So I was watching an old "Two and A Half Men" the other night and this scene played out:
Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen are having lunch with Holland Taylor. Taylor plays their mother. Charlie is the eldest son. He had recently had a near-death experience, saw the floating head of his father and was told "Take care of your mother." This edict disturbed Charlie greatly because neither son relishes more than 10 minutes with the mother at any time.
So Charlie has invited her to lunch, and Jon comes along, too. Something is said that causes Charlie to excuse himself to go to the restroom, whereupon the mother begins quizzing him about his prostrate.
Once he is away from the table, Taylor looks at Cryer and asks what this lunch is all about (she's no fool). He tells her about the near-death experience and the floating head of the father (to which Taylor pipes up, "That's the way I remember him.") Cryer begins whining about the fact that the father said nothing about him and asks why everything is always about Charlie.
"He was the 'planned' one!" Taylor exclaimed.
"What was I?" Cryer demands to know.
Taylor looks at him and sputters, "You were a pitcher of margaritas and a cheap gas-station condom."
Charlie then returns to the table and he and Taylor have exchanges (with Cryer silent) for the rest of the scene. At the end of the scene, Cryer says aloud, "Who buys condoms in a gas station?"
And it struck me as funny, because men's rooms in gas stations and a couple of movie theaters were the ONLY places I ever saw condom machines when I was a kid. And yes, they sold them out of machines.
I'm positive you could buy them at pharmacies, but for some reason gas station owners and some theater managers were convinced they were good ideas.
Now I ask you: When was the last time anyone here EVER saw a condom machine!!!???!!!
