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

Queuing outside a phone box to phone someone…

Today's youth would have to walk, cycle or bus to their school and leisure activities instead of being transported by car to the entrance and collected likewise at the end.

Having your friends iron your long hair in the sixties, using brown paper, as curls were not permitted.

"Party" Landline telephones shared with strangers.

Having no choice but to catch a bus to school, or worse still, walk all the way! Not all families had a car at all and two car families were very rare. And not everyone got a bus pass either! These were only issued to children living three miles or more away from my school, and that was measured basically as the crow flies, not via the bus routes. We lived just inside the three mile limit so no bus pass for me!

Oldnproud

Having to go to a library and look in a book if you wanted information.

YES!

Lots of interesting stuff here, many of which would highly inconvenience me these days

All our children travelled to and from secondary school by bus, no bus pass or school bus!

Sitting in front of the open oven door on a stool to dry my hair after washing it ( once a week)
Izal toilet paper
Only radio and books and a comic once a week
No house phone till I was about 25 I had to ring the corner shop if there was an emergency and they d fetch my mum (only happened once I think)
Only one holiday when I was 4 years old, next one was when I was 17 with friends, that was a hoot.
No tampax (Towels and a belt)

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.

No central heating.
The only heat came from the kitchen Rayburn, so we ate and practically lived in the one room.
No fridge, no hairdryers, no car, we had an old gas boiler for sheets and towels and a mangle to get them dry enough to hang on the line, after rinsing them in (sometimes cold) water. Other clothes were all washed and rinsed by hand and then out came the mangle again.
Our elderly neighbours used an old barrell with a dolly to wash their clothes so we thought we were quite well off.
Queuing at the local grocers for our weekly shop and putting the bill in ‘the book’ until Dad got his wages on the Friday.
Catching 2 buses to get to my relatives house, we had to stay overnight as it took most of the morning to get there, they didn’t have any heating either but they lived a walk away from a small beach so that was a treat, couldn’t go into the water though as it was opposite Fawley oil refinery and the water and the beach had great lumps of oil and tar floating in and on it!

Doodledog

Those rubber things that you put on the bath taps to improvise a shower to rinse your hair. One side always pinged off, so you got a sudden rush of hot or freezing water.

Haha yes, we had a pink one and it barely worked, pinged off or leaked😂

Being told off by anyone you were not respectful to, the neighbour, lady at the paper shop, friend's granny, the policeman, your parents, etc. It was easier just to say please and thank you and wait your turn rather than be told off. No self entitlement tolerated in those days.

The only 'takaway' was a chippy, where the choice of what 5o have with your chips was between cod and haddock. Oh, and mushy peas. Sausages were added to that list at some point, which must have caused a lot of excitement 😁

No washing up liquid (not for us anyway). We used Tide or whatever soap powder Mum had.
Dogs on the loose around the streets.

SpinDriftCoastal

Being told off by anyone you were not respectful to, the neighbour, lady at the paper shop, friend's granny, the policeman, your parents, etc. It was easier just to say please and thank you and wait your turn rather than be told off. No self entitlement tolerated in those days.

Yes! I remember seeing a woman being really cruel to her dog - I would be maybe 9 or 10 at the time, and I said to her that she should stop hitting the dog. Well, of course living in a small village, she knew my mum, so she went and told her what I had said and I got hell for it. I thought I was doing the right thing in speaking up for the dog, but my mum was furious that I had dared to speak to an adult in that way and god, did she make me pay for it!

Finding 4d (four old pennies) then walking up the road to the red phone box to make a phone call to a friend to make arrangements to meet up. They had a telephone because her Dad was on call with his job.

CrazyUSA

Having to go out to blockbusters rather than look for a movie on netflix.

I loved that ritual of choosing a film & across to threshers to get a nice bottle of plonk.
Sadly both have gone.

Ritual of trailing to the telephone box to wait for your date to call & make arrangements to meet up 🤣

Writing into the lonely hearts column in the local paper (my dad once wrote in on my behalf behind my back as I was so shy).
No ‘plenty of fish’, or ‘grinder’ back in the day 🤣

Having to use a map to find somewhere, instead of using ‘sat nav’.

Probably everything!

We were discussing this with our daughter the other day, do we prefer unreliable sat navs, Google maps or a good old-fashioned map? OH and I decided that Google maps are good when driving but generally we like a nice map.

Not mutually exclusive JenniRen
Happily!

Ice on the inside of the windows in winter. No namby-pamby central heating then.

The thing that I think most people would have difficulty with today would be the potty under the bed. It had to be carefully carried downstairs in the morning to be emptied in the outside toilet. The joy when we moved to a house with an indoor toilet. Does anyone remember the smell of paraffin? We had a heater on the landing to take the chill off the bedrooms. I can't imagine my ice cream loving grandchildren running back from the local shop with a block of ice cream wrapped in layers of newspaper to stop it melting. Unlike some others we had a variety of fish at our local chippy. They sold cod, haddock, hake, rock salmon (huss), plaice and skate, maybe even whiting. But no Deliveroo, you had to collect it yourself.

Having to walk across the room to change the TV channel on the set.