Horrible things your parents did to you

After 10 minutes of trying to teach me stick, my dad had me stop the truck...switched me spots, looked at me and said "NEVER buy a clutch. You drive the car, it's an automatic" To this day I still cannot drive a stick...well, vehicle stick anyway :devil:

same thing with me!!! Horrible too - I really want a civic si, but they're manual

Maybe you need a new teacher. My father and my best friend tried to teach me and I failed miserably, but my husband taught me and it was easy! You need someone who has a proven track record.

My parents rented the movie "It" when I was a little kid. I snuck out to the top of the stairway and watched some of it (It was a perfect view of the living room tv.). Of course I thought it was terribly scary. I thought I was smooth, and slipped back in bed. Didn't think my parents noticed I had been up there watching. I woke up in the middle of the night to see a clown head "floating" by my bedside. Then the walkie talkies in my room crackled to life in the darkness saying "Come down here where everything floats" in a creepy voice. I was TERRIFIED.

My dad had crawled under my bed while I was asleep...I had this bank that looked like a clown, and to get the money out you had to take the head off. He had taken the head off, stuck it on the end of a pencil and was "floating" it next to the bed in the dark.

I never, ever snuck out to my "hiding spot" to watch movies after bedtime again. I'm also still terrified of clowns.

Pardon me for saying this....but HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! I'm sorry you're traumatized by that, but that is hilarious.

My boy is 4 and hiding behind corners or doors and jumping out shouting RARGH never gets old ! I love it..it will make him a stronger person...LOL:laugh:

My dad found it hilarious to pounce after I got ready with an egg on the head..........there were alot of outfit changes and delays due to this stupid hoax. Started to keep the actual outift I wanted in my room wear something casual downstairs......:indifferent:

They told me I was awesome and can accomplish anything!! Those inhuman *kitten*!! Because of them I Now live life LIKE A BOSS!

My dad loved to embaress me as a kid.

For one birthday party when i was about 8 or 9 he showed up in cowboy boots and shorts. Need I say more?
My face was a hundred shades of red.
He also used to pick me up from school blasting the riverdance soundtrack.

My mom on the other hand , used to take my bedroom door off its hinges whenever I slammed it.
It was pretty akward considering my room was right next to the entrance to the house.

Horrible...hmmm

My parents were bunnies, I would always have the bedroom beside their bedroom. They are impulsive bunnies so I would be woken up at 2am, 5am, late at night by their bed banging on the wall and my mom screaming. How's that for torture? I remember having a friend over for a sleep over and I had to put a pillow on her face because she was laughing so hard. When I got older I asked them if there was a way I could sleep all night without being woken up and my dad said: "you prefer we make love or war" to which I said sometimes I would prefer war.

Also, they made us do most of the cleaning starting age 8 until we got out of there (at 21 for myself). 3 times a week after school brother and I would vacuum, dust, clean the bathrooms, clean our rooms. We would do the dishes, make our bed and prepare my parent's night coffee every day, no breaks (except if we weren't having dinner there, once we got older).

My parents were very military style, if we would come in 2 minutes late at night, we would have to come in 2 minutes early the next night. Until I was 18, I had to be in at 9pm on weekdays (that was between 15 and 18, before that was 8:00pm, and before 13, we couldn't go out at night during the week) and 11pm on weekends. At 18, they just let me go and said I could do whatever, I was lost...
After a few late night (including my brother crawling drunk into bed), they decided that 11pm would be the latest we would get in.

Fun times!

My dad is the type, "don't do as I say, do as I am thinking"

Example:

On fishing boat, me, mom, dad.

Dad: April (thats me) throw the anchor, this looks like a good spot.
April: Ok, "throws anchor"
Dad: NOT THERE!!!!!

April (not daring to say this outloud in fear of the coast guard never finding the body): OMG!! is there really a bad spot? Its all water???!!!!

This topic is full of win!
George Lopez has a great standup act relating to a lot of this.

Well I was a hard core tomboy growing up and my mother hated it..... Until I was about 12 everything she bought me was either pink frilly or sparlky...... She sure had a heart attack when I got money for my 12 birthday and went shopping. I came home with Jincos metallica shirts and star wars stuff. Needless to say it was an ongoing battle til I moved out lol:bigsmile: and to this day I still wont wear pink

My grandmother used to make me eat my own vomit.

That's a horrible thing right?

I hope you're kidding... that's just horrible!

Nope, not kidding. Now I have a eating disorder.

Welcome to my world :-)