Do you remember life before?!
Question: Frozen food, lager, microwaves, McDonalds, credit cards and mobile phones.
Answers: Frozen food, lager, microwaves, McDonalds, credit cards and mobile phones.
Telephone boxes with button A OR B...pinball machines at the arcade or cafe that cashed in your replays.... a pint of brown and mild......1970 serving a beer behind the bar for 1/11d (9.5p) for the young uns....the golliwog on the jam jar ....... leaving your doors unlocked so the neighbours could "pop in"............. pioneers of foreign holiday with no lager louts..................REAL football played by real men on muddy/snowy football pitches................oh the wonderful memories
no...can't say I do.
Unfortunately not!
I remember life without mobile phones.
yes i was a kid
no. i'm too young for that. 17. but i do remember before cell phones got huge.
Yes. It was fresh food, bitter, Wimpy, cheque books and telegrams. And it was crap.
Umm. Nope.
Yes I do
yes i can what a miserable excistance
umm...i'm 11 what are you talking about ,my decendants?
Actually we got along just fine, but now I am addicted to YA.
Yes, I can remember before microwaves, McDonalds, credit cards and mobile phones.
I'm afraid I do. That makes me feel so old.
I think I remember my Grandmother telling me about it once but I thought it was just a scary fairytale.
I do yes, we sat down at the table and ate as a family, everything was homemade, the only take away was fish and chips and that was a special treat, lager was something they drank abroad, the only phone we had was the one at the top of the road in the phone box and credit cards were for the filthy rich.
OMG - where have I been ??? what's McDonalds?
I wasn't born for most of them I don't think ;) but I can't imagine life without them! =D
Yes I can, frozen food and lager has been for as long as I can remember, I was 17 the first time I tried a macdonalds, I can remember cheque books for payment and the first mobile phones in the 80s like paving slabs and as heavy, gawd I am old! I am only 41!!!
no, not really
Yes I do, I even remember life before supermarkets, motorways and all day TV, when I was little half of the homes in the UK didnt even have bathrooms, most people didnt own their houses, they only bought what they needed, there were hardly any cars on the road, single mothers were ostracised, children got a bloody good hiding if they misbehaved, and milkmen, bakers and grocers came to your door.
I was born in 1958, which wasnt all that long ago, life has changed a hell of a lot since then, mostly for the better except for social behaviour, back then people were polite and children were expected to do as they were told, you could get a clip round the ear from the local copper, and when your parents heard about it you got a clip from them as well, now policemen are afraid to do their job, in case some little scroat has them up on an assult charge.
Eventually things will turn round, everything does in the long run, life is good these days, all we need is for people to realise that, and behave themselves!
Yes, I wonder how I coped. When I first got married we didn`t have a fridge so dug a hole in the garden and put milk and butter in that! Wimpy was around but to our delight when McDonalds first opened it was about the only place apart from a very few Indian restaurants that stayed open to 11pm.
That memory has stayed with me for years. Must like Big Macs.
Well, yes. TV dinners were a new concept when I was a kid, although frozen vegetables were common.
I remember very well when they opened the first McD in the area. My mom took my little sister and me there. Before then, the hamburger joints were generally locally owned and operated. McD and the rest drove the father of one of my friends out of business, actually.
I was too young to recognize the growth of credit cards. I do remember when the ATM was introduced. At first you could only access your account through your own bank. Went on a road trip to cape cod when in college and made it back to NY state and our ATM with no money and no gas once; almost didn't make it. Before that you had to go to the bank in person to get your money and tuff luck if you forgot before the weekend.
They used to have microwaves at the Y-you could heat up the food (pre-cooked burgers) you bought from the vending machine-this was back when I was in Jr high and we had swimming practice at the Y.
Mobile phones lol. The first ones were like little walkie-talkies-big heavy things.
Cripes, I was lucky that they had developed hand held calculators by the time I was in high school. My older brothers had to use a slide rule. No lie.
Of course, the good side was that we could go out and play all day on our own without having to worry about psycho child kidnapper sex perverts. Falling in the polluted river was our big worry (no sewage treatment-just dump the crap right in there-you would see it float by).
Thanks for letting me reminisce.
Yes l do.
A much simpler time.
Yes, and most people were happy with their lot. "Hire-purchase" or credit were near impossible to obtain, and everyone lived within their means. It didn`t matter if you didn`t have the latest gadget or designer clothes, because no one else did either.
Other an Frozen food....I remember life a long time ago without the rest :)
Yes i can