Found in my backyard , immediately reminded me of family parties in the '70s

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TosaFF@reddit

Some had little slits in the ring part. You could break tongue part off and fling the ring part with the tongue. My brother and I would have distance competitions at the drive in theatre.

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Brocky36@reddit

YES! I was just scrolling down, wondering why nobody had mentioned this. I thought it was maybe just a UK thing and the US ones didn't have the notches, until I saw your comment.

It was an artform to get them to rally fly. We used to collect them for days and then have a war in the yard at school with pockets full of them. Such good times!

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Maevenificent@reddit

Used to make chain necklaces out of these. When kids could be kids and not buried in a ridiculous amount of homework or waiting their childhood on a phone

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YorgonTheMagnificent@reddit

That there's what Jimmy Buffet stepped on

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birdiebogeybogey@reddit

That’s what I’m the most bitter about… where the fuck are the parties?

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Top-Nose2659@reddit (OP)

My family always had parties,my father had one of those great bars in the basement

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I_love_Hobbes@reddit

I once stepped on one of these at a beach or lake shore and cut between my big toe and second toe. Deep gashes. UGH. I hate those things. Tetanus shot, I remember. I was 5 or 6?

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Professional-End434@reddit

Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home.

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Top-Nose2659@reddit (OP)

At least there's booze in the blender

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Blue_Max1916@reddit

Those probably single handedly caused all of us children to wear flip flops instead of run around bare feet in the summer.

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Background_Tax4626@reddit

We never wore shoes in the summer. But mom would yell at us if we didn't wash our feet off with the hose before coming inside.

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thetoffees@reddit

There were no flip flops when I grew up in the 70s (at least in the midwest). Your feet were grass stained from the time you could walk till you graduated high school :)

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AccountOfMyDarkside@reddit

We had a blackberry bush in my yard so my feet were always stained purple.

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thetoffees@reddit

Nice. We didn't have any mulberry trees
(or blackberry bushes) in our yard, but there were some a short bicycle ride away. Our fingers were stained for days.

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AccountOfMyDarkside@reddit

You know, we called them mulberries too but I wasn't sure anyone would know what I was talking about. I wasn't sure if that was a regional thing or not.

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inot72@reddit

That and worms. My Mom would tell us we would get worms if we went barefoot.

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surfdad67@reddit

Shit, I cut my foot and still run around barefoot, dirt packs the wound nicely

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unmistakable_itch@reddit

That used to be one of my go-to karaoke songs.

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theblisters@reddit

Probably a good 15-16 feet! I had a couple strung around my bedroom

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coolcoinsdotcom@reddit

That’s what we did! And also with rubber bands.

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life-is-thunder@reddit

Me too! Kept one on my bedroom wall well into to 90's.

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hippiechick725@reddit

Yes! I got married when I was 5 with one of these!

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charliefoxtrot9@reddit

Everytime the coach dragged the little league field, they were everywhere.

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Life-Unit-4118@reddit

All I see is Bactine and I am Stuck on Bandaid cuz Bandaid stuck on me!

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M23707@reddit

We all knew that dude who had a chain of tabs decorating their room from all the beers they drank.

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M23707@reddit

As a kid we had to wear old shoes when we swam in the lake … because of this kind of trash

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Scootros-Hootros@reddit

When you found it in your backyard, was it embedded on your heel? Same way we all managed to find these thing?

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WhiplashMotorbreath@reddit

My 2nd car came with a chain of these hanging from the rearview mirror.

We didn't have soda pop cans as kids, glass bottles, and family that did drink adult drinks did bottles, other than one family member with his own beer keg fridge tap thing on the deck.

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random420x2@reddit

I can feel my finger blister from pulling those things.

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DoktorNietzsche@reddit

The dugouts at the little league field always had tons of those around.

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Ok-Abbreviations9212@reddit

These things were so bad that they banned them only a decade after they got popular. They got banned in MN and likely other states sometime in the 70s.

In fact, I don't think I remember a single one of these things except maybe finding one years later when it'd been tossed out.

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TexLs1@reddit

Found these on the beach, with my bare feet.

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I was able to replace a lost circlip that fell of my motorcycle's shift lever out in the middle of nowhere using one of those. Really saved my ass back in the day. Now all you find on the side of the road is plastic bottles.

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Slimjim6678@reddit

I remember pull tops. I’ve often wondered why it changes

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Mobile_Aioli_6252@reddit

Well, when you cut your foot on one, it's always good to have some booze in the blender

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idanrecyla@reddit

Have you perhaps a time machine you've neglected to mention here? Some of us world be very interested

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pullmyfinger222@reddit

Just think it's because some idiot cut their finger on one of these, and instead of learning their lesson, they blamed this tab and sued whichever company's product it came from, and that's why they disappeared. What's next? Suing because coffee is too h..... wait. Forget about it.

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diamond@reddit

A relic from an ancient civilization! This has stunning implications for the history of people in our region.

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CrappyInternetGuy@reddit

First thing I thought of was getting my dad a cold Schlitz and popping the top and taking a swig before it got to him.

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AdequateEggplant69@reddit

I love that first Detectorists episode, where they had a whole ring pull “exhibit.”

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ku_78@reddit

I’m going to show this picture to my kids and tell them it was a nose ring

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According-Ad5312@reddit

Keeep it!!!!

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Top-Nose2659@reddit (OP)

I already hung it on my garage wall

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BillDuki@reddit

I worked with an older Asian fella back in the 90’s who wore one of these as a tie clasp/pin.

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ranchoparksteve@reddit

This sounds like an engineer move. 🤣 We had numerous paper clips and a clothespin.

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PaperbackBuddha@reddit

Are you collecting these to donate them at the fire department where they’ll melt down the special aluminum to make premium syringes?

Or something like that, I just remember people having mason jars full of these things believing they were substantively different from the rest of the can.

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Top-Nose2659@reddit (OP)

I do remember doing something like that, My uncle belonged to a marina where they were collecting pop tops for something

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2old2Bwatching@reddit

I immediately thought if a can of Schlitz

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Top-Nose2659@reddit (OP)

That would be my dad and uncles sitting in a circle drinking some beers in '77

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Gomer_Schmuckatelli@reddit

Must have fallen out of Columbus' pocket.

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Ohshitz-@reddit

Did you cut your finger on it? It wouldnt be the 70s until you did

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Top-Nose2659@reddit (OP)

Unfortunately I had gloves on

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Oaken_beard@reddit

“The top came off my pudding can!”

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Life-Unit-4118@reddit

Good one! I forgot they used to have metal tops. But goddamned that pudding was good.

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ThisMTJew@reddit

Don’t cut your heel.

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MeNotYouDammit@reddit

My dad would take one, hold it up and tell everyone " ya know you can make a fish call out of this." If anyone asked how, he would take 2 minutes to painstakingly bend the tounge part of it around to partially cover the ring part and speak in to it "here fishy fishy fishy"

LOL

RIP Dad. Love you.

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