A 1970s/80s AIBU?

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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 think that maybe my mum or dad would be slightly interested in what I had been doing all day since getting kicked out of house at 8am in the holidays/weekends and not expected back till 6. ?. (mum always packed sandwiches) Amongst many adventures. often saddled up best friend and neighbours ponies and went on a ride...on the road/through woods. Neighbours mother nowhere to be seen either. We started riding on our own at 8yrs old as soon as we could lift a saddle on to a pony ...My mother's only response IF she asked what I had been doing was 'that sounds like fun '......

Do you remember when Embassy used to give you vouchers in cigarette packets in the 60s? Well now they have reintroduced them and I'm really excited because I was saving the vouchers to buy a car in the 1960s and I have kept them all these years. AIBU to write to Imperial Tobacco and ask if they will accept the old vouchers?

40p used to get a beano, a packet of polo and a kinder egg... The smell of a maxi, Aibu to out my neice in a short dress and make her sit in that hot plastic maxi seat (a car). (My poor mum didn't realise about the pattern left on my sister and my legs and asked why we didn't ask for a blanket. It didn't cross our minds).

AIBU to nick off down the pub and leave the kids in the pub garden/car? I'm sure they'll be fine and there will e no fighting or anything. I'll even pop out every so often and tore them a bag of crisps and bottle of coke.

Throw not tore fgs. Smart phone my arse.

AIBU to let my 8yo DD stay up late and watch The Equaliser? I'm sure it's character building or something.

Oh sashh you take me back!

Remember the night I fell in the shite when I had my best suit on?
The one that I got by having a lot of Embassy coupons

AIBU to leave my baby in her pram at the bottom of the garden when she cries so I can't hear her? MIL did this with DH, one day a woman knocked on her door and said 'did you know your baby was crying in the garden' she looked at her and said ' yes, of course... why do you think he is in the garden'

AIBU to go to a holiday camp and leave the baby in the chalet all evening - it's fine though because the staff walk around listening and if they hear a baby crying they come to the bar and put a sign up saying "baby crying in chalet 423"?

Aibu to spend my £1 High school lunch money on 10 fags and sausage roll?

You mean you even considered spending your fags and sausage roll money on a school lunch?

^Wastrel!

And yes there was once a radio licence. It was abolished in 1971 by which time it cost £1 5s. Free to the blind and my father had therefore got that much off the TV licence before he died in 1969.

AIBU to keep sending my dd down to the shops with newborn baby in pram when she keeps forgetting to bring the pram back? Also, same dd let go of pram whilst on a slope. So lucky a parked car was there at the bottom of the slope to stop it going onto the road.

(That was me age 10!)

AIBU to only worry if DD (7 years through to 12 years) doesn't make it home until after 5.30 pm after school, even though I know school finishes at 3.05 and it's only a 10 minute walk home.

(Seriously? You didn't care that I wandered from friend's house to friend's house on the way home?!)

AIBU to have no idea where DD is from sunup to sundown during the summer holidays? I assume she's with her cousins somewhere, and really, how far could she get on her 10 speed racer????

(Answer - not always and bloody far!!!!)

AIBU to let my 7 year old stay up to midnight watching Hitchcock movies nearly every week?

AIBU to think that ever since my parents put those pampas bushes in our front garden strangers have been knocking on our door to join in the party

AIBU to be infuriated that the TV version of "Thomas the Tank Engine - Old Iron" does not include the line from the book: "their fathers walloped them soundly"? Do they think we don't do that any more or summat?

AIBU to test slippers on my DC's bottoms in the shop before I buy them, so I know if they are useful for that purpose?

AIBU to leave DD(10), DS (7) and DNephew (7) at DSis's house on a Saturday night while DH, DSis, BIL and I go to the pub? We're usually back by midnight-ish. The pub is 150 yards from DSis's house, and we will leave the back door unlocked (the adults apparently forgot/weren't bothered that this would make it inifinitely easier for someone to just walk in, as well as for us to get out should the need arise!).

Also, AIBU to have DD(10/11) waitress at my DM's pub at a weekend? She gets some of the tips.

Fun times!

AIBU to be furious that they've replaced Michael Praed as Robin of Sherwood?

That was the highlight of my week! First they get bloody Timothy Dalton to play Bond, now this...

AIBU to suspect that the Boots 'just add water' kits will not taste exactly like the finest Beaujolais?

Ha ha these are hilarious.

treacle I had a perm in junior school so maybe age 10. WTF was my mother thinking? She actively encouraged me to get it done as my hair had "no body"!!!

So, mine would be:

AIBU to send the kids to the shop for ciggies?
AIBU to allow the kids to come home for dinner, in junior school, and make themselves something to eat so I can save dinner money?
AIBU to finish mid day for Christmas! down a bottle of Rum as no-one else in work liked it, then sleep it off in the afternoon, telling the kids not to tell their dad. (Dad somehow didn't notice).

How am I still here?

AIBU to send 8 yr old dd up to the shops to buy the evening paper? She only has to cross one main road.

AIBU to bring loads of tins of Campbell's Meatballs on holidays with us so I don't have to do much cooking. The kids love them and I'm sure they're just as good as homecooked ones.

AIBU I am 11 yo and want to ride upstairs on the double decker bus but my mum says no as that is the smoking section.

AIBU to expect my kids to share one tricycle and one doll's pram between them instead of having one each?

AIBU to expect DD to learn to ride a bicycle on her brothers' old bike, even though it's a bit big for her? She's not great with balance, TBH (she was born prematurely with a hearing problem and I wonder if her balance has been affected slightly as well), so a new bike might be a waste of money for her. The old bike's a bit rusty and her feet dangle about six inches off the ground, but she'll be all right going down that hill, won't she, as long as her brothers are there to catch her when she falls?

(This was me and I was f*ing terrified!)

AIBU to wash my daughter's mouth out with soap and water because she swore?

AIBU for smacking my DDs legs for ruining her new gabardine.

She is 7 years old and fell into the canal-it is ruined and full of smelly mud-paid a fortune for that. Shouldn't she be responsible enough to play in safer areas.
Her friends big sister fished her out.
I am furious about this new gabardine.