the expectation that you might get patches or serious pills to combat seasickness when you went on a cruise

the expectation that you would recognize this as a thing

the expectation that you would go on a cruise

“newsagents”, like a store that had all the newspapers local and national and even out-of-zone, and a lot of magazines, and also books tilted towards the new and mass-market but not as narrowly so as drugstore/supermarket aisles or even airport bookstores

and maybe a Ticketmaster kiosk, this was all before the internet and we didn’t have French-ass Minitel shit