I can’t believe people don’t patch tubes,
Being a child of the seventies, who always seemed to get in to scrapes it was not uncommon to come home having torn the elbow or knees out of my clothing and was always getting an ear bashing for coming home from school and going straight out to play without changing out of my school clothes and then ripping them.
So I could often be found walking the streets covered in patches, never mind my tubes.
Kids would probably be taken into care now if put through such indignity.
And don’t get me started on hand me downs. Because I had an older brother I was still wearing flairs in the early eighties.
Don’t patch tubes, don’t know you’re born. 😀