Last time you said you want to say one more thing about soda bottles.
Yeah, but not the bottles themselves. The bottle caps.
Okay.
Well, back then we didn’t have screw tops on the soda bottles. They were the kind that were crimped onto the glass rim. Notice I said glass. We didn’t have plastic bottles.
Of course, the bare metal cap wouldn’t make a good seal, so they put a cork disc inside. Again, that wasn’t plastic. It was cork.
What we wanted to do was pry the cork disc out of the cap without damaging either. So, with a bottle opener, we would carefully pull the cap off the bottle.
Then, with a pocket knife, we would carefully pry the cork disc out of the cap. So we then had two items: the metal cap and the cork disc.
What did you do with them?
Well, if we were wearing a thin shirt, such as a tee shirt, we would hold the cap against the outside, slip the cork opposite the cap on the inside, and press the two together again. Only this time the shirt was in between. And the cap would stick to the shirt like a button or a badge. Get it?
Why did you do that?
Hey. We were kids. Kids do crazy stuff. Right?
I guess. But what did that do to the shirt?
Hey. What did we care? We were kids. Anyway, next time I’ll move on to other recollections.
Okay.