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weird things Parents Do
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Mon, 13 December 2004 11:50
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It the time for cheer, lets hear some funny, and not so funny things parents do...
here is a couple,
1. My stepfather would steal soap from the toilets from his work and we would have to use it at home for showers, but wait, some sundays he would grate the soap for washing detergent.
2. Every time we went camping, they also would use a bright yellow urine bucket instead of walking to the toilet.
3. My grandmother convinced my mother that we needed to wear 'stack hats" in long travels from Brisbane to the Gold Coast, in the car. A last ditch attempt averted diaster and humiliation.
4. I had to have the same lame haircut for 18 years from the same hairdresser, he left due to an extra marital affair, that got ugly, (I knew there is a God)
5. For a family outing my stepdad anted to take the family out to the treatment waste plant, (serious1)
6. Mum would always play the piano for birthdays.
7. I get sent a 'happy fathers' day card from mum ( I am now married and have 2 children)????
8. For my 18th birthday I recieved a typwriter, my 21st I recieved an antique chair....
9. We could tell what day it was by what meal we were having..
tony
[Updated on: Mon, 13 December 2004 12:21]
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Re: weird things Parents Do
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Mon, 13 December 2004 11:54
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If all that is true, your family is whacked 
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Mon, 13 December 2004 11:56
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holy shit dude...
definately whacked
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Mon, 13 December 2004 12:00
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tom: i think you should have moved state, changed your name by deed poll without informing any of your family and told everyone you're an orphan.... that's a seriously disturbing childhood.
my turn...
1. every attempt to have a planned family outing ended in disaster - ranging from child braking arm in a swimming accident to 2" of rain when attempting a spit roast for a large family gathering (this resulted in a new rule: any family gathering should be spontaneous and random)
2. my family usually gets me a combined xmas-birthday gift - despite the fact that my birthday is in july.
3. my mum & dad thought driving 4 children to melbourne and back (in summer) would be fun... in a mazda bongo van. The motor continuously overheated and when we got back to brisbane, the '74 floods was in full swing.
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Re: weird things Parents Do
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Mon, 13 December 2004 12:11
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I did change my name and I now live in South Aus, but I am moving back in a couple of weeks.
I like the bongo van very funny, I have just got a visual.
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Mon, 13 December 2004 16:05
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tomartom, sucks to be you....
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Mon, 13 December 2004 16:24
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Damn, and i thought my folks wore odd 
| tomartom wrote on Mon, 13 December 2004 22:50 |
It the time for cheer, lets hear some funny, and not so funny things parents do...
here is a couple,
1. My stepfather would steal soap from the toilets from his work and we would have to use it at home for showers, but wait, some sundays he would grate the soap for washing detergent.
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Dad use to flog dunny paper from work.. Till a sercuity guard put a stop to it and now the gaurd niks the paper. But he does need it cause he dribbles brown smelly stuff from the mouth a fair bit.
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4. I had to have the same lame haircut for 18 years from the same hairdresser,
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Same. But it only lasted about 16 years. The first time i went for my hair on me own the girl asked want type of cut i wanted
"Short back and sides, thanks" came the reply.
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9. We could tell what day it was by what meal we were having..
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Sounds about the same as an ex-girlfriends mum and uncle. Same food for same day of the week. Like a thursday night was two baby sized lamb chops in the middle of the plate with a serve of peas to the left and a serve of mash spud to the right. While on sunday it was a vist to a fish and chip shop for whiting and chips and then turn around and complain about the bones. "Never coming back here again" on sunday next week we'd go back to the same fish and chip shop for the same thing and same complaints. Go figure.
Hey man, have you got any relatives in brisbane at all?
Edit: Spalling
[Updated on: Mon, 13 December 2004 16:29]
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Mon, 13 December 2004 23:03
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Yes they are all in Brisbane except those that escaped, maybee were related?? Maybee were all part of the Griswald's clan?
tony
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Mon, 13 December 2004 23:44
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This thread is some funnny shite
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It the time for cheer, lets hear some funny, and not so funny things parents do...
here is a couple,
1. My stepfather would steal soap from the toilets from his work and we would have to use it at home for showers, but wait, some sundays he would grate the soap for washing detergent.
2. Every time we went camping, they also would use a bright yellow urine bucket instead of walking to the toilet.
3. My grandmother convinced my mother that we needed to wear 'stack hats" in long travels from Brisbane to the Gold Coast, in the car. A last ditch attempt averted diaster and humiliation.
4. I had to have the same lame haircut for 18 years from the same hairdresser, he left due to an extra marital affair, that got ugly, (I knew there is a God)
5. For a family outing my stepdad anted to take the family out to the treatment waste plant, (serious1)
6. Mum would always play the piano for birthdays.
7. I get sent a 'happy fathers' day card from mum ( I am now married and have 2 children)????
8. For my 18th birthday I recieved a typwriter, my 21st I recieved an antique chair....
9. We could tell what day it was by what meal we were having..
tony
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I love learning about other cultures and their customs
Tony, you should make a movie or a mini series about your childhood, I reckon it would be hilarious!
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Tue, 14 December 2004 01:41
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The Griswald's 
Ya go the mini series and do it in the same style as "The Wonder Years"
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Tue, 14 December 2004 14:36
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hahahah omg that is fucking great!!!1 tom i am really sorry for your shitty family!!
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Tue, 14 December 2004 14:53
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It was quite difficult growing up, but now I have kids it gives me the opportunity to look back on it and have some real fun with the kids. If anything I have developed a real sense of humour. I am thinking of the most embarrassing things that happenned, but I don't want to 'hijack ' what is a great forum.
regards tony
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Tue, 14 December 2004 21:51
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Okay heres my parents annoying habits:
When on holidays or driving somewhere new my dad will result to following the car in front cos he looks like he knows where he is going, hasn't done this for a while, once he almost followed somoeone in thier driveway, but it has actually worked lol.
My mother will come in and see me and my brother fighting to see whos the stongest happens occasionally though he's 4 years older than me its still fun, she'll ask what are you doing even though it is pretty clear.
My parents dislike anyone that likes to sleep in on weekends and wake us up by 7:30 at the latest by giving us a cup of tea, solved this problem by not having tea in the morning.
MY dad will always over engineer any home project whish then makes it an absolute bitch when removing it. We had to remove mow strips when putting in a retaining wall and at some points it was a foot thick, our old brick bbq was fill with broken brick so the thing was almost solid not fun to remove.
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Tue, 14 December 2004 23:35
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My mother has a habbit of asking stupid questions.
like my friends will come over i will jump in the car and she will ask "are you going somewhere?"
or i will be making noodles and she will looking over my shoulder and ask what i'm cooking i will say something like "it's a meat pie what does it look like?"
and she will then say "no it's noodles"
so if she knew in the 1st place why does she ask ?????????
she also makes me reverse park the car as she can't.
My dad when he gives me a lecture repeats everything 3 times minimum.
he can't think of anything else to say so he repeats himself everytime i get a lecture.
I tryed to save him the trouble and kept saying his sentances for him............ He nearly exploded
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Wed, 15 December 2004 00:09
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man that sounds so much like my parents it's scary. The other day i decided I'd wash my car cos it hadn't been done for a while. Anyway I told my dad the night befor and that morning about my plans to wash the car, bemused am I in the morning when I walk outside to see him emptying out the garage with electriacl tools like a brand new shredder right next to my car. now common sense would be either to move the stuff away from my car when he new I was going to wash it or just wait, as it only takes 1/2 an hour to wash the car, I had to wash my car in the morning cos i was working in the arvo but he had all day to clean out the garage. When I asked him to move the stuff he told me I should do it. I told my mum befor i went out what he was doing and she said just wash the car and if it gets wet its his problem. So i washed the acr and througoout the time progressively stuff started to get closer to the car again and some stuff was probably watered.
Another oddite about my dad is that he complains about other ppl speeding yet he either drives at 20 km'ph under the speed limit when the car is warming up or in a suburban area cos he looks at ppl's garden, or he drives about 10km/ph over the speed limit, and when we put roof racks on his car he complained wheb we told him that it said on the box to not go over 120km'ph with the racks on. Hello max spped in nsw is 110.
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