Muscle Relaxers by the Inch

Gizmo and Gadget  Nostalgia Record High Pump Prices 3.57/ Inch Regular 3.15/ Inch Premium

These things are still around?  I thought them replaced by ... more, er,  complicated looking devices.  Possums, or Rabbits, or something.  I remember the first time I saw one of these.  We were looking at new-fangled home answering machines at Hecht's.   There,  sitting on the glass counter were displayed a dozen or so, standing upright like toy soldiers. They weren't turned on,  lest they vibrate off the table,  like one of those electric football game pieces, I guess. Took me a minute.  Stopped me in my tracks.   Despite the card calling it a "muscle relaxer," which I guess it is,  I recognized it for what it was.  I was embarrassed (srsly) that it was being sold in public, just as I was later when Tampax commercials were shown on television  (while the kids were watching).  God, that seems so long ago.  Mother Superior, then Sister Superior was with me, and had no idea what it was.  She doesn't have a mechanical mind.  When I told her she said "Oh stop!."  Muscle relaxing was only 57¢ an inch then.