Terrible ParentingMy parents used to lock my brother, sister and I in the car while they went to the pub for a "quick one" after work. This quick one might last several hours, during which they would send bottles of Indian Tonic Water to us by way of refreshment.
On one particularly cold evening, bored stupid, we lit a small bonfire on the back seat of the car using the cigarette lighter and the contents of the glove box. We owe our lives to passing winos. (BTW: Please no more Maddie or Jesus gags, they've been done.)
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 16 Aug 2007, 9:47)
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Maybe it was acceptable in the 80s...When I was about 7 or 8, my dad used to dangle me by my ankles off of railway bridges - especially when a train was running underneath. Apparently he thought I enjoyed it; maybe I got some kind of thrill in a rollercoastery sort of fashion but I'm pretty sure that my shrieks were modulated more by abject animal terror than any sort of andrenaline junkieism. He also fed me some kind of medium-hot curry (I'm told it was a balti) when I was 2, putting me off spicy foods for a good 10 years or more. Not sure if that qualifies as bad parenting or not, but I seem to have come out relatively unscathed.
In actual fact I think I gave my dear mother more scares than most kids - managed to chop half a toe off by slamming it in a door and on a separate occasion smashed my face so hard on a climbing frame that one cheek swelled up to the size of a tennis ball. Anyone else got stories of bad childing while we're on the subject?
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