At what age did you turn into your father or mother?

RedFormanFITA

Everyone says, we all take after one parent, either our mother or father but at what age did you 'turn into' your mum or dad? Did you find yourself saying things like they did, or dressing like them or listening to the obituaries on the radio?

Super-Rush

I haven't and by god I won't.

Now turn off that TV and go to bed.

donvito99

When I was in Europe with friends a few years ago, and the **** hit the fan with one of them ending up in hospital. I remember standing in a police station, explaining the situation to a hopeless Hungarian cop when it occured to me that I had seen my father do the very same thing when we were pick pocketed in Rome a long time ago, sun burnt with his cool shades, shorts and Michael Palin-esque sweaty shirt, and three kids hanging out of him.

I have to say I felt grown up at that moment.

Muise...

I'm actually pleased to be slowly turning into my mother - well, the version of her who gets to live in more liberated times. She is brilliant.

MurdyWurdy

What's scary for me is my husband gets a bit more like my Dad every day. He uses a lot of my Dad's sayings and catchphrases too (we do spend a bit of time with my parents). He even got a new job recently that's just like my Dad's job with the same job title.

Creepy

AnonoBoy

Due to an accident with a time machine and a rather fine looking auld lady I actually am my own father so I've always been him.

And I didn't technically ride my mother because I hadn't been born yet.

Diemos

I realised it in my late 20's, I just happened to look out the window of the house to see a local kid place a ball down on the and smash the ball into the back of my car. He was hauled up to his parents house and his mother got a earful. She did not seem that interested until I mentioned damage and repair bill. But it was half way through that incident that i realised I'd become my dad.

But my dad is awesome so I'm cool with that.

Ruu

Early 20s. Ahhhhh *sits in chair*

GerB40

MurdyWurdy wrote: »

What's scary for me is my husband gets a bit more like my Dad every day. He uses a lot of my Dad's sayings and catchphrases too (we do spend a bit of time with my parents). He even got a new job recently that's just like my Dad's job with the same job title.

Creepy

Sigmund Freud would have a field day with you....

loubeelou

Ruubot2 wrote: »

Early 20s. Ahhhhh *sits in chair*

Ohoho!! Relax there sunshine!!! Enjoy it while you can. Your parents will get you sooner or later!!

The Backwards Man

When I go into a shop anda sales assistant asks if I'm OK, and I say of course I'm fcuking Ok, I wouldnt be here shopping otherwise, you're supposed to ask me if you can be of any asdistance, ya stupid head the ball!

Edit;
My Dad doesn't have a speech impediment, I'm just drunk.

Capt'n Midnight

I don't have a stick for stirring paint.

MadsL

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I don't have a stick for stirring paint.

I do, but then I also encourage my daughter to kick my in the nuts when I use the words "you should have..." or "why didn't you..."

Cienciano

The day I saw kids playing football near my house and I hoped they'd move away in case they hit my window.

Elmer Blooker

when I first said to my daughter "you're not goin' out dressed like tha' are ya?"

Grand Moff Tarkin

Last year or two I started to act like my old man. Now if I can be half the man he is I will be doing ok for myself.

Ciderswigger

The Backwards Man wrote: »

ya stupid head the ball!

Haven't heard that phrase in YEARS! My dad used to always say it.








Dad.....?

MadsL

Get off the internet OP, think of the phone bill, you been on for an hour already!!!

The Backwards Man

Ciderswigger wrote: »

Haven't heard that phrase in YEARS! My dad used to always say it.








Dad.....?

Son?

:pac:

LoonyLovegood

Apparently I turned into my mother when, age fifteen, I insisted that I didn't need to dry my hair before leaving the house.

stefan idiot jones

My Mother and her Sister both regularly tell me that the other is turning into their Mother.
The fact that they don't see the same traits in themselves is mental.

'She's turning into Nana more every day'.

ruthloss

D'ya think I'm made of money?

sam34

a few years ago, when I was in my late twenties, I had been dangerously overtaken by a boy racer type, and I self-righteously said aloud (even though I was alone in the car) "is it any wonder they're killed on the roads?". that was the day I realised I was turning into my father.

gifted

Faaarrrttttt....then smell comes along....oh hi mum

jimgoose

My Luke Skywalker moment came about four years ago, when I found myself using the phrase "F*cken ape of a youngfella!" at least fifteen times a day after observing one idiocy or another. I also have three sticks for stirring paint in the shed. Good, bamboo ones too.

Sky King

Last summer when I was spending my Saturday tidying out my garden shed (!) and realised I owned a designated stick for stirring paint

eire_sai

My father is a God fearing, Fianna Fail supporting, GAA watching man from a small rural village.

I never have been or never will be anything like him.

The Pheasant2

At the age of 18 I walked into the living room and saw my 12 year old sister playing with matches at the fireplace (something I did myself all the time only a few years earlier).

And I go "What the hell do you think you're doing messing with those?! You could burn the house down!" and it was as if my father himself had spoken - the tone was identical, my sister even looked at me a bit weirdly and the realisation struck me - I was becoming my father; something I thought would never happen!

"Erm...go back to playing with the matches!" and I legged it out the room

Czarcasm

When I came home from work one day and my son was watching Dustin the turkey on tv, I muttered "Ahh Jesus, turn off that shìte!"...

Then I remembered the moment 20 years earlier when my father came home from work and shouted -

"AHH JESUS! GET THAT SKINT MICKEY OFF THE TV!!"... :pac:

WellThen?

When i started laughing at my own stupid jokes.....i remember CRINGING when my mother done it.

AlanS181824

This thread has sort of turned into "what we all love about our parents" type thing.
So keep 'em comin'

MurdyWurdy

GerB40 wrote: »

Sigmund Freud would have a field day with you....

I know! My Dad is wonderful though so at least it means I married a good man

Temptamperu

Apparently i am like me mom... must be the beard.

goose2005

I never turned into my mother, I'm just wearing her skin

Mid twenties, when I was dressed in a short skirt to go out then changed into something warmer because I was afraid I'd catch my death.

I have a getting out of bed sound (Eumph!), it's related to my getting up from an armchair sound (Umph!).

So basically, last year I turned into both of them.

Boom__Boom

After my voice broke around 12/13 I sounded exactly like my dad on the phone.

I'd answer the phone and say hello and straight away the people at the other end would just automatically assume I was my dad and launch into their chat.

Even when I'd interrupt and explain that I wasn't my dad it would take them a fair bit of time to cop they werent speaking to my dad.

vitani

In the past two years for me. I now have a pen, two supermarket club card fobs and two supermarket trolley tokens on my keys, and I keep shopping bags in the car. I have a short Mammy haircut (which I love!) and I've started knitting.

The Pheasant2

Boom__Boom wrote: »

After my voice broke around 12/13 I sounded exactly like my dad on the phone.

I'd answer the phone and say hello and straight away the people at the other end would just automatically assume I was my dad and launch into their chat.

Even when I'd interrupt and explain that I wasn't my dad it would take them a fair bit of time to cop they werent speaking to my dad.

Haha yeah I'd the exact same thing going on

bnt

Nope - hasn't happened yet. My own father was basically incompetent at parenting - my mother wasn't much better - and I'm never going to be a parent, thereby side-stepping the problem altogether. :cool:

cuana

I seem to notice it more & more as I get older how much they bloody influenced us! anyhow I'm like my Dad as I have to be early for everything or at least be on time it drives me nuts as I have many memories growing up of having to wait around so that he'd be on time for everything! :rolleyes:

My mother is terrible with finances only for my father we'd have nothing! I am sh!te with money go figure this I'd like to be more like my father!

All in all they were great parents that really took care of us so they did influence us in many ways & rightly so they were our parents.

aujopimur

Before I went to bed one night I set the table for my breakfast, I was in bed for e few minutes when I decided, fcuk that, got up went downstairs and put the lot back in the cupboard.

Muise...

I think I made the full transition this evening when I stepped outside and saw the moon - I said "oh, hello love!" to it. No, my mam is not a werewolf, but she is always surprised and delighted by ordinary little things; they are all alive to her.

Dr hoRse

"All women become like their mothers, that is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his".

I got the worst of both from a very early age, my mums fecklessness with money and my dads stubborness

lycan238

cuana wrote: »

I seem to notice it more & more as I get older how much they bloody influenced us! anyhow I'm like my Dad as I have to be early for everything or at least be on time it drives me nuts as I have many memories growing up of having to wait around so that he'd be on time for everything! :rolleyes:

My mother is terrible with finances only for my father we'd have nothing! I am sh!te with money go figure this I'd like to be more like my father!

All in all they were great parents that really took care of us so they did influence us in many ways & rightly so they were our parents.

haha i do that as well as my dad. drives my mum crazy. we live 5 minutes from the local church yet we have to leave 30 mins before mass starts. can be useful sometimes though.

princess-lala

Christ alive I'll never be like my father!! Only thing I'm like him with is his temper and I try daily to change that!!

aujopimur

Did you turn off the immersion?

Agricola

Im not the greatest with a set of spanners and I don't like to overcook my food til it has the consistency of toothpaste. So no, Im not really like them yet.

Muise...

aujopimur wrote: »

Did you turn off the immersion?

*turns car around to drive home and check, so we all miss the start of the film/concert/exam/funeral.

celica00

funnily enough, i noticed 2-3 years ago, that i actually do a lot like my granny and turn kinda into her.
in a good way hopefully ha

cotswolds

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