Unbelievable Things That Baby Boomers Grew Up Doing

Notes For the Store

Don't trust your kid to get the right medicine? Good call. It used to be common practice to send a little one into town with nothing but a couple of bucks and a note in their pocket to give to the shopkeeper. Once there, they'd give them the cash and paper, like little delivery people!

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