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This thread is great fun to read - and interesting as a window into another country.

Some of the things seem to be quite common all over the world, like the full service gas stations with the "dingding...dingding" bells we all tried to trigger by jumping, or the TV sets or radios with the "magic eye" for fine tuning.

Others are completely different - My first smoke was actually not tobacco at all, but instead it was the stem of a wild growing plant (Huflattich -> coltsfoot or horsefoot). Kids would probably die today if they did that.

Playing outside on a small island in a tiny creek, catching trouts by hand - and then releasing them again, because we couldn't bring them home as it was considered poaching.

Trying to catch a ride in my uncle's new Karmann Ghia.

Being frightened by live artillery shots being fired a couple kilometers away in a US military training area (Wildflecken).

Not preparing for a nuclear attack because we knew we lived in Fulda Gap and there was nothing we could possibly do.

Recording music tracks off the radio by using a microphone on a tape recorder - and trying to be VERY quiet.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - I am sure I can still program its Z80 machine code =)
 

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I remember when mobile phones were rare, big and only affordable to the very wealthy.

I remember cruising the strip in FT Lauderdale "perpetrating" like we were actually talking to people on his dads "car phone" to attract attention from the girls. it was a huge brick with a wire but it lit up. We never actually called anyone (cause it was so expensive his dad woulda killed him).

They were very rare, so it attracted allot of female attention :)
 

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Pay phone booths. Yucky, dirty, and usually had a smell if located outside. Cut phone cords, gum in the change slot, and crud in the mic holes. Half of them didn't work at all. Phone books torn to shreds if present at all.

Made me appreciate cell phones even if the first one I had was larger than an Original Wood REO!
 

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Pay phone booths. Yucky, dirty, and usually had a smell if located outside. Cut phone cords, gum in the change slot, and crud in the mic holes. Half of them didn't work at all. Phone books torn to shreds if present at all.

Made me appreciate cell phones even if the first one I had was larger than an Original Wood REO!

Besides pages being torn the covers were too. A trick to fool the phone to think a nickle was a quarter was to tear a strip of the cover and slide it down the quarter slot then at the same time pull it out while dropping a nickle in.....so Im told.
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Saturday afternoon ironing. I hate ironing! My job was the stupid handkerchiefs! Dad always had to have one in his pocket Sunday morning. I still don't understand why a snot rag needed to be starched and ironed! I also had to iron my dresses. Never got to wear slacks of any kind. Only skirts and dresses. Now I don't even own a skirt or dress!

Home permanents and hair cuts. Mom, well she was no beautician!
 

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Saturday afternoon ironing. I hate ironing! My job was the stupid handkerchiefs! Dad always had to have one in his pocket Sunday morning. I still don't understand why a snot rag needed to be starched and ironed! I also had to iron my dresses. Never got to wear slacks of any kind. Only skirts and dresses. Now I don't even own a skirt or dress!

Home permanents and hair cuts. Mom, well she was no beautician!

OMG I remember that!!! I was the oldest of 5 girls and we ALL wore dresses and everything was ironed in our house....even the bed sheets!!! To this day the thought of ironing pleats can make me hurl LOL. Being the oldest ironing fell on my shoulders...ack!!!!

My mother was a beautician before she married my father so us girls were always sporting hairdo's of some sort.
 

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Saturday afternoon ironing. I hate ironing! My job was the stupid handkerchiefs! Dad always had to have one in his pocket Sunday morning. I still don't understand why a snot rag needed to be starched and ironed! I also had to iron my dresses. Never got to wear slacks of any kind. Only skirts and dresses. Now I don't even own a skirt or dress!

Home permanents and hair cuts. Mom, well she was no beautician!

I must be a freak...I LOVE to iron. I find it very relaxing.
 

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Midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show when everyone dressed up, took props and and yelled the *talk back* lines to the screen.

Toast, a squirt gun, an umbrella, and those 100 person trains running up and down the isles. That was way cool. We once drove 50 miles in a horrific snowstorm with 2 cars full of girls to see that.
 

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I remember with my first baby, normal birth, I had to stay in the hospital for 4 days. Knocked out for delivery. Saw my son a few hours after the birth.

My second, normal birth, 3 days. Out for the delivery. Saw my daughter within an hour through the nursery window.

My third, a caesarian, I was sent home after 4 days. Awake with a spinal for the delivery. Saw my daughter as soon as she was pulled out!

Now, after 24 hours most go home.

Having never been a father, I just dont understand how you can pull a football through a napkin ring!!! And I really dont want to know either lol!
 
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