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

Piling into the back of one of your mate’s Dad’s vans at the end of the night with no seats/seatbelts and getting a lift home.

Arranging to meet someone for a date at a time / place, then being nervous that you'd be stood up.

Lovingly making mix tapes for friends and receiving them. I still have them from 30 odd years ago.

Having a double deck deck that had every bugger begging to be allowed to use my state of the art mixing facilities.

Carrying a massive carrier bag of said tapes and my cutting edge extremely cheap and tinny Walkman on long coach journeys and thinking I am so lucky to be born in this age of tech!

Also vinyl. And vinyl singles.

Tunnelling under the fence at Glastonbury, no bother.

Buying quite a large stash of booze with my friend, both in our school uniforms. No bother.

Thinking that an 18th birthday in pizza express was very much like being in an ep of Thirty Something and a sign of my sophisticated life to come.

Not worrying about university debt.

Running down the stairs to answer the door to the postman who's got your copy of the new Harry Potter book.

1p sweets, yes the penny tray where the shopkeeper had a selection of 1p sweets on a tray they brought out for you, if you were flush you might look at the tuppenny tray. How they had the patience as you tried to decide on penny chews, a chocolate log or liquorice laces.

Bullying to the extent I had it.
I grew up in the 90s/early naughties so not actually that long ago.
I’m also mixed ethnicity so that was the reason I was targeted in the not at all diverse area I grew up in.
I once had a group of around 15 thugs kids stood outside the house chanting and intimidating me, mum called the police who came and said they were doing nothing wrong, didn’t even move them on.

I remember a video that went viral a couple of years ago of young refugee being assaulted on the way back from school. I also remember that video got so much hate for what it was.

Like I said, my experience wasn’t all that many years ago, but I’m so glad racial discrimination gets called out and isn’t tolerated like it used to be.

It still exists of course, just much more subtle, I’m just pleased that people are more educated now to know it’s not ok.

Slapped legs. Dm's favourite threat /punishment..

Night out, get pissed, make a bit of an arse of yourself and not wake up to find you've gone viral 🤣

A world without constant tech.

Eh? Aren't these quite common still? All mine are.

Call a random number at midnight to get directions to the free party at the quarry.

Flying to the US on a tourist visa with a load of travellers cheques and with no idea where we were going to stay/travel and no date to travel back. No internet, no mobile phones with us, just a copy of Lonely Planet!
This was pre 9/11. Im not sure you could go there with that level of freedom now but correct me if i'm wrong.

Kids outside the headmaster's office waiting for the cane.

Smoking everywhere - top deck of buses, on the tube, in shops. You'd come back from a night out stinking of stale smoke.

Woolworths pic n mix

Or sending them off in a Truprint envelope... and receiving the photos back about 3 weeks later!

Spiteful.

Came to say this!

The coal man. A smacked bottom.

I was born in an era where it was believed that very premature babies don't feel pain.

Waiting - everything is so instantaneous now.

Buying smash hits or mizz magazine and opening up the four page fold out print of Michael j fox or Tom cruise 😂

Smoking in pubs, the office, planes!

The football pools man coming to collect the entry form on a Wednesday night

Using the choke in a car.

answering the phone in your phone voice with a Town Name 5678 - who's speaking

Phone locks!

Emergency 2p for the phone box

white dog poo