I can remember when I was a teenager going into the men's room at gas stations and seeing novelty machines. It was where we could discretely buy rubbers. I can't remember the last time I saw one. I rarely use men's rooms except at strip clubs. It seems like they might be good places to install one but then again maybe selling condoms openly might send up the red flags.
I was in a sports bar the other day and the restroom had one. I still see them occasionally, sportsbar/bar restroom, occasional convenience store restroom, sometimes in a restroom at a rest stop along the interstate as well.
I’m trying to think, I’ve seen other things sold than condoms but at the moment I can’t remember what items those were.
Still come across them occasionally while driving through rural areas of the midwest. Chances are if you walk in to a bathroom and see one you should turn around and walk out before you regret it because most bathrooms that have them seem like they haven't been maintained in the decades since it was installed.
I haven't seen one of those since I was a teenager. They were in most gas stations in the 70's. Always shitty quality condoms and I knew two guys that got their girlfriends pregnant using them. If I ran across a machine now, I would figure the stock inside was left over from the 1970's as well.
I’m thinking back to traveling with my family when I was a kid - and remembering those machines that they had on the motel beds. You’d put some quarters in and it would vibrate or something. I remember our parents telling us those things were never to be touched or used. Nothing like Catholics to take the fun out of a vibrating motel bed!
^ Thinking back to that era - I remembered those electronic football games were basically a football version of the vibrating bed. You got all your players in formation - and turned it on - and hoped the junk would make it to the end zone…
They were in Club Alex’s until they swapped the Men’s and Women’s Bathrooms in the interior 8 month do over! Maybe they decided in this era the dancer’s needed the items more than the customer and modernized the pricing while still ignoring expiration dates.
There is a comedian that said he wanted to own these all across the country and never fill them up because the teenagers that used them would be too embarrassed to go complain inside when they didn’t work.
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I’m trying to think, I’ve seen other things sold than condoms but at the moment I can’t remember what items those were.
Condoms, cock rings, all that stuff.
I’m thinking back to traveling with my family when I was a kid - and remembering those machines that they had on the motel beds. You’d put some quarters in and it would vibrate or something. I remember our parents telling us those things were never to be touched or used. Nothing like Catholics to take the fun out of a vibrating motel bed!