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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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@kruse 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.
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.
When I was in standard 3, I got a bike and rode to primary school, just checked my route and it was 9km, no wonder I was such a fit little bastard.
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@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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 worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
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@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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
Wow!!! I laughed at that in sheer surprise! You must have a squillion nieces and nephews!!
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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 worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only two TV channels back in the day to be fair
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@mn5 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@dan54 said in Old people talk about the olden days:
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 worry18???? Your poor mum. Was she able to walk?
There was only two TV channels back in the day to be fair
Even so.....
The channels finished up early too
Followed by the test screen and the white snow. It made Telethon a huge thing, the only time telly ran for 24 hours
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@canefan said in Old people talk about the olden days:
It made Telethon a huge thing, the only time telly ran for 24 hours
and this thread has come full circle!!
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@bovidae said in Old people talk about the olden days:
Telethon was a good opportunity to be on live TV in the early hours when nobody was watching.
Another good way to get on tele was running onto the pitch after a game trying to get an autograph
Reminds me of a funny story, my grandmother had allegedly given up smoking and was captured on tele having a smoke in the stands watching a game lol.
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@nta said in Old people talk about the olden days:
In the 80s our farm was on a party line to the local exchange - a bit like the below.
Our phone "number" was 14R.
Went digital in the late 80s. Phone number was 3 digit area code then 6 digit number, and when Australia moved to 10-digit numbers (had left the farm by that stage) they reorganised the area codes:
14R
(067) 297 087
(02) 6729 7087
In high school in the late 80s/early 90s, I had a girlfriend on a party line, she had to go to boarding school in the city because she lived so far away.
Friends of mine live about 400m from her old place now and I swear it's less than 20 minutes drive to the nearest centre (Taradale) and they have full UFB (a good version of NBN for the Aussies on here).
So weird that the change from the early 90s to now. Actually, they've been living out there for over 10 years and have always had at least ADSL.
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