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?
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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
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
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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.
TB
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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.
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
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.