Ice Cream Truck!

The grab bag.  Oh ....shit.  While my peers with poor judgement were sugar-slopping their wrinkled dollars away, my cash always went to The Grab Bag.  Without exception.  Sure, it was a toss up, sometimes the bounty inside was junk... but on the times when a pack of powdered sugar puff-smoke cigarettes were in the grab bag, and I was on the sidewalk, puffing like a pimp after all their ice cream dust settled, suddenly surrounded by kids wanting to 'bum' one so to speak.   Yeah, I knew whats good.  The photo below is totally wrong, the authentic grab bag was palmed to the customer in a classic brown paper lunch sack.  There was no sticker, no fancy adverts, plain old "GRAB BAG"  written in something akin to a black sharpie.  Contents wise, photo is fair enough. 
 


Totally True!                                                                                     

The US American spaceship ‘Challenger’ explodes shortly after its start. Every member of the crew died, including 6 astronauts and a private person, the teacher Christa McAuliffe. January 1986. 

I remember this because of the female teacher being on board was, wow...we'd all waved her off either in person or from our televisions.  I'm not sure they put anyone except astronauts on the missions after that until recently, or perhaps never since.  It was really sad and on live TV it was wired into classrooms - again because teacher was on board, and we all watched it blow up from ours desks, every classroom in the world had a visit from the AV department, wheeling in this contraption of television on a stand and no matter who was pulling it around the fucker was beyond cumbersome.  At the time though - cutting edge technology, tv?  IN SCHOOL?  Not a film strip?  Shut the fuck up!



So when we all eagerly watched this shuttle launch, and explode, it was surreal and I teared up a little in posting this.  This sort of thing just did not happen, and live far-reaching media coverage was fairly new, it was shocking and really awful.








Radical Recall:                                                                         

1988:  Nenah Cheery (say it like Nina):  Buffalo Stance:




1986:  Peter Gabriel:  Sledgehammer




Legit Lingo:                                                                                 
Psych
Part of Speech: Interjection
Meaning: I'm lying
Usage: Sure I'll skip the Thompson Twins concert to stay home for family game night, Mom. Psych!

Chill
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Calm down, relax
Related forms: Chill out/Take a chill pill
Usage: Muffy needs to chill out and leave my man alone!

(Muffy?  Seriously?? - J)