Sons and girlfriends

[Whealie]

Chris, She probably only lives just round the corner,

you know me, like Len, we like to make our own stuff -

can't you rustle up a couple of tin cans and a ball of string??!!

The xrv telecom engineers

[Whealie]

Hmmm having spent much of my life chasing women and getting nowhere only to finally realise that the correct answer was to let them chase me....

I'll tell you what: I haven't half slowed down over the years. And still they never catch me.

[ukTiffy]

My landlord did that when I was student. You could still pick up the receive and tap out the number (ten taps for zero). We ran up all sorts of bills.

I see I wasn't the only person who used to do this

[ian porter]

The xrv telecom engineers

you called?

I've probably got all the bits we need under my desk.

tin cans - check

string - Hmmm, might have to use real phones instead

[barftone]

I bet the last time your good lady turned her back you spent £5000 on a bike!!

[pdsquire]

My boy (14) was a great kid... then sometime this year, he got a girlfriend.

He now lies on his bed talking to her on the phone.

Young love: remember that? Quick snog behind the bike sheds at skool and no mobiles or facebook to distract from homework!

I'm really, really straining, I can't help it, sorry has to be said

Youth of today etc etc...

I feel palaeozoic for saying so, but I rather miss the old way of boy-meets-girl. What bugs me is that there is so little initiative or thought involved in everyone chatting to each other on mobiles and facebooking. They all end up with huge numbers of 'friends' who they couldn't give a damn about and nothing really counts.

Unless I was very much alone, in the age before time in which most XRVers were at skool, making your first overtures to a girl was a difficult matter involving sweaty palms and rehearsals. Frankly, it meant something.

Now you just 'hit each other up' on facebook, swap numbers indiscriminately, and have to make no effort whatsoever. It's as if all yoots are terminally bored and simply can't be arsed.

When my Moglet has swains paying court to her in a few years, I'll be urging her to expect a bit more than some uninterested phone chat in the dead of night. A daffodil. Half a Twix walking to the bus. Lending a sweater on a cold day. That sort of thing.

Am I pushing at a firmly closed door?

[Whealie]

I feel palaeozoic for saying so, but I rather miss the old way of boy-meets-girl. What bugs me is that there is so little initiative or thought involved in everyone chatting to each other on mobiles and facebooking. They all end up with huge numbers of 'friends' who they couldn't give a damn about and nothing really counts.

Unless I was very much alone, in the age before time in which most XRVers were at skool, making your first overtures to a girl was a difficult matter involving sweaty palms and rehearsals. Frankly, it meant something.

Now you just 'hit each other up' on facebook, swap numbers indiscriminately, and have to make no effort whatsoever. It's as if all yoots are terminally bored and simply can't be arsed.

When my Moglet has swains paying court to her in a few years, I'll be urging her to expect a bit more than some uninterested phone chat in the dead of night. A daffodil. Half a Twix walking to the bus. Lending a sweater on a cold day. That sort of thing.

Am I pushing at a firmly closed door?

This is Lewisham, Joe's love lives in Deptford.

Last night, he went out to see her to say goodbye. This morning as he headed out the door in civvies to a school trip to Paris without his love, I noticed the chink of a new gold bracelet on his wrist - a gift from his girlfriend.

How romantic....... except

He looks like bloody Del Boy.

[j]

Just Showed my Daughter all this post and gave her the gypsies warning. Told her use the house phone its free

[pdsquire]

This is Lewisham, Joe's love lives in Deptford

Ten minutes on a pushbike or a bus!!

Last night, he went out to see her to say goodbye. This morning as he headed out the door in civvies to a school trip to Paris without his love, I noticed the chink of a new gold bracelet on his wrist - a gift from his girlfriend.

How romantic....... except

He looks like bloody Del Boy.

Now THAT is much more like it! Well done Joe and Noobird! Now pucker up and forget about the phone.

[moon]

Now pucker up and forget about the phone.

you need to be VERY careful how you say that...