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My wife's family used to mop the walls as part of cleaning.
It wasn't until she moved out that she twigged that non-smokers don't have to do that.
We'd all put on our scruffiest clothes before visiting my granddad, because they'd be going straight into the washing machine the second we got back. No wonder he kept giving us money, he probably thought we were poor as dirt.
I was the same way when I visited smoking family, I'd strip at the door and hit the shower when I got home.
Mopping the walls, my God.
Four out of five doctors recommend Marlboro cigarettes. The fifth one would too, if he weren't currently in the hospital with all this unrelated lung cancer.
This is what my mom drove in the 80s-90s.
This is where i would lie down...
Dang, was your mom single then? (I'm on my way inventing a time machine).
I had a similar experience in the 90s, but with a non-cool car - parents bought a TV & to fit it in a tiny car they had to put the back seats down ... which left the trunk for me (in a 5-door car, but still, highway speeds, and when I pointed out the safety issues they just said to hold on to a seatbelt ... ?).
The same parents ultra-terrified of me getting in a car accident with anyone (because others are terrible drivers), and to this day terrified I'll crash my car each and every time Im in it ... the patents that totaled a few cars vs me never in an accident and almost keeping up with professional kart racers (well, ""almost"", and even that on my best few laps before ahdh starts fighting me entering a corner).
Oh, and also the same parents I have to buy tires for against their will & have a few fights with to get them changed.
My mum's got a great anecdote about how the doctor came around about my cough when I was a newborn, and he came into a room full of local mums all fawning over me in my cot and chugging away.
I wonder if the reason I see duplicate memes on All is because a lot of people have blocked lemmy.ml and other large instances
There's all these iconic photos of Walt Disney where he's pointing at stuff with a two finger point. I've heard that some within the company say that this is the example by which their resort employees always use the two finger point to direct guests.
In reality, he was holding a cigarette and the photos have been airbrushed. He died of lung cancer in 1966. Pointing with two fingers is just seen (kind of universally across cultures) as being non-accusatory. Like, say you saw someone talking to someone else and you cannot hear them (or it's in a language you don't understand); they're pointing with one finger in your direction, you may be inclined to think they're talking about you. If they're using the two finger point, you're less likely to think that... it's the same for airliner flight crew.
I'm a former cast member, can confirm. During Traditions (company culture and job orientation/training), they're taught to point with two fingers for exactly the reason you point out, and Walt Disney is shown pointing like that in the slides. They don't tell you, but most people eventually figure out, that there's a cigarette photoshopped out of his fingers.
Traditions! That's what it's called! Couldn't for the life of me remember.
Where'd you work? I was a monorail pilot down in Orlando.
I was in DAK Dinoland attractions for a while and then I worked in merchandise for a few years in the same park. A friend of mine was a monorail pilot around 2008 or so. Were you in the college program?
College program in 06, seasonal transportation car member for two years after that.
Pointing with two fingers is just seen (kind of universally across cultures) as being non-accusatory.
womp, citation needed. not to be a downer but this would be waaaay way too interesting if true to let it be said without some grounds
Sorry, was drunk when writing that. Meant it to be implied that this is what companies tell their employees about why they do it.
I remember whenever you went to a sit down restaurant you had to tell the person seating you if you wanted smoking or non-smoking. As if it mattered lol.
Also, car seats in the 70s:
My boomer bitch ass parents used to complain about us needing a few minutes to strap a car seat into a car in the 2010's.
"We didn't need car seats when we were babies and we survived."
They were fucking obnoxious.
Survivor bias right there.
People are still doing "Nobody:" memes? They don't even make sense. This would be improved 100% by removing the "Nobody:" line.
This photo could be straight out of my photo album. This looks just like my dad, in hair, beard, clothes, and ciggie.
That was the "Me" generation after all
I remember the first time I was at someone's house and they asked a visitor who who was about to light up to take it outside. It seemed so.odd. My mom, grandmother and aunts would sit around the dining room table with a thick haze. Nobody thought nothing of it
