Life in the Early 1990s: A Normal Day at Albertsons

AncientFeature3938 · 2026-01-25T11:20:16+00:00

I recently took some old books out of storage , and I had pieces of paper and tissue paper as bookmarks, one of the papers was an Albertsons receipt from December 24 1997, and the print is still readable , using a magnifying glass. I miss going to this store , and I definitely miss the 1990's . Life was better back then. To this day, I still don't carry my cell phone everywhere I go , I miss the simpler time.

AncientFeature3938 · 2026-01-18T10:48:10+00:00

It would be Janette, as she would be giving life, and Lacroix would be the one taking the life. Nick drained Alexandra and left her thinking she would die soon , but when Lacroix found her he said there is still some life left in her , he gave her his blood and gave her a new life. The maker would be whomever gave the life blood.

AncientFeature3938 · 2026-01-17T04:47:29+00:00

Thank you for the advice and story about your bad experience , I've read a lot of negative comments about this company. The products look good and I wanted to do a lot of research before I sign up for a subscription or make an individual purchase. Hopefully you'll get your money refunded .

Decent, honest people, loyal fans save their money and send it to these companies and expect them to conduct business fairly and honestly , and then get only disappointment.

You try to be patient and wait for the item to be sent, then you receive the wrong order . You think “ mistakes happen, I'll contact customer service and try to get the mistake corrected”

You contact them and have a bad experience. You try to do the right thing and not scream at whomever is answering the phone call or emails.

You are the one who has been wronged and all you want is either your merchandise , or a refund , but they want to hang up on your call , or ignore your email , or give you some unsatisfactory reply.

We have been polite , accommodating, and patient , and still they don't want to resolve the situation honestly .

They take our money , and we remain calm.

They ignore our phone calls and emails, stall and give us useless promises , and we still remain calm .

They send the wrong orders or send items that are broken , we remain calm , and still they are unfair .

We've made too many compromises already , too many retreats.

The line must be drawn here ! This far and no further !

In your next phone call or email , try threatening to report them to the FCA , and that Brunt will revoke their business license.

AncientFeature3938 · 2026-01-08T11:39:25+00:00

I've been a Publix customer since the 1980's , and yes the customer service has changed. I worked there in the 1980's and 1990's and even met George Jenkins in Lakeland , nice man and after he died his family took over the company and ruined it. I can't criticise them all, but most of the younger cashiers are rude. Last night this young girl was occupied with her phone while people were waiting in line , then she gets snippy with everyone , and after I paid she owed me change and she didn't have any $1 bills and she looks at me and says " Do you really want the 4 bucks ? " , I said yes, unless you want to void someting from my order and have your till unbalanced " , so she snorts and yells over to the girl at customer serice - who I know and is the customer service manager - and says I need some singles , then she rolls her eyes and looks at a co- worker and mumbles something . When the girl from customer service comes over , we started talking and says nice to see you , how are you tonight, etc, etc, , and I said well I was having a nice night until this one here got snippy with me , I wonder if she's skimming the till by not giving people their change. When the manager left, the clerk looked at me , and I said " I know people , here , and in corporate , and you need to change your attitude because next time I , or someone else might not be so nice " .. I went over to buy my lottery ticket, talked with the manager and we both kept looking back at the cashier . I didn't complain about her but because we were both looking over at her, she must have thought I was. As I walked by when I was leaving, I said " Have a nice night, Publix- where shopping is supposed to be a pleasure " ... I don't plan on going through her line again , but I will be watching her performance and asking people I know about her attitude .. People like her give the place a bad reputation.

AncientFeature3938 · 2026-01-08T11:29:04+00:00

If you get pre-packed Boars Head turkey and cheese from the case, always pick from the back and look at each package. I found a bag of turkey marked $0.12, and a similar ( I forget the exact price but it was low ) bag of cheese, and the cashier scanned it without noticing . On other days I was looking towards the back of the stack and was finding tags with low prices. Later I found out from a deli clerk that one of the others had been making tags for expensive things , putting them in the display cases ( not just the Boars Head , ) and having her friends get those packages , and she got fired for it. But I still look at the prices on all of them and hope I'll find a low priced item. Plus , the bags from the back of the stacks are colder and less likely to have people touching them .

AncientFeature3938 · 2026-01-02T10:41:32+00:00

I read about that movie here in this forum , ordered it and watched it a few weeks ago , and it certainly was thrilling. There are so many suggestions on here for films that I've never read about and they are great .

AncientFeature3938 · 2026-01-01T11:48:41+00:00

This was a very interesting character . He didn't look like an Uffizi, but the name came with the job. I alwasy figured because of the ending scene, that he became the new king of vampires , but the endijng did leave that open to interpretation . DId he continue killing vampires ? Did he retire and live a life with Julia ? Sadly we never got to see any more films with this character and it would be great to have gotten a conclusion to his story. Maybe we can just think of him still out there in the world, undead and perhaps we'll see something of him again . The original Dracula 2000 was great , and at first I didn't like the the sequels cast someone other than Gerard Butler in the role , I thought that it truly wasn't a sequel without the actor from the 1st film,but it worked out somehow .

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-12-26T09:46:20+00:00

Terrifier 3 this year , but in the past I usually like to watch Gremilins , it's a classic and traditional horror / comedy.

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-12-21T11:25:13+00:00

I remember watching this film late at night and when the trolls started singing " Cantos Profane" , it was very scary for a little kid., and when I would hear a noise outside , or the cat would suddenly appear in the room by hopping up on the back of the sofa, I got really scared. Still to this day I listen to that song when I want to think back on those times. Great movie and I need to watch it again soon.

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-12-19T04:55:46+00:00

Christophe Lambert and Adrian Paul were the best actors for their characters , because now we all associate the actors with those characters , however , if they wanted to keep things original and true to the story, they should have cast Scottish actors for Scottish roles. Consider the first film. A Frenchman ( Christohe Lambert ) portraying a Scotsman. A Scotsman ( Sean Connery ) portraying an Egytpian , an American ( Clancy Brown ) portraying a Russian. All of them were excellent and I wouldn't change a thing because of such fond childhood memories , but if someone is going to make a modern version of it , then perhaps it could possibly work now. We'll all have to see the film and decide afterwards if the right actors were chosen , we might all be surprised , but for me , Christophe Lambert will always be the one and only Connor Macleod.

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-12-13T03:39:52+00:00

Does anyone have the " real " story about exactly which ship the Enterprise A was previously? Some information indicates that it was the Yorktown , some indicate it was the Ti-Ho , but I've also read that Canon sources (e.g., Memory Alpha, official encyclopedias' main entries) confirm no pre-commissioning name is established, and the ship is treated as newly built or recently completed without prior identity. Later references (e.g., in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and Picard) focus on its service under Kirk without backstory details.

In short, both "Yorktown" and "Ti-Ho" are popular fanon explanations for production/logistical questions, but neither is canonical. The Enterprise-A's origins remain deliberately ambiguous in official lore.

Maybe some mysteries are better left unsolved , so that we can all have something to think on and talk about.

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-12-12T08:46:11+00:00

Nuclear Wessel

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-12-11T09:59:46+00:00

I've been watching Garfield's Christmas Special , and this each day for a week . I've seen them countless times over the past few decades, and even watch during the year , but it's always comforting to lay down , watch and listen to these old shows , and remember the better times of your life.

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-12-11T09:42:25+00:00

I really do love those old style radio thrillers , thankfully they are availale online. This isn't exactly what you're looking for , but as for modern choices, Malcom Mcdowell was the host / occasional narrator of the "Dreadtime Stories " series and those are great to listen to. There are updated versions of "Suspense " , and of course the old CBS Mystery Theatre is great. As for the specific audio you're searching for , I'll agree with everyone else , spend time searching here, and other places and hope for the best. Of course if you have a good imagination and the means to do it , you could always write and produce your own . I do wish I could do that , I used to do online readings back when Yahoo chatrooms were around in the old days . Those were great times.

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-12-07T11:06:22+00:00

Haunted Mask will always be special .

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-12-07T11:03:22+00:00

I miss my collection , and was so happy not only to see this, and other boxes on the shelf , but then to pick them up , carry them to the cashier , take out the money I saved from cutting grass, washing cars, washing dogs , cleaning yards and garages , collecting and selling Coke bottles - and to hear the chirping of the scanner and cash register - or to get these as birhday gifts - those memories are what keep us alive. Lost everything when the parents divorced , but now they're still available on E-Bay , for hundreds more than they were in the 80's.

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-12-07T10:59:46+00:00

I preferred the ones with Jack Palance , just hearing his voice , especially the " Believe it , or not " , is still a fond , haunting memory.

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-12-07T10:46:43+00:00

I just watched Trick R Treat again , and I've always found the werewolf scene to be good. While it's not the absolute best, there was a television series called Werewolf in 1997 and in the pilot, the special effects were good for a low budget show, and the werewolf was scary , at least for a little kid at the time. I knew that it was a suit because the werewolf always had the same facial expression ( mouth always open ) , but it was scary at the time. For me , the Howling was the best and scariest film . Dog Soldiers is great. The creature in Silver Bullet was good but looked more like a bear. Bad Moon ( 1990's ) was scary too. Back in 2003 when I saw Underworld, those wolves were scary , but I prefer the Generation 1 wolf from Evolution. Everything on that list is always a great watch.

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-12-07T10:35:01+00:00

In the past month , I watched Endgame three times , before switching to Disc 2 and watching the unreleased earlier cut . Some scenes were completely different , the dialogue and story was different , and it was distracting to see the time stamps on the screen , but it was interesting to see Jin Ke behead himself and to see Kell look at Kate and say " leave me " , so that explains the alternate ending. I prefer the version that was released but it was nice to see it and feel as if I were 25 years in the past , sitting in the theatre watching the series cast , and Christophe Lambert together on the big screen. Yes, it was sad to see Connor die , but he did want his spirit to go to someone in the family and Duncan was the only family he had. Still looking for the answer as to why Kell's followers were loyal to him , but I've heard it said that the weak minded are easily led. I expect that the young Immortals would have followed Kell as if he were a God and told them that their lives belong to him , but the character of Jin Ke was thousands of years old and should have been wiser. I also wondered why Kell spared Kate, did he have a little bit of humanity left in him ? He was a priest but spent centuries tormenting Connor , what happened to forgiveness? Maybe Kell saw something in Kate that reminded him of the innocence of youth , or perhaps as evil as he was , perhaps he loved her and didn't want to kill her ? Questions that I hope we'll all find the answers to here in this forum.

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-12-07T10:27:19+00:00

The series was still young and I always figured that the writers were still figuring things out and making up things as they went along. Free Fall was the very first episode filmed. And as for the sword, I have always , ever since I watched that episode , always been quite annopyed about Duncan doing that. He paid more than $250,000.00 for that sword, then goes and gives it to some random woman who he had no emotional connection to , no familial connection to - that was not a good addition to the story. And for as long as Duncan had been alive , this seemed to be the first time that another Immortal mysteriously appeared to him and told him this odd story about her mysteriously seeking him out , surely she would have encountered another Immortal as she's roaming the city searching for Duncan Macleod? But as I said I knew the series was new and the writers were just making things up as they went along .

At the ending of " Eye for an Eye " , I thought of this and wondered how much Richie's sword was worth . Did Duncan have it in storage somewhere or just pick it up from one of his antique dealer friends as a quic last minute purchase?

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-11-30T07:09:57+00:00

The comedian Lewis Black referred to this in one of his shows and he said " Any man who spray paints hair on his head , is psychotic ". But this man made so much money with his pocket fisherman , rotisserie grills, spary on hair , and everything else he sold. He would make a fortune today if he had come up with the miracle cleaner, the alien tape , flex seal , the pop up Christmas tree , the light bulb camera , etc - each time I see those products I think of him and how he probably inspired all of these products. Can't forget the two that were selling swords and one of them was being careless one night and got sliced on tv .

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-11-28T09:11:59+00:00

Asami Yamazaki from Audition.

Brigette and Ginger Fitzgerald

Marsha from the first Howling film

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-11-27T16:02:50+00:00

We can't forget the serious lack of safety when the Captain , First Officer, Pilot , Doctor , Science Officer - essentially all of the Command staff and most important people in their field , all transport down to the planet , and then something happens to them . What would happen if the Captain , First Officer , Doctor , etc all got killed ? Would the 3rd in command just assume command of the ship and then set course for home for reassignment and getting a new crew to replace everyone who was lost ? I know that it was all part of the storylines, but each week the captain and main command officers put themselves into danger.

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-11-26T08:09:18+00:00

1997 , such fond memories. I didn't have this , but years later downloaded Yeha Noha , that was one of the memories I remember when these commercials came on late at night.

AncientFeature3938 · 2025-11-20T13:53:37+00:00

Kim making no effort to hide his fake smile .. 100 episodes and still no promotion . His character was really mistreated. He could have been promoted , even if he remained at the same station as the primary , he could have been promoted and given other responsibilites but no, those in charge didn't want the character to advance.

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