General Chat

WHEN I WAS 15 I WENT TO THE LONDON
PALLADIUM TO SEE CLIFF RICHARDS IN PANTO
IF I REMEMBER IT WAS ALLADIN , THE ONE THING I REMEMBERED WAS HOW SMALL IT WAS,I THOUGHT
IT WAS GOING TO BE SO POSH,SO GRAND BUT IT
SEEMED TO BE DOWN A BACK STREET,THAT'S WHAT
YOU GET FOR WATCHING SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON
PALLADIUM ON THE TV ..THAT WAS SUCH A LONG LONG TIME AGO,

Going to my first job interview.

I'm still waiting for that feeling. :-D

My first pair of shoes with heels I was about 10
they really where to tight
and I wouldn't tell my mum this though
so I squashed my feet in to them

but I thought I was the bees knees :-D :-D

Helping my dad, my uncle & a cousin to carry my granny's coffin to her final resting place.

I was 15 at the time. And it was an honour to be chosen for the task.

Dermot, that is definitely something to make you feel grown up,

Like Kense, I've never had a 'grown up' feeling.
I was living without my parents from the age of 15 . Dad worked abroad, and mum joined him. My 19 year old sister was made my guardian, but fortunately I didn't become feral.
Married, had 2 children, brought them up on my own - but still didn't feel 'grown up'.
Now have 4 grandchildren, and my daughter reckons I haven't 'grown up' :-D

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional :-D :-D :-D

when I got my first mortgage.

:-(

Being allowed to go from Streatham on a 'Red Rover' ticket (2/6d) sightseeing in London (all free entry back then) with a couple of friends. I would have been about 10.

There is no way I would have let either of mine go at that age......Different times :-)

Chris

Got my first tenancy last year, at the age of 61.

Didn't have a paper round until I was thirty and I was doing O levels at the same time.

I took a degree at the age of 40, still didn't feel 'grown up'.
Knew quite a bit more about life than my 'peers' at Uni, and used it to my advantage.
'Youff' are so easy to embarrass - especially by someone old enough to be their mother :-D :-D :-D :-D

I remember winning a little bottle of lavender water at the fair when I must have been five.

I have never since felt as sophisticated as I did at that time.

When my father gave me a small sherry before Christmas dinner. I was 16 and had to wait a year to the next Christmas before being offered another one :-D

Going to Italy with friends at the age of 17.

It gave me the confidence a few weeks later, as I reached 18, to enquire about joining the WRAF. :-)

Wearing my first pair of stockings,navy high heel shoes & sugar washed underskirt & my lovely navy & white dress with a very large white collar thought i was the bees knees .15 yrs old at the time :-D still not grown up really & 60 plus a few yrs ;-)

my first pair of high heels - green ones from Stead and Simpsons :-D

I REMEMBER MY FIRST PAIR OF HIGH HEELS
REALLY HIGH BROWN STILETTOS IT WAS SNOWING
AND I INSISTED IN WEARING THEM HOBBLING DOWN THE ROAD DEEP SNOW HIGH HEELS,
I BOUGHT THEM MYSELF I WAS 13 AND WORKED IN A GARDEN NURSERY ,,HARD WORK 5 EVENINGS A WEEK
AND SATURDAYS FOR £1 TEN SHILLINGS A WEEK £1.50

Kense you made me laugh and I am tempted to say the same but a few things have Made me feel grown up (even if I have known deep down I wasn´t)

Dermot that is certainly a way to be grown up.

My first heels early teens
My first restaurant evening meal with parents age 13
My first restaurant evening meal without parents age 15
My first holiday without parents aged 15 in Germany..

Leaving home at 16 and fending for myself, paying my own bills etc.

But I still don´t think I have ever grown up! :-D :-D

I think I was 13 .It was a pair of Black and White patent sling backs....Other than feeling grown up I felt like the Bees knees :-D :-D...I was :-D ;-)

One month after my 15th birthday I was in uniform in the army. I will change my profile picture to show you all. I stayed in for nine years. Bob

As you can see, I have changed my photo. June 1961. Don't you just want to hug me?