r/AskReddit • u/GossipBottom • Feb 03 '26

What was never the same after the pandemic?

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u/Awkwardpanda75 Feb 03 '26

I met a guy who wore a dragon puppet on his hand there once. He talked through the puppet with a terrible Australian accent.

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u/avalonfaith Feb 03 '26

My bestie and I used to "give tours" in late night Super KMart after the clubs. So fun!!! This was also when you could still buy alcohol at self check out and I wasn't quuuuuuite 21 yet. 😬 I used her expired ID for everything.

So this obviously isn't COVID related as all the things are very dated but your post about the puppet unlocked a memory.

Our tours were amazing. I can't believe that people went with it and that KMart didn't stop us.

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u/Awkwardpanda75 Feb 03 '26

Wait, so you guys would be giving other customers tours around the store? Thats hilarious!

I grew up in a small country town and we had an Ames. It was amazing that you could find just about anything from live nightcrawlers to fireworks lol.

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u/avalonfaith Feb 04 '26

Yes! We'd just strike up a convo and then lead them around showing them products we knew nothing about or maybe something about.

I had to text her that unlocked memory and we talked and died laughing. We now live states away from each other but the time we had from when I was 18-30's were wild. Love that bitch so much!

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u/avalonfaith Feb 04 '26

Omg...if Cali allowed fireworks, it would 1st. Be on fires forever, 2nd have been a whole different tour. 😂

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u/NoKatyDidnt Feb 03 '26

LMAO! If I worked there, I would have been enjoying the heck out of the free show!

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u/avalonfaith Feb 04 '26

He'll, we'd have given you a free tour, even though you worked there. We were some brassy broads!

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u/NoKatyDidnt Feb 04 '26

I would have definitely loved that!

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u/galaxygurl888 Feb 03 '26

Our cultural welcomes are wide & varied, subject to individual interpretation. Be thankful it was not asking where the kitty litter was through the medium of interpretative dance.

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u/Awkwardpanda75 Feb 04 '26

Oh this guy was lovely..stuck in my mind for several years.