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

Using the house phone to make arrangements to meet up with friends. You couldn’t cancel last minute like you can now.

Smoking indoors in a pub/club.
It’s actually weird (and gross) to think you used to be able to do that. I was in my first year of uni when the ban came into affect.

Being able to go to the cinema for £2.20 at the local picture house.

Woolworths pick & mix

Many ‘lost’ memories of a night out. We didn’t have social media like today, we didn’t take pictures, or if we did, it was a few dodgy drunk ones on a proper camera that you never got developed or the pictures are on a memory card somewhere!

Waiting patiently with my finger on the record button to tape my favourite song off the radio... I always missed the start of the song.

Going on guide camp in the back of a lorry sat on our tents and sleeping rolls.

Getting the cane at school

Transferring phone calls in the company switchboard by putting plugs in the right holes. I was rubbish at it.

Dangerous playground equipment, like slides that were as high as a house and had a switchback. There was one in Richmond Park that was so tall you could see over the wall.

The 1990s rave scene - I was slim, attractive and having the time of my life. Raves were safe from violence. Wouldn't want to go out now. Too many knives.

Interrailing with a timetable and guidebook, no mobile phone.
shrinking my jeans on in the bath.
sun melting the tarmac.
paper rounds.
gym pants.
those massive Christmas decorations that got pinned to the ceiling
cremola foam.

Phoning up to find the train times and hoping they were right.
Saving up pocket money to buy a clothing item (from Tammy girl) you really wanted and it still being there 3 months later.
Going out to the SU with a tenner and it lasting the whole night.

Just four channels on TV
Out first TV didn't get BBC2, channel 4 hadn't even been invented.
Watching a film at the cinema that had been out for years - you'd occasionally get a big film showing on the telly on a Saturday night, but until VCR you only had those 2 options.
Having to switch the immersion heater on if you wanted a bath.
My mum buying that life-changing technical marvel, a pocket calculator. We'd never seen anything like it.

Cheques
Being uncontactable
Prams outside hairdressers on a Saturday
Buying cigarettes with a note from your mum
Having a tab in the corner shop
Telephone boxes that took call cards

Having to get up to change the TV channel!

Recording the Charts from my transistor radio onto my cassette player and hoping you press pause and start at the right times!

Yup and you never forget the places you were stuck for ages. I still remember one place that didn't bode well as I looked down to see tons of chalked "I've been here for five hours" type messages

Needing to wait until after 6pm to phone someone

Sitting in the back of my uncle's van with no seats or belts!

Standing in the footwell of my dad's car as he drove us around the countryside.

Those were the days! And waiting for the party line to be free!

Pubs closing for holy hour on a Sunday (Ireland)

This has just made me realised I can't remember the last time I saw one

Yes and having to hang up and call back if you wanted to keep talking past 1 hour.

The whole family taking Grandma out “for a drive”.

Sitting down excitedly for a new series of Friends and then having to wait til next Friday for the next episode.

Queuing for the new Harry Potter book.

Everything was huge and metal, I remember a massive rocking horse we would rock so it would stand up, also jumping on and off a big fast metal roundabout.
I don't think I had much skin from the thighs down.

Ha! I remember only 2 channels and they were B&W!

And BHS had food counters too.

Bunty Comics with cut-out paper dolls on the back.

A world without the internet and smart phones. Smoking upstairs on the bus.4 tv channels.

Playing out with friends on a night and knowing it was time to go home when the street lights came on!

...and winding my watch back an hour to stay out longer then telling dp's that it must need a new battery 😂

Everything was huge and metal, I remember a massive rocking horse we would rock so it would stand up

I remember the type you could fit a dozen kids on if your were brave enough, and the bigger kids would have to hold on to the smaller ones so they didn't fly off.

Asking the bt operator to "Check the line"
It was code for "I'm just fooling myself really"

At my primary school we had stepping stones made of pebbles in concrete (there's probably a technical term for it) which everyone fell off all the time and hurt themselves. The dinner ladies would put a plaster on it and send us away.