A 1970s/80s AIBU?

[Scarletohello]

Just been reading the brilliant and nostalgic threads about all the things parents did then that would be massively judged now so thought it would be fun to start a 70s/80s AIBU

Want to join me..?

Here goes,

AIBU to not want to have the whole of the street come and watch a football match on our new black and white TV?

AIBU to remember when there were postal deliveries ever day (well apart from Sunday)

Sorry that should have said TWICE a day!

Yes, i remember mail twice a day. It arrived before i got up for school and at midday, second class. Arrives about 11 now, twice a week or so. Progress i think they call it! Shops shut wed afternoons - nothing open all the time
Like now..

Although I have read most of this great thread, sorry if I am repeating! I am 6 months pregnant, due in May 1980...I have a lovely long, tight fitting lycra dress which I would love to wear..maybe with a lovely scarf around my beautiful bump...my MIL is horrified and wonders why I want to 'advertise' my pregnancy...she has made me a 'tent' with a large bow to 'distract the eye'. AIBU?

AIBU to not wait for DD (8yo) after school. I have to pick DS (5yo) up from same school at same time but he comes out through a different door.

DD walks to school on her own and likes a bit of independance but doesn't like waiting to be let in the house if she's home before me.

AIBU to insist on getting DCs polyester T shirts as they keep their shape better than cotton.

DD says that cotton is better for the skin but she's a child FFS.

Are my DH and me BU to put our baby daughter in the back of the transit van in her carry cot? She really laughs when DH goes speeding around corners, brakes suddenly or accelerates quickly and it slides around...
If she's not in the back, she's on my knee up front with no seat belt.

How are any of us still alive?

Oooh I love this thread Scarletohello!!!
AIBU to moan at my mum for making me wear painful rollers in my hair in bed so that I have some lovely flicks and to have to wear a yellowish broderie anglaise blouse with a homemade ( Simplicity pattern 2974 or something) long brown skirt to the Queen's Silver Jubilee evening street party?
Or to moan at having to eat, yet again , a pint of prawns wrapped in paper from MacFisheries
Or to be fed up with having to entertain myself "upstairs" during school holidays, weekends etc because mum and dad were running the shop downstairs from age 6+ ?

AIBU to be absolutely transfixed by 'Sapphire and Steel' on the telly but not really have a clue what the hell it's about?

aibu to ban tiswas and magpie and make dd watch swap shop and blue peter only, and only swap shop every third saturday if it is raining.

Aibu to allow dd to sleep on the back seat of the car going on holiday. dh want to leave at 4 am to get a head of the traffic.

aibu to be cross that the neighbour left the dc's here for half an hour while she popped out four hours ago?

aibu to hoist judgy pants that the neighbour left her dc's in the car with a packet of crisps and some pop while they went in the pub.

AIBU to sellotape a raw sausage to a bamboo cane so I can change the channels on our new touch sensitive TV without getting out of my seat?

YES FOLKS MY DAD DID THIS!

Aibu to want to watch kids tv outside the hours of 3 and 5.35?

AIBU to think that a group of 9 girls should not be driven around in the back of a minivan with no seats? IT was OK as the back was boarded out... we slid all over the place and once, the back door opened as we turned a corner, we all held on to not fall out.

1979. Girl's Brigade. And when we had to cart drums and flags it was made clear those were the priority as they cost a lot of money.

Laska42 - this happened to my DH. He is still bitter!

AIBU to leave unsupervised children in the car with a bottle of coke for several hours because pubs are "adult places, and children aren't welcome"?

AIBU to say "the dogs will babysit" and head off to another pub of an evening?

AIBU to say "you have to burn and peel before you go brown" before applying coconut oil to your DCs skin?

All these things happened to me, regularly.

Also used to walk home from primary school (it was junior back then). about 2 1/2 miles. some of it on country roads, with hedges and woods on one side and the road on another. No pavements. No streetlights. I was 7, my sister was 5 and there were no adults home when we got in as both parents worked. But they never introduced me to Jimmy Saville, so good on them!

AIBU to throw out all my flannelette bedding for modern nylon - from Brentford Nylons naturally. AIBU to ditch proper blankets for a Continental Quilt?

AIBU to think smoked glass and onyx will always be in style?

AIBU to transport DCs in back of work van.

AIBU

The school have sent my daughter home with a card, it has a picture of some child in one of those hot countries and 10 tick boxes.

Every day she takes in a penny and one box is ticked, once she has 10 ticks she can pick a name, the child in the picture will be baptized with that name and the money raised will go to baptize more brown babies.

Such a good cause, but my dd just can't think of sensible christian names, she wants to call the child Florence ofter Florance Nightingale! I mean she was a great woman but her names isn't a saint's name is it? Or even an old testament name. That poor baby will be baptized without a proper christian name.

AIBU to force her to use the name 'Mary'? I mean you can't go wrong with Mary can you?

To add water some freeze dried brown paste to make a Vesta Curry?

To return the lemonade bottles and keep the pennies?

Later, to wear a frilly shirt & have blond flicks a la Lady Di?

AIBU not to take my 4 year old to hospital after she was knocked unconscious? I've put her to bed for a good sleep and am popping every hour or so to check on her.
Also, my mother says DDs room is too cold and we should get her a heater. I think she is unreasonable as I don't like a hot bedroom and there is only ice inside the windows for a couple of months.

AIBU to put 3 year old DD in a baby carrier on my back whilst riding a scooter?

Yes, apparently my dad did this. Helmets? Safety?

Aibu to leave my nine year old dd sleeping alone in a car when camping because we only have a small tent and I don't want to buy another one?

this was me and I was scared shirtless, especially as the car was some distance from the tent, and loads of drunks

To firmly believe that garlic is the work of the devil?

Aibu to leave the just 4 and nearly 6 yr old home alone whilst I pick dh up from work? I'm only gone half an hour or so

Yes there was a fire. Seriously
She arrived back as the fire brigade pulled up

YY to putting the back seat of the ford escort estate down with loads of mustard yellow duvets so we had a huge bed for the 3 of us going to visit family. And then a trailer for the luggage.
AIBU to drink too much Pernod and Blackcurrant and then scare my mother half to death by vomiting up what looks like blood till she smells the aniseed
Thank goodness the carpet was also a deep shade of red

Also, AIBU to make my kids sit in the aforementioned Ford Escort, with vinyl seats which are hotter than the surface of the sun in the summer whilst wearing shorts.