When I was a kid........................................................

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My mum often put my hair up with elastic bands and it hurt like hell getting them out....................and awful cheap plasters that became part of your skin, could only be forced of after a long soak in the bath while painfully peeling them off with a knife.

anyone else

I remember a bloke stopping in a car once when me and my sister where messing about climbing a wall etc by the road. He got his willy out to show us and asked us if we'd like to go for a ride in his car to see some kittens.

We said 'no thanx Mr' and ran away screaming with laughter, hearts pounding.

Told my parents who said 'well done for not going with him'. Then we all forgot about it coz no harm was done.

ah what a wonderful thread

Cream Soda pops
Collecting Smurfs from the petrol stations.
Slime with worms in
Silly Putty ( and its strangely nice smell )
Wham bars.
Chocolate cigarettes covered in rice paper.
My milkman sold posters of Elvis.. was he the only one to do this ?
I have taught my kids how to eat pomegranites with a pin.

ah what a wonderful thread

Cream Soda pops
Collecting Smurfs from the petrol stations.
Slime with worms in
Silly Putty ( and its strangely nice smell )
Wham bars.
Chocolate cigarettes covered in rice paper.
My milkman sold posters of Elvis.. was he the only one to do this ?
Giving each other backies on those Chopper bikes
I have taught my kids how to eat pomegranites
with a pin

And esso garages gave out tiger tokens. We collected loads to buy torches, cool boxes etc. God knows how much petrol cost to buy then.

Glasses.

We always collected glasses in strange colours. Big goblet things in green or blue and hundreds of straight tumblers. With bases that had bubbles trapped in them so they looked 'groovy'

i remember getting my first digital watch from a petrol station!

themoon66....we must be of a similar vintage.

Re the man with the willy.

We used to go to a park and there was a bloke that used to go there who was knowns as being 'odd', parents had warned us about him etc . Whenever he used to approach a child they would yell 'funny man' and the bloke would run away!

Sundays SUCKED.

We had park attendants in uniform and caps who sat in a little shed. Flowers had fragrances even tulips!

parkie!

we used to go and see him in his littl shed and ask for a drink of water.

yep parents used to dump you there for an hour or two and give him the nod that they were leaving.

aww you got me going now. Phones were on party lines and you only got the ring ring type in cream or red.

playing Jet Set Willy on the computer and feeling technologically advanced

Aspiring to get Body Shop baskets for your birthday

and then washing out the bottles so you could get them refilled.

tenalady....your parents took you to the park???

Blimey we userd to go on our own

Parkie probably knew some of us better than our own parents did.

I know if my mum ever came looking for us, she wouldn't bother looking around the park - just asked parkie and he would know where to find us.

cat64 my car was a mazda 323. In the days when that model was a small little runaround. The 323 these days is a big sporty thing.

we used to play up on the mountain, building dams in the streams. Fantastic. Not an adult in sight!

My kids played in the mountain stream that ran through our campsite this whitsun holiday. They thought they had died and gone to heaven! That is part of the reason that I go camping, so they can run round, get muddy and be kids!

I suppose my kids are quite lucky really for city kids. In Hull it is traditional for most of the houses to have 'tenfoots' behind them - like communal driveways to the rear garages.

They are fairly safe places for the kids to run wild as the parents all put the cars away after the kids have gone in at teatime. So in summer they are all kicked outside and we don't see them until mealtimes. A bit like my childhood.

something else ive just remembered. Not so nice... suffering streaming hayfever and lovely anti-histamines hadn't been invented. I used to fill the bathroom sink with lukewarm water up to the overflow and stick my head in when I got home from school on days like today.

Anyone remember the sweets Aztec and Icebreaker they were chocolate.

no calpol either. I remember having warm olive oil poured into my ear because I had an infection. Wasn't taken to the docs. in the end it burst...no pain killers at all!

Stories at school like Milly molly mandy and stig of the dump.

janet and john books, so that you could learn to read and be indoctrinated into sexual seriotypes at the same time

mb werent there books called wideranger too