Do you remember.

[The Baron]

The internet has a lot to answer for Clint you have just made a full confession that is admissible in law

 

[chillipickle]

Scrumping, knock down ginger (knocking on doors running off) penny for the guy.Long gone, could just see the kind of trouble they would cause in this sad day and age.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I dunno...they never caught me!

We did it on our bike and put the swag in the saddle bag. Apart from one time we picked blackcurrants thinking they were blackberries and I put them in my trouser pockets. You can imagine the result.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

We had one of those in the 70's as well as a coin box on the leccy which took 50 pence and a gas meter under the sink which took 5 pence.

My grandad had a coin gas meter.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

My grandad had a coin gas meter.


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Was it a smart meter? We had one in our flat back in the 70's.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Was it a smart meter? We had one in our flat back in the 70's.

It was only smart in that it took coins and gave you a measured amount of gas for them

 

[Gerryjo]

My grandad had a coin gas meter.

Brings back memories...

 

[Gerryjo]

Who remembers Marathon bars before they became snickers.



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I remember buying Mars bars for 7 pence and running to the shop with empty pop bottles to get the return from them... Oh those were the days with not a care in the world and never had an ailment as you spent more time covered in muck just out messing around.
Rope for swings tied around old cast iron lamp posts and god help you when you lost your footing as the rope got shorter and shorter ouch......

 

[Gerryjo]

Who went scrumping?
(Pinching fruit)

We had a few orchards where I grew up but a well known crisp manufacturer in Ireland used to have fields for growing there potatoes rented from the farmers and many a time you would have raised them for a few bags as they were massive and tasted gorgeous when cooked.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Who remembers when mobile phones couldn't send texts and weren't very mobile.

 

[VW911]

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I've got one of those. (Brand new, but never used it.)!!!

 

[VW911]

Who went scrumping?
(Pinching fruit)

"Went"??? - Still do...

 

[Clint]

"Went"??? - Still do...

It might be theft once you're 18....I like to think it's borrowing without asking.

 

[VW911]

It might be theft once you're 18....I like to think it's borrowing without asking.

I'm not 18 yet....

 

[Clint]

Is that years ...or stone?

 

[Gerryjo]

It might be theft once you're 18....I like to think it's borrowing without asking.

Is borrowing a term used for returning something that you took with permission.... Hehehe

 

[Gerryjo]

Is that years ...or stone?

Now now now..... Naughty step for you..

 

[Clint]

Well...stealing is "knowingly depriving someone of something with no intention of returning it" or something like that...they can come and get it...

 

[chillipickle]

In the late 80's when we were driving round the m25 trying to find where the rave was being held any one with a phone was godlike lol

 

[VW911]

Is that years ...or stone?

I wish.
55, and approaching 13 stone!