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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i oncegot trainspotting out of the library as i wanted to read it.
a few days later my mum spots it in my bedroom (i had no need to hide it) and goes ballistic saying she doesn't want me reading it as i'll get horrific images in my head. needless to say i don't read it in front of her and no more is said...
...until that weekend when i'm off to a uni open day and she's giving me a lift to the station, she asks me if i've got a book to read on the train and i mumble yes, she then thinks about it and says something like "it's not trainspotting is it" and then goes into a rant about it being a 'cult' book and "what will people think if they see you reading it" and forces me to take it out of my bag and give it to her, so it sat in her glove compartment for about two weeks, i eventually got it back a week after it was due back at the library.
i was also banned from the internet about three times between the ages of 12 and 18, each time resulting in my mum putting IE's "content advisor" on to prevent me accessing ANY websites, i'd worked out the password by the end of the second time though so just pretended i was miffed, and if i ever needed anything desperately played up to her and asked her to put the password in as each new page loaded
(, Mon 12 Mar 2007, 20:29, Reply)
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