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Like a pediatrician rounding on cystic fibrosis children in the hospital and smoking at their bedside. That's what the early 1980s were like. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (8 children)

So the grocery store in my little town growing up was the last hold out. They had ash trays in their buggies until they legally couldn't, then kept the buggies for years after.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What’s a buggy in this context, a cart?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Correct.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

And back in the 80s, a cart was something you pushed at the grocery store, not something you smoked. And a buggy was a hardware cart that you’d deploy to go shopping, and then when you were done you’d roll it back and get your quarter back.

1984 was a strange time, linguistically speaking.

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