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Post by crazychick10793 on May 30, 2008 21:57:46 GMT -5
Ok, so my high school had a large addition built on while I was going there. The tampon/pad machines in the new bathrooms were I think $.35. The machines in the old part were $.05. (This should have been my first clue.) One day I was in one of the old bathrooms and needed a pad. (This machine only sold pads. Clue #2?) In the little cardboard box I got was something that looked like a tube sock (it was so big) and two safety pins. It was 1997. Blew my mind. I think by the time I graduated two years later they had finally replaced those machines with new ones. ;D funny.weird,but funny
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2008 0:33:02 GMT -5
So was that a pad left over from the fifties or were they still stocking them?!
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Post by wenonah4th on May 31, 2008 13:48:19 GMT -5
Presumably left over...the same thing happened to me in one of the older buildings at my college.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Jun 1, 2008 19:19:35 GMT -5
Ok, so my high school had a large addition built on while I was going there. The tampon/pad machines in the new bathrooms were I think $.35. The machines in the old part were $.05. (This should have been my first clue.) One day I was in one of the old bathrooms and needed a pad. (This machine only sold pads. Clue #2?) In the little cardboard box I got was something that looked like a tube sock (it was so big) and two safety pins. It was 1997. Blew my mind. I think by the time I graduated two years later they had finally replaced those machines with new ones. ;D Man, if that had happened to me, I would've been like WTF, is this thing? And then resort to using toilet paper ;D. At least your high school had pad/tampon machines, my high school doesn't. You either have to think ahead and bring a pad or tampon with you in your purse or if not you have to walk all the way at the very end of the first floor to the nurse's office to get one (and it's a long walk if you're in the third floor bathroom! ;D).
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Post by sparklymouse on Jun 1, 2008 19:33:10 GMT -5
My Jr. High had machines until someone broke into one, unwrapped all the pads, and stuck them on the outsides of a bunch of lockers. Then the machines were taken down and you had to go to the (female) gym teacher to get something. My locker was very close to the girls locker room one year and I constantly heard this conversation. Student: "I need to borrow a tampon." Gym teacher: "You can keep it, ha ha."
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Post by Kylie90210 on Jun 3, 2008 21:19:02 GMT -5
^ Lol, ah teacher humour!
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Post by wenonah4th on Jun 4, 2008 6:22:53 GMT -5
^At least some of our teachers were more original in their humor than that...but then again every English teacher in the place was somewhat drilled off-center.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 4, 2008 16:49:30 GMT -5
The title of this thread made me wonder, do people think of the BSC more as a series from the 80s, or the 90s? The BSC was only 80s for three years (1986-1989). For me, it's the 90s. Of course, I'm sure that has to do with me having been born in '85 and not knowing about the books until I read my first one when I was about six or so, so everything was post-1991.
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Post by lionessblack on Jun 4, 2008 19:37:08 GMT -5
I agree, coming from the same age as you, I definitely associate them more with the 90's than the 80's. But when I read the first few books, I can't help but think of the 80's.
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Post by nothingtolose18 on Jun 4, 2008 23:37:01 GMT -5
Oh, the books are totally 90's for me, too. I wasn't even born for most of the 80's (I was born in '89) so of course it was the 90's when I read them as well.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Jun 5, 2008 19:20:19 GMT -5
I think of them as 90s books too because I grew up in the 90s and that's when I started to read them ;D. Our English class had to do a project on a decade of our choice (we had to explain the fashions and the fads and the music and gadgets and other things that were popular at that time) and I picked the 90s and for the popular books part I put pictures of a couple of BSC books I found off the internet. Definitely the best part of the project .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2008 17:38:57 GMT -5
I just thought if it were today they wouldn't have to meet in claudias room they would probably just have a club cell phone or clients could e-mail so would claudia still be VP if only for providing the Junk food
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2008 19:03:28 GMT -5
yes, i am glad tampons were invented(did you know it was a man who invented them), but don't you think we're a little off topic?
- they would have an email account for the club
- they would have a website, and a special section that only club members could access, it would allow them to check a calender to see who was available(if a client called on their cell), and once they made plans they could just go on and update it.
- their meetings would be a lot longer than 30 minutes
- they would have a safe with a lock for their treasury, instead of a manila envolope
- they would earn a lot more money babysitting
- they would have less freedom because things now-a-days are a lot more dangerous(for example, walking or riding their bikes everywhere)
- their dues would be a lot more, since gas prices are really expensive now
- stacey's diabetes would be much easier to deal with
- claudia and jessi wouldn't have as many problems because of their race
- watson would help pay for club stuff since they say he's so rich
- they would know who's calling before they pick up - caller id
- lunch room food wouln't be as nasty
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2008 22:29:15 GMT -5
I don't think a whole lot of the content itself would have to change if they "modernized" the bSC. The sitting charges may play more video games (Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution and so forth).
Overall, some of the fashions would have to go. Kristy could still do her t-shirt and jeans bit, but the leggings and oversized shirts would be a thing of the past. We might hear about the girls wearing more flared or boot cut pants, capris, layers would be camis with a light type of colored shirt over it and so forth...wedge sandals...things like that.
Stacey would probably have a flat iron and wouldn't be getting perms, getting your ears pierced wouldn't be that big of a deal anymore, Mal would likely complain about having her own cell phone more than pierced ears.
The club would have a website and the girls would talk about e-mail, IM and would have cell phones. Clients could e-mail the BSC about baby-sitting jobs and maybe their M,W,F 5:3-6 meetings wouldn't all be in Claudia's room since Claud would probably have a cell instead of her own personal phone line.
Club notebook would definitely be a blog. Instead of being excited about Dawn having her own VCR, DVD players would be talked about. Digital cable and HD TV. CD's and ipods and mp3's instead of tapes.
But as far as the personalities...I don't think they change much. Stacey would still like boys and shopping. Claud would still like art and maybe a modern Nancy Drew type book series. Kristy and Abby would still be sports fans. Jessi still dances, Mal still reads and writes, Dawn still loves the environment and health food and Mary Anne still cries. Maybe their dating relationships go a little further than kissing.
BTW, that bracelet things weirds me out, I had nothing like that in grade school or high school. Sex happened, but wasn't really talked about.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 13, 2008 18:56:43 GMT -5
They should earn a lot more, but they didn't seem to know/care that they were getting ripped off half the time. I don't see that changing. I bet they'd still be really cheap sitters based on today's standards.
Small town life doesn't change that much though. Kids run around unsupervised in my town just as much now as they did ten years ago. I could see more restrictions put on them if they lived in Stamford, but Stoneybrook's not likely to have a big crime increase unless the population increases dramatically.
The Junk Bucket sounds like a nasty gas guzzler too. One week's dues would give Charlie about a gallon and a half of gas!
He was rich in the 80s and didn't pay for anything. Unless you count big group vacations as a club expense. I don't think Kristy would be any more likely to ask Watson for stuff now than she would back then.
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