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[AVV IT]

When jackets were goalposts...................

Clearly you were posh then..... Oh how we dreamed of having jackets to use as goalposts, we had to make do with jumpers....... And we were lucky!!!!

[lawrie124]

Lucky? We worked 27 hours a day down pit AND paid mill owner for the privilege of going to work.

Kids today. Don't know they are born.

[Gerbil367]

Watching Robinson Crusoe, Marineboy and the Flashing Blade, during school summer holidays (again!). Playing outside on my Chopper - the Raleigh one!!!

[M J W J]

When someone at school completed the set of the latest craze (football stickers, pokemon cards, pogs, etc), took all the spares they had and threw them in the air for everyone else to scrabble around and try and pick up.

 

I remember getting my Squirtle and Wartortle pokemon cards this way.

 

Being liked at school for being the kid skinny enough to get under cars and retrieve the football (this always seamed to be my job)

Edited by M J W J, 11 June 2014 - 07:32 AM.

[Mini Manannán]

When I used to do a milk round, I earned £1.50 a day so £3 spends for the week.  At 11 years old I used to get up at 6am in all weathers and finish at about 2pm though it depended on how fast I ran!  Hence I started taking my skateboard and going between the van and the doorsteps (10 bottles of milk (no milk-crate) on a skateboard anyone?  My teacher was gobsmacked when she discovered I knew the 13.5 times table inside out!

[Mini Manannán]

When I used to do a milk round, I earned £1.50 a day so £3 spends for the week.  At 8 years old I used to get up at 6am in all weathers and finish at about 2pm though it depended on how fast I ran!  Hence I started taking my skateboard and going between the van and the doorsteps (10 bottles of milk (no milk-crate) on a skateboard anyone?  My teacher was gobsmacked when she discovered I knew the 13 1/2 times table inside out!

Edited by Mini Manannán, 11 June 2014 - 03:26 AM.

[Redjohnno]

 

When jackets were goalposts...................

Clearly you were posh then..... Oh how we dreamed of having jackets to use as goalposts, we had to make do with jumpers....... And we were lucky!!!!

 

 

Jumpers when it wasn't raining!

[Gerbil367]

Playing 'Japs and Jerries' as a kid - even though it didnt really make sense as they were allies!  Shooting each other with imaginery machine guns 'Drrrrrrraaaaa drrrrraa drrrra! You're dead' - 'No Im not'   FIGHT!

[Redjohnno]

Making an "Exhaust" out of Kelloggs cereal box, and pegging it to your Raleigh Burner. Then hitting the Ramp you made with 4 bricks and a piece of wood!

[AVV IT]

Before the interweb and when working out how to do something on your mini involved praying that someone would do an article about it in the "How to" section of mini mag one day. Or of course just blindly having a go yourself, making a complete disaster of it and then paying someone else to sort out the aftermarth!

[Cooperman]

The times I've been called during the evenings & weekends by Mini owners who wanted advice of help.

Now we have TMF which has made lie easier and thee is always someone on-line who can help & advise.

[xrocketengineer]

In the good old days there was such a thing as a "pen pals" that were distant people that you wanted to communicate with. There was no Facebook, or forums or what have you. I still don't do Facebook or Twitter. 

There also was a thing called "privacy" that kept your "privates" and your own business being your own.

[silve1999]

I remember freedom of thought

[Cooperman]

No overall speed limits, just in built-up areas.

Doing International Rallies in cars like the Mk.1 Cortina GT, Cooper 'S', Sunbeam Rapier, etc.

Best bitter & mini-skirts.

No breathaliser. 5 pints of beer, two scotches and then drive home (well, wouldn't have been able to walk after that lot!).

Always wearing a collar, tie and suit to work.

Yearning for a Porsche 911 (had to wait until 1979 to finally get one).

1967, the Summer of Love with 'flower-power' and lots of free love (well, I've never paid for it, ever).

Staying up all night watching the 1st Moon landing, then going straight to work in the aircraft design office of a well-known company to find everyone had done the same.

Driving a 3.8 Jag Mk.2 with a D-Type engine at a legal 140 mph on the M1.

Tyre testing for Firestone with the first 10" radial-ply tyre they ever made.

 

Wonderful days!

[Mini Manannán]

No overall speed limits, just in built-up areas.

 

 

That bit is still the same here