What "back then" inconvenience would annoy today's youngsters?

Telephone calls could be as long as we liked. They were not charged by time spent.

Getting up the change stations on the tv

To change

Ah yes. I remember it well ....

OMG.

Having to do the shopping most days after school once my mother went back to work. From the time I was ten, there would be a shopping list and money on the table for me most days when I got home.

Going to the doctors. You didn’t make an appointment you waited your turn in the queue.

Better than waiting six weeks for an appointment as we have to do now.

Bellanonna

Telephone calls could be as long as we liked. They were not charged by time spent.

Maybe you had an early phone?

in December 1958 STD/ automated exchanges were being rolled out and by the early 1960s, exchanges charged in time increments (initially 3d for every 3 minutes).

Phone boxes were all timed I seem to think.

... is there a purpose behind these numerous questions CrazyUSA?

J52

Having to use ‘the family shampoo’, no specific type for your hair and no conditioner.
Awful if you had curly/ frizzy hair that you dried with a very slow cold hairdryer.

That’s true, I remember the agonising about split ends as a teenager, I don’t think they are even a thing now, I haven’t heard them mentioned for years.

That’s very suspicious of you Dickens?🤔

hollysteers

That’s very suspicious of you Dickens?🤔

Yes. I agree.

If you do a little research you will see that this seemingly harmless spate of asking questions is a phenomenon affecting various social media, and that it is not necessarily benign in nature.

Analysts have advised caution when responding to such posts. Because some are mining your information. But, research it yourself.

I think it's a legitimate question, since there are so many of them. If it's a harmless exercise, the OP will not mind answering.

My DF worked in a grocers shop before WW2 and if a customer sent or rang an order in, he would have to pick it, pack it and load it onto his bike and cycle round to their house to deliver it on the same day.
So I’m sorry Ziplock but same day delivery was happening a long time ago.

Having to stand or kick the TV as the aerial doesn't work !!!

Ziplok

No same day delivery 🤣🤣

But we did get two deliveries from Royal Mail, every day except Sundays.

If you were fortunate enough to go on holiday, no tray with a little kettle on it and sachets of tea, coffee and milk. No en suite bathrooms - you had to share with all the other families on your floor, although you might have had a wash basin in your room in your room if you were lucky. Strictly no return to the guest house between the hours of 10 am and 5 pm, whatever the weather.

Musicgirl

If you were fortunate enough to go on holiday, no tray with a little kettle on it and sachets of tea, coffee and milk. No en suite bathrooms - you had to share with all the other families on your floor, although you might have had a wash basin in your room in your room if you were lucky. Strictly no return to the guest house between the hours of 10 am and 5 pm, whatever the weather.

Gosh yes. I remember we stayed in a place nr Great Yarmouth that didn't even have a lock on the door, shared bathroom, absent parents who were in the guest house bar whilst any Tom, Dick and Harry could've come in

The only thing to watch on tv after Christmas dinner other than the Queens Speech was Billy Smarts bloody Circus! I hate circuses and always have done .

Phoning boy/girl/friend out loud (no texting) and in a freezing hallway on a phone with a short flex!

Washing up or drying after meals, no dishwashers, I detested drying.

Me too, my sister and I rook it in turns to wash and dry, it was nightly torture.

Trying to tape your favourite songs from the radio and the DJ speaking before the song finished.

Or your granny speaking and you knowing there was no point trying to indicate you want hush as she'd be sure to just speak more & louder.

My sister and I were supposed to take it in turnsCasdon she conveniently needed the toilet when it was her turn to dry!

NittWitt

^Trying to tape your favourite songs from the radio and the DJ speaking before the song finished.^

Or your granny speaking and you knowing there was no point trying to indicate you want hush as she'd be sure to just speak more & louder.

Also trying to eat quietly without clattering the cutlery as the charts were on at dinner time. Sunday night I think.

Talking of radios, we used to have to turn a knob in order to find a radio station (strange noises in between stations). Now, they're either preset or searched for automatically.