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

Ringing my parents at the same time each week from boarding school and then university. I used to write down things I wanted to tell them so that I didn't forget anything important.

My mum and her friends used to share childcare during the holidays and I remember us all being bundled into the back, sharing seat belts or being allowed to sit in the boot ("duck down if you see a police car") for a day trip to Weston Super Mare or the like. My children didn't believe me when I told them about that because I'm such a stickler for road safety.
Yes to the seats that took off half your skin in the summer too.

Degrees must be so much easier nowadays 👍

Co-channel interference on the telly on a clear summer’s day if you lived in the South and your antenna started picking up a French show at the same time.

Having a pen pal

Oh dear, I am a behind the times I still write cheques

Something you never see now is cars being driven around anymore with rust holes in them , used to be fairly common .

I parents buying those recordable Charlie tapes with the cases that looked like books. 'Mums tape. DO NOT TAPE OVER'

The Troubles. Hopefully.

The smell of blockbuster!
The dialup tone
Being stranded or lost before smart phones
The smell of a cadburys creme egg through the foil 😭
Same for galaxy, kitkat.. they used to have a wonderful smell
Same with a box of maltesers
Highstreets with every shop imaginable

Computer games on a cassette that took ten minutes to load. I had an Amstrad with a built-in cassette player. Cheat programmes that you typed in and then ran before loading the games. Jet Set Willy,

Going into the cockpit on a plane to have a nose.

Smoking indoors
Party line on the telephone
Only having 4 TV Channels
Waiting for your holiday photos to be developed and returned to you
Buying records
Going to a travel agents with a brochure to buy your holiday
Cassettes
Listening to the top 40
Riding in a car without a seatbelt
Cooking food in lard
Having daily newspapers delivered
Fining out the news at 6pm
Having to be on time for things cause no mobiles to say you are running late
Knowing all my friends landline telephone nos
Writing letters

Was it always that dirty? 😀

Navigating with a paper road map, those AA massive book type ones.
Which to be fair, probably caused more arguments between a couple than enough 😂

Phoning my dad to pick me up from swimming by just letting it ring (coins were put in when the person picked up).

Yes High streets that were busy without gaps .😢

Being a teen and meeting a lad on a Sat night and being drunk enough to give him your home phone number. The next day your mum calling 'Seamus is on the phone for you Mamai90' and just feeling so fucking embarrassed 😳

Blokes with their heads under the bonnet tinkering with the engine. Usually punctuated with a ' turn it on Dave ' at his mate in the driving seat.

Staying the night instead of having a sleep over

Going round to play instead of having a playdate

Making plans in advance and sticking to them as no mobiles

Co-op cards when you had a baby.....and a whole day at the antenatal clinic....you got in the wee testing queue then an hour later you joined the belly feeling queue another hour and you joined the blood pressure queue. Then you had to join the "seeing doctor" queue because your BP was through the roof........ I cant imagine why, especially as the genius who sited the clinic at my local hospital located it at the top of the very highest hill, about half a mile from the nearest bus stop despite the main building being literally next door to the bus stop! I should add that I had my eldest in 1990 and by the time I had DC2 in 1997 things had improved considerably!

Oh and on the subject of having babies.......not literally everyone you know having an episiotomy, given without consent and living with the horrible scar for the rest of their lives. Everyone I know who had a baby up until about 1992 got given one to "help", it wasnt explained, it wasnt suggested it was just done. Dark days.....

Spontaneous human combustion. Why don't people catch alight any more?

Reverse phone calls in phone boxes.
You could hear the operator asking your mum if she will accept the call.
And your mum sighing yes.

dewberry and white musk from the body shop
exclamation perfume
once shampoo that was two tone and you shook to mix
cadburys spira

Playing out all day with absolutely no contact with your parents. They had no idea where or what we were up to

Antibiotics that work.

Playing out all day with absolutely no contact with your parents. They had no idea where or what we were up to

Yes, and playing an immense game in the school summer holidays with 60 kids all playing together, not trying to kill each other.