• shalafi@lemmy.world
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      Hell, when I was an Oklahoman teen you just had to know which store to buy at. Need cigs? Hotel at 51st and Harvard got a machine.

      And that’ why we were healthy! You had to ride to get your buzz on! (I’m only partially joking.)

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        I’ve had middle schoolers tell me which gas stations will give you vapes. And gotten in trouble with principals for trying to shut down kiddy drug rings…

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          😆 Yep! Still there? I threw my 17th birthday party there. Teachers, parents, everyone knew. Terrible opsec. We got busted and kicked out. TWICE.

          Gods, I had completely forgotten that. What a night!

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            Yes, it’s still there! I doubt the cigarette machine still is, lol. I had to move into a motel recently and that was one I looked up. But I drive past there all the time for work and that motel and the QT in front of it are not my scene, lol.

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              Nice! 56th and Marion is my old hood, grew up there. By the time I left Tulsa the place was known as a place to pick up cougars. LOL, I was too young but I tried one night!

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        If the clerk didn’t sell, we’d find a homeless person usually. Fee was 2-3 cigarettes.

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      Better get that production number before you randomly buy cans like lotto players.