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

I said jokingly to my nephew a few years ago
"Well who voted you milk monitor?"
He looked at me confused and said
"Like a dairy farm inspector??"

People crowding around the tv, watching the outcome of the OJ Simpson trial.

sitting in a taxi cab office waiting room at the end of a night out . Cold , damp places with old office furniture . Smoky whilst you ate a pizza! Somebody behind a grille who occasionally bellowed “ your taxis outside love “ . People necking away opposite you or having a domestic !

Walking out of a job and finding another the same day and starting that one.

Looking for a flat or house to live in, in the newspaper.

Commuting in to London, on the old slam door trains, and getting off the train whilst it was still moving

Has anyone mentioned postal orders yet?

Being told "You gave a good interview, but we had a male applicant ".

Being told "We want someone reliable to cover that temporary vacancy, and everyone knows women have more sick leave than men".

Being told "We don't pay for professional training for women".

Being told "We've never transferred a woman into that area".

Going into the Bank of England and introducing myself in person, but still receiving correspondence addressed to "Mr" because only a male would be interested in economic publications.

Collecting Wade Whimsys, making scrap books
The telephone pips going and you had to hang up immediately or the phone would burst into flames
Using the phone to find out the time
Going to the circus and there being elephants and lions
£1 notes
Giving your parents 3 rings to let them know you've arrived safely
Catalogues, especially the Next Catalogue when you had to pay £3 for it
The sound of grasshoppers everywhere
Every woman was expected to wear heels and a skirt/dress in the office
Men smoking pipes
Shopping for everything in the high street
Having one pair of shoes for everything and they had to be school shoes, if you were rich you had a pair of Dunlop trainers too
Going to discos at the sports centre average age of 11
Riding bikes and horses with either no helmet or a second hand cracked one
Sitting on the sewage pipe watching the raw shit being poured directly into the sea while families swam and sat and had their picnics

Oh and having a real life Bank Manager that you had to go and see if you wanted an overdraft or loan
You dressed up to meet them

Sharing a “party line” with a neighbour which meant we couldn’t make calls at the same time, and could hear each other’s calls if you picked up the phone while they were using it.

When a boy calls for you but your mum answers ans whispers...it's a boy for you.

@KimberleyClark I've never heard of that, hilarious !
@Failingatthemoment They still exist but they're very expensive

Wooden escalators on the London Underground.

Schools where the girls did needlework, cookery and typing, and the boys did metalwork, woodwork and technical drawing.

Bastards .
I was certainly turned down for jobs because they were "Man's work" also being threatened several times with suspension/the sack because of wearing trousers in a job that required me to climb a ladder.

Being caned for making mistakes with grammar in school.

@LadyHaHaHeeHaw Phone would burst into flames 😂😂😂

Early 90s Es

I went to a girls' school, we didn't even have the facilities to do woodwork etc. Sewing and cookery were compulsory for 3 years and in your third year it was an entire half day of each.

Paying with a cheque in a shop knowing it wouldn't hit your bank account for a couple of days.

Not buying certain things because they were from South Africa, and not banking with Barclays for the same reason.

Some shops refusing to accept Barclays cheques for the same reason.

Needing your husband's permission before you were sterilised or had a hysterectomy.

Using Ceefax to see what was on at the cinema and for cheap flights.

Having to actually program a three dimensional array instead of just opening Excel.

Having one pair of shoes for everything and they had to be school shoes, if you were rich you had a pair of Dunlop trainers too

I was the poor kid at private school and had 1 pair of school shoes, 1 pair of cheap trainers and 1 pair of plimsolls for indoor PE and was absolutely gobsmacked when I saw how many pairs of shoes my friends had. It was a true sign of luxury to me and I vowed that when I was grown up my children would be able to show their wealth in the same way. My eldest had lots of shoes as a toddler then I realised it was just a waste of money as they grow out of them so quickly so they all have a much more sensible number of shoes. I do own too many pairs but my feet stopped growing a long time ago so I don't feel guilty.

For all us older teachers out there: the dreaded Banda?/bander?/can’t remember how it’s spelled machine. I’m left handed and hated that thing with a passion. Also, having to write on a proper blackboard with chalk, again not easy for a lefty!

“Jackie” magazine with the “Cathy & Claire” problem page near the back.

Magazines with floppy 45rpm records in bright colours: I had a David Cassidy one with a short message for his fans. It might have been from “More” magazine or “Honey”

Egg & Lemon shampoo (I think from Silvrikin or Sunsilk)

Phone locks (with a key) on rotary dial phones to stop you making phone calls to your mates.

A gas geyser to heat up the bath water. It was terrifying!

The gas and electricity meters being emptied by a coin collector from the gas/electric board and my mum being pleased when she received a small amount (dividend?) back. When she was short of the correct coins she used to put a washer in the meter.

Living in a prefab! Most of our city was destroyed in the Blitz and there were lots of prefabs until the mid-to-late 60s.

Being a passenger on one of the last DAN-Air Comet planes and there was only a curtain between the cockpit and passengers. (Approx 1979)

On a cheap ticket Royal Brunei Airlines Boeing 767 in the late 90s from Singapore to LHR and on the leg from Calcutta to Dubai my son and I were invited to sit in the cockpit. My son (aged 9) was actually allowed to stay in the cockpit as the flight landed.

Going shopping in the World Trade Center in NYC a few times and going up to the Windows on the World and the viewing area. For months after the Twin Towers collapsing seeing the smoke rising from where they stood….and still looking for the Towers (which were a focal point) whenever I drove to IKEA or Newark airport in New Jersey:(

Not as electric and hybrids take over. There won't be manuals once petrol/diesel cars are not longer permitted.

They are much easier to replace than those silly pop-up jobs!

I still have these in my bathroom. Only installed 7 years ago.