. I've just finished watching the reboot of Little House on the Prairie on Netflix. So and when I was a kid, I for those of you that didn't watch the OG Little House on the Prairie, they had to walk to school every day, you guys. And they took their lunch in a metal pail, literally, and it had like a cloth napkin thing over the top of it, and they carried their books in like a leather belt. Like is yeah, it's a book carrier.
SPEAKER_01I have one of those. That one's so cool. You have one. I have one. I need to go get it. It's a lot of baby. It's a handle. No, it's a handle and it has a a retractable strap on it, and you would lie it down, like lie your put your books stacked in there and and fasten it and tighten it.
SPEAKER_00And it had a swing. I cannot believe you have one of those. Are you kidding me? I can I come over and play with it. It is missing its strap. Can we well, it's just the handle. Can I come over and play Little House on the Prairie Goes to School? You can.
SPEAKER_01You can. Um, the other thing about book talking about books, we used to always want to cover our books with that brown paper and then doodle on them.
SPEAKER_00Yes. And I could never figure out how to do it. My mom and dad do how because that's how they covered their books. Yeah. Because they made them brand new. Remember, you had to turn your books back in every single year. So it also protected your book. But yeah, my mom and dad would help me do that. You'd get grocery bags or gro um because back then, y'all, we didn't have plastic grocery bags. It was brown paper bags. Wallpaper. And they would do them and you'd cover your book. And yeah, I forgot about that.
SPEAKER_01That's a blast from the past. And my other favorite thing was I would when the teacher handed out books, they'd call your name and you'd have to write your name in the front cover on that little. And I always wanted to see who had mine last year. Yeah, I'm like, whose was this? I'm like, ooh, I got uh Sarah Lampkins or whoever.
SPEAKER_00Somebody's that hadn't taken care of it. You were stuck with a nasty uh gross book all year. Like they'd start it on it or something like that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Or you could see, yeah, junk in there.
SPEAKER_00I liked getting a brand new one because my name got to be the first name.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yes. And the and the corners were not phrased.
SPEAKER_00And for some reason, you would write your name and then you'd write, like, for example, that it was the 26th, 27th school year.
SPEAKER_01Like, ooh, okay. You did. You had to write the date in there, um, which reminds me of we back in the day, we literally went to the card catalog and looked up a book, and we'd have to go to the shelf.
SPEAKER_00You young know how good you have it.
SPEAKER_01No, look for what they called the call numbers, and then there our book would be. But that was a skill.
SPEAKER_00Um, look at our list, and before we get because I don't we've got a few minutes, but school picture day. Oh, yeah. We briefly talked about that. So that's yeah. It's still just as big of a deal now as it is as it was back then.
SPEAKER_01Now, the good news about that was we didn't have to have school picture day clothes when we went um first school first day of school shopping because the only thing that would show in the picture would be your top. Yeah, the top part of what you're wearing. So you could just be wearing, you know, two years ago's skirt. If it's still fed, it didn't matter. Um, but I do remember on that topic about school clothes shopping that I had these I thought they were patent leather, but now I know they were plastic zip-up boots. Like they zipped all the way up to my knees there. Oh, like go-go boots. Go-go-ish boots. Yes. And you're talking about hot, and you know they hurt my feet. I guess that's why I can barely walk now. But yes, I had those. I don't have any of those. I'm pretty sure I wore knee socks with dresses because little girls used to wear knee socks. We did. We wore the knee socks, and then uh some of the names of the shoes I looked up um were the the kids and the reebox and the converse. But then when we were in middle school, they came out with reebok pumps. Oh, yeah, and you would take the tongue and it had a like a basketball or a soccer ball, and you would literally pump air into somewhere of the shoe. I don't know what it was.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I remember pumps. These were a big trend back in the day. Like people just wear this, you know, kids now they wear Birkenstocks or they wear whatever. Yeah. We had did you ever have any of those? This was probably in middle school or early high school. The brown, they were Eastlands, and they look like boat shoes kind of.
SPEAKER_01I had the I did.
SPEAKER_00I didn't think we called them we called them boat loafers or something.
SPEAKER_01They were east were maroon. Mine were maroon.
SPEAKER_00I think I just had the plain brown ones. I went through a phase where I wore penny loafers and I put an actual penny in them. I don't know where that came from.
SPEAKER_01Your dad, because your mom and dad would have worn them, yep.
SPEAKER_00And I had penny loafers and I wore those suckers. I had the reebox. I don't think I had the pump up kind, but I had the reebox for sure.
SPEAKER_01Well, and then uh one more thing I remember is because I was a big kid, we'll just leave it at that. Then we had to shop at Sears for the tough skin jeans. And I would be mortified because you could have just put gone to the lumber yard and put on two by fours and they would have been softer. These things were like full-on sandpaper. Well, that they were tough skin.
SPEAKER_00Why did they make you get tough skins?
SPEAKER_01That I guess because I couldn't have torn them up. I don't know, but they came in um they came in big size, husky, yeah.
SPEAKER_00That's what they called the the chubby kids' clothes back in the day, husky. Well, that's what I wore because I was just railing like a cylinder toothpick as a kid. I know that's hard to imagine, y'all. But I was a cylinder. I had really long legs. So my problem was finding pants. Back then they didn't make pants that came in tall. You just had to get what they had. And so I felt like my pants were always a little short. And poor thing, we'd always call them high waters. I was so dang happy when the capri pant came out. I'm like, god damn. I can't know my pants aren't gonna be too short.
SPEAKER_01I love it. That's yeah, then you could wear you could wear some back from third grade.
SPEAKER_00And it wasn't just my parents bought them too short. It's just, you know, I I was a I was tall for a girl, kind of like you. I always felt like I was one of the taller ones in the class. And yeah, and I just grew, you know, my legs were long. And so if anything got too short, it would be that. I mean, I was dying one time, speaking of clothes for school. Of course, name brands were a big deal when we were kids. And I feel like now that's not as big of a deal unless your parents make it a big deal. Yeah. But for some reason they were, and I just could not wait to get my hands on a pair of Jordash jeans, and I got a pair for Christmas, and I wore those until I had to lay down on the bed to button them up and zip them.
SPEAKER_01All day. Uh-huh. I had those. And then one year I had to have a pair of Calvin Kleins, which fit nobody. They were straight as a stick, and I was not. And then uh the Gloria Vanderbilt's with the swan on it. So I had a pair of those. That was always fun.
SPEAKER_00Well, I do want to follow up. We're gonna be out of time. We've got five minutes. Okay, but I want to follow up on another episode because I made a TikTok on this briefly, but I want to do a public service announcement about school supplies for all the parents out there buying ridiculous stuff. And so I do want to touch on that again eventually because it's hilarious. You need to link the TikTok. The school supplies these days have gotten to be um something else. There's a lot of them. We ask as teachers, we ask parents to provide a lot. I mean, it's you know, um, but yeah, it's not as simple as it used to be.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's over the top for sure.
SPEAKER_00And I still get nostalgic for school supplies. I went and looked around the other day. I don't need any. I'm not buying any for anybody, but I didn't I love a new black, fresh, sharpie. Well, I do too. And I'm like, what do I need a notebook for? And I'm like, nothing. I got a drawer literally full of notepads right here as I'm looking at them. And yeah, but then I go, but they're 50 cents. What do I need a notebook for? Absolutely, I think. Do y'all want one? Yes. Uh-huh. And I mean, when I tell y'all when we were in middle school, we didn't even talk about this. It's a whole nother story. We had lockers and they were half lockers, and you know, if you got the one on the bottom, it sucked. But um, you know, we didn't we might tape a picture or something we cut out of a magazine. They have legit shelves, they have chandeliers, they have magnet mirrors. If you got a shelf for your locker, your daddy cut it out of a two by four piece of wood. Absolutely. And he wood burned your name on it. Uh I don't even look but I'm just saying, like you just jammed it in there and it, you know, I hope it fit. No, there was we didn't need a shelf. There was no, but there was so many fancy things now. I mean, you could carpet your locker, I'm pretty sure, right now. There's it's like a miniature dollhouse in there. It's ridiculous. First of all, I was trying to spend as little time as possible at my nasty locker. Who's decorating it up that you're standing around? We got five minutes between class, which means you had to get your books, you had to use the bathroom, and you had to find your next class. I'm like, I'm not standing around looking at my chandelier. No, but oh, and it turns on too.
SPEAKER_01I know they have a dimmable, a dimmable. I'm I'm like case you in case it gets too bright in there while you're digging around for your lipstick or whatever you've been.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. I just thought of that. I'm like, oh locker. Uh-uh. And you had to get your lock for your locker every year in the school. You had to rent your lock from the school. You couldn't bring your own.
SPEAKER_01That's something we haven't thought of. We need to do designer locker locks like with fur and chains and diamonds and junk hanging off of them.
SPEAKER_00Like, do people even use lockers anymore? I don't know. Everybody's got everything they own in a giant backpack. I mean, Lewis had a locker, and I don't think he ever kept anything in it.
SPEAKER_01All I know is the backpacks always weighed about 75 pounds.
SPEAKER_00Well, I think Lewis kept everything in his because I was like, don't forget anything. He's like, I'll just keep it all in my backpack that way. I've got it. Well, that's one way to do it. Oh, y'all. Well, with school, I know um if you're a teacher listening, you're and you live in our area, you are prepping to go back right now. I just read there are three more Saturdays until school starts back.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, hang in there, you can do it. Yeah, you can. Um I mean, we're living proof. We're living proof that you can do it, and then one day you won't do it. So you won't.
SPEAKER_00You you'll be fine with that. Yeah, I'm fine with it. I've I've got a friend moving to a new school, and they, you know, can't really get in there yet. She's like, we're allowed to go work in there, but we can't bring anybody yet to help us. I'm like, uh the thought of having to set up and drag out all the furniture and everything. So I'm I'm glad to be just over here hanging out with you, ma'am.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I know. It is fun, it's nice, even though it's hot, it's still fun. Yes, okay. Well, I don't have my uh ringaling a ding, so I'm just gonna take us out with a uh a tone.
SPEAKER_00Well, hold on one second. I wanted to ask our listeners to do one thing. Yes, I'm gonna find pictures of me and Carol back on some of our first days of school. I'm gonna share this. If you have a picture of you as a child on one of your first days of school, please share it. We would love to see it and um hear from you guys what all you're doing. So, okay, I'm sorry. Go ahead. All right. Remember, folks, don't make a fist.
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