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

RedFormanFITA · 16-10-2013 11:16PM #1

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 · 16-10-2013 11:20PM

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

Now turn off that TV and go to bed.

donvito99 · 16-10-2013 11:21PM

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... · 16-10-2013 11:23PM

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 · 16-10-2013 11:25PM

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 · 16-10-2013 11:26PM

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 · 16-10-2013 11:48PM

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 · 16-10-2013 11:59PM

Early 20s. Ahhhhh *sits in chair*

GerB40 · 17-10-2013 12:03AM

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 · 17-10-2013 12:06AM

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 · 17-10-2013 12:10AM

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 · 17-10-2013 12:33AM

I don't have a stick for stirring paint.

MadsL · 17-10-2013 12:46AM

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 · 17-10-2013 12:50AM

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 · 17-10-2013 12:51AM

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

Grand Moff Tarkin · 17-10-2013 12:57AM

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 · 17-10-2013 01:00AM

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 · 17-10-2013 01:00AM

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

The Backwards Man · 17-10-2013 01:01AM

Ciderswigger wrote: »

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

Dad.....?

Son?

:pac:

LoonyLovegood · 17-10-2013 01:56AM

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 · 17-10-2013 05:12AM

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 · 17-10-2013 05:42AM

D'ya think I'm made of money?

sam34 · 17-10-2013 06:47AM

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 · 17-10-2013 06:56AM

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

jimgoose · 17-10-2013 08:13AM

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 · 17-10-2013 08:18AM

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 · 17-10-2013 08:21AM

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 · 17-10-2013 05:26PM

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 · 17-10-2013 05:37PM

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? · 17-10-2013 05:43PM

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

AlanS181824 · 17-10-2013 05:50PM

This thread has sort of turned into "what we all love about our parents" type thing.

So keep 'em comin'

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

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