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

Hashish which didn't send you into outer space. Red leb, morrocan, slate, Nepalese black......Happy days.

@Thelnebriati 😂😂

Listening to the National Anthem before the TV finished for the evening

Buy a Glastonbury ticket at HMV.

Sweets that looked like cigarettes

There's one in a park near me. Doesn't move as fast as I remember though!

Yes yes to the dangerous playground equipment!
The slide in Battersea Park was huge, as was the 6 child metal rocking horse especially when practically vertical

The speaking clock

Toilet paper that was scratchy slippery brown paper

Outside toilets.
Everyone using the neighbour's phone.
Smoking. Everywhere! We were even allowed to smoke in our 6th form Common Room at school.
Road games like Cribby and skipping.
Lamppost swings.

I wish I could add Police Brutality and being trapped in a bombed building.

Yes - these!

Not having a phone in the house. Any phone. Having to use public phone boxes to call anyone.

Having a librarian stamp my book with a large clicky contraption.

Phoning telephone operator to reverse call charge.

Back when thc was our friend

The test card girl on the BBC shut down.

I forgot The Rag and Bone Man. His wife used to make custard tarts and he'd sell them off his cart.

They were amazing custard tarts.🤗

Renting the phone and the TV rather than owning them.
Going to the laundrette.
Green shield stamps.
Ring pulls on cans that you could flick to make them fly across the room.
Knowing the phone numbers of all my friends without an address book.
Address books,.

Either queuing outside a venue or waiting in turn on the phone for hours for gig tickets.

I spent just over 4 hours on the phone to get Oasis Knebworth tickets.
In 2000, my then boyfriend queued at Wembley stadium box office for tickets to Oasis, the Familiar to Millions tour.
Lost my original bucket hat at that too.

Having grandmothers who wore plastic hoods when it rained.

The coal man still comes around here! I see him maybe twice a year at the end of street!

Going to school looking like this! 😫(That shows my age...)

Owning your own house

Getting a thrupenny bit for pocket money.

Buying Disco 45 or Words for the lyrics to the top hits of the day.

Getting slapped.

Getting 2p worth of sweets in a paper bag.

Dense smoke hazes at the cinema.

Mary, Mungo and Midge.

Honestly my eyes misted up for a moment, ours was exactly like that only green.

@GlassBunion I loved Mary, Mungo and Midge - and Mr Ben!

Freedom to go out and play, walk to school or going errands to the shops.