Everyday things from back in the day that seem really weird now

North Lower Neil

Keep it light!

- The fact that you had a book delivered to your house with absolutely every in town's home phone numbers in it (bar a few ex-directory people).

- Not being able to contact people if they weren't in.  Basically make plans and hope they show up in the right place.

- Smoking in offices, pubs, on planes etc.

North Lower Neil

Going to Blockbuster in a group on a Friday night to pick one film to rent.

North Lower Neil

Oh, and forgetting to set the video for a TV show and having to accept that you will never get to see it.

bobmunro

Party lines on home phones!

Raith_C_Chattonell

Everything wrung up on a till - lack of bar codes.

North Lower Neil

Your mum taking 3 photos of the garden flowers to use the film up so she could take it to Boots to be developed.

WHAddick

Waiting for a disk to load on a computer. Including lots of whirring. 
Even better a cassette load... that took even longer
Swapping mix (cassette) tapes with your mates

killerandflash

Huddling around someone's pocket radio after the match to hear the other scores!

North Lower Neil

killerandflash said:

Huddling around someone's pocket radio after the match to hear the other scores!

Or rushing back to the car to try and get in before Sports Report at 5.

CharltonKerry

Nailing leather studs into your football boots, pumping up the football then lacing it up.

CharltonKerry

Pressing button B

stockportaddick

Holding the indoor tv aerial in a stupid position so my dad could watch his horse racing on our b&w tv and getting bollocked if I moved just an inch

ross1

When I was a teenager, no computers, mobile phones, electronic games, all day television, no worrying about inflation, mortgages. I thought I was happy just watching Charlton, going to the pub and to the Roxi cinema every Sunday to see the new film of the week. Now everybody expects a lot more

DaveMehmet

Having hair 

The Red Robin

Recording songs off the radio via cassette 

JiMMy 85

Typing in three numbers on the TV and waiting for 4 pages to find out Charlton had lost. 

North Lower Neil

The Red Robin said:

Recording songs off the radio via cassette 

Trying to cut it off before the DJ started talking over it!!

North Lower Neil

Calling Clubcall for football news.

ForeverAddickted

Soccer Saturday was letting Ceefax scroll through the three / four pages whilst the game went on.

Was how I kept up to date of our promotion @ Blackburn in 2000

Finding porn magazines thrown in the bushes

Pedro45

Green Shield Stamps.

Scoham

Dial up

White dog poo

Getting a paper payslip

Clubcall

Teletext and Ceefax

MSN Messenger

MySpace and Friends Reunited

North Lower Neil

The girls in your 6th form class having 25 year old boyfriends that picked them up in their Fiesta.

Weird one that, looking back.

MrWalker

North Lower Neil said:

Going to Blockbuster in a group on a Friday night to pick one film to rent.

Asking if you can borrow 'Batman Forever' and being told 'no, it needs to be back by Tuesday'.

killerandflash

ForeverAddickted said:

Soccer Saturday was letting Ceefax scroll through the three / four pages whilst the game went on.

Was how I kept up to date of our promotion @ Blackburn in 2000

Finding porn magazines thrown in the bushes

Indeed porn mags at all 

McBobbin

Sitting watching ceefax for a whole afternoon 

MrWalker

ForeverAddickted said:

Soccer Saturday was letting Ceefax scroll through the three / four pages whilst the game went on.

Was how I kept up to date of our promotion @ Blackburn in 2000

Finding porn magazines thrown in the bushes

Finding bushes in porn magazines.

North Lower Neil

High streets being completely dead on a Sunday.

Bank Holidays too - used to work at a cinema and it was basically us, the pubs and McDonalds open.

MrWalker

Dialling 196, dial-a-disc

Davo55

Jumping off the bus when it was starting to slow down before your stop. Ditto opening the train doors and jumping out on the platform when the train was still going to try to beat the crowds off at Cannon Street.

Scoham

Sitting in the back of the car while one parent was driving and another looked at a paper map

North Lower Neil

Davo55 said:

Jumping off the bus when it was starting to slow down before your stop. Ditto opening the train doors and jumping out on the platform to try and beat the crowds at Cannon Street.

Bus drivers leaving the door open to let a breeze into the bus in the summer.