20 things your child will never do or understand

[Jacqui Harvey]

My Mum and Dad  used to go to the Coop too, every Saturday morning, they used to carry all the shopping back home, we did not get a car until I was 14 years old.  I used to go with them and the girl would add up all the shopping on a list, with no calculator and put the money and the list into a brass jar that screwed into the pulley on the ceiling, then she sent it to the Cashier.   I used to love watching those things scooting across the ceiling.
My Nan also  had a gas fridge with a very tiny freezer compartment.   She got this late in her life and there was never anything in the freezer bit.   He hated frozen food, or as she called it "Ready come at food"

[bewva]

If you wanted to go out you had to arrange it before hand, no texting your mates to see where they are.
I remember our first microwave and being amazed with it. Getting up to turn the tv over. When we watched a video unraveling the remote control wire. If you wanted to listen to music it was on a massive record player, now you can store 1000's of songs on something the size of a postage stamp.
I think one of the biggest things my kids take for granted is the fact that they rarely walk anywhere, Dads taxi takes them all over the place.
I was fortunate as a kid that I didnt experience a cold house, my dads mate was a plumber so we were one of the first in our street to get central heating.

[Scunner]

I remember the place I worked at got the first fax machine in town. We all got invited to the post room to watch the test fax being sent and the reply arrive. It was like magic, especially to some of the older folks

[Bluwise]

…….never answering an adult back - you just didn't.

[Scunner]

The most alarming change is the attitude of kids today to the police - in my youth you could act as hard as you liked but you really didn't like being spoken to by a policeman and shut up while he did. Last time I was in my home town two coppers were telling a spotty lad on a BMX bike to stay where he was while they spoke to him - and he was doing the opposite, doing circuits around them on his bike, then returning, they'd start the lecture again and 3 words in he'd be off for another circle. They were actually almost pleading with him to come and listen to what they had to say.

[Lotty]

I remember all those Sunday radio progs too starting with 2Way Family Favourites at lunch time with Cliff Michelmore and Jean Metcalf.  I probably hated them then, but strangely I find it comforting to think of that time now. We were always at my lovely Nanas for tea and stayed till Sunday Night at the London Palladium came on TV. There was an Archie Andrews prog called Educating Archie.

That cashier money transporting machine that Jacqui liked used to scare the life out if me! It sucked the capsule up suddenly even though I was waiting for it to happen. Then it made a really loud noise like that vacuum sucking noise a plane toilet does! Scary for me anyway.

We didn't have a record player, and I never told my first boyfriend who bought me the Beatles 'Hard Days Night' LP. Sad or what? Awww.... 

[mercury]

Just wondering with the good response to this page whether this is the age group that has mostly joined this forum??  any younger ones? and what ages..

[Lotty]

I'm 29 . . . .   

[Scunner]

Well it won't answer your question Anne but we had a kid's section and a kid's intro section which year on year continuously became less used, until one day I removed both and nobody noticed.

So I think we have a very definite age group, especially in recent times.

[kevin3]

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