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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Lights outMy mum used to insist on me going to bed at 8.30pm until I was 16 years old.
Quite where she got the idea that teenagers' need eleven hours of sleep I do not know. Additionally, I am a lifelong night-owl - mum reports waking up at 2am feeling a spooooooky presence, to find me (at the age of 3) standing there quietly waiting for attention.
When I was 16 my parents broke up and she got a job as a waitress, returning home at 11pm. I'd sit up and watch The Big Gig, keeping an eye on the window for tell-tale signs of car headlights.
I now go to bed at 2am.
(, Fri 9 Mar 2007, 0:44, Reply)
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