To want to know something you've experienced that current/future generations won't.

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I'm throwing in the disgusting smell of telephone boxes.
Smoking and/or drinking at work

the pain of being kicked off the family desktop computer , in the ‘office’ so mam could use the landline phone

Going to the video shop

Recording TOTP on a Thursday night on a cassette player and stopping and starting to cut out the presenters / waffle.

Buying my first record.

Missing a tv programme like you miss a bus… it’s just gone

Calling my friends' landlines, building myself up to speak to their parents and asking to speak to them 😭

Going to Blockbusters to pick out a couple of films for a sleepover.

Using a pencil to wind back a tape

The dial up noise to connect to the internet

Woolworths

Using a landline
driving a petrol / diesel car
Retiring before you’re 75

Hopefully getting fired for having a baby

Running to the loo/to get a drink during the ad break.

Only having a short window of time to watch kids TV and fighting with siblings over what we would watch (bbc vs itv)

Phoning your mate's landline and her dishy older brother picking up and getting to actually speak to him and him reply into your actual ear even if they're only saying "I'll just get her for you" oh it was divine of course you would never ever admit the crush.

Having the only phone in the house in the hallway, on a little table with a doily underneath and it being a rotary dial one too!

Or even worse....calling a boy that you fancied!

Having a smoking section at the back of the plane

This!!

Doing something idiotic and it just being a memory not a permanent record somewhere that someone put on social media

I had to explain to my 10 year old what an ashtray was. Obviously, they are still in use, but with pubs and other public places being smoke free now she had never encountered one!

Turning on the tv or radiogram ahead of a programme so it could warm up.

Plugs on a chain!

Any bullying at school left at school.
Smoking allowed upstairs on busses
1p sweets, Texan bars, jaw breakers, lucky bags.
Stereo with twin tape deck

Being on a long phone call (landline) with my friend as a teenager and the operator interrupting the call to tell me to hang up because my dad was trying to get through. His car had broken down and he was trying to ask mum to come pick him up.