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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"if it's a cigarette, why have you shredded it"?Mum had found a plastic bag containing strong smelling leaves in my jacket. I tried the old "herbal cigarettes to help me give up smoking" line but she was a child of the Sixties and wasn't fooled for a second.
I should have just put my hands up but I refused to admit what they were. I take after her in that we're both as stubborn as anything. So this game of brinkmanship could only have one ending.
I was sure she wouldn't grass up (ha!) her little baby to the police but I obviously didn't know her that well. It wasn't until she was actually talking to the copper behind the desk in the police station with the bag hidden in her hand that I cracked & admitted defeat.
I now realise that she would quite happily have handed me over & probably asked for me to be put in a cell, just for good measure
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four styx, Sun 11 Mar 2007, 12:15,
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