The Next Person Game
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true, and I remember my children doing the same
The next person remembers Fizzies - a tablet you would drop in water and it would fizz and make a kid's beverage
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False
The next person used to "smoke" candy cigarettes!
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True
The next person remembers the candy wax bottles with "juice" in them
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True
The next person played with Play Doh -
False I don't think it was around in my day but I played with clay
The next person wore strictly skirts or dresses to school
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True until the 10th grade. The dress code changed and we could wear pants. Jeans followed the next year.
The next person wore saddle shoes and knee socks to school.
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true
The next person has flowering annuals planted
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False. Will be planting them is a couple of weeks.
The next person went shopping today.
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False stayed home all day. Heavy rain and some roads flooded
The next person can sing well
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Definitely false but I love to sing loud with the radio!
The next person has fun weekend plans.
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Argh, I will be at work all weekend, but hope to get to the movie 42.
the next person remembers Field Trips
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True
The next person remembers riding in the rear facing seat of a station wagon without a seat belt.
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True! Brings back memories!
The next person took a lunch box to school -
True
The next person remembers their mother using wax paper to wrap sandwiches
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true - and the wax paper always came apart, the bread was dry and the sandwiches awful
the next person remembers taking a wagon full of empty pop bottles to the store for pocket money
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true
The next person remembers when it was a real treat to have a bottle of soda (pop)
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true
The next person remembers Dilly Bars
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False - were they ice cream bars?
The next person remembers having the mumps
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True!
The next person had the chicken pox -
true
Dilly Bars were sold at Dairy Queen. They were a splat of soft serve ice cream with a stick in it, dipped in a flavored stuff that created a shell and then frozen. Haven't seen 'em for years and years.
The next person had the measles
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True
The next person remembers people getting polio
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I remember everyone standing in line at the school and getting the vaccine in a sugar cube when I was a little girl, my mom remembered all the swimming pools & theaters closed in the summers when she was young due to polio scares
The next person has seen the FDR Memorial in Washington, DC
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False..I've been to D.C., but have no recollection of the FDR memorial. I did however see the Vietnam War Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, the White House and a few other memorials.
My mother remembers that her father made his living trading in collected metals intended for recycling during WW II to support the war effort. I remember participating in "Duck and Cover" drills (in fear of a nuclear attack) at the Catholic School I attended though second grade.
The next person has never had to use a pair of pliers to change the channel on a television set.
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Yes! I remember doing that when we only got 3 channels
The next person remembers the first transistor radios ( I sent for one frpm Sears calalog with my earnings from picking blueberries)
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Not sure if true or false: I remember transistor radios, not necessarily the first ones
My uncle got polio when he was young. Was in an iron lung for quite a while
The next person will sleep in later today than they usually do during the week
Notes: I haven't been to a Dairy Queen in ages. That was our tradition to go Fridays after school when I drove DD to and from school, it was only a bit out of way. Pretty sure they had Dilly Bars then. Tradition ended when she started driving herself to high school -
Don't sleep in but I go to bed early.
The next person took a lot of slide pictures of her children
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false, they had the big clunky video cameras by then
the next person is going to work this morning (just stopping by for 10 minutes & then off I go
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Slide pix - no, photos - yes
The next person has older siblings (my brother was an amateur photographer) -
false (I am the oldest)
the next person is going to work this morning (just stopping by for 10 minutes & then off I go
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no longer employed - retired
The next person worked in the medical field
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