what is the worst thing a parent ever said to you?

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i mean for this to be therapeutic, hopefully not bad-mood-inducing. vent.

― V, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

for me i can get more specific, but it always invariably boils down to "don't ever come home again, we don't want you here" to "i wish you were never born," etc.

― V, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I know you find it hard to believe, but you aren't adopted.

― Pete, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"This is going to hurt me more than its going to hurt you."

― stevo, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You don't give my children enough homework.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"you know, she's going to leave you if you fail these exams"

my mother thinks I've forgotten. but I'll remind her one day.

― Bob Zemko, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Oh you have an oral exam on which your degree depends? With you not being any good at that sort of thing and all?'

― Archel, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'if you don't stop crying I'll give you something to cry for....'

― Vicky, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why must you listen to all of this fucking rap!!! Graggggh!

― Honda, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'My Emma you've BALLOONED' 'You've put on weight AGAIN!' 'You don't exactly look like you're starving, Em...' 'I've made crumble for pudding because I know you don't like it and you could probably do without pudding' etc. etc. You would think I was an obese hippo girl or something. Which I'm not.

― Emma, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember when I was 11 I was trying to tell my dad some story about how I got punched in the face on the way home from school, I was quite traumatised and my nose had been bleeding and stuff, and I hadn't told a parent yet, anyway I began the story and about 3 or 4 lines in he went "ok I'm off to....." I forget what he was going to do. I then realised that these were things to tell (a)nobody or (b) muummy.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Viper, you are going to kill me

― Arantxa, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum once said to me "David, you can a be a right twat some times". I was suitably shocked as I'd never heard such language.

― Vera Duckworth, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my step mom once said "I'm glad there aren't more people in the world like you!!" we get along now.

― Ron, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm...something suitably scathing, but doubtless more due to frustration than anything else. I *can* be a lazy bastard sometimes! ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Emma I love love love how that comment signs off all Wiggum-like with the "emmaluvscake."

― nabisco, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Darling, come to bed."

Of course, I didn't realize how awful that was until MUCH LATER...

― Oedipus, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Turn the other cheek."

― DeRayMi, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hundreds and hundreds of times, from my mother: X "is worth ten of you", "nobody will ever want you" and "You have always been a big disappointment to me, and you always will be".

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate it when I start telling a parent something and they act like I'm not there. "I'm sorry, I'm just not interested." Like *I* could get away with saying something like that! Hypocrisy is worse than pure meanness, I think.

― Maria, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well, in my family. because they've never said anything really really awful, which i'm grateful for.

― Maria, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Where to begin...

― Nicole, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well the thing is they tied in this rejection/we-want(ed)-yr-sister- but-not-you comment, which my dad said to my mum but sort of so I could hear it, in with a syd barrett song I really like and so i couldn't listenm to it for years damn it.

― halo halo, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"You know, the Doobie Brothers really should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."

― J Blount, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Madchen: Look, I got 99% on my Maths exam

Madchen's Dad: What did you drop the 1% on?

― Madchen, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The girls won't like you with spots on your face"

― MarkH, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha my dad asked about what I was writing about "all the time" on Monday night. I was beginning to explain DJing and how it works in a modern sense, and actually beginning to think "hey this isn't so hard, all my surliness in the past was so misguided, I can explain dance music" and I was just about 20 seconds in and my Dad goes "so you don't get paid for these interviews no?".

OH WELL!

― Ronan, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Oh, he's fine, I guess -- I don't hear from all that much these days" in reference to any of my three brothers, as this in fact means "I'm simply worried sick about him", warranted or no, and I'm about to hear all of it.

― Colin Meeder, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum: 'You're just like me' (goes on to state point of similarity and explain how it has ruined her life).

― Ellie, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

From my mother: "You're so much like your father, all the Fielding's have that irresponsible and lazy thing. They're all very charming but they just don't think, they just coast through life. And you drink too much."

From my father: "You are just like your mother. You always put yourself down and there's no point being so worried and tense all the time. You should lighten up, Jennie [my mother] hardly ever can, it'll all work out in the end, so you're broke at the moment, tough shit kid, this is life."

Now they don't see each other so much, my parents get on quite well. But still the mystery to me is not why they divorced, but how they ever got married in the fir

― Anna, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

married in the fir

Must have been a prickly experience.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My parents as wood nymphs, making me a wood nymph!

Married in the first place, I am at home, therefore my browser is eating posts again. I should feed it more often so it stops snacking. **

― Anna, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna is a WEE SPRITE of the hills and dales. Enough of that dance malarkey, it's off to singalongs with grizzled bearded men in tweed with their fingers in their ears singing "What Ho, My Hearty Love, Of the Faraway Ships From the Western Sun?"

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned has invented Morris-dancing porn. RUN!

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fear me and all that.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It sounds as if all that means that you are perfectly balanced, Anna. Except in that this seems unlikely of anyone here, really.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey Madchen I've had the exact same "what happened to the other 1 percent?" response.

― isadora, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my brother tells me that when my dad first gave him the old father- son talk, he attempted to sing "the cheese song." my brother left the room in a state of some embarassment.

― matthew james, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Of course I can patronise you, you're 10 years old"

― N., Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A losing argument if ever I heard it fromyour Dad there Nick. Very funny line though (hint if you have children, do not teach them the word patronising).

― Pete, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just remember being really shocked at the time. It felt as ridiculous as it would sound if he said it now (yes, with the '10' updated to '29'). I guess I was precocious but I didn't feel like I was. I wasn't a big reader or swot or anything. I just used to read Tintin books over and over again.

I guess as a family we were quite good with words though. I remember my sister (4 years older) coming back from one of her first days at secondary school aged 11 and telling us all about this stupid kid Ben who didn't know what 'sarcastic' meant. Oh how we all laughed.

Thing is, it was bad coming from my dad cause usually he was into me being clever. I remember him being impressed when (sometime between 2 and 6 years cause we were living in Wales at the time) I asked him whether he thought that if someone had had a really terrible life, it would have been better for them to have never lived at all. He said something about the Ancient Egyptians taking this position. I don't know if he's right about that, or maybe I've misremembered what he said. I must ask him some time.

― N., Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My parents used to do that when I asked a tricky question. "Run off and go ask the Ancient Egyptians" they said. Ooh the scapes I got into with my time traveling Pyramid and my talking cat sidekick (whom the revered as a god which got me out of lots of tight situations. That and my big book of eclipses in Ancient Egypt).

― Pete, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pete please seek help for the insomnia, you have gone totally crazy apeshit bonkers.

My mum has a new one: 'Emma I have a present for you!' 'Yay! What is it?' 'A new head for your electric toothbrush!' = huge crushing disappointment (mingled with gratitude at maternal concern for my dental health).

― Emma, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't you mean capers Pert?

― Graham, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Don't worry, dear, when you grow up, boys will stop being so shallow and will like you for who you are rather than what you look like."

― Madeleine, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And that's not even true! Though Madeleine I am sure you are gorgeous.

― Emma, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I've been fucking a 21 yr old teller at the bank for 5 years now and your mother and I are getting divorced." My response was a nice fat right hook to the pricks face. This was at age 17. Didn't speak to the man until i was 25. He luckily deserved his nervous breakdown and manic depression.

― Chris, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mum, whilst we were eating one night: "Have you ever fancied three in a bed?"

― I can't post, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

upon hearing that I was seeing a new girlfriend:

"oh, do you think you'll manage to keep this one then......"

There have been a few worse ones but I won't bring the mood down.

― chris, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris at least your mum doesn't tell you that if you want to keep someone you should not be yourself. Blimey. I cannot remember her exact words, it was something like 'well don't be too.... y'know.... YOU'. Argh. However as soon as it goes horribly wrong she is good at leaping to my defence and slagging off the offending bloke so that's something I suppose.

― Emma, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i thought it was "you won't talk too much and let him get a word in edgeways" or words to that effect. (insert pic of cat/handbag now)

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No no this was ages ago. Oh dear a theme is emerging in my mum's criticism. To sum up: You eat too much and talk too much.

― Emma, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think we all find a grebt deal of difficulty in taking oral criticism.

― Alan T, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been fucking a 21 yr old teller at the bank for 5 years

I initially read this as 'I've been a fucking 21 year old teller for 5 years,' which struck me as a temporally disoriented complaint. (That said, jeez Louise. I don't blame you for doing what you did, Chris!)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

he deserved much worse...but such is life.

― Chris, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, I've just remembered the latest one, on her last visit here. I mentioned seeing friends in the week, and she made some bewildered comment. I mentioned again the bunch of close friends I've had for over twenty years. She turned her head so she could look a bit sideways at me and with a frown and obvious sneer at what she saw as my lying said "But they don't bother with you, do they?"

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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