Young people have no idea …

[MileHigh]

Our Pizza Hut when I was a kid was the No. 3 or No. 4 destination, but we still went there a bit since it was just down the street from my dad's business. Was still good with the buffet and the games and the birthday parties, but we had other, sometimes better, options.

 

[swingline]

We had a Pizza Works in my town. It was better than Pizza Hut.

 

[ChrisLong]

Our local junior college was less than a block away from the Pizza Hut. There was also a Foster's Freeze ice cream store next to Pizza Hut. The college and two high schools used the football field so Pizza Hut was the hangout afterward. After the JC's first game of the season, Pizza Hut was packed and they ran out of beer. Then they ran out of pizza. I tried to tell the manager to send somebody across town to another Hut and get some ingredients, but he didn't want to.
By the second week, they were fully stocked. That night, people started dancing to the jukebox. It was very crowded and at one point, four guys picked up the salad bar and carried it out to the parking lot. They pushed the tables aside to create a dance floor.
It was very convenient (being 6 blocks from where I lived) and our go-to place so we didn't have to go across town the LaBarbera's, the best pizza ever, period.

 

[da man]

I live in Bumblefork, Indiana. So we have both a Pizza Hut straight out of 1988 with a buffet AND a Pizza King that produces the shirttiest, most expensive pizza cut into squares imaginable.

Many years ago, there was a place in Snellville, Ga., called Pizza Ring, which apparently had previously been Pizza King. The sign out front still had a king on it, but the new owners changed out the K for an R.

 

[Batman]

That it's important to be on time, apparently?

 

[Roscablo]

That it's important to be on time, apparently?

This has been making the rounds. Hasn't gotten a lot of sympathy across the board. Sometimes you wonder if people do things like this to go viral or something along those lines?

That said, reading a lot of comments, it does sound like this is an issue with people who have ADHD, but most, even those who have this problem, were saying being diligent with things like alarms helps fix it!

 

[dixiehack]

Oh thank God. We certainly needed Libs of TikTok to brighten up a lighthearted thread.

 

[Roscablo]

Oh thank God. We certainly needed Libs of TikTok to brighten up a lighthearted thread.

I was going to say we could have posted any number of sources from that this week! It did pretty much go viral.

 

[dixiehack]

When we moved to my mom's home town in the summer of 81, there may have been as few as five national chain restaurants:

• Sonic (maybe one of the first locations outside the southern Plains)
• Wendy's
• Pizza Hut
• Kentucky Fried Chicken
• Dairy Queen

There were a few other mom and pops or small chains, but not much variety. No sub shops, nowhere to get Mexican or Chinese food. No food delivery of any kind.

 

[Batman]

I was going to say we could have posted any number of sources from that this week! It did pretty much go viral.

I tried to post the original TikTok video, but the SJ machinery doesn't allow it to be embedded.

 

[dixiehack]

Another one I thought of: school films. Not movies. Not videos. Certainly not streaming. Actual filmstrips. And often not even full-on motion pictures, but glorified slide shows, with one student appointed to advance the film at the next beep. And somehow this might be the most stimulating thing in class for the month.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Another one I thought of: school films. Not movies. Not videos. Certainly not streaming. Actual filmstrips. And often not even full-on motion pictures, but glorified slide shows, with one student appointed to advance the film at the next beep. And somehow this might be the most stimulating thing in class for the month.

Or watching a space launch on TV in your classroom or in the elementary school auditorium. Or, a teacher using an overhead projector.