Back in my day...

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Not long get off the phone from my lovely MIL. She was asking could she take the kids out tomorrow for a few hours. No problem! I asked her does she want me to fit the girls car seats or does FIL know how to do it.

Cue this conversation

MIL : FIL do you need kung to fit the car seats or can you do it?
FIL : car seats?
MIL : Yes car seats...
FIL : what do we need them for?
Me : to strap the children into?
FIL : back in my day we didn't have all this car seat rubbish.
Me : it's no problem I can fit them in your car
FIL : no don't worry about using them. DD1 can sit with MIL and DD2 can sit with me.

Cue my face looking like the picture attached below.

Me: no it's alright FIL. I'll just fix them in its no big deal.
FIL : Kung back in my day...
MIL : She doesn't bloody care about back in your day FIL.

We say our goodbyes and me & DH have a good chuckle over his dad's example of back in his day. AIBU in thinking some examples of "Back in my day" aren't really helpful in proving your point.

Anyone else care to share examples of "Back in my day" that leaving you pulling this face

Back in the day
You could smoke in pubs, cinemas and on long distant coaches

I don't smoke

Thank god MIL tells him to stop and doesn't agree with him. What an idiot.
He obviously hadn't heard that, when we know better we do better.

forget their day back in my day(late 80s,early 90s)i traveled in the boot looking out of the back window and my sister(8 years younger) used to travel on a adults lap

my aunt and uncle had/have 7 kids in 8 years and i remember them (and me on some occasions)traveling in the foot well as the seats were already take by 4 kids.so there was 4 on seats 2 in footwells and 2or 3 in the boot and 2 adults at front

Back in my day, my mum could send me up the shops by myself aged 5 with a note saying 10 no. 6. They were a brand of cigarettes and the shop lady would happily hand them over to me. This was in the 70s.

one day you will say "back in my day"

Too true Samcro! Sometimes I see the eyebrows of the youth of today and think 'Good God..', only to remember my own teenage pale lipstick with dark liner and those bloody bindis! I even caught myself saying that todays music 'all sounds the same'. Just like my parents did!

Back in my day, I use to dip the babies dummy in whisky- helped her sleep better

I also used to buy my parents fags from the corner shop.
Sat in the boot of the car pulling faces at the cars behind us.
Lay down on the backseat on long car journeys to have a nap.
Took a tent onto the local Rec with my brothers and slept there all night.
Thought it was fun to climb onto the flat roof extension, then just jump off onto the yard.

Back in my day, my sister and I aged 6 & 9 wouldn't agree on who would sit in the back seat so my mom let us both sit in the front for most journeys! No seat-belts either!

'Back in my day we worked hard to buy a house.'Yes, that's right baby boomer, the young of today could all afford to buy homes if only they would stop their avocado, quinoa and takeaway coffee habbits.

I found it quite shocking though. Like, when I had DD, there were things I did that worked (lifting), so I passed these on to other people when they had their children. Mostly I was thanked politely while their faces said "over my dead body".

Quickly remembered all my DM's "advice" which was the opposite of what the midwives were recommending, so I DIDN'T take it.

The world turns faster than we do, and it's scary!

Back in my day all the grown ups used to say, "during the war..."

Yup, another one who used to go to buy fags for my mum, and we'd always have to 'tell them who they're for.'

And we'd be sent to the off-sales hatch of the local pub for a jug of beer for Dad - same system!

We had no seatbelts or car seats of course, and we used to argue about who would sit on the 'armrest' in the back of the car - but it was always the littlest who got it.