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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terrible parentingMy mother who loved to boast to us that she was was an ophthalmic nurse, which probably doesn't even exist any more, never noticed that my sister was virtually blind and went through school memorising by ear. When my sister was 16 a school eye test found how blind she was, almost completely gone in one eye and mininal in the other. The optician who saw her for glasses couldn't believe that shehad got accross the road for so many years without being killed. My mother's response when my sister used to tell her she couldn't see something " You're just not looking properly, you stupid child" She also didn't notice we were abused by our paternal grandfather every time we went to visit, and made us stay with the grandparents every for a week of toture every summer. If one of us were murdered in front of her she probably wouldn't have interfered.
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