My mom used to pop my zits. Omigawd. I get irritated just thinking about it.

My dad would just generally act as though I were a subhuman being. If I was sitting in a chair he wanted to sit in, he'd tell me to move. If I was watching TV, he would sit right down (where I was sitting ) and change the channel without so much as an apology. And he would do these things in front of my friends.

But, they did birth, clothe, house, and educate me, and otherwise treat me pretty damn well, so I have no true complaints.

my mom still does this. she says "i've got to warsh the clothes" or "i'm gonna warsh the car". WHERE IS THERE A LETTER 'R' IN THE WORD WASH!!!! she really says it like that, "warsh" and i hate it!!! i'll always ask her too, "how do you spell 'wash'?" and she'll say "i know, i know, i'm going to wash the clothes." she can say it right, sometimes i think she mispronounces it just to annoy me.

oh, and she's super paranoid and jumps to conclusions all the time. if i tell her i'm even interested in someone she's all like "i'm going to miss you when you're married." sometimes i just wanna smack her and say "WE'RE NOT DATING!!! I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF HE LIKES ME!!!" but she doesn't see it. she really doesn't. and she tries to be caring, but it just seems overprotective. everything i do, and i mean EVERYTHING, she says "just be careful." or "i don't want to lose you." that's nice and all, but i'm just going to walmart!!!

My Father pretended he didn't like the stuff I liked, and I don't know why. Like once, all I talked about was this author, for weeks and weeks. I worshipped his books. My father said he had heard of some of his work, but never read anything from him. A year later, when I was painting in my basement, I found first presses of 3 of his books, signed by the author, in my Father's bookcase.
And my Mother, my Mother ...let's not go there.

DexMSR said:

Oh Dear God.. thats some serious damage there

woke me up and made me go to school

WTF is up with that anyway ?

aikam said:

or when they ask you to pick something up off the floor or get something and they are right next to it?

be in the same room as me

If i had a fight with my mother, or when i was fresh, she use to say.. wait till your father gets home.. MY dad never did ANYTHING!

One morning my Dad shouted for me to hurry up and get in the car for him to take me to school.

I dawdled around upstairs and he was tooting the horn and said he will go without me.

Well by the time I left the house, I closed the door behind me, to see his car drive off with my sister sat in the back.
PLUS! I had no key to get back in the house!

(I was about 15 at the time)
School was about 16 miles away. And I had no money on me.

So I played ball in the back agrden for a while, thinking he would come back and he didnt, so I was like OMG I gotta get to school or I will be in MORE trouble.

So I walked down the road and actually had to hitch hike to school

DexMSR said:

my mom did that too, except she'd only wipe off my face if i had somethin on it. i hated that.

aikam said:

oh man, my dad used to do that--i'd be in my room, then all the sudden i hear dad in the front room:

"deja!"

then i'd have to walk to the front room..."yes?" (i couldn't say "what?" when answerin my dad, otherwise he'd get pissed at me ) then he'd ask me to get 'im some more kool-aid or pop or whatever from the fridge, or to adjust his little window fan that he had sittin on a bucket across the room from him, or to run to the store up the street to get stuff.

oooooh, i hated that shit!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I once thought I hated my mum's cough; she was a chain-smoking astmathic, but now she is gone I would do anything to be irritated by her again.

Count your blessings, mr.
[Edited 10/14/04 8:55am]

TheRealFiness said:

You're telling me.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I hear ya , my mother would call my name to do something multiple times through out the day and prior to going to see what she wanted/needed, I would mumble to myself what the does she want now, my mom still does this when me and my siblings go over to her house, she may go upstairs and I'm in the process of bypassing her to go into another room and she asks me to come up to her room so she can hand me trash or dirty dishes that she wanted me to bring downstairs...I'm thinking to myself why did'nt you bring these down when you came down the stairs before????

Another thing that comes to mind is this...she and my sister have this bad, I'm a neat freak, things need to be clean and organized, my mom brings down her ice cream wrappers or any other food she may have eaten and instead of walking two more steps to the trash can she would put it on the kitchen counter she would do the same thing with dirty dishes, it takes you an extra second to rinse the dang bowl or plate out and put it in the sink and you pile everything on top of the kitchen counter???? I find myself cleaning off my moms counter when I drop by, things need to be organized, I definitely picked up the habit from my grandmother Thank God...

heybaby said:

(I think the majority of kids may have experienced this at one time or another)

GooeyTheHamster said:

Awwwww

My mom would call me and ask me to pour her a soda. I would have to walk all the way from my bedroom and she was right in the living room NEXT to the kitchen

and...

I lived with my headphones on so I wouldnt have to hear my parents.
So she would stand in front of me talking knowing that I couldnt hear her,then when I would take them off, she would yell like I couldnt hear her
[Edited 10/14/04 11:48am]

BabyCakes said:

PURRRRR

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Okay, when I was a kid, I used to ask for stuff, and when my parents would say, "no," I'd respond about how Johnny or Sherry were doing it. They in turn would respond, "When you get grown you can do whatever you want." Nowadays, I love to remind them that I'm grown and that's the answer to every question they ask me: "Why did you get pregnant?" "Because I'm grown and I can do whatever I want." "What are you having for breakfast?" "Ice cream because I'm grown and I can do whatever I want." "Will you run to the store for me?" "Nope, because I'm grown..." Now if you ask them what do I do that annoys the hell outta them, their response would be, "Being grown!"

ManifestDestiny said:

Tom said:

oh my gosh! my dad does that too! infront of anyone! he isn't shamed by it either, and for example if he does it infront of other people he will blame it on anyone who is around!
guys who still do this, what is up with that?!

When I would come running into the house because I had some exciting news, my dad would interrupt me with: "Don't run into the house with your shoes on,..take of your shoes at the door first." He was just afraid I'd have shit under my shoes and walk it all over the big Persian carpet we had in the livingroom.

So I'd have to walk back and take off my shoes before I could start my story again. Of course he would react with enthusiasm, but just wasn't the same. My initial enthusiasm would have faded a little.

So now... I live on my own..and when my parents come over to visit,...I tell him to take off his shoes at the door. LOL My mom can walk right in, but he will have to take off his shoes, before he enters my livingroom. And I don't even have a carpet in there.... It is just because it is MY house, and as I was obeying his rules in my parents house when I lived there,..he respectfully obeys my rules.... He knows I'm doing it to tease him right back but he lets me.....he just grins... says: "Okay, you got me" and winks. I wink right back

It still cracks up my mom though

fantasyislander said:

Tom said:

That's disgusting....eeeewww

fantasyislander said:

LOL! My uncle pronounces that the same way..is your mom from Indiana or Krntucky??? My uncle grew up in both those places..he also pronounces "cash" like "kaysh" ..lol. As for your mom.....I know parents can be embarrassing....I used to think the same thing when I was a yung un....but you know what??? You only have one mom and when she's gone you will miss those very things that annoy you.....believe me....when you get older you will think differently.....I know we've all been through it though...lol

REDBABY said:

My mom always bothered me with " I'll think about it", "We'll see", or " maybe" whenever I would ask to do something or go somewhere from when I was a little kid up until I was on my own. When we were young, my sister & I..we lived with my grandparents and my mom would always take off on Friday with her boyfriend and tell us she'd be back in a little while...ya...try Sunday afternoon she'd come waltzing in..and noone ever said anything to her.....she always was the type to "HAVE" to have a man in her life..and always seemed to put them before me & my sister.....I never could understand that....don't get me wrong I love my mom and everything but she never really grew up I guess..she still thinks with a high school mentality...and the woman is 64 years old for pete's sake! I would never treat me child this way...and I don't either.....so I think even though she wasn't the greatest mother...she did love us..but it also made me be a better mother to my own child..so a good thing did come out of it as weird as it sounds...

ShySlantedEye1 said:

No.

ShySlantedEye1 said:

What the hell is wrong with you????? That's twisted thinking....Who in the name of God would EVEN WANT to see their dad naked...let alone even asking anyone if their dad was naked....ewwwww. I am putting my fingers in my ears while saying lalalalalalalalalala.