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3Hotdogs

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4. I remember when I was a 'ute. Parents took me to Silver Springs Fl -- approx 1955.

Reply to Backseat Driver (Original post)

Tue May 25, 2021, 05:25 PM

May 2021

Store was selling monkeys. I wanted one but my cheap parents wouldn't get one for me.

W.T.F. ?

Last year, my 46 y.o. daughter was complaining to me that I wouldn't buy her a pony when she was a kid.

What goes around.....

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Does this story make anyone else wonder how Recursion is doing? Scrivener7 May 2021 #1

I would guess that "wild African vervet monkeys" came from Africa. n/t PoliticAverse May 2021 #2

I'd guess pets released intl the wild and they were fruitful and multiplied... nt kirkuchiyo May 2021 #3

I remember when I was a 'ute. Parents took me to Silver Springs Fl -- approx 1955. 3Hotdogs May 2021 #4

Selling monkeys?! Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #5

Yeah, there were a couple of shops. You could buy a monkey or baby alligator. 3Hotdogs May 2021 #6

It's one of those things that slipped through the cracks... Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #7

My first time in Fl. was roughly 1950. My uncle was out of WW 2, waist gunner. 3Hotdogs May 2021 #9

Thanks for sharing that story! Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #10

U.S. 1. Long and desolate. For miles, nothing but farms or forests. 3Hotdogs May 2021 #11

That's the third monkey colony I have heard of in Florida csziggy May 2021 #8

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