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Ok let's play a game.
I am old enough to remember when...........(you fill in the blank. You can have as many goes as you like coz it's Friday and it's hot)
The only eggs in the carton were white. Occasionally there was a brown one, which got left last because it was scary.
Computers could run cassette tapes
Yes. Commodore 64. Brian Lara Cricket.
I remember when public transport was divided into local neighbourhoods, and the bus driver would use a hole punch to mark the date and time. Sometimes they'd punch the wrong place and you'd get an extra day free.
Going to school on the train, in winter the connie would sling a metal cylinder filled with hot coals in each compartment to put your feet on so they didn't freeze.
Also wooden trains with card tables
I watched the first moon landing
Same here. Also went to the Sunbury Music festival to hear Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs.
I remember when Healesville Sanctuary had way too many emus. They were really scary, and one stole my lunch.
I also remember when Healesville Sancuary had way too many ibis. I didn't have my lunch stolen, but they would swarm anyone eating and it was a very near thing.
Movies had cartoons before and intermission to change the reel
Hiring out a Sega Mega drive from the local with a few games for the weekend.
I remember when bogong moths were around in huge numbers and would swarm street lights every year.
There used to be lots of cool modernist architecture in the city.
There was very little litter in the streets.
There was a thriving garment district in Little Flinders street.
Trams were red and people used to ride on the foot boards.
Christmas beetles were legion. And peed on you constantly.
I can just remember the milkman coming around with milk. Just.
My Dad was the milkman 😂
Hah! Back when I was a kid, the milk was delivered by a horse & cart - in East Ringwood. The stables were in East Ringwood village next to Dublin road opposite the train station. 3 gorgeous clydies.
I feel like I'm going to be one of the youngest ones here, but I am old enough to remember when installing things on your computer the window would be full screen and have a blue background.
(I was going to mention dial up, or renting from Video Ezy/Blockbuster, but they're too easy and also my local Blockbuster went out in like 2016 or 2017?)
I remember renting from video shops and if you didn't have your card you couldn't borrow. Then towards the end it was "ah just give us your name and the password and that should do it".
I remember when there were smoking sections in planes... just barely.
You could smoke anywhere. Buses, trains, hospitals, supermarkets.
Heck, there was a smokers area at school
When Kylie Minogue was on Neighbours and I met her at my dad's work's fancy Xmas party where she arrived and left by helicopter.
The VCR had a remote that was just a pause button on a long chord.
The tv change channel was on a long cord
😂
I remember when you could buy clothes from Safeway, Treasureway and Coles & Fosseys.
I'm old enough to remember going to my friend's place in Dubai (where I grew up) and her mum would take us to the Laser Disc rental store to borrow movies. Or I guess I'm old enough to remember Dubai when it was pretty much mostly sand!
I remember when the proper way to dress was to tuck the shirt in.
You were just looking for trouble if you had your shirt out.
I remember when kids made their own way to school. Most rode, some caught busses or walked. Very few were dropped off.
I think of this often, as my kids either ride or catch the bus and this is considered weird today. When I was a kid, there were hundreds of bikes in the racks. Today, there might be 20, usually fewer. Maybe a dozen kids are on the bus. But try and get a car near the school and you'll be in a queue. They all get dropped off/picked up these days.
Yeah I used to walk every day! Primary and high school.
Can confirm this. During primary school we walked or rode our bikes (4 sibs). Getting dropped off in a car meant you had a broken leg/foot. Secondary school I was at a boarding school. On weekends we'd pick up a sandwich lunch from the school kitchen and get on our bikes and go for a long ride. Had to be back by sunset for rollcall. No supervision. The miracle was that we didn't get in trouble - not even close. Couldn't do that nowadays - the school authorities would be screaming and so would the parents. We'd also take one of the school dinghies and go fishing all day - the kitchen took the loot and served it up for breakfast the next day.
The need to supervise children every waking minute of their lives has reached fairly absurd proportions. I while ago I was reading about a "walking school bus" program designed to get kids walking to school instead of being driven. It was facing closure because of lack of funding. The idea that walking to school is something that needs both a special program and funding is just wrong in so many ways.
I don't know how we managed to get from children being able to run around mostly unsupervised to a society in which people will call 000 because they see a teenager sitting in a car without an adult, but we have.
It boggles the mind. My parents were pretty tight, and I still walked multi km to the trainstation. What they would’ve been like with the tracking and helicopter options available now is terrifying.
I was dropped off in the morning, but would either catch the bus or walk home. Mostly I walked, as spending money on lollies on the way home seemed a better option than spending it on bus fare.
That was in the days you could choose your lollies individually - prices at that time ranged from 2 for one cent for things like chocolate freckles up to 2c a lollie for some fancy things. Or you could just let them choose by ordering mixed lollies - 20c of mixed lollies was a pretty standard amount.
Fag lolly cigarettes. Tasted like nothing but you played at being sophisticated waving them around
Meh..I’m a quintessential GenX or….whatever
We had it good.
I thought we were going to have a saw moment for a second there.