Stuff that didn’t seem weird at the time but when you tell someone younger they think it’s nuts

[MildGreenDairyLiquid]

Just that really.

The other day I explained to my 11 year old niece that when I was at junior school we used to have a small bottle of milk with a straw every morning, and she looked at me like I’d lost my mind.

The very first 'computer' we got into school in the early 80s, before Commodore, BBC, Sinclair Spectrum, was tiny and we used to use shiny toilet roll to print things out, that's how wide it was. Can't recall the name though.

I still get chilblains on my feet every winter, even though I do my best to avoid them!

Being sent to the shop on my own, aged around 6, to buy a pack of Embassy No 1s for my nana.

I remember this and I lived in Mitcham, not central London. Also, we used to have a horse-drawn wagon come by selling meat!

Same here. Glorious days!

Omg I remember these but there weren't out in the UK for long

Absolutely! But it does sound a bit bonkers now!

Good old floppy disc! Also backing your school books. When tape cassette would get chewed in tape dec and you would use a pencil to wind the film back. Me and hubby miss those days. Born 78.

Getting a pound note in a Christmas card from grandparents.

Being able to get anywhere for a fiver in a taxi.

Getting smacked with a slipper at Catholic school.

Everyone smoking everywhere and it annoying my Mum 🤣🤣🤣

Having a smoking room in the office.

Temporary cardboard passports for school trips.

I could go on but I’m old AF 🤣🤣🤣

Er,
timetables did exist! It’s not like the drivers just got in a drove around cities all afternoon following their own whims!

Same. As a WC first to uni kid there’s no way I would have been able to go otherwise…

Going to the back of the plane to smoke a cigarette
At Christmas getting the radio Times and going through it and highlighting what you were going to watch.
If you missed something on TV that was it. You couldn't rewind it and watch again.
Ditto not being able to pause the TV to go to the loo
Rushing home from school to watch Neighbours
Driving long distances using roadsigns/map books rather than Google maps

I meant in London, where there are now Countdowns telling you how far away buses are.

I'm referring to buses which come frequently, such as every ten minutes.

I don't disagree. And nor do my colleagues.

I'd already forgotten about this til you reminded me! It blew my mind at the time too!

havent read everything so it may have been mentioned, but a one year passport. Not much more than a piece of cardboard with a photo stuck on it.

the word limit on the first text messages. Then you could have longer messages but the price multiplied on the length. My very first mobile bill was horrific, and no international calls or data roaming!

a remote control for the video player that had a cable you had to plug in.

You used to be able to go to the post office and get a paper passport that lasted just for your holiday.

Blockbusters and other video hire shops! DS finds it impossible to believe that we actually had to rent them and return them the next day.

Road maps

Doing homework using reference books and encyclopedias

Contact playground games - British bulldog and leapfrog for example

Camera films you had to take for development - imangine only getting one chance at a shot and not knowing how it comes out until you've paid for it!

Buying a film on sky and waiting for the showing time as you couldn’t just buy and watch immediately. So much more exciting eating as it counted down though.

I was thinking about this the other day. I used to have chilblains a lot in winter but haven’t had any for ages ( years). I’ve changed lots of things but not sure which was the one to dodge the chilblains. I’m not as skinny as I used to be and that’s my best guess!

Student nurses got salaries! In 1975 my first months salary was £56 ( after deductions for living in the nurses home) The training was learning ‘on the job’ and working shifts on ward placements, interspersed with two week blocks in nursing school every 3 months. There were exams every year for the 3 years, and if not passed you were demoted to the State Enrolled course, or told to leave.

1970s in an anonymous northern town. Going on school trips and every child had a bin bag with a hole in it in their bag along with their packed lunch. As soon as the rain started the bags came out and went over our heads like budget ponchos.

In the 80s bing bag ponchos got upgraded to cagoules.

Having the fruit and veg man come round on Saturday in his van.

Being thrilled with new televisions - the first one when I was six, a portable black and white and the station changed with a turn dial, then a bigger colour one several years later, and in my teens a vhs player. All astonishingly exciting.

He wasn't burned at the stake - he was hanged , drawn and quartered..... just for accuracy, and to be totally pedantic, he actually died during the hanging so the drawing and quartering was post mortem. Thanks- I'll get my coat :-)