>>>>>When you and I were kids, there
were no bicycle helmets; so nobody wore one. When my dad was a kid, there were no seat belts in cars, so nobody wore one. Good ideas evolve.
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>>>>And everybody smoked. On (in) the buses, trains, movies, parliament sessions, ambulance waiting rooms. We are practically kids of people who must have died before they met, they all smoked so much.
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>>>Hard to believe that there were ashtrays in movie theatre chairs and it was common to smoke while watching a movie...
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>>I am surprised that new cars today still have ashtrays.
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>They aren't ashtrays any more. They're nick-nack drawers and a place to put the lighter so you can plug in your MP3 player.
For some reason these drawers always in my way. They either hit a cup or something I put right in front of them. I like what Tracy described when they are an option to go into a cup holder.
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