One for those over a certain age
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Morningside said:
This generation with mobiles would not understand the cold sweat of fear telephoning their house and the shock of their father answering the phone and you asking to speak to their daughter.
In 1984 I was seeing a lass (got engaged to her later) that I met when I was working at Tesco - chubby Italian 
She was "proper" Italian, born there, first language etc and her parents were VERY traditional indeed. Even though she was 23 (I was 17) she had to be home by 10.30pm. Her parents would sit up and wait for her.One night we were an hour late. I dropped her off in the taxi and all hell broke loose - her mum, in broken English was shouting "tomorrow we go-y your house and see your-a-mama and your-a-papa, and you and Maria, you-a-getta married!" etc etc Her dad was going ballistic
Anyway, the taxi driver had spotted this all kicking off, spun the taxi round pronto and came back past with the door open and I dived back in as he came past - "could tell you were in some trouble there" he said.
Her mum did apologise after that, and the time restrictions were lifted.
LordGrover said:
227bhp said:
Gunk said:
Dog Star said:
Biker's Nemesis said:
School bag then work bag.
I had one of those! Ex army. Lowdrag - loved your post.
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Paint several layers of your best Dulux, then add album artwork of favourite bands.
The location quickly became general knowledge, followed by heavier light fingeredness, police, better fences, new security, end of chapter.
Just finding an unconverted mill today is a pleasure (there's one in Speldhurst complete with ancient machinery but shorlty for the developer). Grains and feed must be covering serious mileage these days so seldom does a mill seem active.
Wacky Racer said:
1977 TVR price list:-
Scary but I actually went to Infant/ junior school and they were based on Bristol Avenue next to Moor Park.The school I went to was called St Columbas which changed its name to.... Moor Park . We walked past part of their factory and they had the car mouldings outside
bristolracer said:
When we used to get on with life when it snowed or got cold.
Oh, we can't be doing with that sort of attitude these days, good grief. 
This morning we wake up to about three inches of snow in the Whitby area, and apparently all the schools are closed. Is nobody prepared to get their arse into gear and make a bit of an effort these days? Seemingly not.
Gunk said:
Dog Star said:
Biker's Nemesis said:
School bag then work bag.
I had one of those! Ex army. Lowdrag - loved your post.
It overtook me.
We were given a twin tub in about 1992 when we were poor.
When we got a bit of money we bought an automatic and put an add in the local free ads papers (remember those?) to sell the twin tub.
A bloke from the local repair shop came around ( in his brown coat) and paid us £30 for it. He told us there was a strong market for them as pensioners
preferred them!
When we got a bit of money we bought an automatic and put an add in the local free ads papers (remember those?) to sell the twin tub.
A bloke from the local repair shop came around ( in his brown coat) and paid us £30 for it. He told us there was a strong market for them as pensioners
preferred them!
Halmyre said:
Blib said:
Yep. Though my mum had a twin tub. She used tongs to switch from one to the other.
Same here, and I had one when I first left home. Thoroughly rinsing out a twin-tub after use was an absolute pain.Also when you used the pumpout option and it slipped out of the sink while not looking and you were left with water everywhere.
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