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

These are great! So many memories😍

Going to university and my parents having no way of knowing what I was getting up to and no way of contacting me except by letter.
Actually, now I think about it, writing and receiving letters.
Tippex and typewriter eraser ribbons.
Sanitary towels the size of house bricks.
Pump attendants at petrol stations. For a while my dad wouldn't use those newfangled self-service pumps because they were doing someone out of a job they might need. He now won't use self-service tills in the supermarket for the same reason.
Silver sixpences and shillings.

Going to uni interviews by yourself - just following the instructions on the invitation letter to get there by bus or train.

Having an emergency 2p coin in case you needed to phone home.

Pricing up stock in Woolies using a pricing gun on your Saturday job. Having to manually type those prices into the till when it was your turn on the checkouts. A 2 course lunch in the canteen for 10p (I earned about £8 for an 8 hour day).

@MarieInternette I honestly tried to look into that several years ago having an interest in animal nutrition and diets, I still have no idea, even in dogs fed mostly bones it wouldn't have looked like that.

Being able to see the Milky Way from the garden of a house on the outskirts of a fairly large town.

My dad complaining that petrol had gone up over 5/- a gallon.

The Shell (petrol) Money game. Something like Monopoly money given if you purchased 4 gallons. Half a note was in an envelope and you had to find the other half to claim, exchange for real money.

Going on holiday and the first job being to buy a telephone card so that you can call your parents to let them know you landed.

Having a boy ring the landline and the shame of not getting to the phone first and it being my dad that answers and oh the shame

Going to the travel agents to collect your flight tickets a week before the holiday

Arranging to meet a friend and just hoping they turn up

Being an EU citizen and travelling all over the EU freely and easily, including living in places like France with virtually zero admin.

I used to love waiting for photos to come back from the chemist!

The click clack of using a typewriter (we had one at home that I taught myself to type on).

Drinking MD 20/20 in a park on a Saturday night! Do they even make it anymore? 🤢

Blue toothing songs over to each other. Any one remember those codes you used to have to text to numbers in magazines and it was like £2 a song, just to have it as a ring tune!

Also having to pluck up the courage to phone a landline and ask for someone especially if it was a boyfriend/girlfriend.

Ahhh I miss those days 😄

I also remember when we would go on holiday, my mum would take about 7 empty video cassettes to my grandmas so she could record coronation street and emmerdale.

So many of these -
not being contactable or have instant answers at your fingertips
faxes
having relatives abroad and the brief very expensive phone calls and otherwise letters or travel.
smoking allowed everywhere including a patient smoking room in hospital
proper ribena
coal fires

@TokyoSushi I'm fairly sure they do. For me it was thunderbird...ye gods the memories.

Asking a policeman, the time

Waiting for children's TV starting at about 5pm, black and white of course then.
Standing up and walking to the massive TV to change the channel.
Having two channels to choose from, BBC and the ITV in the late 50s.
Pressing button B to get my money back!

Really showing my age now, when she was small my daughter thought that the world had been in black and white when she first saw a black and white film.

Having a mental night out without fear of pictures of it being broadcast to the entire world. No wonder teenagers hardly drink anymore. Not a bad thing I suppose but we've had some EXCELLENT nights out and I'm so glad none of it is evidenced on the internet

I went on a school trip to Stonehenge and we were allowed to climb on the stones. It must have been around 1970.

When I got my first car petrol was 71p a gallon.

Ginger beer and canned shandy having actual beer in it that children could buy.

Underneath this thread is another with a relevant answer : 'Peter Andre' 😝

Gee’s Linctus cough medicine, bought over the counter at the chemists - bloody loved that stuff as a kid, gave you a lovely warm glow. It was only as an adult I found it was stuffed full of morphine!

I recall travelling widely and freely in Europe long before we joined the EU, we even lived there with no problems.

My dad had a Triumph 2000. NOT the ideal car to drive to the south of France in.

Oh no it wasn't... especially when it's your mum doing the perming! Eye-watering torture!

Getting a toy in your cereal.

I particularly miss those little rubber discs that you flipped inside out, stuck on the table and then waited for the thing to ping off with lethal force.

and cider lollies! They were excellent

Having a London A to Z in the car so you could get anywhere ( newly arrived from elsewhere)