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Posted on 7/26/13 at 7:59 pm to TRUERockyTop
Posted on 7/26/13 at 7:59 pm to TRUERockyTop
Our little town had a Piggly Wiggly when I was little (before Walmart wiped them all out) and I remember going there with my Papaw. They had a little gumball machine that was a Chicken. It would light up and make a crowing sound and drop out an egg, and inside you'd find your "prize". Sometimes it was candy, sometimes it was those puffy, glitter stickers (like Mr. T or the A-Team ones that I used to collect when I was about 6).
Holy shite, I miss that Piggly Wiggly.
And small town Arkansas teenage years were marked by cruising main, Sonic on one end of town, and parking at the grocery store or hardware store.
Kids don't do that anymore. Gas is too expensive, and they can just text or facebook their friends instead of actually having to go track them down to have a conversation.
Holy shite, I miss that Piggly Wiggly.
And small town Arkansas teenage years were marked by cruising main, Sonic on one end of town, and parking at the grocery store or hardware store.
Kids don't do that anymore. Gas is too expensive, and they can just text or facebook their friends instead of actually having to go track them down to have a conversation.
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Posted on 7/26/13 at 8:08 pm to wmr
I lived in a little town on the river called Kingston,TN about 20 minutes south of Knoxville from 4th grade through 8th grade before moving back to Knoxville for most of high school. Made the best friends of my life there who I'm still best friends with today. Every weekend I would drive back to Kingston to be with everyone, and all our lives consisted of was Friday night football. Cruising the strip, meeting up at sonic, bonfire parties and being on the lake or in the mountains all day and I'm only 23. The kids still do it in a lot of places, it's just not as common as it was for the generations before us. Half of the people I know are grown and still continue to do it in some shape or form 
This post was edited on 7/26/13 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 7/26/13 at 10:14 pm to wmr
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And small town Arkansas teenage years were marked by cruising main, Sonic on one end of town, and parking at the grocery store or hardware store.
Sounds eerily similar to my hometown.
After a few loops down Main St., around the Sonic, then back to the grocery store parking lot, rounding up friends, we'd hit the back roads to someone's deer camp, or dead end road, where someone ALWAYS had a couple of kegs.
When I visit my hometown, now, there are zero kids out & about. Then I remember internet, email, texting, etc. It's kinda sad to me. I definitely believe we had more fun growing up.
Posted on 7/27/13 at 10:00 am to wmr
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Kids don't do that anymore. Gas is too expensive, and they can just text or facebook their friends instead of actually having to go track them down to have a conversation
Wasn't true for my group. I grew up in a small town in NE Arkansas, and graduated in 2010. If we were bored, we would drive up to Sonic or the old Walmart parking lot and just hang out. Wouldn't ask who all was there, just went and talked to whoever was
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