The Good Old Days.

[Georgiesmum]

Does anyone else sometimes wish we could go back to the days when you went to your corner shop for six egges and when you cooked them for breakfast they were nearly always double yolkers,the bacon came with rind on, that you cooked then cut off for the wild birds, and if you wanted to make a phone call you used a red telephone box, or is it just me? Im sure it was a much slower pace of life too.

[Georgiesmum]

I agree society. We always ate our meals up at the table, we still now and always have done, and as children we always had to say "please may i leave the table" when we had finished our meal., none of this eating our meals off a tray in front of the television like some people do today.We actually speak to each other!

[society]

I remember saying howdy to strangers you passed by on the street as you went your way. Now if you say morning or hello they ignore you or become suspicious.

[mccfluff]

i said morning to two ladies as we passed on the bridge this morning and they said morning back

what about all the abuse that went on behind closed doors in the 50's, wives being beaten up or raped by their husbands???

[society]

"what about all the abuse that went on behind closed doors in the 50's, wives being beaten up or raped by their husbands??? "

Sadly this still happens today.

[mccfluff]

yes it does but at least its now illegal to rape your wife, wasn't in the good ole days, you could get away with racism then as well

i'm sure there were there were things that were better in the 50's - and life is far from perfect now in these days but there is no point looking back with rose tinted specs

[society]

"i said morning to two ladies as we passed on the bridge this morning and they said morning back "

Fluffs, lets keep it real here, they were attracted to your 'farting shoes' lol

[FredPuli43]

Can't think of single thing that was better in the 50s, and I was a child then,13 in 1960. And I was in a house with every modern convenience available as soon as it appeared. Almost nobody in this village had a phone, nor a TV but the TV only had one channel.

But that's just materials; the quality of life itself was worse then. And there were frequent events which seem rare now. Train crashes of one sort or another seemed to be about every week! And though there were far fewer cars, your chances of being killed by, or in, one were much greater then. And we now have access to life- enhancing things which our grandparents and parents would only have dreamt of, such as foreign travel (never mind better health and living longer!)

Weighing that against getting no bacon rind seems a bit of an unequal comparison (though the bacon in this house still comes with rind )

[Georgiesmum]

There were hardly any cars on the road then
We literally left our front door open all day. long.
Not so many burglaries as none of us had anything to steal.

[Georgiesmum]

I believe people generally were a lot happier. Youd always hear the milkman whistling as he strolled down the path.

[Hopkirk]

We had a telephone in our house, but a shared line with next door.

If they were using it, we couldn't.

Good old days indeed!

[Baldric]

My old mum told the milkman to STFU, for starting the dogs barking at some unearthly hour!

[society]

I'm from after the 50s generation. Still then doors and windows were left open and no one 'broke' in. I do miss many things about long ago.

[Old_Geezer]

Unsurprised, The milkman had just been at her next door's !

[tamborine]

Most corner shops here are now indian. Ok if you live on rice, lentils & chapatti flour.

[TheHangman]

People were happier Georgie because they socialised, very little Tv no internet no Xbox so they talked, they even knew their neighbours.

[FredPuli43]

One reason why people knew their neighbours back then was that half the population was always at home. Working women stopped working when they married; the two job,two earner, family was unusual. That was true both of towns and villages; nobody I knew in this village or at school in Cambridge had a mother who worked, rich, poor or middling.

[mrs.chappie]

I know what you mean, Georgiesmum, but overall my answer is No, wouldn't want to go back. Would miss all the things that make life easier.

I agree that you felt safer in those days. We had a door key hanging on a string, you just put your hand through the letterbox to retrieve it. Lots of peeps did in those days. I expect nobody burgled you because you had nowt worth nicking.

[FredPuli43]

And, of course, you could leave your door unlocked and open. No thief was going to casually walk in to a house with someone in it, even if there was anything worth nicking inside. Nobody around here locks their doors unless they and their neighbours are out (I never secure mine, in or out; mind you, the thief has to get past 9 dogs, without attracting attention from neighbours, and live, but that's another matter!)

[Anita12345]

No, these are not good old days for me. My school days are best old days for me.