As I sit and eat breakfast and cruise through the Internet, I think about how different it was during breakfast when I was a kid. When I was a kid there wasn’t shit to read except the cereal box itself. And the cereal makers knew it. They would fill the back with puzzles, word finds, and overall entertainment. And I would read that damn thing every morning. To the point that I would actually start reading the ingredients on the side. By the time I finished the box I probably could have told you how much Niacin was in Fruity Pebbles.
And cereal manufacturers knew that in those days the kids choose the cereal so they would put a huge prize in the box. In the beginning the prize was literally dropped into the cereal. No packaging, just a prize. Within five minutes we kids were dipping our infected hands into the box digging away for the prize. And it wasn’t at breakfast. It was 3 in the afternoon. And we weren’t even close to finishing the old box. Sometimes we would even pour the cereal box out into another container just to get the prize. We pretended we were putting it into a container that would seal and keep it fresh but in reality it was a prize grab. Eventually the manufacturers were forced to put the prize in a package and then outside the cereal in the box. Which still make you go elbow deep to try and get the prize.
Even better was when they made the back of the box an actual playable record. You cut it out and it would play on a record player. That shit got cut out immediately. Exposing the cereal beneath for week. Eventually the records went the way of the prize and they glued it on the back or slid it inside the box. The crazy part about all this is we got just as excited for those prizes and entertainment as kids do today about their iPads and Internet. If today’s kids saw our boxes it would last 5 seconds and they’d be back to the Internet. Its a zero on their scale. But our scale back in the day only had zero.
This whole rant sounds like a “In my day” story but its really a story of happiness with what you have because you don’t know any better. I miss the days of being satisfied with small stuff. Needles moving easily. Happiness being made by small things. That’s the true problem with success and age. You’ve seen too much. I hope some day I can be as happy and entertained with something as simple as a shitty record on the back of a box but my guess its merely a mental state that you have to get in and remind yourself to stay. Kids will help get you back or my case, when grandkids come.
Domain of the Day: HouseOfCoffee.com Because you’re just not going to buy CoffeeHouse.com at this point
Quote of the Day: “Never give advice unless asked. The wise man won’t need it, the fool won’t heed it.” – German Proverb
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Nice story, Shane. So true…
My parents wouldn’t let me eat the types of cereal that had prizes inside. So, no cereal box toys for me. At least I’ve never been a person that cares much about sugar.
Travis. You missed a lot. Fruity pebbles are delicious