I'm so old...

[jennymanara]

I remember when Iceberg lettuce was exotic
When you had to load up a computer game using a tape recorder
When hitchhikers were common

When, on any long journey, you used to pass cars at the side of the road with their bonnet up because they'd overheated.

I remember my DF making us all (hand) wind down our windows with the heater on full when the car threatened to overheat on hot days

How about all watching the tv screen and shouting "Now! That's it!" whilst your dad fiddled with the ariel outside on the roof, trying to get the picture tuned in?

Party telephone lines!

When the BBC played the national anthem at close down.

No rear seatbelts or internet or Star Wars...

When my little Mini used to break down in the rain, and I had to wait for the engine to dry out before I could continue my journey

I remember being in my dad's battered old Comma camper (this was the early 90's but the van was from the 70's) and we were climbing up the Hot Air Balloon hill just outside Gloucester (to this day I don't know what road it is).

The gearbox failed half way up, we lost all gears except 1st. Dad drove the rest of the long, steep hill, in 1st gear - I've never heard engine noises like it 😂

Then we got to the top, parked up to phone the AA and dad decides to take a look in the engine. The engine is in between the front seats.

12 yo me says "dad, won't that explode everywhere" as he was about to unscrew the top of the water tank. Dad insisted it was fine but I ran, mum ran and dad sprayed himself with blistering hot steam and smelly water!

Can't imagine that happening nowadays 😂

Black and white tv only.

The national anthem at midnight.

When man landed on the moon
And the 50th anniversary is next month

I had a black and white TV with a dial! Didn't even have buttons let alone a remote control.

I remember vividly being so excited at getting our first ever TV with a remote (that was attached to the TV with a wire!)

Also, first time we had a phone (mid 80's)

Playing Bamboozle on Teletext after school.

First CD player we ever owned was mum's present to dad on his 40th birthday (1997!) and she bought him a Rod Stewart CD and Cher's Greatest Hits too 😂

No phones
No internet
4 TV channels
Sitcoms on bbc every night
Coronation street only on one night a week
Toys in cereal boxes
The milk man
Telephones with the curly cord and dial circle thingy you put your finger in to spin round the numbers
Smoking on aeroplanes (well everywhere 🤢😡)
I remember when we first got a video recorder and we felt really swish as we didn’t know many other people with one

First episodes of:
The Simpson’s
Hollyoaks
Friends

I remember thinking my friends mum was the coolest person on the planet because she had a bubble car (1967)

When our friends bought a CD player and we all came round to look at it. It was big news.

Arranging to meet people, waiting for an hour, going home and having to call them off a landline to find out what happened.

Oh god yes I remember people smoking inside shopping centres and planes. Cafes used to have sections for smoking inside.

Smoking rooms on maternity units

Stereograms that were actually sideboards.
Has no-one mentioned the test card?
Sending away for things that took 28 days to arrive.
Telegrams
The Pools man
Green shield stamps
The pop man
Starting work in 1992 when people smoked in the office and used to use the work phone for personal stuff when the boss was out, or your sister would call you at work. Insane!

Being sent to the staff room with a message for the teacher (primary school) and being hit with a fog of cigarette smoke as the door opened.

The television repair man coming round when the TV was on the blink.

Walking past a telephone box and pressing 'coin return' in the hope a couple of 2 pence pieces would fall out.

Recording tv programmes on vhs using the little code in the radio times/newspaper tv listing

Recording the Top 40 on cassette and trying to pause it before the dj spoke!

2 pence pieces Worra you are so young
Twas a farthing in my day

When the only 'freezers' people had in their kitchens was just a small ice box at the top of the fridge.

Ours always needed defrosting and you couldn't fit much more than a tray of ice cubes in it anyway

I can still remember the police phone box !

Red

Worra if your mum doesn't remember a farthing had a Robin on it