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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Scared of motorbikesWhen i was younger, i had a 50cc mini bike. this was 25 years ago and i was really really chuffed with it. although i could not ride it as i was 5. (i couldn't ride a push bike til i was 7).
My grandad had some bikes (old BSA) and my uncle was a proper biker, 1000cc+ Laverda and made his own choppers (now a fully fledged welder and Blacksmith with a forge)
Ultimately cool and wanting to follow in the footsteps i also wanted one until my mums friend who was a psychic told me i was due a motorbike accident when i started to ride one. Not fatal, but very painful.
Since then i shit it about bikes. So insidious was her warning that nearly 20 years later i cannot shake it. I have loads of mates with bikes and one day they are going to ask me if i want to go out on the pillion. I will have to decline knowing i am still plagued.
Irrational fear implanted for life. I will never happily ride a motorbike.
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bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Thu 15 Mar 2007, 9:24,
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