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Drive-in theaters once handed out smoking coils

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Ah, the romantic nostalgia of the classic drive-in, where couples huddled together in cars while actively fending off massive swarms of bloodthirsty insects. Because parking hundreds of hot cars in an open, grassy field near a glowing screen perfectly attracts every bug in the county, operators physically handed patrons smoldering, toxic mosquito coils to burn on their dashboards just to survive the feature.

Drive-in theaters once handed out smoking coils
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