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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R.M.O, you just reminded me......of when I was a lad of but 6 or so, I was too lazy one day to get dressed for school. My mum threatened to send me to school without clothes on if I didn't get dressed. No problem, I thought. Just hang on a bit longer and she'll get round to sticking a pair of trousers and a shirt on me and send me off.
My bluff was called.
10 minutes later, I was standing on the front doorstep wearing nothing but a vest and pants.
5 minutes of distress later I was let in and got dressed very quickly. It never happened again.
Incidentally, after I was out of Primary 1, I used to walk to school. A mile. On my own. It was in a small rural town, admittedly, but even so. That's so different to the situation nowadays, when mummy takes the little darlings to the gate in her Land Rover. OK, there were still "nasty men who ask you to get in their cars" in the late '70s, but we just didn't get in their cars. Missed out on seeing a few puppies and eating a few sweets, but worth it ultimately.
Kids these days, pah! No stamina.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 12 Mar 2007, 15:39,
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