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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Big roadMy parents were always fine with me and my brother. We were allowed to watch ITV *shock* and they introduced us to Monty Python at early ages.
We were allowed whatever sweets we wanted in moderation and were encouraged to go play out so that we didn't end up fat lumps.
However, we weren't allowed to cross.. *dun dun dun* the big road. At least not without a tight hold of mammy's hand.
The big road's actually not that big, and not especially unsafe. We don't get a ridiculous amount of cars on it. However, the parents were deadly serious. This meant that if my brother or I wanted to get to the other side, where all our friends and our cousins lived, we had to go under the subway where all the big boys hung out and generally hurled abuse at anybody smaller than them.
Frightening.
One day I remember being taunted by a couple of lads from the other side, who were running around on the road, so I decided to throw caution to the wind, and stood on the road. Within about 5 minutes my auntie was up out of my house and up the hill dragging me home shouting at me for standing on the road. In all the time that the boys had been teasing me and my auntie had taken to walk up to the road, not a single car went by. Yet I was still bollocked for it.
It's probably why I'm a hermit now.
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Kittenpants, Tue 13 Mar 2007, 4:38,
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