Do you remember when......

Esme nha Maire · 08-24-2019, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Esme nha Maire

Touch calculations were done with slide-rules, pencil and paper!

That should have been "tough", not touch.

Right now, I'm remembering when I could leap out of bed rather than slide out slowly bemoaning an achey hip! 8-}. Back then I could take a bus ride to the other side of town and another back and still have change from half a crown (12.5p in the new-fangled money)!

homoe · 11-19-2019, 07:19 PM

Parents, well mine at least, put the wrath of god into me when getting over either a cold or flu with the fear of a relapse!

"Button that coat up", "wrap that scarf around your neck", "put those mitten on", yada yada yada

As a child, luckily I never encountered a relapse but once I started managing the video store, I had one after the other......

cathexis · 11-19-2019, 08:52 PM

School bus driver and teachers would yell at you for arriving with long frozen icicles where hair ordinarily hung when showering after an AM run.
It's a similar verbal tactic as the one that seems to have been employed in the above post.
Nosy teachers and school employees. They're lucky students stay home when sick and take showers at all.
Wonder how many of us went to school with sneezy, sniffly, stinky classmates?

C0LLETTE · 11-19-2019, 09:53 PM

Do you remember when "STD" stood for standing room ticket seats at a football game?

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