Things you learnt about your parents that you didn't expect

Ihatecuddles · 25-02-2014 10:03AM

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Trying to understand how you could know this...

Maybe he sees them do it??

The Backwards Man · 25-02-2014 10:05AM

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

So you have a sibling. Wonder where they got you from...

I came free in a Special K box, it's why I am so sweet.

dodzy · 25-02-2014 10:08AM

Eoin247 wrote: »

My mom dated Tom Selleck when he was working in Paris. She also told me the slightly worrying stuff they all used to get up to back then.

I'm telling you, my generation sounds very tame after hearing some of those stories.

Eoin, as a nipper.....:D

Sadderday · 25-02-2014 10:11AM

my mother proposed to my father... on the dart in 1971.... he only said yes cos she told him she would inherit 1000 pound from her granny which was a lie to get him to say yes.

Since the aul lad seems like an aul romantic, I really didnt think my mother was a desperado !

Arthur Beesley · 25-02-2014 10:15AM

mauzo! wrote: »

Maybe he sees them do it??

So you think the poster saw another unrelated posters mother fill in the census form?

Ihatecuddles · 25-02-2014 10:18AM

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

So you think the poster saw another unrelated posters mother fill in the census form?

Do you not hang out with other posters family members?

Alan_P · 25-02-2014 10:20AM

Sadderday wrote: »

my mother proposed to my father... on the dart in 1971

No she didn't. The Dart didn't exist in 1971.

Sadderday · 25-02-2014 10:24AM

Alan_P wrote: »

No she didn't. The Dart didn't exist in 1971.

Haha, my mother is a liar .... why do they do that to beef up their stories!

missierex · 25-02-2014 10:26AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

They had sex at least once.

While attempting to pull curtain tabs down over a curtain pole (with the pole between her legs) my mam exclaimed with a cheeky grin 'it's like putting on a French Letter'.

She was obviously well-familiar with condoms back in the day. :eek:

ash23 · 25-02-2014 10:27AM

I recently found out that my mam met my dad when she was going out with his housemate. The bould feckers!

The housemate was late home from work and mam called over to see him. She shortly after dumped him and got together with dad.

Sleepy · 25-02-2014 10:43AM

That they were relatively financially comfortable by the time I was in my teens. My parents had both started with nothing but had both had decent jobs by the time my mother left the workforce to raise me and my siblings. A few promotions for my dad later and by the time I was in 2nd year and my mother had returned to work, they were sitting pretty financially. Having been born in 1980 and them not having had much until the 90's, however, my sister and I were both raised with the idea that our family were "poor" even though we'd spent our entire lives living in nice middle-class estates. Foreign holidays weren't unheard of but they certainly weren't every year and I was 16 before I boarded my first international flight. Brand name clothing was something you got for Christmas or your birthday.

I remember a night out in my late teens when a school friend mentioned our school's trip to somewhere in Europe (Italy IIRC) that he'd been on and my mother asked me how come I hadn't gone on it. I hadn't even mentioned it's existence to my parents because I'd thought it was something our family couldn't afford and "knew" the answer would be no.

eisenberg1 · 25-02-2014 12:18PM

Sadderday wrote: »

Haha, my mother is a liar .... why do they do that to beef up their stories!

Maybe she just meant on the train, which at that time ran on what is the now the DART line .

eisenberg1 · 25-02-2014 12:21PM

sammyjo90 wrote: »

My dad only has one ball...didnt really need to learn that but now i think he's hitler..explains the random outburts in german

Himmler had something similar.

Aglomerado · 25-02-2014 04:31PM

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Himmler had something similar.

And poor old Goebbels had no balls at all! :P

Ah the Teutonic Testicular Torsion.

Kaycee2 · 25-04-2014 03:42PM

I had a mate who worked in the local pub collecting glasses and he came up to me one day and told me there was great crack in the pub with me dad the night before that he was always a great laugh , I remember saying are ye sure it was my da, he was a house devil street angel, I remember feeling really jealous that I never got to see that side of him

Another surprise from him when I was even younger we went around to the local church when there was a wedding on and there was me da throwing the gruchie, raging I was cause we never had a penny

I Heart Internet · 25-04-2014 03:57PM

Kaycee2 wrote: »

Another surprise from him when I was even younger we went around to the local church when there was a wedding on and there was me da throwing the gruchie, raging I was cause we never had a penny

The what??

Stone Deaf 4evr · 25-04-2014 04:22PM

I Heart Internet wrote: »

The what??

Its a tradition of throwing money at the bride and groom, pretty sure its a dublin thing.

PizzamanIRL · 25-04-2014 04:24PM

My mother gave birth to a genius.

Talib Fiasco · 25-04-2014 04:55PM

I knew from a young age how my parents first met as most children do....nothing too special, it was at some dance thing, boy approaches girl and all that boring sh*t. It was only at a wedding when I was about 12 or 13 that I found out the full story, for better or for worse.

As is the way at Irish weddings all the married couples have to share the embarrassing first moments....I was quite intrigued by the men's romantic techniques, I guess "wanna shift or what" wasn't as popular back then.

Anyway the mother could talk the flu out of ya and told the lovely story once again and of course I was cringing for all concerned....being the youngest in the family it was only natural I'd get all the aww treatment for being the devilish teenager that would break my mothers heart and they mentioned that I'd be doing worse at the local disco....cue fits of laughter from all parties....and sure I'd be lying if I denied it :P

Then the mother drops the bombshell....that exact same place where the teeny bopper disco's were held and where I frequented proudly 'plying my trade' was the exact same place where my parents had first met.... It was a country western fortress before Dj Cammy and Cascada took over :rolleyes: I nearly vomited on the spot. Images and thoughts of my parents amongst that dripping sweat, sawdust and 'that' smell, things that were iconic to my early teen years was horrifying.

I remember in college last year we all had to tell the story of where our parents met (don't ask me why a lecturer even asked this) but when it was my turn everyone in the room was in tears laughing for a good few minutes :rolleyes:

Titzon Toast · 25-04-2014 06:47PM

A little OT, but I became a dad two years ago and I would absolutely dread my son finding out about even half of the crazy shiit I've gotten up to over the years!

It really is a case of a poacher turned gamekeeper though, I know all the tricks at this stage...

Kaycee2 · 27-04-2014 01:14PM

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

Its a tradition of throwing money at the bride and groom, pretty sure its a dublin thing.

Didnt realise it was just a Dublin thing, like coddle

Naid23 · 27-04-2014 03:05PM

my dad used to own a video shop back in the late 80's, have always known this but he decided to casually drop into conversation with my new boyfriend in the room that he used to sell 'Australian westerns' as he called them.

I had no idea what he was talking bout -turns out My father sold porno films!!. :eek::eek::eek:

pow wow · 27-04-2014 03:45PM

That they were pregnant with my older sibling when they got hitched. If you knew his religious views on pre-marital fornicating you'd know why it was so unexpected. They let it slip when they said they were celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary there years ago, and I said how when the oldest kid was 25 and a half...

Things you learnt about your parents that you didn't expect

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