Post wierd things your parents have done

Inspired by a "how ghetto were your parents" thread on another board :D


My parents had a few funky rules/ways/whatnot.

- my dad refused to utilize the drive thru. Once a month we would bring home McD's or Jack in the Box...and he always INSISTED on going inside and ordering and carrying it out. My parents limited themselves to a sandwich, med fry and med drink, but for us kids it was small fry and small drink.

- my parents never kept any soda in the house except for birthdays and holidays. And even then we all were only limited to one drink. The soda was then saved for the next special occasion.

- my dad saved EVERY receipt for whatever my parents spent. He would keep them in an envelope and write down how much the tax was for each receipt. He had an envelope for every year, and when my mom and I went thru his stuff after he died, we found all the envelopes...1 for each year from 1961-1995

- my dad also for whatever reason wrote down the temperature for each day. We also found countless notepads of dates/temperatures recorded from June. 1971-just 3 weeks before he died (May, 1995)

- my parents had a rule that we (kids) were never allowed to make phone calls to friends between 6pm and 8pm because that was typically times people would be eating dinner.

- before my parents would let me hang out with anyone, they had to meet their parents first. A phone call from their mom or dad was not good enough, they wanted to meet in person.....needless to say my social life when I was young sucked

- if I went over to a friend's on a Saturday/Sunday afternoon I had to be back home by 4:30pm. If I went to their house in the evening I had to be home by 8 then cleaned up and in bed by 8:30.

- this is the big killer......my dad was anal about ANYTHING. If we got new furniture or hung up shelves or whatever...he had to measure out the area and get everything dead-centered. He would spend hours measuring, making pencil marks on the wall or drawing it out on paper. We couldn't just get a picture and tack it on the wall.....a long process had to be executed before said picture was hung. When I was in college I got one of those "bookshelf" stereos. I asked him to help me hang 2 shelves up for it. The wall I wanted it on was between my closet door and bedroom door...and there was 52" of space to work with. It was 2 FREAKING HOURS before he even drilled the first hole in the wall!!!!

I am sure more memories are lurking but these are the strangest things I could remember........mostly my dad's doing...the rest of us had no choice but to comply.

Haha, thats some good stuff Kat. I can't really recall my parents being to anal about things.
-They do keep receipts for several years just incase of an audit.
-My parents are liked by all my friends, especially my dad. The friends love hearing his teenage/military/any other stories of him getting in trouble or what not.
-My mom didn't like the idea of me drinking in high school, but my dad didn't care. That caused some tension.
-My mom use to clean the entire house the day before the maid came. We still give her hell for that stupidity.
-My mom was like the goody-goody that never partied or did anything she wasn't suppose to. My dads the opposite.

I don't know I guess my parents do really do anything abnormal. I'm sure they do, but its usually not an everyday thing.

-My mum would call me pet names/nicknames in front of whoever would listen, she probably still does
-She was also one hellva tidiness freak, everything had to be spotless- I couldn't even leave my matchbox cars out witout being yelled at
-My dad more-or-less forced me into playing Rugby and Tennis for about 10 years


Otherwise my parents were somewhat normal- and they still are, I guess- but it's still pretty funny to look back on my adventures

Just remember these things when your own kids start making their list about you :p

haha those are pretty funny
all tho me;
--Dad has a very high strong temper. if something goes wrong, i suggest everyone walk out of the room.
- If it's ment to be done, it HAS to be done HIS way. If you figure its the hard way, you show him the easy way, hell go red and have sweat dripping off his nose.
- Very affectionate. Loves kids, and likes to wrestle and play beer games
- Loves VB
- Loves his jeeps, (94, 96 cherooke) sometimes too much, goes overboard with it and does some rally fucking stupid shit with them, and its cool
- Homophobic. very homophobic.
- Can be quite rude when it comes to rich people. Hell sit at the dinner table at their mansion and say nothing, with his arms crossed.

--step mum
- screaming habit. wants everyone to clean up, but shes the one doing the mess.
- keeps trying to encourage her sons n daughters to date.... ......
- is very obvious, loud talked and never shuts up
- can get pretty tough.

I don't think my parents did very much weird stuff... Although, that's probably because the "weird" stuff is just natural to me since I grew up in that environment...

Um... Well, after I moved out of their house when I was 18 and moved across the state, every year for my birthday (and Christmas) which are both in December, they would send me some sort of fire-prevention/safety device, like a fire-extinguisher or a collapsable escape-ladder. So, now, at the age of 26, I've got several fire-extinguishers and such just laying around LOL. It's almost like they forgot that they'd ever given me a fire extinguisher, so they get me another one. I know it's just their parental concern, but DAMN! I was never THAT big of a pyro when I was younger!

My dad has the greatest way of avoiding conversations, especially with my brother-in-law. Usually Nate (my brother-in-law) will ask a question or make a statement directly to my dad, and he's got this great way of just pretending like he didn't hear a thing, even when he was only a few feet away LOL. It's funny to watch.

My dad uses his old nasty underwear (briefs) as shop rags... :eek7:

My parents won't allow me and my girlfriend to sleep in the same room when we visit them. Even though, for the last 3.5 years, me and my girl have lived in the same house and slept in the same bed (and my parents know this).

-My mom didn't like the idea of me drinking in high school, but my dad didn't care. That caused some tension.

Ha damn my mom was cool she was the one who bought me all my booze for parties.

Also funny things with that did happen growing up in my house

-like only saturdays would be known be hockey
-no one else was allowed in the attic except for my dad
-when my dad was home he was the only person who ever had the remote to the tv in the living room if we wanted to watch we wanted we had to go to our rooms
-groundings never lasted 20 minutes
-my parents were really leaniant with any type of punishment I could get brought home by the cops and they would just say "son we aren't proud of you." and that was that
-also when I started driving by myself they always wanted to know who/where/when/what/why
-no one was allowed to use my dad's workroom without asking him
-no one was allowed to use any I mean any of my dad's tools without asking, sometime we would have to steal them when we wanted to build cabins and break stuff.
Other than that I never had anything really weird happen to me growing up.

My dad doesn't use drawers :screwy:
Well, almost...

-no one else was allowed in the attic except for my dad


Serial Killer? Or is that where he kept all his porn? :evillol:


-my parents were really leaniant with any type of punishment I could get brought home by the cops and they would just say "son we aren't proud of you." and that was that


That's the same way my parents were for the most part. I'd get grounded for the little things like school, and they'd be really strict. I was grounded for 3 years straight (except for about 1 month every summer) because of my grades in school, and I couldn't listen to music/radio, watch TV, use the phone, go to friends houses, have friends over... basically, all I could do was read and do homework. However, it was weird that when something big happened (like when I got busted stealing their car when I didn't even have my learners permit), they just gave me the "dissapointed in you" speech. Personally, I always felt that the "dissapointed in you" speech was much more effective than being grounded.

I was never allowed to stay at my ex boyfriends house beyond a certain time at night because we might get up to something. It was OK for me to go over to his place during the day though. :p

Just remember these things when your own kids start making their list about you :p

:lol2: I can see it now in the year 2027

- always yells at the dog everytime his nose goes to the ground
- sterilizes kitchen counters after every last food preparation
- uses Pledge everytime she dusts, never touches the feather duster
- is always writing and re-writing, and editing and re-writing to do lists....(thank God I have a PDA for that now so I don't waste paper LOL)
- has more shopping lists than I have socks in my drawer
- still has that damn Neon from when before she and Dad got married

:lol:

Serial Killer? Or is that where he kept all his porn? :evillol:


Lets hope it's number 2
or
Maybe it has something to do with that weird scar I got on the right side of my hip. :iceslolan

Maybe it has something to do with that weird scar I got on the right side of my hip. :iceslolan

Back-alley bone-marrow donation center in the attic maybe? :smokin:

Lets hope it's number 2
or
Maybe it has something to do with that weird scar I got on the right side of my hip. :iceslolan

I wouldn't start to worry until he starts carrying buckets of fish heads upstairs :)

Hmm... crazy things my parents do....

-My dad always sing silly little songs that he heard on childrens records from the 1950's
-My dad is constantly wiping off the counter, even if there is nothing on it. Whenever we don't use a coaster he yells at us for making 'stick rings' on the table


More in a bit, I have to go eat dinner.

Can't think of anything, exept the fact that my dad thinks turbos are the evil of the world.

I wouldn't start to worry until he starts carrying buckets of fish heads upstairs :)
-My dad always sing silly little songs that he heard on childrens records from the 1950's

HA man that is what my dad ends up doing at work for most of the day just standing under a car singing childrens songs and cursing and swearing it's too funny I need to get it on film sometime to show everyone.

Dad
- when there's a severe thunderstorm out, he has to go outside in it...if we're driving, he'll open the window and stick his head out....
- when we drive under a low bridge, he always has to stick his head out and yell
- will walk around in his boxers around the house during the winter...and complain that it's too cold
-will spend all day sunday in bed, only coming down to eat dinner..the rest of the time if he's hungry before dinner, food must be brought up to him
- he has the biggest closet out of me, michael, and my mom and yet he can't find any space to put his clothes, so he throws them everywhere
- he has to take a crap at least 5 times a day...
Mom
- she's always complaining about something, no matter how stupid it is
- she has this pair of Zubaz pants with Zebra stripes that she'll wear a lot
- talks to herself...mainly it's complaining about something
- if a black cat crosses the road while she's driving, she'll come to a screeching halt, perform the quickest 3-point turn, and go the opposite direction, even if it takes longer
- when we order for pizza hut, she has to eat the pizza even if she doesn't have her lactaid pills
- she has more prayers and religious items hidden throughout the Corolla, that i swear the car was driven by Jesus Christ himself
- she has to be extremely early for everything EVERYTHING
- complains about me going to bed after midnight, and she always wants me to go over my notes....i don't have any notes
- tries to make me sleep in her room if Ally comes to sleep over....and i'd have to be in there at 10:00 sharp....O_o
Both
- say that whistling around older people is disrespectful
- still own clothes from the 80s in their closet...both knowing that they'll never be able to fit into them
- haven't told my brother of the facts of life and he's 11.5 years old

i can't remember anymore right now:p

OMG Hogie, that was hilarious!!! :lol2:

Complain it's cold :lol: Car driven by Jesus :lol2: lol: :lol2:

Dad
- he has to take a crap at least 5 times a day...
I use to be like that and still am sometimes b/c I'm missing three feet of my small intestine. Talk about a burden of burdens.

I remembered one more thing about my dad. He talks in such great detail it takes him 5 minutes to say something that should have taken 30 seconds. Plus he'll repeat himself many times.

dad-
-when he drives and sees someone driving like a drunk he complains and swears so much that he isnt even aware that he needs his hands on the steering wheel.
-thinks that any performance/appearance mods are evil, HKS, AEM, JUN all stand for Devil's Killing Products
mom-
-lets me stay up to 2-3am playing with fire in the kitchen on holidays, but wont let me handle a lighter when lighting someones birthday cake.
-thats all i can think of now
both-
-think that i still hate girls when i went out with a girl a year ago, and now chasing another
-thinks that i have not lied since i was a baby when i lie so much i amaze myself how lies come out of my mouth like a machine gun (i have not been caught even once in my WHOLE life)

Where to start........

.....Nah,let's not go there.Dad meant well.

They had me :screwy: :iceslolan

- for the last 15years my dad has only bought subaru station wagons, not even the nice ones, the BOX ones with 90hp and the A/C when turned on acts as slamming on the brakes

- once a year my dad will get ultra violent for about 15minutes. I remember being
1)Thrown up a flight of stairs
2)Thrown onto the hood of a car
3)Bitch slapped because i threw up on his tooth brush

countless times chased around the house

- I think my parents think im gay, yet why would i tell them i have a girl friend when they freaked out when a girl hugged me infront of them. I easily kept it from them when i had a girl friend for 3 years.

- They wouldnt let me buy a 1990 240SX for my first car because "its too old" "Its a sports car" "It dosent have air bags" "if its only $1500 that means it probaly has no engine" yet they got me a 1983 mustang convertable for 500$ w/ no rear brakes. I swear this is the most unsafe car you can possibly drive.

- After failing math 6 years in a row, they still get suprised

- I come home massivley stoned at 2 in the morning alll the time, they dont have a clue,

- my mom has the condition were she has "super pms" , you've seen the commercials

- everyweek that we dont have a day off from school i usualy cut a day and the school calls and say im not in school, i always say i was taking a shit during attendence.

-my dad put a lock on my door so i have privacy, yet you can unlock it with a penny and burst in, which he does all the time.

- I have a huge sword under my bed for about 6 years, no one has found it

- My brother is always right no matter what the situation.

My mom has never worn makeup, or put her hair up, ever.

My parents, found out who I liked at school, and asked him on a double-date with ME and THEM on my 16th birthday. That was my first "date", and my last for 2 years afterward because I was so traumatized.

My dad uses his old nasty underwear (briefs) as shop rags... no fuckin way!? ur dad does that too!? my dad has a whole garbage bag in the basement next to his work bench of old socks and underwear that he uses for rags...

I dont really know what's wierd because i'm with these ppl everyday
but from what i can tell

-mom cleans the day before the cleaning lady comes..house..top to bottom
-mom will tell me no to getting or buying something..dad will give me the money to buy it
-my dad HATES cell phones..mom makes me have mine on 24/7 so she knows where i am
-mom complains because i buy "expensive" clothes and yet she wont let me shop or buy stuff that isnt brand name
-a clean room means having an empty laundry basket in it with no clean clothes in it
-groundings have never lasted more than an hour and i've never been grounded from phone/tv/radio/cd/computer ever
-fights usually end within an hour and after that we laugh and go on with normal lives. ex. i locked my mom outta the car when it was raining( i was driving) she told me i could never driver her new car ever again..10 mins later she gave me the keys and told me to go get a loaf of bread
-um........... girlfriends, dad will let me stay in my room with the door shut on my bed alone with a girl..mom insists i leave the door open and her be in the same hall way as my room

thats about all i can think of at the moment

edit- dad sleeps with a fan on every season ...no matter 20 below 0 or 100 degrees