What makes you feel old?

[LenEV2016]

This forum is starting to make me feel old

 

[dsimpkins]

 

[Pete G]

I remember when conductors on busses came around to take money and hand out tickets.
Also remember Bread deliveries, where the bread man had a horse and cart.
There was a man who came around the streets with a horse and cart too, who sharpened knives and scissors.
Train conductors came around and punched holes in your ticket to make sure you didn't try to use it again.
There were toilets underground in Sydney streets where you had to pay a penny to use them too.
Oh dear I must be old now

 

[T1 Terry]

Not old enough for the horse and cart, poor horse wouldn't have made it back up our hill with cart on the back, it was really steep ..... but great for riding billy carts .... never see kids riding billy carts anymore these days .....
The baker who was really only delivering bread, buying a half loaf of fresh hot bread and eating the dough part out of the centre before eating the crust.
The Rawleigh's man visiting once a week to sell ointment or what ever but always with a cheer that lifted mum's spirits .....
The green grocer's truck, but that stopped even when I was still very young
Working on a milk run, getting up at 2:30 in the morning, on the run for 2 1/2 hrs carrying 18 1 pint bottles of milk, later 600ml bottles. balanced on the lower arm by the round handle to keep the crate high enough to clear the fences as we ran from house to house ...... leather apron with the money pouch in the front, working out the required change or noting how many bottles went to who while on the run ..... then, somehow, going back to sleep at home for 2 hrs before getting up for school, all for the sum of 60 cents a day ...... Kinda miss that simple life, but mostly miss being that fit
Certainly made my chosen sport, beach athletics easier, running 9 miles up the beach was no effort at all

T1 Terry

 

[Gomev]

Bill and Ben, flobba lobba, but don't forget the weed.

Younger ones may not understand that.

Time for bed said Zebedee.

 

[T1 Terry]

Probably only an Australian thing, but when STD meant making a long distance call, and they were expensive
(Subscriber Trunk Dialling)

T1 Terry

 

[Gomev]

Probably only an Australian thing, but when STD meant making a long distance call, and they were expensive
(Subscriber Trunk Dialling)

T1 Terry

Still same definition here Subscriber Trunk Dialling, originally designed to route "trunk" calls (long-distance) automatically. In the UK, these are now commonly referred to simply as "area codes".

 

[Archev]

Still same definition here Subscriber Trunk Dialling, originally designed to route "trunk" calls (long-distance) automatically. In the UK, these are now commonly referred to simply as "area codes".

Another innuendo knackered

 

[LenEV2016]

Probably only an Australian thing, but when STD meant making a long distance call, and they were expensive
(Subscriber Trunk Dialling)

T1 Terry

STD now has another meaning for our younger population.

 

[Archev]

STD now has another meaning for our younger population.

Sugar Topped Doughnuts ??

 

[T1 Terry]

Still same definition here Subscriber Trunk Dialling, originally designed to route "trunk" calls (long-distance) automatically. In the UK, these are now commonly referred to simply as "area codes".

Over here, the first two numbers are the state the exchange is in, so some towns along a border might have the other states initial code numbers, the next 2 numbers are the regional area code, the next 2 numbers were the local exchange, and the last 4 numbers actually identified your telephone line .... as an example 02 was NSW, 42 was the Illawarra area, 29 was central Wollongong 3493 was the actual workshop line, 10 numbers to get both correct and in the correct order .... simples
Now I really feel old, that dates back to the mid '80s, but I still remember the phone number of my automotive workshop ....

T1 Terry

 

[T1 Terry]

You know you are old when "a bonk meant getting hit on the head" ..... that was one of the lines for a potato chip claiming to still have the old fashioned quality and flavour

T1 Terry

 

[LenEV2016]

Sugar Topped Doughnuts ??

Don't go in the water without your wellies on as my dad told me when I went off to the RAF as a 17 year old

 

[T1 Terry]

"If it's not on, it's not on" an ad promoting the use of condoms ....

T1 Terry

 

[OriginalBigAl]

We always had the same ice cream van that came around every day at 5.00pm for years on end . A new van started coming around at 4.30 pm and nicking the originals round and trade. This went on for a week until the first caught wind of it, cue , Starsky and Hutch, but in ice cream vans with full revving engines and dingly dong chimes going racing around the kid infested estate . David Attenbourgh in the Serengeti and his warring lion prides had nothing on this. Every house emptied to watch the ensuing spectacle.
We also had a fizzy pop van which sold R Whites lemonade and Cresta which exploded on opening covering anyone in a 6ft radius in a sticky liquid. A penny back on the bottles was a roaring trade for a 10 year old business guru who went around picking them up from ditches , other peoples bins or the back alleys of shops who had already paid back the remise to other minded kids. An empty bottle could potentially earn 10p in this circular business model before being returned to the supplier.

 

[LenEV2016]

You know you are old when "a bonk meant getting hit on the head" ..... that was one of the lines for a potato chip claiming to still have the old fashioned quality and flavour

T1 Terry

I was going to reply saying you know you're old when you don't remember what one of them .....

I decided to be polite and not drag this forum further into the gutter.

It reminded me of a post, I read, from a member prior to the launch of the X Power who basically claimed young ladies wouldn't be able to restrain themselves if they got in one and the guy floored it.

As a reply stated at the time it was like one of the Inbetweeners!
I'll try and avoid that.

Also to be fair the demographic of x power owners are not men of an age who are looking to get up to stuff in their cars, more likely be paranoid about dirty shoe marks on the upholstery or doors.
There is probably a cover you can buy of AliExpress or MG titan for that, @salty probably has one, he has everything else

 

[T1 Terry]

We always had the same ice cream van that came around every day at 5.00pm for years on end . A new van started coming around at 4.30 pm and nicking the originals round and trade. This went on for a week until the first caught wind of it, cue , Starsky and Hutch, but in ice cream vans with full revving engines and dingly dong chimes going racing around the kid infested estate . David Attenbourgh in the Serengeti and his warring lion prides had nothing on this. Every house emptied to watch the ensuing spectacle.
We also had a fizzy pop van which sold R Whites lemonade and Cresta which exploded on opening covering anyone in a 6ft radius in a sticky liquid. A penny back on the bottles was a roaring trade for a 10 year old business guru who went around picking them up from ditches , other peoples bins or the back alleys of shops who had already paid back the remise to other minded kids. An empty bottle could potentially earn 10p in this circular business model before being returned to the supplier.

Remember that one well, we now get 10c a can or bottle at the recyclers as part of the litter reduction and recycling program introduced in just about every state now, but it did start out in South Australia .....
There was a time when interstate truck drivers would bring over those big chemical tanks mounted on a pallet base, but full of empty cans ..... they cracked down on it as much as possible, but it was quite a well organised thing involving drop offs over quite a large area ..... that is all over now that the other states have introduced the same refund schemes, but you still see people along the highways collecting can and bottles that have been tossed out the window

T1 Terry

 

[LenEV2016]

10p a bottle for years in Scotland mostly Barrs irn bru bottles or gingeys as our friends from the west call them

 

[PeterHR2]

You're old if you can recall watching Tales of the Riverbank in good ol' 405-lines... Hammy and Roderick <sigh>

 

[MG Clive]

STD now has another meaning for our younger population.

Sugar Topped Doughnuts ??

Yes, that one as well.