A memorable post by a writer in Ireland.
There I was making a cup of tea with a tea bag and I got to thinking of all the things, of my lifetime, that have vanished apart from fleeting memories of them. Here’s a few that might or might not jog a memory, draw a smile, a sigh or …
#1. Green public telephone boxes with button A and button B. (I saw one in a garden out in the middle of nowhere the other day.)
#2. The Riordans on RTE television
#3. Making a ‘trunk call’ and having to dial the operator.
#4. A time when there were no mobile phones and not all that many houses with telephones.
#5. Wooden tennis rackets
#6. The coming of the ‘hole in the wall’ that gave out money and how you’d say ‘Thank You’ ’til you realised what an eejit you were talking to a machine.
#7. The move to…
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