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?

I was born near the end of the 80s, so have no memory of either decade. :(

Numanoid

Don't be sad, a lot of it was shit.

No shopping on a Sunday.
TV only in the Evening and only 3 channels.
Lots of violence towards children and cigarette smoke everywhere.

YY to sashh. The first being the source of a lot of pre-cookery lesson stress.

Also, a lot of the food was just rubbish. Salad was a tomato, a few leaves of round lettuce and the odd slice of cucumber. Garlic was funny forrin stuff and made you a social outcast for days after you ate it. Curries had sultanas in them and were accompanied by sliced bananas. You couldn't buy raw beetroot except in the right kind of shops.

At the same time I'm nostalgic for the days when we could actually drive right into the middle of London and see the Christmas lights down Oxford Street (that became very difficult in the 80s and impossible in the 90s.)

... was I being UR to dope both my small kids with Phenergan, so they slept all the way from Berkshire to Cornwall? My GP suggested this, by the way

AIBU to get my child to wait in the garage after school? I can't trust them to be in the house so I haven't given them a key. She is 11.

AIBU to think tinned salmon will turn a boring salad into a lovely special tea suitable for visitors calling over on Sunday?

Would I be unreasonable not to serve Ferraro Rochet at my upcoming party?

AIBU to send the kids off on their bikes on a sunny morning during the holidays with a lidded beaker of squash and a pocketful of jam sandwich and tell them to come home "when it gets dark"?

AIBU to think Farrah Fawcett Major is not that good looking and to actually wish I looked like Jaclyn Smith?

AIBU to think that as a teacher I should command respect and if a child is cheeky there is nothing wrong with me throwing him across the classroom or hanging him out of a second floor window by his ankles?

(True stories, different teachers in real life though)

A neighbour has just come knocking on my door to complain about my child keeping her baby awake last night with his noisy game of football right outside her house.
WIBU to send my child around to apologise instead of insisting he has a right to play anywhere he likes.

AIBU not to have slapped the next door neighbour's kid for using the word "bloody"?
AIBU for letting my 12 year old go into Belfast sure there were only a few bombs going off.... and she'd never get pished?

Aibu to not want to take my ds to see that A rated film at the Isoldo? But it's ok, he can ask some random bloke to take him in.

Are we being unreasonable to let our DD sit with an elbow on each front seat of the car to enable her to lean forward into the middle of us to chat when traveling long distances on the motorway?

AIBU to allow DD to stay up to hear the national anthem on BBC1 as a birthday treat? (at the end of the evening, when the telly closed down).

AIBU to force my DCs to eat Fruits of The Forest yoghurt, even though none of them like the flavour? Sainsburys multipacks all have a Fruits of The Forest one & I don't like the flavour myself either......

AIBU to allow sandwich spread, lemon curd, peanut butter or marmite as a filling for a school lunch sandwich - but NOT jam? Because jam sandwiches are "what common children eat".

AIBU to hand select my DCs friends based on how much I like their mothers and/or how "common" they are?

Findus crispy pancakes wil never catch on..

also I WANT POP TARTS!! (sulk mean mother wont buy them)

I'm sure it's ok to leave my young kids in the car in the pub car park while we have a few shandies or 10 . I' ll bring them bottles of coke and crisps every hour or so just to check on them make sure they haven't been abducted or released the handbrake.
I am also sure it's ok to wash my kids mouth out with shield soap if she answers me back.
I also think it's ok for random kids in the street to call and ask if they can take the baby out in her pushchair for hours on end, never knowing where they are etc.

...To think that all I have to do is eat 2 Lean Cuisine ready meals a day for a month and I will lose a stone.. ( then i can have my Lambrusco amd Malboro on friday nights also )

AIBU to send my children (5, 7 & 8) into town (a mile away and crossing a main road) to drag their dad out of the pub.

And AIBU to be cross with THEM when they don't return and I find them in the pub an hour later with their dad drinking lemonade and eating crisps?

Parenting in the 70s was brilliant.

can I send my 7 year old to the shops to buy these? check out the cheapness!

AIBU to make a tea of meat paste sandwiches and Battenburg cake?

AIBU to tie the settee in the back of the works transit so the kids have somewhere to sit when we go on holiday rather than having to lay on the boxes of stock like usual?

AIBU not to want to have to leave my job when I get married? Company policy states that if a woman marries someone within the same department she has to leave.

Soon-to-be DH earns more than me and his job is more important but I am happy in my department and don't want to leave.

AIBU to invite you to a tupperware party?