I can't really remember, honestly, and there wasn't that kind of thing then and there yet. I just remember the trips to the Dominion supermarket were pretty infrequent, and it was always so damn crowded on a Saturday because of no Sunday shopping (and that last part was true right up until the 1990s.) I just mostly got sent to that corner store with a small list and some money, and that was our grocery shopping. A pound of ground beef, a can of something, maybe some milk, and a pack of cigarettes (well, he knew I wasn't smoking them at 7 years old.)
I can't really remember, honestly, and there wasn't that kind of thing then and there yet. I just remember the trips to the Dominion supermarket were pretty infrequent, and it was always so damn crowded on a Saturday because of no Sunday shopping (and that last part was true right up until the 1990s.) I just mostly got sent to that corner store with a small list and some money, and that was our grocery shopping. A pound of ground beef, a can of something, maybe some milk, and a pack of cigarettes (well, he knew I wasn't smoking them at 7 years old.)
https://youtu.be/MNghp9tPXjo
Oh, hell yeah, that's me, except with much paler skin. :) As I mentioned before, I didn't get an allowance. But I did get to keep coin.
I did that dance too, complete with the smokes. Merits, in the yellow packaging, for mom. Note in hand, rarely needed.