I remember that cigarette packs were 65 cents
and you could buy them from vending machines that had the
pull things with the handle on them......

etc.

I wasn't 10, but I remember when gas was .75 a gallon.

were you driving,
or looking at the price from the backseat?

I remember gas falling under a dollar a gallon when I was in middle school.

did you participate in mischief night, the night before halloween where you soaped cars & wrecked shit? I mean, if you were bad.

By then, I was driving wishing I was looking at the price from the backseat.

why?

If only I knew now, what I knew then. Ya know?

ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

the only thing I knew more of being a kid in the backseat vs. being the driver was that I played more & had less control over where I was going.

I knew less about money & pumping gas, which I guess is a good thing. Plus my dad had pretty good taste in oldies music.

me and my buddy had to appear in front of a magistrate for throwing eggs at a house

what happened after you appeared...

did you get yelled at?

luckily i didnt have to lie under oath. huge ordeal actually. i didnt tell my mom until like a week before the appearence. then the girls stepfather thought he could turn me on my buddy and get me to testify against him. said hed drop all charges if i did.

anyway, the magistrate threw the case out when the father opened his mouth about all the stupid stuff he was accusing us of. that we harassed her after school by following her. when we explained we did do that, but only because our school bus dropped us all off on the same street and we all had to walk that stree to get to our house

The father really had it out for your friend, eh?

"and the bus drops us off here, and we walk down the street, and our hands throw eggs, and we go home nah...."

egg dropped charges soup

I'm pretty sure no one has actually held the title "magistrate" since like 1885.

Also, I remember when I was 10... I moved to Kansas. And I had no friends. But then this creepy kid named Matt - who lived across the street - came over to my house, rang my doorbell, and wanted to be my friend. I haven't spoken a word to that dude in 13 years. But I think he's on Facebook.

I actually did the magical magistrate appearance a few months ago myself
the title is popular at least in Florida and Pennsylvania. Not NY?

According to my own anecdotal experience, the term is only popular with Beck.

is he disco chicken?

Yeah, you need to get arrested for minor offenses more often is all. Or other court junk.
I think the term means "little judge"

Learning a lot tonight. And it feels good and tingly like the internet should.