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

Marbles played on the drain cover
making go carts from pram wheels and bits of wood
sleeping in tents in friends gardens - age 11
CB radio
apple scrumping
Turning up at GP’s and waiting to be seen
Butlins Donkey Derby
Butlins swimming pool underwater seen from the bar
Proper decent tasting Cadburys
Penny for the guy

Sending your film off to be developed and being so excited to see your photos dropping through the door.

Repairing magnetic cassette tape when it breaks in the hifi.

Being told off by your teacher and then being told off again but worse when you got home. These days parents side with the kids against teachers

Having the radio on in the morning because there was no tv until lunchtime.

When the smoking ban came in and we all had the revelation of what the pubs ACTUALLY smell like (sweat, stale beer festering in all the soft furnishings, and mens toilets).

Walkman, followed by a discman then a minidisc (not sure if these ever really caught on) and chunky MP3 with 32megabites of built in memory!
Record players, ghetto-blasters, & cassette tapes.

Driving along the motorway and seeing unravelled cassette tapes.

Using the sellotape and hairspray trick to 'recharge' your phonecard.

Toys in cereal boxes - the spokey dokeys and reflectors for bike wheels were ace!

Going to Our Price (or was it HMV?) to listen to the weeks singles on their instore headphones.

Playing in the footwell of our car driving down to Cornwall. My brother playing in the other one and my baby brother in a carrycot in the middle of the back seat.

Getting by without the internet 🤣.

WAIT!!

I was born in the early 70's so was there for the entire life of the phonecard ....... I have literally never heard of this trick (one of the downsides of not having the internet I suppose!) tell me more about what we missed out on!

I was talking with DD earlier and we pondered how many marriages Google has saved! I said I remembered my parents having absolutely flaming rows over "That bloke on the telly now, is that that bloke that was Only Fools and Horses?" "No! That was.....oh what was his name?.......Was in that thing with whatsername where it turned out he was having an affair and she killed him"
"That wasnt him! That was that bloke who played that man who worked at the Rovers for a bit and then tried it on with Elsie Tanner until Mike Baldwin hit him"......and so on until virtually the entire register of Equity UK had been mentioned (but not actually named), almost certainly for being in things that they had never been in and my parents are screaming at each other and then not speaking for days because it eventually descended into a row about the fact that my father didnt empty the bin again and my mother didnt wash his work shirts properly.........

Todays version...."Is that so and so from Seinfeld?" "Dont think so" "Are you sure? I am sure I have seen him in something" "Whats this called? OK....IMDB......no its X....he was in Frasier " "Oh yes of course, I knew I had seen him in something like that!" "Glass of wine?" "Lovely, thank you".

I remember my Mum doing" what's his name again?" in the '70s when I was a child .Although I have remembered something that has been experienced by every generation and will for eternity is that Sunday night feeling before School the next day .

seeing a hulking youth stand meekly with his hand out while being tawsed by a smaller female teacher.
in. the. sixth. form.
probably for being too drunk from going down the pub at lunchtime, which nobody cared about, to answer his name properly in roll call.
which was important, as a matter of courtesy.
hence tawsed.
i was only there for one year. one too many.

I remember my grandparents having an ashtray on a stand n you flipped a button n the tabbies went into a bowl under the surface. As a kid it was my job too flip the button (self appointed job)

Reading the afternoon newspaper reporting a standoff between China and the USSR and wondering whether nuclear war was about to start.

Hearing the air raid sirens and practicing what to do if there’s a nuclear strike.

Never underestimate the background anxiety of growing up in the Cold War.

Driving a car with only four gears.

Making an arrangement to meet somebody somewhere and sticking to it.

The joy/ heartbreak of 1471.

You'd think with all the polyester clothing in the shops it would be more common.

Outside c&a was the place in my home city you met your date or friends. Remember other nervous teens wandering if they were going to be stood up and if you were, I still remember that humiliation it bloody stung.

Blank cassette tapes IIRC had a little tab that you could snap off to prevent them from being recorded over (after you'd painstakingly made your mix tape by recording from the radio over the course of many many hours). And you could then override the tab protection and reuse the tape (after you'd tearfully broken up with the boy who gave you his mix tape) by sticking a bit of Sellotape over the hole.

Or do I remember wrong?

Calling the speaking clock and only being able to make calls after 6pm
because they’re cheaper.

Standing and waiting for people who are late and not knowing why they are late.
Using the choke when you drive.
Tv not being on during the day.

No Internet, no mobile phones, commodore 64s and Gladiators on a Saturday night! 😂I'm quite sad for kids of today thinking how innocent it was to grow up in my era.....

After being bullied at school being able to go home, shut the door and escape it.

Listening to the charts on the radio