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50 years ago we could walk the streets with safety and confident in the knowledge that we wouldn’t be accosted or have our path blocked by crowds of yobbos.
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Not happened to me yet.
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If someone tripped and fell down in the street (even a drunk) people would gather round and help them up.
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That still happens today.
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We could nip out to the local shop for a forgotten bottle of milk or whatever and leave the front door unlocked and the house empty. We KNEW that no one would come-a-calling and rob us blind.
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Only if before 5pm and not Sunday. People had nothing worth stealing then, I think the fact that we all have TV's microwave's PC's etc is why we can't leave the door unlocked.
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Men would hold open the shop door to allow a lady to go through first.
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I often do that as well.
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We could let our kids go and play on the swings etc in the local park safe in the knowledge that they would come home more or less on time.
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My son does that, if he is going to be late he will phone us and let us know. If we are at all worried about him we can phone him on his mobile.
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A young mum struggling with a pram to get onto a bus would be helped by total strangers.
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I will offer assistance to anyone with a pram, not only young mum's
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I could travel to an away football match and stand with the home supporters without fear of being done over. There was banter and fun poking but it was all innocent fun.
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I must agree with you on that one. It's a shame what has happened to football.
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The only bad point of an apprenticeship was that the skilled workers would treat the apprentice as a slave for the first year.
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Nothing wrong with that, you need someone to make brews and go to the chippy
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There were tens of thousands of kids without a father and mum somehow had to manage on her own. But there was family around to help out.
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I think a thin ice warning is needed here so I will keep quiet.
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Of course there are always exceptions and there are many fine upstanding people today who do care but they get fewer with each passing year.
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Thankyou for the complement
