I wasn't allowed to talk except if it was about homework in middle school, play or go outside if it wasn't to go to class, run or laugh especially in public, and I couldn't have any hobbies or extracurricular activities. These weren't very fun rules. But once everything got better, we got new rules. So, we're not allowed to tear bread, put the newspaper on the couch, close the doors (now that we have cats we have to close them and everyone carries its own handle because if we let it on the door the cats open it), put on nailpolish in the house (hurts my mom's nose&throat), talk bad about food, put the tv volume on an odd number, and the one thing I have never been allowed to tell my dad is that he's mean. Everything else is ok, just not this word. And the best :
I was living alone with my sis for 6 months and that nutjob forbid me to cut bread with the "nice knife", thinking the crust of the bread would damage the blade.
...I'm on my way to become [homeless]/a museum worker. Maybe I'll murder people with paleolithic weapons :D or poison them with arsenic from old clothes... Oh the possibilities. Your comment gives me hope for my future.
I don't understand your first sentence, that's an expression I don't know. Can you reformulate? (But regarding the second one yes, my life still sounds like a sitcom who changes writers every five episodes and is doing cray shit to keep the audience on board.)
Oh! People sometimes repeat something as a question to ask for clarification, make sure they heard correctly, or just to indicate incredulity/surprise. I hope that helps. I was just surprised.
I have heard of many human's way of indicating surprise and actually know them well enough to pass as a human myself until I destroy you all. My problem is I have no idea what means "each carried your own handles".
Sorry, I probably sound like an ass. Each family member carried a handle around with them so they could open the doors as they walked through the house? Sorry again.
Oooh my dumb ass thought it was an idiomatic expression x) Don't worry I didn't take it the wrong way at all. Yes, we each had our own handle. Conveniently enough, most of the time there are 4 of us in the house, and the handles we took away are the ones for the closet under the stairs (no harry potter in there), the laundry room, the kitchen/corridor door and my room's door. (the cats usually stay in the kitchen and we do have other doors but they are hard to open -wood in a humid region-). Each handle can open every door. We did have incidents because sometimes we would go in the kitchen but not take back the handle right away and someone else would see it, close the door and take the handle away, so the one in the kitchen was blocked and had to yell to get free. Now my dad put back the handles because it was *slightly* impractical and the cats were fleeing as soon as someone opened the kitchen/corridor door anyways. Once again don't worry, even I thought my dad was joking at first.
I mean, that one about tearing bread rather than cutting it is like 'old manners' i think. It's not like the father is a nutjob (I don't know about the rest of his 'rules'), but my aunt once told me that, its like 'not eating with your fingers', it's part of old style decorum I think.
It's more when you take bread while eating your meal (I'm french, so we have baguette with our meal :D ). But it's like old style decorum, noone gives a fuck in my house.
I’m in middle school Andrew I’m not allowed to pay video games on weekdays (which I respect) but on weekends my mom expects me to play 2 HOURS ONLY and that’s ridiculous, like how Amy people do you know who play video games only play 2 hours a week. Also she says that I’m responsible and hound know I’ve been playing for too long and should stop myself. And the cross the street thing, I can only cross the street with adult supervision.
Never the understood the "no talking to boy/girls" or "no friends of the opposite gender" I know it's to stop kids from doing it, but it's another extreme that would only hurt the kid in the long run. Let them grow up dammit
And these are the same parents that complain about you being almost 30 with no BF/GF, fiance or being unmarried.
"What's wrong with you? When are you going to settle down with a nice person and give us some grandkids?"
"First of all Mom/Dad, its not my job to squeeze out spawn just for your enjoyment. Thats irresponsable and selfish
Second, did you ever stop and think that just maybe, your draconian approach to "parenting" crippled my social development, preventing me from finding someone meaningful for my future?"
I mean what do they figure I'll do when I'm not living with them in like 6 months
I was living alone with my sis for 6 months and that nutjob forbid me to cut bread with the "nice knife", thinking the crust of the bread would damage the blade.
"What's wrong with you? When are you going to settle down with a nice person and give us some grandkids?"
"First of all Mom/Dad, its not my job to squeeze out spawn just for your enjoyment. Thats irresponsable and selfish
Second, did you ever stop and think that just maybe, your draconian approach to "parenting" crippled my social development, preventing me from finding someone meaningful for my future?"