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

Our swimming pool was salt water - they used to have travelling dolphin shows!

Being able to visit the cockpit of a plane during your flight
The Broadmoor siren
Arguing about who gets to sit in the boot of the car!

I bought a new one the other week! Didn't realise they are passé!

Ha yes and we used to walk around and pick up empties in fields for pocket money as well as the then glass Strongbow bottles.

Was the siren when there was an escapee ??? 😮

Doing a degree without internet. Having to go to library to search for journals and photocopy them

Watching the festival fireworks from Princes Street with about quarter of a million others with no tickets and no barriers

Yes, but it was also tested at 10am every Monday

Every week. They tested it on a Tuesday I seem to remember.

Hand writing my uni work.

Getting the strap at school
Spangles sweets and gypsy cream biscuits
Smoking being allowed on flights 🤮
Country Born hair gel

Listening in on the extension as your BFF calls your crush to (not so) subtly ask him if he 'likes you'. And to really date myself.....party lines.

Going out with friends and your parents having no way to get in touch with you.

I remember paying someone to word process my dissertation and save it to floppy disk!

A rag and bone man, who would sharpen your knives, scissors etc in exchange for your rags.
The coal man.
The man from the Pru. He would call on a Friday evening for your insurance subs.
Milkmen in a lot of cases.
Going to the post office to pay bills and tax your car.
Car tax discs.
Littlewoods / Vernon's football pools man.
Pinching your mum's clothes line so you and your friends could skip on the road... laying it flat if a car came.
Playing out with your friends until the streetlights came on.

I remember when it was normal to rent your tv (and other white goods).
My parents took advantage of this is the 60s by only renting in the winter months as their way of restricting screen time when they'd rather we were outside playing.

recording on vhs all my boyband performances on TOTP or Saturday morning shows and sitting through music you don't like/not interested in as you don't know if they are going to turn up and just sit there ready to record just in case.
all through the 90s/early 00s i had so many tapes that was watched so regularly.

these days they are all available on YouTube and TikTok so easily

and yes i watch them regularly so its made my life(obsession)so much easier

Garden hop

Using a snooker cue to change channels on TV.
Polishing the chrome on your car.
Thinking being felt up by creepy old men, or work colleagues, was perfectly acceptable.

I can remember a friend of mine had a box on her TV which you fed £1 coins into around 20 years ago.

Which reminds me, gas and electric meters which you fed money into and every so often a man from the gas / electric board would come and empty it.

Being able to park a motorbike outside Jenners on Princes Street

Outhouse toilet, snow from Mid-november until March, coal-fired stoves throughout the house, paternoster lifts, acid rain, floppy disks, walkman, European currencies before the Euro, telephone cards

Getting off the sofa to change the TV channel.
1/2p sweets which had to be counted out.
1/2 p
The old 5ps which were originally a shilling.
£1 notes.
Half-day openings
Only the newsagent open on a Sunday morning
3 then 4 TV channels
Terrifying public information adverts.
Public telephones
Public phones on trains (do these still exist I haven't been on a train for years)
Phone cards (my parents bought my first phone card so I could keep in touch with them at university, and a book of stamps so I could write letters)
Lots of orange and brown ford escorts.
Fish and chips wrapped in yesterdays news paper.
When it was British rail and British Gas, and not private companies trying to screw you over.
When your GP knew you, would do home visits or a Same day appointment and you'd get through on the first ring, second or at a push third ring.
When out of hours meant ringing the GP on their home phone number, often for the phone to be answered by his unpaid secretary (ie wife).
And the local scallywag would quickly be brought to heel with the merest mention of getting their parent (grew up in a village where everyone knew everyone else).
Cigarette and booze adverts (always loved the hamlet cigar and Heineken ads)