Everybody thinks about small towns or neighborhoods and think pies. They think Any Taylor.
Yes the bake in small towns but guess what we also get mountain dew. Do you remember the hillbilly artwork on the bottle. I think I saw my first mountain dew bottle a couple of weeks ago. I should've bought it as I'm not sure I will see it again in the south. Remember this is Coke country.
So how does a "pop" enter into a blog. It's funny because someone said pop to me and it was like I had been in the Amazon for the last year the word shocked me. I had a delay and a smile because guess what a "pop", soda, coke, cool drink, is demographic to where you grew up
I used to ride my first ten speed the coastal king to Voshells gas station to buy a mountain dew. Iowa was a Pepsi place. It was less than a quarter very nice and refreshing. However the drink wasn't what it was about.
It was hanging out and listening to everyone that came in for either a oil change or a fill up. Do people remember when someone filled the gas tank for you. Checked the tires, oil etc? I'm guessing the ones that read this do. The next generation not so much.
Mayberry they hung out at goobers. Well we hung out at Voshells and before that Ioco. What is Ioca it's gone. America likes to do a good job of erasing memories like gulf, sinclair etc.
The reality is was cool. We also would use a vending machine, that required cash not a credit card.
Credit card I remember when it was just paper seeing my parents seldom used it. Not like us where the strip wares out and we need to get a new one.
Here is the thing. It was not about a transaction instead it was about a history. Mayberry and Mountain Dew are a history.
You remember where you had the drink how much it may have cost and most importantly who you had shared the mountain dew with or who you had experienced the small town with.
Something tells me it was around .50 for a 16 ounce in the machine. Who would've thought that the non-business water cooler was the pop machine.
So did mountain dew have impact on the social interaction? No because it was just a great meeting place. The social interaction came from people willing to be engaged without inhibitions.
Mayberry and pops what a great place. If only they would put them back in the workplace instead of the water cooler. I know not healthy but is not talking healthy?
It's all good because you know what sharing a drink with friend is priceless
Yes the bake in small towns but guess what we also get mountain dew. Do you remember the hillbilly artwork on the bottle. I think I saw my first mountain dew bottle a couple of weeks ago. I should've bought it as I'm not sure I will see it again in the south. Remember this is Coke country.
So how does a "pop" enter into a blog. It's funny because someone said pop to me and it was like I had been in the Amazon for the last year the word shocked me. I had a delay and a smile because guess what a "pop", soda, coke, cool drink, is demographic to where you grew up
I used to ride my first ten speed the coastal king to Voshells gas station to buy a mountain dew. Iowa was a Pepsi place. It was less than a quarter very nice and refreshing. However the drink wasn't what it was about.
It was hanging out and listening to everyone that came in for either a oil change or a fill up. Do people remember when someone filled the gas tank for you. Checked the tires, oil etc? I'm guessing the ones that read this do. The next generation not so much.
Mayberry they hung out at goobers. Well we hung out at Voshells and before that Ioco. What is Ioca it's gone. America likes to do a good job of erasing memories like gulf, sinclair etc.
The reality is was cool. We also would use a vending machine, that required cash not a credit card.
Credit card I remember when it was just paper seeing my parents seldom used it. Not like us where the strip wares out and we need to get a new one.
Here is the thing. It was not about a transaction instead it was about a history. Mayberry and Mountain Dew are a history.
You remember where you had the drink how much it may have cost and most importantly who you had shared the mountain dew with or who you had experienced the small town with.
Something tells me it was around .50 for a 16 ounce in the machine. Who would've thought that the non-business water cooler was the pop machine.
So did mountain dew have impact on the social interaction? No because it was just a great meeting place. The social interaction came from people willing to be engaged without inhibitions.
Mayberry and pops what a great place. If only they would put them back in the workplace instead of the water cooler. I know not healthy but is not talking healthy?
It's all good because you know what sharing a drink with friend is priceless
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