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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Discipline difficultyMam found it hard to discipline us through our teens as she's a bit dinky and we were much bigger. She increasingly implemented makeshift weapons when hand-smacking failed to raise more than a chuckle. These include;
(All pretty much justified mind!)
Throwing an empty corned-beef tin at my brother and slicing her own thumb to the bone (thankfully it narrowly missed his head).
Breaking a wooden washing-line prop over my brothers back. (He'd taken her car for a spin - aged 13).
Smacking me over the head with a biscuit in lid, must have been 'edge-ways' as it gave me concussion. (I'd opened the "Christmas biscuits" in November - I still ask my wife if I can open the 'christmas' biscuits)
(, Mon 20 Aug 2007, 15:34, Reply)
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