Things your GC will never experience...

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...or even your children may never experience...
I was reminiscing yesterday and realised that there are many things we've experienced that younger people won't. For example, living in a shared flat and having to work out how to split the (landline) telephone bill! Trying to be honest about the length of the call. Was it a long or short-distance call? Before 6pm or after? All such things affected the cost!
Then the washing-up rota (pre-dishwasher days), cleaning of communal areas rota, etc...

Freedom to live and work in the EU easily.

Being able to purchase a London property in their early 20s on a modest income.

I still find it wierd that my daughter has no right to live in the country she was born in... when she was born the jokes were whether she could join the UK or German national sports teams...

The nit nurse at school.

Being able to get a summer job working in Europe without needing a visa. Thanks Brexit. 🙄

Toilet paper that feels like tracing paper.

Using a paper map to plan a journey to somewhere new, failing that I used to ask my dad. Or a combination of both lol. Using the paper map when you got lost/ road was closed and you needed to get home. Changing a car tyre by myself.

Omg the nostalgia!! I'd completely forgot!! Thanks for that (warm feeling inside)

Going backpacking/travelling without a mobile!

Having to go to an internet cafe in some tiny village in Vietnam so you can let your parents know you're still alive 😂

@Hyperion100 I traveled a gap year pre-internet. I used to send my parents postcards and sometimes letters in airmail envelopes. A very rare phone call for a birthday. It felt so nice to be that free - without the pressure of having to keep in touch just because the technology is there.

An actual pay packet that jingled on pay day....if you were lucky 😁

They will never experience living in a world where almost nobody had ever even seen a computer let alone used one, and the few that were about were huge and hidden in special rooms inside the buildings of large corporations and banks.

They won't know what it is like to have a black and white telly with three channels and no option to watch a programme later on if you missed it.

They will never know the sheer excitement of waiting to see the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Special.

They will never understand that blackjack sweets, clackers, space hoppers, chopper bikes, roller skates, fishing for sticklebacks and Champion The Wonder Horse were the highlights of the school summer holidays.

They will never, thankfully, ever get to watch Jim'll Fix It.

Living without central heating, Freezer
Microwave, Xbox, PlayStation, home PC, mobile phones

Videos
DVDs
Getting photos developed
Tapes
Landlines
Cigarettes
Sweetie cigarettes
Food fried in lard

Izal!!

Clearly most of you have lived my life!!
Thank you for these fab memories

Weirdly, I was listening to The Carpenters, Please Mr Postman today, and thought kids today wouldn't ever need to wait for a letter ...instant messaging now..

outside toilets the walk in the rain/snow in the dark
putting your holiday snaps from Boots into albums
marking out the TV Times with the programmes you wanted to watch over Christmas knowing your parents would choose in the end
marking out the Argos catalogue what you would like for Christmas but knew werent going to get
waiting for 6 at night to ring your friend otherwise your dad would lose his mind
using the computer when you were allowed and half way through using that annoying paperclip would start tapping on the screen
rushing to the library to get books for your school project and finding all the right books had been taken out before you got there!

Going out first thing in a morning during the hot long summer holidays with your mates, no suncream, coming home when it was dark and your dinner was in the oven to keep warm.

Bit depressing, but top of my list would be living in a world without an impending climate crisis and the global implications of that.

That is something that I didn't have to worry about at all as a child/ teenager.

I was able to go through my childhood and teenage years preparing for an adult life which would be stable, bountiful, with plenty of opportunities for a good life in a time of relative peace.

Now the various impacts of the climate emergency are on most people's radars and will become much more so over the next 10-20 years as it becomes even more urgent.

Teenagers and young people are living with a level of anxiety that people over the age of 30 just cannot relate to and it will only increase over the coming years.

Nobody knowing where you are.
Me and colleague frequently chuckle about our youth, where no one knew or very much cared where you were. Off out you would go.
Junior colleagues seem to have something called 360 live where they can track their partners every movement and vice versa.

Only having 3 channels and having to wait all week for the next episode. And having to be there and fend off anyone who wanted to watch the other side.
The fact that Dad got first dibs on what to watch!

Insects on windscreens after every drive.

Freedom to live and work in Europe ( unless they have a sponsor) - thanks Brexit.

Sitting down as a family, at a set time, to watch a weekly tv show. I loved Monday night, Coronation Street followed by a sitcom. Really good family times.

God I'm reaching the age of nostalgia!

Wow you are young! 🤣 these all seem like modern things to me 🤣🤣❤️