Wendy’s changed the spicy chicken sandwich. The new one isn’t bad, but the old one occupied a very specific spot in my memory that will be missed.
Taco Bell and the Quesarito.
Fuuuck, why did they remove it? It was the whole reason to go to Taco Bell!
What I miss can never happen again. There was some mystery of the world lost with the internet. I miss opening a pack of magic cards and that was what you got, no hand picking the best build online. I miss hearing my friend say some bullshit in a game, and the only way to discover the truth was to try it. I am thankful for the speed of information nowadays and how much more accessible the world is. But sometimes I’d like to recapture that magic of the unknown, the closeness of having to converse with others to even guess at the depth of your hobby.
I know it’s still around, but the og pita pit. Back in highschool they were the spots to hang. Late night always had the weirder people working (as my friends and I were also weird), and it was great.
We’d go there, they’d be blasting whatever music they wanted (often hardcore punk or metal) and we’d all just chill with the employees. Sometimes get some free pitas, maybe go out back and smoke a joint. I’ll miss that og falafel pita…
It felt like the oki-dog of the town I was in.
Freaking out my friends BBS modems by calling it and whistling into the phone.
North East US. There used to be a fsst food chain called D’Angelos. Their #9 sub was Legendary. Everyone got it. Too bad, They’re gone now.
Byron’s Drive In is gone
Living in an old, small house for the first 10 years of my life. When I was 10, my parents built a McMansion on a hill on the farm. Rubs be the wrong way every time someone complements it.
They keep tearing down buildings that have personal significance to me. My grade school, my first job, my favorite skate spots, teenage hangout spots, etc. Some spots became better things but most were turned into parking lots. I know Joni was singing about nature and whatnot, but Big Yellow Taxi hits me hard.
If you’ve never heard it before, look up the song Gold Rush by Death Cab for Cutie. It’s about losing places that are tied to memories.
Go ahead and add Come Dancing by The Kinks to this playlist.
I’ll toss in “My City was Gone” by The Pretenders
My best friends joined the Marines out of high school. Anytime they came home on leave they’d get to town in the wee hours of the morning and we’d meet up at Denny’s. That Denny’s was torn down and turned into a car wash :(
I live in close proximity to my old high school. Its very old, one of the oldest in the country, actually. It’s being shut down soon and I’m not thrilled about it. I feel the same as you about my old stomping grounds being clear cut and paved or developed. Its really sad 😢
there was a coffee shop in my town in the 90s where we all hung out after school. It closed a long time ago but now it’s just a concrete slab. I drive by that empty lot every day on my way to work. It always makes me a little sad. Lots of good times there.
The forest near my childhood home. It’s still there. I’m not.
Last summer I went there, and the place was so familiar to me that I recognized individual trees.
All the trees and groves around me to build yet another fucking gas station.
I grew up near a cantaloupe farm and remember smelling the cantaloupes during harvest time. I miss that smell.
Dead pets. Miss em. Wish they could have stayed with me forever.
Playing in a band. It’s never been easier to play on my own, and in some ways I think it’s hard to be in a band since it involves a lot of compromise. But I do miss the feeling of regularly playing and making music with friends.
Mechanical fountain soda machines with free refills. This stuff costs like 2 cents and is always the best way to drink soda, but they seem to be dying out and disappearing.
Playing video games with friends. As I get older and tastes diverge it feels hard to get a group together to play games. It’s even more rare to play games together in the same room, staying up late into the night.
Finally, I miss that feeling that life is ahead of me and the ability to focus on dreaming and thinking about the future. As I get older, a lot more stuff is in the rear view mirror, the possibilities of the future seem more limited, and it’s easy to look back and question how you spent all that time in the past. I get more sad and scared thinking about the future, even though I’m sure that good things will happen too.
Mechanical fountain soda machines with free refills
You will drink from the unholy beverage cloaca of the freestyle machine and like it
I used to have this yellow dress that I loved and I am pretty sure I accidentally donated it like 10 or 15 years ago, but every 6 to 10 months or so I still think about that dress.
I miss incandescent Christmas lights from the 70s.
the colors they had were warm and magical.
you could go down the street at night and the whole neighborhood was filled with this technicolor dream rainbow that you just can’t make anymore.
You are not the only one and your are being heard!
There are several companies that make modern lights with the same feel as the old school Christmas lights!
I knew the link before I even clicked. Love his channel.
I’m really glad the companies are making LEDs with the old school feel. Best of both worlds.
The technology connections YouTuber is obsessed with this and has a number of videos about this.
I love Alec’s channel, I appreciate the way he covers topics.
sorry, not inconsequential. those lights were objectively better and made countless people’s lives better than the LED shit, whether or not they even realized it.
the change to LED has been a real loss with consequences
And the bulbs popped with such a wonderful sound
Also the crunch when you accidentally shattered one. My grandparents still had some in the 00s
I used to love turning off the living room lights, getting under our Xmas tree, looking up, and watching the lights blink. It was silent and peaceful, almost like watching the twinkle of stars in the night sky.
The Choco Taco, rip
This is just stupid of me, but I hate how they changed the grocery store I had been going to for a decade. Everything’s there, just in a different place. It has been over a year and I’m still not over it.
Lol, this was a thing that every grocery store in my area would do every couple of years. I remember my mom making this same complaint with some regularity as we grew up. Sometimes they’d circle back around and hit a configuration from days long past.
They seemed to have calmed down on the bi-decade reorganization that moved entire isles lately. But there are still about 3-4 different places (spread across the store) that I’d need to check if I was looking for a pickle or some cheese. This ruined their delivery services because practically every item I’d order during COVID would be an unacceptable substitute because the “pros” doing the shopping were clearly children that had never done grocery shopping for themselves before.
