[50sDad]

My grandfather apparently told the story that as a young man on a cross country train trip, a fellow in the next set of seats noticed that he had a roll of NECCOs, and asked for one. "What flavor?" my grandpa asked. "Doesn't matter," says the man. He takes the waver and wedges it under the window on the train car. Apparently, the windows, like the schoolbus windows of my era, Click Locked at five and ten inches, so this fellow used a NECCO to hold the window open just an inch. If it rained while he was napping...the tasteless pseudo candy would melt, and close the window without human intervention!

I have had the things in my life, and in my opinion they are nasty. But if I ever need to hold open a traincar window, I will know what to do!

[Nowhere Man]

I once bought a car on the basis where you can slide a pack of Necco wafers on the dashboard. My friend had a 1985 Ford LTD, the small one, where it had a groove on the dashboard. I had to tie my shoe so I put the pack in the groove. He took a hard turn and they slide all the way towards him and down to the floor of the car and we had a good laugh. When I bought a small LTD, it was a 1986 model, much like his but mine was more basic, but it had that groove. We used to play “Necco games” where we tried to slide it without having it drop to the floor. It was a blast. B-) I miss that car for other reasons. It had rear wheel drive but I’ve beaten 4x4’s climbing up over hills with snow and ice and many times, I can plow through snow over 12 inches deep and still move. Wish I had that car back again.