[CraigS]

Metro gums, Redskins and Sherbies used to be: two for a cent !

You had to wait another day more than your friends to find out your HSC and SC results because you lived in a suburb which existed, for some unknown reason, in a time-warp.

Sunburn and blisters were commonplace in Summer. The only suncream that worked was Pink Zinc so you always ended up looking like some kind of mutant !

Car seats in Summer were always scalding hot, which doubled the pain of sunburn.

Car seats were always 'slidable' - so one could always enter from one side and conveniently slide across to get to the other - without getting impaled in the process.

Cars never started 'first pop' - children learned first hand from their parents REAL language skills !

Navigation on those school holiday trips always involved tons of paper NRMA/RACV maps … which were always out of date .. resulting in getting lost at least three times in every trip.

Motels used to be inhabited by mythical creatures possessing nothing but a hand (in body). 'The Hand' was only observable in the mornings when it appeared through a flap located near to the door of your room, when it dished up (always) cold toast for brekkie !

School children were used as lab-rats by diabolical, evil scientists wanting to gauge the effects of seriously curdled milk on the human body …

Learning to swim involved a test of pain thresholds, orchestrated by another group of evil scientists called swimming coaches, who always delighted in observing the colour of bodily parts changing from normal to indigo blue/purple.

Cheers