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Embarrassing parents

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  • #32
    df1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    i was brought to daniel o donnell concerts as a child and brought up on stage with him.........the shame.


  • #33
    brokenhinge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭brokenhinge


    Nothing too bad, but when you're 16 them saying hello to your friends is mortifying.

    I'll admit, my Dad's a bit racist at times, but having said that I've used it for my advantage..

    "Err Dad... I lost my phone last night in the club"
    "Ah jesus, were you drunk or what?"
    "Ahh...no, it was the romas who stole it.."

    *Queue guilt free rant*


  • #34
    Seloth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭Seloth


    Both my parents came up to my college during the year a few months back for some administrative thing.

    Anyway I insisted my dad stay in his jeep as we'd only take 5 mins.Upon returning to the jeep I get a call from my Dad to say he was in some square..I tell him its the student courtyard and I'm around the corner.When he see's me walking up to him in the middle of a crowed area he starts walking in what I can only describe made his legs look like elastic bands while at the same time putting on some weird voice that sounded like a mixture of an upper-class English person mixed with the thickest of Rural Kerry saying"...Thats my Mikey...Yes come towards me..Were very proud".

    In secondary school when I told my dad not too act the eejit he started to talk like a traveler and tried selling gates to the receptionist jokingly.

    ...He's a well known respected person but is also one of those people who doesn't give a thought as to what people think of him so acts like that with the sole purpose of embarrassing me.

    As for my mam...Well lets just say I was in the process of getting a skateboard a few months back as well and...Well in the store she...She tried using it.

    I love them to bits,they do everything for me and a person couldn't ask for better parents....But my god do they both embarrass the **** out of me.


  • #35
    Seloth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭Seloth


    df1985 wrote: »
    i was brought to daniel o donnell concerts as a child and brought up on stage with him.........the shame.

    Sorry for double post but...My god I feel your shame!


  • #36
    Blitzkrieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,676 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    What an excellent disciplinary tool for wayward children now we can't beat the little ****s anymore. "Do what you're told or I'll call you Mr. Pee Pants in front of your friends!"


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  • #37
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    My old man is of a generation that the word queer means strange & odd.

    Well one day many moons ago when i was teenager, he was talking to me and my school mates about things...and the subject of France came up and he started saying "aren't french people very queer they've got very queer ways about them"

    Q me going beetroot:o and my mates cracking up and my old man looking bemused


  • #38
    Witchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    My dad was always doing embarrasing things when we were growing up but one of the funniest I remember was to mortify my younger brother.

    My dad is an athlete and back in the late 80's before they were more commonplace he would wear running tights on cold days and didnt wear shorts over them. He was driving us to school and dropping my little bro off first at the avenue to his school. As my bro was getting out of the car he said "please dont get out of the car and let anyone see you in your tights" and Dad agreed..........

    My bro was halfway up the avenue when he heard his name being called, turned around and my dad was in the middle of the road, stopping traffic with his dancing like a leprachaun.....poor kid ran up the hill like Steve Cram. I thought it was hilarious only coz we were far enough away from my school that none of my mates would see it!

    My poor little bro gets the worst of it tbh. Since he was 17/18 if we are out for a family meal and there is a good looking waitress he will tell her things like "he has his own car and the run of the basement". Scarlet!


  • #39
    SteoL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭SteoL


    Daroxtar wrote: »
    Once, many moons ago, when I was 17 to be precise, there was a bit of a family get together in my parents house. Aunts and uncles and cousins galore. In the middle of it all the phone rang, it was my girlfriend at the time. I took the call and spent a few minutes chatting and whispering sweet nothings down the line and promised to see her later and she promised she'd "see" me too;).

    Anyway, I came back into the room where all the guests were and walked over to get a drink of tea for myself when my mother says innoccently but at a fairly audible level "What the hell have you in your pocket" AND THEN PROCEEDED IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CONGREGATION TO POKE WHAT SHE SAW WITH THE SPOON SHE WAS HOLDING.

    She's not usually an embarassing mother but that is the single most embarassed I have ever been.

    Why walk back into the room without having first "calmed down"????


  • #40
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Witchie wrote: »
    My poor little bro gets the worst of it tbh. Since he was 17/18 if we are out for a family meal and there is a good looking waitress he will tell her things like "he has his own car and the run of the basement". Scarlet!

    My mother would tell girls that she was going to buy me a dishwasher and a washing machine when I left home, so I would be a good catch for someone.

    She was basically trying to sell me off.


  • #41
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Daroxtar wrote: »
    Anyway, I came back into the room where all the guests were and walked over to get a drink of tea for myself when my mother says innoccently but at a fairly audible level "What the hell have you in your pocket" AND THEN PROCEEDED IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CONGREGATION TO POKE WHAT SHE SAW WITH THE SPOON SHE WAS HOLDING.

    How did you not know you had an erection?


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  • #42
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    steve06 wrote: »
    How did you not know you had an erection?

    Presumably 'cos God gave us a brain and a penis, but only enough blood to run one at a time.


  • #43
    Gary4279
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 419 ✭✭Gary4279


    The guy in the story is an absolute knob. Doing it once for a laugh is fair enough a be it weird but to do it everyday. Thats just pathetic.

    Should he not have better things to be doing in the morning like going to work or something.


  • #44
    wild_cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭wild_cat


    Nothing that bad really.

    Once they collected me from school on their way back from the mart......


    They had managed to park their clapped out jeep plus trailer full of calves right at the exit point for a school of 800.

    The two of them were fast asleep in the front of the jeep, noses tilted upwards with their mouths hanging open snoring away. I was on this vegan animal rights buzz at the time and I got an unmerciful jeering about the calves in the trailer. I nearly killed them with the fright by screaming "wake the **** up" when I hopped in.


    "Was that your parents that were a asleep with all the calves in the back yesterday?"


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