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@crucial said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
One of the scary things about my youth was the lack of seat belts and how many times we were in the back of the ute/panelvan just chilling whilst we drove into town. I remember my Dad would often put me on his lap and let me think I was steering the car.
Bench seats! Mum, Dad and the 5 kids no problem. Even more room if one was lying in the back window.
No need for people movers in those days.Edit: I assume that bench seats contributed to the need for lots of room for kids as well
Put some armor all on the bench seats and slide around from side to side as Dad takes the corners fast.
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One of my first memories is visiting my grandad in Lower Hutt and being given some money to buy some ice blocks. Shoved the money in my hand and pointed me and my brother in the direction of the shop. Only problem is we got lost on the way home and the ice blocks melted. I was 4 at the time. My brother, who was 2, was in hysterics.
Contrast that with the hyperventilating and tut tutting when certain people hear that my partner allows her 11 year old daughter to walk to the shops alone despite having a phone.
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@ploughboy said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@kruse said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@hooroo said in Coronavirus memes:
@billy-tell said in Coronavirus memes:
Locations of interest.
Look at that Blenheim Phone number!!!
Yeah - I remember having a 4-digit number in Cambridge - pretty sure it was 6333.
Moved to Hastings, and realised it was the big-smoke, because I now had 5 digits to remember.yeah we had 4 digit in cambridge well rural cambridge
when did you leaveWhen I started with the missus her parents' farm (rural Cambridge) had a 4 number phone and only recently gone off party line. IIRC that moved to 5 digits then 7.
It all made sense at the time as non local calls were expensive and considered long distance. The extra numbers were all the dialling codes you needed, region, area, town, exchange etc. As time went on it became a pain to have to look up all the codes so they got added to the number. Eventually we ended up with the large call regions that we have now. -
@booboo said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus memes:
@hooroo I still remember our 5 digit number, and even remember plenty of my rellies 3 digit number on their party lines...probably cos they still live there and thier last 3 digits are still the same, just have 4 more in front of them!
And crank handle phones ... Kaitaia in the mid-80s.
890D
Haha I remember in Taranaki as a kid No was 21M, crank handle phone ,party line and our ring was short-long-short
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@crucial we used to freeze them! lol brutal on teeth for sure.
When we first moved to paekak we could still get half cent lollies from the shop. One of the girls that worked there was also our babysitter and she'd just fill a paper bag with lollies for us. Strangely not on the days she was baby sitting us tho
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@ploughboy said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@kruse said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@hooroo said in Coronavirus memes:
@billy-tell said in Coronavirus memes:
Locations of interest.
Look at that Blenheim Phone number!!!
Yeah - I remember having a 4-digit number in Cambridge - pretty sure it was 6333.
Moved to Hastings, and realised it was the big-smoke, because I now had 5 digits to remember.yeah we had 4 digit in cambridge well rural cambridge
when did you leaveLived in Leamington - left around the mid-eighties.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
One of my first memories is visiting my grandad in Lower Hutt and being given some money to buy some ice blocks. Shoved the money in my hand and pointed me and my brother in the direction of the shop. Only problem is we got lost on the way home and the ice blocks melted. I was 4 at the time. My brother, who was 2, was in hysterics.
Contrast that with the hyperventilating and tut tutting when certain people hear that my partner allows her 11 year old daughter to walk to the shops alone despite having a phone.
Yeah that reminds me of my mate in Nelson who used to walk round the corner from way up the hill to come to my place so we could walk to school together. Not a care in the world. Of course this all changed markedly after Theresa Cormack got murdered. I remember My Mum would have the phone cord stretched to full capacity while standing in the driveway on the phone to his Mum so as he vanished from sight at her end my mum could see him and report that he was on his way.
Even at a young age ( not quite ten ) I remember attitudes changed so much virtually overnight. We got driven most if not all days as the path we took was a bit of a short cut by a creek where theoretically any nutter could have been hiding.
By the time we moved to Welly things relaxed a bit more thankfully.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
One of my first memories is visiting my grandad in Lower Hutt and being given some money to buy some ice blocks. Shoved the money in my hand and pointed me and my brother in the direction of the shop. Only problem is we got lost on the way home and the ice blocks melted. I was 4 at the time. My brother, who was 2, was in hysterics.
Contrast that with the hyperventilating and tut tutting when certain people hear that my partner allows her 11 year old daughter to walk to the shops alone despite having a phone.
My mum was a single working mum when I was 6 and my sister 7, we woke up with no adult in the home. Mum had our clothes and school lunches packed. Breakfast was on the table. All we had to do was put clothes on, eat breakfast, brush our teeth and wait for the small hand to reach the 9 on the clock and then walk to the bus stop.
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@paekakboyz said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@hooroo I remember when we moved to paekakariki in the early 90s. 5 digit phone number!
My old phone number was 3 digits if calling from within the area - 748
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@kruse said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@ploughboy said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@kruse said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@hooroo said in Coronavirus memes:
@billy-tell said in Coronavirus memes:
Locations of interest.
Look at that Blenheim Phone number!!!
Yeah - I remember having a 4-digit number in Cambridge - pretty sure it was 6333.
Moved to Hastings, and realised it was the big-smoke, because I now had 5 digits to remember.yeah we had 4 digit in cambridge well rural cambridge
when did you leaveLived in Leamington - left around the mid-eighties.
the old canbridge tavern as the local
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@machpants said in Old people talk about the olden days:
Initially it was only kids had to wear seatbelts I think. Most vehicles didn't have them in the back anyway.
I remember coming home to tell my parents that some mate's parents' car had seatbelts in the back - and they didn't believe me.
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@ploughboy said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@kruse said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@ploughboy said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@kruse said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@hooroo said in Coronavirus memes:
@billy-tell said in Coronavirus memes:
Locations of interest.
Look at that Blenheim Phone number!!!
Yeah - I remember having a 4-digit number in Cambridge - pretty sure it was 6333.
Moved to Hastings, and realised it was the big-smoke, because I now had 5 digits to remember.yeah we had 4 digit in cambridge well rural cambridge
when did you leaveLived in Leamington - left around the mid-eighties.
the old canbridge tavern as the local
Would've been, but I didn't start my drinking career until my teens.
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@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
Of course this all changed markedly after Theresa Cormack got murdered.
Yep, I still remember that, interestingly crime stats are at their lowest levels in a very long time but due to social media and the internet we read about horrible things all the time. This clouds our judgement, and we start thinking crime is everywhere and kids are going to get abducted the minute they walk alone.
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@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
One of my first memories is visiting my grandad in Lower Hutt and being given some money to buy some ice blocks. Shoved the money in my hand and pointed me and my brother in the direction of the shop. Only problem is we got lost on the way home and the ice blocks melted. I was 4 at the time. My brother, who was 2, was in hysterics.
Contrast that with the hyperventilating and tut tutting when certain people hear that my partner allows her 11 year old daughter to walk to the shops alone despite having a phone.
My mum was a single working mum when I was 6 and my sister 7, we woke up with no adult in the home. Mum had our clothes and school lunches packed. Breakfast was on the table. All we had to do was put clothes on, eat breakfast, brush our teeth and wait for the small hand to reach the 9 on the clock and then walk to the bus stop.
Fully! Walk to school as 5 year olds 1.5k's (I had to check google maps the distance as I was going to say three k's
)Get home and kick a ball round, no parents until after 5pm.
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@hooroo said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
One of my first memories is visiting my grandad in Lower Hutt and being given some money to buy some ice blocks. Shoved the money in my hand and pointed me and my brother in the direction of the shop. Only problem is we got lost on the way home and the ice blocks melted. I was 4 at the time. My brother, who was 2, was in hysterics.
Contrast that with the hyperventilating and tut tutting when certain people hear that my partner allows her 11 year old daughter to walk to the shops alone despite having a phone.
My mum was a single working mum when I was 6 and my sister 7, we woke up with no adult in the home. Mum had our clothes and school lunches packed. Breakfast was on the table. All we had to do was put clothes on, eat breakfast, brush our teeth and wait for the small hand to reach the 9 on the clock and then walk to the bus stop.
Fully! Walk to school as 5 year olds 1.5k's (I had to check google maps the distance as I was going to say three k's
)Get home and kick a ball round, no parents until after 5pm.
Thinking back though, we all knew the rules in their absence!
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I always walked to s chool when going to Kapuni school, if someone offered you a ride home and you turned them down you were frowned on at home, to bad if you didn't know them.
I always still laugh at how my parents would be shot today, as a 4 year old on the farm the old man would sit me on the drivers seat of tractor, put it in gear and I would hold it in straight line while he fed out the hay, as we got close to the fance at end he would jump off trailer, jump on back of tractor, turn the steering wheel and get back on trailer etc. God help us how we survived I still trying to work out.
Mind you I come from a family of 18 kids , so the old man probably figured he could risk a few of us without too much worry
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@hooroo said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
One of my first memories is visiting my grandad in Lower Hutt and being given some money to buy some ice blocks. Shoved the money in my hand and pointed me and my brother in the direction of the shop. Only problem is we got lost on the way home and the ice blocks melted. I was 4 at the time. My brother, who was 2, was in hysterics.
Contrast that with the hyperventilating and tut tutting when certain people hear that my partner allows her 11 year old daughter to walk to the shops alone despite having a phone.
My mum was a single working mum when I was 6 and my sister 7, we woke up with no adult in the home. Mum had our clothes and school lunches packed. Breakfast was on the table. All we had to do was put clothes on, eat breakfast, brush our teeth and wait for the small hand to reach the 9 on the clock and then walk to the bus stop.
Fully! Walk to school as 5 year olds 1.5k's (I had to check google maps the distance as I was going to say three k's
)Get home and kick a ball round, no parents until after 5pm.
Yeah - had to look up my childhood commute - 2.3km, on a bike, on relatively major roads. Crossing the Cambridge bridge in the fog, zero visiblity. I'd have been 6 or 7 doing that.
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@hooroo said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@hooroo said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
One of my first memories is visiting my grandad in Lower Hutt and being given some money to buy some ice blocks. Shoved the money in my hand and pointed me and my brother in the direction of the shop. Only problem is we got lost on the way home and the ice blocks melted. I was 4 at the time. My brother, who was 2, was in hysterics.
Contrast that with the hyperventilating and tut tutting when certain people hear that my partner allows her 11 year old daughter to walk to the shops alone despite having a phone.
My mum was a single working mum when I was 6 and my sister 7, we woke up with no adult in the home. Mum had our clothes and school lunches packed. Breakfast was on the table. All we had to do was put clothes on, eat breakfast, brush our teeth and wait for the small hand to reach the 9 on the clock and then walk to the bus stop.
Fully! Walk to school as 5 year olds 1.5k's (I had to check google maps the distance as I was going to say three k's
)Get home and kick a ball round, no parents until after 5pm.
Thinking back though, we all knew the rules in their absence!
My mum loves to tell me when we were toddlers, they never closed the front gate as we knew we were not allowed out. Clearly a few smacks on the bum taught us real quick.
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@hooroo yeah my walk was about 1.5km to a country school, then we moved to town and had a similar walk!
I used to hate my mum dropping me off, cos we had this old bomb of a car, but loved when my old man dropped me in the work Ute haha
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