What were you doing 20 years ago?
 

I was talking to a friend today and we got talking about what we did when we were 18. Thats 20 years ago! I realised we were out every night doing something even if it was just to go to the pub.

I was running (with a mate) a scout/cub group down Church Kirk next door but one to the Stag! My mate was Scout leader and i was assistant Scout Leader and I was Akela (Cub leader to all who dont know) and my mate was the assistant. Every wednesday and thursday night i caught the bus from here into accy and walked it out to church. Friday and Saturday nights were go down accy and meet up with my mates and go round town - meet up place the Corners and last orders the corners and if we could afford it lars de dars if they let us in! Once a month we'd go to Blackburn on a Saturday night. We could only afford to go once a month cos of the cost of the taxi home! Sunday, Monday and Tuesday was the local nites - we'd go in there and play pool, space invaders, football and darts.

Can remember one Saturday night we'd arranged to go to Blackburn and i was working at the Little Chef at weekends because I was on the YTS and £26.25 didnt go right far! Anyway ended up working at the Little Chef till 10 caught the 10.15pm bus to accy and 10.30 pm bus to Blackburn and met up with my mates in Yates Wine Lodge. Went up Peppermint Place and fell asleep right next to the speakers! I'd been working since 3pm and 6 1/2 hours on your feet running round like an idiot then running along the road and dropping my work clothes off at my house then catching the buses. I was tired - thats my excuse and i sticking to it! Bouncers thought i'd passed out drunk!

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20 years ago I was living in Salford and doing the art college thing. I was out every night in Manchester or at the student union for cheap beer. I only had one colour of clothing in my wardrobe - black.

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I was in the 1st year at secondary school. I came home everynight and did my homework, like a good girl.

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watch the arndale go up while working in mercers on blackburn road i was 17

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Sure you weren't sat in a hifi shop making coffee and watching dirty movies :)

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20 years ago moved from Harrogate to Blackpool as my mum bought a hotel there. Unfortunately I was only 15 and the move meant that my O'levels were now in a different examining board area and after already doing one full year then had to change some of my courses and cram for a whole year :(

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I was into the last month of doing my degree in art at Liverpool.

According to my diary twenty years ago last night I stayed up doing the illustrations for the programme for our London show.

I was also partying hard too, my last few weeks in the ivory tower.

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iwas planning a big silver wedding party...

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Idea for new thread, who were you doin' twenty years ago.

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not telling!

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I was also 18 and was doing the friday and saturday round town routine. I also used to start and finish in the Corners bar and occasionally Lar-de Dars if I could afford it. I was doing voluntary work at the ESMI Unit at Accy Vic, waiting to start my nurse training...:)

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I was 19, working 3 part time jobs whilst waiting to go in the RAF.

I am not, nor ever have been one for socialising so clubs etc never really entered the equation, although one of my part time jobs was in a bar.

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Getting ready for my forthcoming wedding (June 28th, St Annes, Cobham Road) and wondering if marrying a Peruvian girl who I'd only met five months ago was really the basis for a lasting union.

Also wondering about Accrington Stanley's prospects for next season and thinking wistfully, "wouldn't it be nice to see them in the football league again...but, of course, it'll never happen."

Fast-forward to now...we're getting ready to celebrate our 20th anniversary and as for Stanley, well, you know all about that...so I suppose it all worked out OK in the end!

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thats lovely.. congratulations

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Cheers, Granny! :)

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Not a right lot, I was only 10 year old :) ....... so I will have just been finishing school and getting for catching the school bus home, on which I used to bully a little fat lad that has since grown into a massive 6ft 4" body builder that thankfully :eek: doesn't hold grudges or I probably wouldn't have been here to post this 20 years later!! ;)

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Ahhhhhh.:)

Welcome back by the way, I thought you must have been on standby for BB.;)

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Working for a living, bringing up two children, doing half a dozen voluntary jobs, having a great time doing my first two OU courses, and moving house. No wonder I'm aged and worn!

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wish i could remember!!:confused:

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pregnant with my second child, at the grand old age of...

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I had just moved south 400 miles to the Washington DC area to start work with the Federal Government! It was pretty tough leaving family and friends behind but I still have the same girl I left with!

BEA

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I think I was in Ossy on holiday so I was either playing snooker up James St club or having a pint in the Rose and Crown.

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Was 23 then spending far to much time in the pub "Swan inn in Burnley"
Spend more time at home now still drinking but surfing as well

Have Fun!!!!!!

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Celebrated first wedding anniversary. Returning home from a wonderful holiday in Portinax, Ibiza. Also like crabby probably spending to much time in the pub.

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Twenty years ago today, according to my diary, my Dad said as a present I could go anywhere in the world for passing my degree.

I had three blissful weeks above a doughnut shop in Mykonos, catching up with the Austrian friends I'd made there two years earlier.

Happy days.

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Twenty years ago I was Sister on the Gynaecology ward at QPH....and still learnig, though I was doing a city and guilds in teaching adults as well.
You can't teach anything without learning something...even if that something is about yourself. I hated doing lesson plans and stating aims and Objectives for lessons. I always said that if I ruled the world I would banish the two words 'aims' and 'objectives'.......but once the lesson planning was done I really enjoyed the teaching part.......I think that I am basically a repressed exhibitionist!

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The other thing about teaching was that we had to have 30 hours of observed classroom teaching so that we could be graded.....I had a male tutor, so teaching the female reproductive system was quite embarassing for him........he used to glow bright red when he had to ask me questions after the teaching sessions were over....and I used to make it twice as bad for him by pretending that i hadn't heard his question properly.......he would try anything not to have to use some of the anatomical words that were necessary. :D

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:D Walking through Gatty Park in the pouring rain, with a bin liner with my underwear in over my shoulder, no decent clothes the ex had cut them up. happy days.:D

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If you don't mind me answering that Willow, they didn't half mess you about, at the TSB. ;)

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20 years ago i was doing a girl called julie :D


hey you asked ;)

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seeing as i was 2 probably not a lot :D potty training,learning how to talk, that sort of thing.

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Nowt's changed, then.

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I was on the buses in Accrington having the deregulation of public transport to look forward to. Luckily I took the right decision, got out as the first opportunity arose, and never looked back since.

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Why don't you raise a thread about your amusing experiences in banking, that's if you havent already done it, if Mick dosen't ban me i'll tell
you how easy it was to rob them 'legally'.

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I'd just got married - would've been 20 years last week but I got parole and only did 12 years :)

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Celebrating the birth of my 1st grandchild born August and awaiting the birth of my 2nd due October, my daughters always did copy each other............

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'mistly with a moce'? rofl did I actually post that??? That's the Cluseau coming out again. I should read what I've typed! That should be "mostly with a move'!

Not sure I could get away with posting my memoirs - too many people who would feature in them are still alive. :D

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Oooh how?:eek:

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wonder why?:D

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...because she said, "Mention your karma one more time and I'll attack your clothes with these scissors!"

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I was 19 just had my first baby quite young but wouldn't do anything different if I could do it again, kids all grown up (18 &20) me still youbg enough to enjoy everything

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20 years ago!!!! I was on the school bus watching TINKS bully the fat lad lmao.........hey he's a big ****** now lol.

I was 6 years old...... so can't remember, but, if I am correct We was moving house around about this time.... to the Ribblesdale ave area. That is where we stayed til we were 16 and that is where we learnt everything we know!!!! so blame it on the people that lived there... not us lmao. ;)

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Hey Fibi I was 16 when I had my first, and 18 when I had my second. Alot people say " oh that was young " but always worked to support kids, still married to their dad, and like yourself, never regretted it either. When my eldest is 16 I will be 32 years young.................. still living it up lol.

They are 9 and 7 now and I like growing with them!!!!

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20 years ago I was 27 and I had has little idea of what I was doing then as I do now...

I was if I recall correctly working at Rossall Hospital. I worked 12 hours shifts, and spent most of my “off duty” time ****ed. It was around that time people became concerned that my love for the high life of the New Anchor Public House following a recent divorce was affecting my physical and mental health. It did for a time and then the whole thing collapsed; it’s surprising what another mans suicide can do to wake one up.

The man who died was my estranged brother in laws brother. The night he took his life I was sat in tears on top of a ladder contemplating my future or the closing of it.

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Doug, that's a warming and inspirational post, but what were you doing up the ladder?

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OMG ROFLMFAO :rolleyes: :Banane45:

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Five day’s before I had been on nights, when I finish work I went out and bought a new three piece suite (my first bit of furniture since the divorce) and a T Bone Steak, that afternoon I put the steak on the grill and sat on the bed listening to the radio. I fell asleep. I awoke at the sound of the lady next door banging on the door and screaming fire through the letter box. I had been asleep for two hours. The steak was completely gone along with most of the grill.

Why was I up a ladder? I was trying to strip the burnt and smoke damaged paper off my kitchen walls. At the time I became suicidal, I was ****ed, crying and demented at the fact that my first chance at getting on my feet had gone with my dinner a week earlier. It took me a month to redecorate the Kitchen and a further year to recover from the cost of the fire. I have never bought a T Bone since that day…..

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Ahhhh that will be the dragon next door to you then!!!! :D:D

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Doug, that is such a sad and funny post. I really was laughing tears of joy/sadness then.

Thanks for the explanation re: the ladder. I'm just glad you weren't peeping through next door's bedroom window.

I for one buy the fire story.;)

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I refer you to a recent karma comment.......:D

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ROFLMAO and I for one have just pee'ed my knickers laughing :rofl38:

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If you had just bought a three piece suite why did you fall asleep on the bed waiting for the T bone steak?? :rolleyes: ok let me guess .... you bought the suite from CS lounge suites........................... yeah i understand now, there not very comfortable :D:D:D:D see if you had bought it from DFS you would'nt have gone to bed, therefor you could have had a lovely meal without the dragon next door breathing fire through your letter box!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

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I've some pads dear, I'll get one of the carers to drop them off in the morning..:D

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I bought it at Leaftons. They delivered it two days after the fire......:rolleyes:

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No its not. Don't spoil the moral of the tale.:(

(Rind departs singing 'Things Can Only Get Better' by D-Ream.)

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20 years ago,I was running round NZ playing footy every weekend and working 12 hours a day Mon-Fri.No problem there,but the weekends taken up with football was at the expense of time with my then wife (nowdays referred to as The Wicked Witch of the South) and my newly born daughter.Of course I was to selfish and to blind to see what damage I was doing to my relationship and divorce was only a few more years away.Money was plentiful and life was wonderful.Nowdays life is still wonderful,but money just a tad scarcer(sp).

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Kind of getting over the 1st year of soiled nappies,sleepless nights,post natal depression,moving house,end of youth,total lifestyle change.Hindsight is a wonderful thing(no,honest wouldn't have changed a thing)

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not being a nosey git maxwell,but a fella with post natal depression?;)

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YES IT'S TRUE! After the birth i spent a lot of my very little spare time listening to Leanord Cohens back catalogue.

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fair comment, would do the same to me probably.:D