Turning into your parentsUnable to hold back the genetic tide, I find myself gardening in my carpet slippers, asking for a knife and fork in McDonalds and agreeing with the Daily Telegraph. I'm beyond help - what about you?
Thanks to b3th for the suggestion
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Apr 2009, 13:39)
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Dads behaving badlyMy Dad enjoys winding us kids up, he used to pick an argument with one of us over something daft, and get us to the point of frustrated tears, and then laugh at it. Favorites included "You'll never amount to anything" "Why can't you play keyboards like Tony Banks (Genesis, for the under 40's) and "You haven't got a girlfriend, are you a poof?"
Fast forward 20 years, and my 4 year old is talking to me in the kitchen. He starts to speak, I cut him off, he tries again, so I cut him off, he has a third go, so again I cut him off, chortling inside at my wit. He starts to sob, uncontrollably. The knowledge drops into my excuse for a brain, like an ice cube down my back that I am the biggest cunt in the world.
I never did that again, and still feel guilty as sin.
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