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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African DadWas never allowed to do or have anything that might give people the wrong impression of me. Things like get a trendy haircut, stay out past 5 in the afternoon or even have Nike or Adidas trainers. Why? In case people thought I was a West Indian!! God forbid that I was mistaken for a Jamaican.
So anytime I was wanting to do something that my Dad didn’t like, it was always rejected and then finished off, with the standard signature of “Do you want people to think you’re a West Indian?”
Going back to the trainers, all shoes had to be from Clarks. My Mum was obsessed with them as “they’re the only place where they measure your feet properly.” Woman, who gives a shit if my shoes don’t fit to the exact nanometre, I just want to be cool.
I would protest and protest, and finally, when I was about 13, she relented, on the condition she took me to buy them from Woolworths instead. Madness.
(, Tue 13 Mar 2007, 15:45, Reply)
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