Great post, Ches. :smt023 I also remember my mother sending me into the store to buy her cigarettes when I was in elementary school. lol
#5. Hysterical and so true! And #6, omfg! They need to add the pay phone. If my mum was on the house phone gas-bagging, I used to have to walk to the phone box to call my gf and then I'd have some asshole huff and puff behind me as they waited to use it. Or what about the mute button. When we didn't want the caller to hear our mom or dad being obnoxious, we'd use our chest to ask them to "be quiet, pleeeease!'
Numbers 9 & 11. I'm constantly telling my kids both of these thing and they all ways look at me as if I'm crazy. " Is that why you're so mean?" Little shits....
I don't actually call them that to their faces but their mom those, but only when they really piss her off. Otherwise she call's them "the demon seeds of your loins".
Isn't it funny how, when they're bad, they're "your kids" but when they're good they're "my kids?" Lol!
LOL...I remember walking to the store at 10 years old & telling 'em "I need a pack of Viceroys." like I was asking for candy or something. Yeah, my little shit gave me that look many times for both of those, & I don't think he really believed me until he was almost grown & saw some of the old video games on the internet. I don't know how he's survive without his X Box or the Cartoon Network, lol.
Or something bad: "Clearly that's your side of the gene pool at work." Good: "Thank You. My side of the family obviously." I still have both an old Nintendo and Sega Genesis sitting up in the bedroom closet and I just for the heck of it one time I hooked up the Nintendo and they were freaking out because of the flat 2D & side scrolling play.
I have a lot of the old stuff too, but it didn't take long before he decided that even though they were old & weird, the games were worth playing. He was even showing them to his friends like he'd discovered some ancient artifacts or something.
My knuckleheads haven't gotten to that point just yet. They are just now learning to appreciate some of the older TV shows, cartoons & movies from back when. It'll be awhile before they get to the video games.