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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But everyone KNOWS that's a Bad Thing.No gum, of course. (It now really annoys me to see my mum chewing it. Was it all lies? She denies having told me that swallowing gum turns your guts inside out, but then she would.)
No buying sweets with our pocket money (which amounted to 50p a week until I was 13, so what else was I supposed to spend it on?). This led to us sneaking money out of the house to buy sweets (especially bubble gum) from the newsagents, then eating them up trees down 'The Field'.
No ITV, naturally.
Only lemonade sparkles if we were eating icecream/lollies in our clothes, because they dripped clear, colourless juice and thus didn't stain. We were allowed others, notably My Whippy, if we were standing in the garden in our swimming costumes, or naked, since we could be hosed off. I'm not kidding. Of course, they could have had a point; we have pictures of us doing this, and we're coated in icecream from our noses to our toes.
No newspapers, or other forms of news, from the moment I started reading the headlines at the breakfast table. This led to me thinking that we gave up all that fighting/killing malarkey after WW2, because everyone realised it was a Bad Thing. This further led to me seriously considering the army as a career, since surely all they do nowadays is march around, shoot paper targets, maybe stab straw things with bayonets and play on obstacle courses (yay!). I shudder to remember the horror when I realised we still had wars.
(, Thu 8 Mar 2007, 23:59, Reply)
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