The small things you miss from days gone by ...

axisus

I was driving my car yesterday, and watched that moment when the milometer went from 99,999 miles to 100,000. It was slightly exciting but also a bit dull to just see the digital display flip from one number to the next in a fraction of a second.

Back in the 80s/90s I got through seven old minis. I ran them all into the ground, and the 'clocking' thing was much more exciting then. It was a mechanical process, and all the numbers would be straining and shaking to take them all back to zero (just the 5 digits in some cars). It was much more of an event. OK, I guess I seem a bit sad to some of you lot!

Miss anything from the old days?

thecolourbox

Those lollipops on a stick that you could play as a whistle.

Getting badges or coloured stripes at Scouts or Swimming, each and every time you achieved literally anything at all

When the future was cool and exciting, not bleak, disasterous and futile.

jellyroll

The smell of fuel and the roar of the jets as you WALKED across the tarmac to the holiday charter plane. 

horse

Action Jacks

Revolting1

The manual advance on my Triton,

great (retarded) for footling through heavy traffic

ESBlonde

6d back on a bottle of Corona.

Being able to hitch hike or pick up hitch hikers.

Sunbathing without being oiled up.

LastMantra

thecolourbox said:

When the future was cool and exciting....

I can remember thinking it was exciting that I would (probably) be alive in the year 2000! 
Bit of a let down...no hover board or nuffin 

Revolting1

Walking into a shop and buying new Mullards.

CHRISB50

Hair

DarnWeight

Hope

merlin

Being sexy. 

goldtop

Going to the bog in a pub, and finding a fag-end discarded in the urinal gutter. There was only one honourable thing to do. You'd aim - as well as you could - and try to hit the filter-to-cigarette join to break it apart. Then all of the loose tobacco fibres would float slowly down the urinal gutter under the piss-streams of other blokes.

Nothing was ever said, but the air of respect was palpable.

(just me, then)

Danny1969

Being young, naive and completely unaware that the world would be destroyed by stupidity and greed within my lifetime

Oh and Spangles   

randella

The slow trickle of new music.  I dunno, streaming's great and all, but I remember getting one album and rinsing it instead of mindlessly flicking through billions upon billions of choices.

I'll never forget seeing Motorhead for the first time in that Young Ones episode, pretty much wore out the VHS tape

I suppose it's just what you grow up with.

fields5069

Polio
TB
Acceptable sexual comments about underage girls
Spangles.

thecolourbox

Spangles are proving popular

stimpsonslostson

White dog poo
Finding "jazz mags" in the park
Marathon bars
Opal Fruits

More seriously...
School holidays. 6 weeks off to ride my bike & play with my friends. As a parent I dread the holidays now- I burn through my annual leave to cover childcare. 
Not having a phone/ being uncontactable. 

HerrMetal

Don Estelle

WiresDreamDisasters

I miss FMV computer games.

RandallFlagg

The large round red knob inside the drivers cab on a Routemaster bus, I used to be obsessed with it when I was kid and sit on the front seat behind the cab and marvel at it and wonder what it was.

Indicators wasn't it?

Texan bars

axisus

Buying an album 'blind' not having heard any music from it. It's so easy to pre-check stuff these days.

I remember my first - I bought Rush's Caress of Steel in 1980. None of the record shops had Permanent Waves (Spirit of Radio was riding the singles charts), and I just liked the look of the cover. The only Rush track I had ever heard was SoR.