Strict ParentsI always thought my parents were quite strict, but I can't think of anything they actually banned me from doing, whereas a good friend was under no circumstances allowed to watch ITV because of the adverts.
This week's Time Out mentions some poor sod who was banned from sitting in the aisle seats at cinemas because, according to their mother, "drug dealers patrol the aisles, injecting people in the arm."
What were you banned from doing as a kid by loopy parents?
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chthonic, Thu 8 Mar 2007, 12:37)
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Not quite sure who to call...When I was about 8 or 9, myself, my younger brother and my parents all sat down to watch Ghostbusters on TV. Things were starting to hot up - they'd set up the business, busted slimer, and that big statue/dog thing had terrorised a party. Then the news comes on halfway through the film, as it sometimes does (a practice I wasn't familiar with at that age).
As the day's headlines start to fill the screen, my parents somehow manage to convince my brother and I that the film is over, they caught all the ghosts, and everyone lived happily ever after.
It wasn't until a few days later they finally confessed that they'd heard the second half of the film was much scarier than the first, and so packed us off to bed. The injustice! If they knew this before, why did they let us watch the first half if we were never going to be allowed to see the rest?
I also got it into my head years later that I wanted a Venus flytrap. For some reason that was forbidden, but I was allowed to line my window with an army of prickly cacti which were far more dangerous...
(, Thu 8 Mar 2007, 17:06, Reply)
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