Weirdness From The Past or Your Past.

[mongers]

You know you're getting old when things from the past or your past personal life would now seem weird or at the very least quaint.

I made this discovery whilst sorting out some papers, I used to communicate with quite a few of my friends, when we were in our teens and early 20s, by letter, not phone, email, skype, cellphone, but solely by letter !

I just seemed rather odd to find all of these letters, some very lengthy from almost a bygone era. I guess people being away at various colleges and then moving around a bit, meant that letters were practical, at a time when quite a few rented places didn't have phones.


So what did you used to do or experience which might seem odd to our younger board members ?

[Razgovory]

I was once an outgoing and somewhat personable person.

[mongers]

I was once an outgoing and somewhat personable person.

And you still could be.

[Eddie Teach]

I believe drinking from human skulls would now be considered a tad gauche. 

[Josquius]

Going to the library to use the internet would seem super weird to all but the poorest of kids these days.

Then there's the way getting hold of entertainment unavailable in the UK (largely anime I must say...hey, I was 15) was very difficult and it was a challenge to get even one episode...whilst the spoilt buggers of today can just stream anything they like.

[mongers]

Going to the library to use the internet would seem super weird to all but the poorest of kids these days.

Then there's the way getting hold of entertainment unavailable in the UK (largely anime I must say...hey, I was 15) was very difficult and it was a challenge to get even one episode...whilst the spoilt buggers of today can just stream anything they like.

Yeah, and I went past a mobile library yesterday, that does seem like a throwback to another age. Nowadays the library can come to almost every house simultaneously.

[Ideologue]

Children having a higher standard of living than their parents.  That must've been weird for grandpa.

[Syt]

I was wondering yesterday when the last time was that I had seen/used a rotary dial on a telephone.

[Maladict]

The idea that nobody could reach you when you're not home.

[CountDeMoney]

I remember when we actually had a Cloverland milk delivery box on our front porch.

[mongers]

The idea that nobody could reach you when you're not home.

Ah bliss. 

[mongers]

I remember when we actually had a Cloverland milk delivery box on our front porch.

I can remember the Corona lemonade lorry coming around to your street, so you could by direct.

I also vaguely remember collecting up bottles for the refunds.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yes, happy times (and profitable) taking all the bottles back after a parental party 

I miss the old money, it was great having loose change from Victoria's reign. One time, an uncle, who was a bus driver, got a fare paid with loose change that included a George III penny 

[Barrister]

Do Brits not have bottle deposits?  We still have homeless people rummaging through trashcans for bottles to return for their deposits.

[mongers]

Do Brits not have bottle deposits?  We still have homeless people rummaging through trashcans for bottles to return for their deposits.

No, as far as I know returns died out in the early 80s.

No doubt in a couple of more years a government will introduce this as a recycling measure and triumph it as a great innovation.