20 things your kids will never learn or understand!!

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20 things your kids will never learn or understand.

1. The relationship between a pencil and a tape.

2. They will never know the white fear you felt when you realised that you weren't kind, you didn't rewind the VHS you just handed back to the video store.

3. The art of recording the Sunday Top 40 chart show with minimal DJ chat over the song.

4. The excitement of flicking through your newly developed photos as you walk through the town centre only to find half of them have your thumb over the lens.

5. The simple act of winding down a car window.

6. The glory of a four-hour marathon of eye spy because there were no TV/DVD players in the back of cars in the 'olden days'

7. Nails down the blackboard. Schools all use super-duper touch screens now.

8. Trolls on top of pencils – an iPad just doesn't offer a stable place for them to sit.

9. The old shake and blow trick to get your SNES Mario Land game cartridge working again.

10. Rotary dial phones – yes it really did take more than five seconds to dial a number. A number that you also had to memorise.

11. With all the CRB/DBS/ISA child-minders need these days they will never set up their own 'Babysitters Club'.

12. When arriving 10 minutes before your flight was considered early.

13. Waiting until Saturday morning for the decent cartoons.

14. Having that rare ability to successfully fold the car map.

15. The happiness that is circling what shows to watch in the TV magazine.

16. Leafing through the whole Encyclopaedia to find information on a rainforest – now it's just a Google away.

17. The advert game – the first to guess the advert gets control of the remote. Now they just record and fast forward.

18. They'll never know the true meaning of 'WE WERE ON A BREAK'.

19. Loading a computer game via a tape recorder, which took ages. It was worth it though to get to the final level of Chuckie Egg.

20. Using reverse charges to call your mum and dad at a payphone. Actually, will they even know what a payphone is?
 
The simple joy of mumblypeg during recess.
Duck-and-cover drills.
The meaning of "Don't touch that dial!"
Reduced air resistance perforated paddles.
Car radios that needed 5 minutes to warm up.
 
tin foil on the rabbit ears,red rubber inner tubes,the slot in the back of your medicine cabinet,hookie bobbin ,counter checks , standard 6 day work week, milatary draft,shoping outa the sears n monkey ward catalog and the clothes never fit, countries in the geography book that no body has heard of today, boys had a hair cut and girls wore a dress to school,air raid sirens and shelters, if you miss behaved ANY adult would square you up,deposit on your pop bottles,kids drinking and driving not much of a problem cop would tell us get out of town i dont wanta see you any more tonight,three thousand dollar car would go zero to a hundred in four city blocks and did frequently,4 and 8 track stereo,sticking a book of matches behind the window latch on your wing window to make it stop whistling, wing window?free tv, the good old days
 
Butch wax, late night AM radio, lusting over the underwear pictures in the Sears catalog, the Indian on TV after midnight, Tang, Sugar Pops, Sugar Smacks, Sugar Crisp, Sugar Frosted Flakes, The Magic Drawing Board, everyone had a station wagon, Iron lungs, Green Stamps, the taste of Ivory soap, Cursive writing.
 
small pox shot,no ground on the plug in, euro dirt bikes,cars came standard with AM radio,and the ever popular mecurichrome and merthylate, i cringe thinking about them , half soled shoes, saw dust snow tires, church keys
 
not living in a welfare state
not living in a police state
dinking while driving legally
not needing a fishing license to fish
going to jail for 11 months for a roach and 2 seeds "happened to a friend long ago"
large comfortable two level movie theater
getting you oil and tire pressure checked while getting gas
no police road blocks at holiday times
 
Those machines in stores that would test radio and TV tubes. Tubes?
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'Popeye' and 'Slug Bug' on road trips instead of iPods etc.
What the 'way back' meant in a car.
Adjusting points.
Laying on the rear deck inside the back glass, looking up at the stars.
Not having to wear a seat belt.
Cowboys and Indians.
CZ's and Maicos.
 
the taste of Ivory soap

I got introduced to that in the 6th grade, thanks to a little red-headed snitch on the playground. Fortunately for her, it was (and for me still is) taboo to hit gurlz.

Alkaseltzer in the tall skinny glass bottles.
Manual chokes on cars.
Three on the tree.
Galoshes with metal buckles
Playing cards in the spokes of your Schwinn
Banana seats
 
Popeye road game? Two laps up on your jeans? All of the others I saw or did or heard of from "back in the day".
 
I thought of a few more: Tappet wrench's, seeing the ground while checking the dip stick, steaks with a ribbon of fat around the edge, party lines, "Lil-Abner", enough chocolate candy bar to make you sick for only a nickel, crying when they shot 'Ol Yeller, iron-on knee patches, Tom Swift books.........Sunday nights, before TV, working on a huge puzzle as a family.
 
only 3 TV channels to choose from and a dial channel changer on the black and white TV

chopping wood for the hot water system

A and B button public pay phones (Aussies will remember this, we used to jam cardboard up the coin return slot and go back and get the coins held up a couple of days later)

riding your bicycle without a helmet, had never even heard of one.

riding in the back of a pickup
 
45's

78's

5 & dimes (anyone have a Woolworths with a sit down food bar and pet dept?)

Man, some of us are old !
 
Fender skirts
Brass radiators
Nosed and decked cars
Sitting on dads lap so you could "drive"
Reliable Lucas Electrics
Flannel lined jeans
Black lists
Separate lunch counters
Safe schools
Lynchings
 
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