Things your kids will never do
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Taking a roll of 35mm film to the pharmacy and coming back in a week or so after it was processed. Then eagerly looking through the photos to see if they were any good.
When I was about 12 we found an empty box of condoms. The lid had a tear off so you could discretely pass it to the pharmacist to request a new box.
Staying up late or getting up at stupid o'clock to watch a major sporting game. Being Aussie, all the best games were from the UK or Europe so the time zone difference was awful.
Traveler's cheques.
Backyard cricket - do kids still play? And playing barefoot so you get bindies stuck in the bottom of your feet. Over the fence was six and out. Over the fence and into the pool was legend status where the game stopped and we all jumped in.
When I was about 12 we found an empty box of condoms. The lid had a tear off so you could discretely pass it to the pharmacist to request a new box.
Staying up late or getting up at stupid o'clock to watch a major sporting game. Being Aussie, all the best games were from the UK or Europe so the time zone difference was awful.
Traveler's cheques.
Backyard cricket - do kids still play? And playing barefoot so you get bindies stuck in the bottom of your feet. Over the fence was six and out. Over the fence and into the pool was legend status where the game stopped and we all jumped in.
Willy Nilly said:
Have we had going out on your bikes for the day with your mates and not going home until you were hungry at 10 years old?
I would add cycling the 5 mile round trip to the next village down narrow country lanes at the age of eight with no adult supervision.... To go and do our cycling proficiency!! 
schmunk said:
prand said:
Cotty said:
Order a Indian or Chinese take away over the the phone and drive to the restaurant to pick it up.
?? we do this all the time, the two best places in my town don't deliver.No delivery here.
Share a classroom with the year above/below as the school only had two rooms for four yeargroups so you spent two years in each room
Eat school lunch in an asbestos hut on the field and being hit for leaving any food!
Stand on the main road to scrounge a lift 10 miles into the city from anyone "kind" enough to stop -
On a less light-hearted note - my kids won't be taking over the drive home at 13 because I'm too bladdered to maintain a straight line (on a straight road - the Acle straight near Gt Yarmouth for those that know it).
Eat school lunch in an asbestos hut on the field and being hit for leaving any food!
Stand on the main road to scrounge a lift 10 miles into the city from anyone "kind" enough to stop -
On a less light-hearted note - my kids won't be taking over the drive home at 13 because I'm too bladdered to maintain a straight line (on a straight road - the Acle straight near Gt Yarmouth for those that know it).
not read every page but can concur with many of these.
a few more come to mind.
getting up to turn the tv over/up/off.
waitng for sometimes years to see a film again after it'd been on at the pictures. And then the robbing swines would charge 3 quid to rent it for one night. THREE QUID !!! in 1985 ffs
Going to ANY pub in a mile radius of where you live and knowing almost everyone in there.
a few more come to mind.
getting up to turn the tv over/up/off.
waitng for sometimes years to see a film again after it'd been on at the pictures. And then the robbing swines would charge 3 quid to rent it for one night. THREE QUID !!! in 1985 ffs
Going to ANY pub in a mile radius of where you live and knowing almost everyone in there.
make 'javelins' from a bamboo cane with a 6" nail bound inside the cane with just the right amount of copper wire to make it gracefully fly through the air.
dress up in a parker coat and full face bike helmet and shoot at each other from 50 yards with .22 airguns (first one to flinch was the loser)
make balls of mud and fling them from bendy sticks at the local buses - main target was drivers window.
manage to get a young kestrel from the nest , bring it up in a shed and feed on sparrows shot by the .22 rifle
pinch milk from the doorstep on bird nesting early morning jaunts (if you got really lucky someone had left the milk money in an empty bottle)
kids wouldn't be able to do any of these nowadays - we did the lot (and a lot more )when we young
dress up in a parker coat and full face bike helmet and shoot at each other from 50 yards with .22 airguns (first one to flinch was the loser)
make balls of mud and fling them from bendy sticks at the local buses - main target was drivers window.
manage to get a young kestrel from the nest , bring it up in a shed and feed on sparrows shot by the .22 rifle
pinch milk from the doorstep on bird nesting early morning jaunts (if you got really lucky someone had left the milk money in an empty bottle)
kids wouldn't be able to do any of these nowadays - we did the lot (and a lot more )when we young
walking to my pt training this morning at 8:30 I saw a group of young kids with bmx's setting up jumper goal posts on the playing fields and picking teams. Haven't seen that happen in ages and something I did with my mates every Saturday and Sunday. My friends first comment was probably can't afford an xbox and fifa. sad times.
Change a m/cycle inner tube , god i hated doing that , normally pinched it going in and had to take it out to fix it then repeat .
Changing a crash helmet visor really carefully as touching them scratched them , until the anti scratch visors came in now my visor lasts as long as the lid .
Changing a crash helmet visor really carefully as touching them scratched them , until the anti scratch visors came in now my visor lasts as long as the lid .
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