Nutek

We were buying Autumn Gold from the off license by then.

SultanOfSwing

I would never have got served at 12. I still very much looked my age back then

By the time I was 16/17, though, I looked like I was in my 20s. I was able to buy fags no problem at 15 but I was nearly 17 when I was finally able to get served at the offie.

Nutek

So did we... I just don't think people cared about it back then.

Even if they bothered to ask (rare) "it's for my dad" was always an acceptable answer.

I was picking ciggys up for him from the corner shop by the time I was 8 or so.

mrken30

Was that on the way back from sweeping chimneys?

Nutek

We preferred "Youth Opportunities".

Early 70's

mrken30

Is that different from opportunist youth?

Nutek

Actually, it came a few years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_...ties_Programme

Just a(nother) way to keep the jobless figures down.

SultanOfSwing

Yeah, I'd never have been able to get away with that. Even buying fags close to 16 I still had the occasional sideways look but I was saved by my glorious face hair that was actual stubble and not bumfluff

That'll be why, then. Very early 90s when I was 12, and mid 90s by the time I was able to buy beer successfully. Different times, man, different times.

Nutek

Better times.

/shakes stick.

Lion in Winter

I had to do the same. No questions were ever asked.

Also, you could get Benzedrine inhalers from the chemist, for the asking

SultanOfSwing

Everyone thinks their times were better times until we all realise we just want to be kids again

Though I secretly believe people who were the age I am now in the 1990s also believe it was the best.

dc koop

1965-70. Girls newly liberated, parties, cheap beer, mini skirts, Rolling Stones, Dylan, pot, do your own thing, religion and politics didn't matter much either

livinginnyc

Politics aside, I suspect you could still party hard, drinking cheap beer whilst listening to Bob D, smoking pot and rocking a mini skirt in Cali now DC

SultanOfSwing

You seem to be implying he doesn't already do that.

livinginnyc

On the contrary! I think this might just be a way for him to beat the Monday blues!