[Fun] I'm So Old I Remember....

Excitement at the 'New' third Television channel (BBC 2)

 

I'm so old I remember when changing diapers meant folding, pin pricks, rubber pants, dunking in the toilet, and diaper pails.

 

Atomic bomb drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

 

The school stopping lessons to stand in silent respect for the children of Aberfan

Aberfan disaster - Wikipedia

 

Yes, and no note required.

 

I'm so old I babysat back in the day when the going rate was .25¢ an hour.

 

I'm so old I remember when we had all of 4 television channels to chose from, and three were largely news stations.

 

I'm so old I remember helping my mom with the care of baby siblings, and in those days it was glass bottles, homemade baby food and formula, and old-fashioned cloth diapers.

 

I'm so old I remember the elementary school that I attended had segregated grounds, boys on one side, girls on the other.

 

And vans had those groovy murals painted on their sides.

 

I'm so old I remember painting some of those groovy murals on the sides of vans...

 

popping the plastic insert into the center of a 45 so you could play it

 

A computer mouse that had a ball and rollers that needed cleaning out now and then when fluff would get wound around the rollers.

 

Girls showing their knickers in the playground was commonplace and accepted as just children having fun

 

And when then looked like this ..


(Note the speed selector, and overarm assist to make a retro playlist = )

 

Free School Milk

 

And the Power of being a Milk monitor

 

When Charley said ... "Don't talk to strangers"

 

Charley says ... eat Fish