[skyguy79]

Originally Posted by tpop1

See the 39 cent Banana Split!!!

When I was a kid, several times our Woolworths had a special.....

They put Banana Split prices from 1 cent to 39 cents in blown-up balloons and hung them up around the lunch counter.

You picked a balloon and whatever price was in it is what you paid.

Twice I picked a balloon with 1 cent in it!!!!

Wow! Has this been long forgotten for me. Unfortunate for me the memory of this was overshadowed by an incident in Woolworth.

When I was a teenager I was in the front the store with a friend when a women who was oil painting and selling her work accused me of recently being in the store and intentionally bumping into her, ruining what she was working on. It definitely wasn't me, but there was no convincing her of that. That's the day I was awakened into the reality of just how easy it can be to be accused of something you were completely innocent.

Fortunately, she didn't file a complaint with the police and no similar incident never happened again!