Who remembers "Magic Fingers"?

[trof]

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That little box you'd feed with quarters to get the mattress to vibrate at a motel?
I got a vibrating back cushion for Christmas.

[soothsayer]

1. I got my mom one for long car rides

Had a heater, ran off the cigarette lighter thingy, was dirt cheap, and I wish I had it.

[Skittles]

2. is that a geezer test, trof

I passed

[trof]

11. Yes, but you're a junior geezer.

[catbyte]

3. LOL.

My husband and I drove out to Glacier National Park on our honeymoon. On the way, we stopped someplace that had one of them. As a joke, we turned it on. About 30 seconds later we got a call from the front desk asking us to turn it off because it was bothering the guests downstairs. Whoopsie.

But then we thought, "Why have them on the second floor in the first place if you can't use it?" But we unplugged it.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. When I was 10, we went on a vacation to the Smokey Mountains

that was the first time I ever saw one of those. Of course, I thought it was for massaging your back.

How ya doing Trof? Getting anywhere with your Sally damage cleanup?

[trof]

12. Clean up done. Reconstruction hasn't started yet.

Shortage of shingles and other building materials.
Many in neighborhood (including me) still have blue tarps on roof.

[Ferrets are Cool]

13. A ton of them over here in Mobile also.

Plus, I am hearing about issues with getting insurance money from certain companies.

Be safe over there my friend.

[trof]

15. Thanks

[trof]

16. Thanks

[dewsgirl]

5. When I was little I would beg for quarters when we stayed at

hotels with them, I thought they were the greatest.

[El Supremo]

6. I remember "Roman hands and Russian fingers".

Some dates said I had them.

[Arne]

7. Bought one at a garage sale. It looked like an iron from turn of a century.

Plugged in the cloth wrapped cord and it shook all to hell.
Placed it under a queen mattress and it was wonderful.
Used it so much it finally just died.

[dchill]

8. I'm old enough to remember "Magic Fingers"...

...and ashtrays and actual paper phone books. And dialing 9 for an outside line.

[trof]

14. And free advertising paper book matches everywhere.

Especially one for an 'art school'.
"Draw me."

[Lord Ludd]

17. "Any size except like a tracing"

It was always a profile, frequently of a pirate wearing an eye patch.

[central scrutinizer]

9. I got a shiatsu neck massager

It’s great.

https://www.tesmanian.com/products/shiatsu-neck-and-back-massager-with-heat

[RockRaven]

10. Only from reading Slaughterhouse-Five in high school...

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