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

Taking a photo and having to wait until it came back from the photo shop to discover whether I'd had my thumb over the lens

Haha, you would have one of those little stickers on the photo, telling you how you fucked up.
I remember going on a school trip, and I took a photo of a friend, when really I was getting a sneaky one of my crush that was sat behind her. Photo came back all red with one of those damn stickers. I was most upset 😅

Oh ALL of those plus pushing cars everywhere! To bump start them, push them to the petrol station. Also the then mopeds or "chicken chasers" you very rarely saw one that wasn't being pushed.

They made a comeback.

No central heating and sash cord windows which froze on the inside in winter 🥶

Ah see, I'm lots older than you!

Talking to WW2 veterans. I have talked to a relation who was wounded at Dunkirk, another who took part in the D-Day landings, and a third who was in Burma.

I have also sat in a room with people who knew people born and raised in the 19th-century. My grandfather was adopted and raised by a woman born in 1872! He died when I was 21, so I knew him very well. The woman who raised him would have been 28 on New Year's Eve 1899. She was born two years after Dickens died. And for sure she would have met somebody born in the 18th-century (when she was 10, an 83-year-old would have been born in 1799).

Having no money in the bank but writing a cheque in the supermarket because you know you'll get paid before they get the cheque paid in.

Using cheques so often you have a special holder to keep your cheque book in.

Seeing Star Wars when it was first released & getting to enjoy it without having a clue there would ever be so much as a second film.

Welcome to my world 2023!

Benson & Hedges gratis points. The more you smoked the bigger the prize you could choose. Unthinkable now.

My grandfather fought in WWI and my parents were both in WWII

as the train came into the station, having to lower the window in the door to open the door.
there were no handles on the inside.

Being included on my parents passport.

Getting a 1 year visitors passport from the Post Office.

Taking the hovercraft across the Channel.

I also had a purdy cut
I did NOT look like Joanna Lumley
more like friar tuck.

getting my first pay packet, in a little brown envelope, for saturday morning work; the princely sum of 7/6.
pronounced: seven and six, equals 35p, value now about
£6 in today's money.

Looking up at the moon and thinking “There are two men up there called Armstrong and Aldrin” plus watching it live i.e. Watching history in the making

Yes, I collected tokens from Golden Virginia for stuff.

Shopping / renting from any of these:
Radio rentals
Rumbelows
Tandy
Dixons
Bejams
FineFare
Safeway
Mark One
C & A
Index

actually, i think there probably were some kind of opening device on the inside of the train doors, but it was stiff and awkward to operate, a kind of small lever inside a frame that had to be pushed sideways.
easier to operate the normal handles on the outside.

I remember the one year passports with handwritten details

My year could change the date to make us 2 years older (the last digit of the year could be changed from a 7 to a 5 using a rubber and a pen) which we used to get served in pubs from 16. Unthinkable now!

Also born in 91, I suggested my dd decorate her school books with wallpaper like I did, the look of disgust I received from her was a picture.

I also remember being in year 5 primary school, when I was first allowed to leave school at dinner time, I’d go back home for a pot noodle and then head back to school for the afternoon.

It seems crazy now to think we were just allowed to pop home for lunch.

Printed telephone directories. One in alphabetical order showing businesses and individuals, unless you asked to be ex-directory. It gave address as well as phone number, which was useful. If you were trying to find a schoolfriend's number, unless it was an unusual surname you really needed to know her Dad's first name if you didn't know the address. E.g. you wanted Jane Smith's number, you'd find 100s of listings for Mr A. Smith, Mr A. B. Smith, Mr Alan Smith etc, with a very occasional Miss or Mrs A. Smith.

You also got Yellow Pages, which listed businesses, hospitals, schools, council offices etc. Organised by category, so you had to work out what category the business would be under. Later there was also the Thomson Local, which was thinner. The other directories were huge and useful as doorstops. They got replaced every couple of years, IIRC.

Cardboard library tickets. Children could borrow two books for a fortnight so got two tickets.

I'm wearing a woolly hat as I type.

Having to hand write everything

Pubs closing in the afternoon.

Being locked in the car with a packet of crisps, a can of coke and a comic while your parents went to the pub for a drink. If you were lucky they would have a beer garden you could sit in instead.

Buying the Christmas Radio Times and entering protracted negotiations over Christmas viewing.

Yes to stinking of smoke after a night out. Sometimes it was so bad even your shoes would smell of smoke.

If your film was too old, it was no good. Taking a photo cost money as you had to buy the film and then you had to pay for it to be developed. No endless selfies!