Things you hated/really disliked as a kid

maguic24 · 12-03-2014 03:50PM #1

Another thread got me thinking about when I was kid and how time used to pass so slowly. Lunchtime at school (half an hour) felt like forever, you can go on lots of adventures in that space of time. However, the slow passing of time wasn't always a good thing especially on long car journeys or when you had to wait for something! I remember as a kid we were waiting for a relative to finish work, parked in the car park on a hot summers day. I asked my uncle how long more would we have to wait. He said it would be a half an hour, my heart sank hearing those words. A whole half an hour!

Two things I absolute detested as a kid:
1. Going to mass.
Could anything be more boring than going to mass?? You'd have to sit there and keep quiet and then stand, kneel, sit at regular intervals. Pure torture and it would go on for what seemed like forever.

2. Going to Powercity or a similar type of establishment. Powercity just sticks out in my head.
I'm from the country, so going to Powercity consisted of sitting in the car for 2 and a half hours and then walking aroung the store bored out of your brains. I used to start bawling when I realised we were going to Powercity. I don't know why I disliked it so much. :-/ I used to love playing in the furniture stores but Powercity, no, get me out the there. :P

So, can you remember anything as a kid that you really didn't like?

The Backwards Man · 12-03-2014 03:54PM

Sunday nights.

bumper234 · 12-03-2014 03:55PM

SKOOL :mad:

Chem Lord · 12-03-2014 03:57PM

The smell of broccoli cooking in the kitchen

When my favorite play station game stopped working....

saintsaltynuts · 12-03-2014 03:58PM

Gettin bummed by me uncle.

KKkitty · 12-03-2014 03:59PM

Mayonnaise and coleslaw. Love them now but they didn't look appealing when I was a kid. Also hated school and especially Sunday nights.

SEPT 23 1989 · 12-03-2014 03:59PM

washing

Get Real · 12-03-2014 04:01PM

When on a Sunday we might go to some furniture section in a store/ warehouse.

Fridays/Saturdays were the fun days, park, friends, a trip to somewhere cool.

But Sundays, knowing I had school the next day, stuck in some shop that smelled of new carpet and had my parents talking to some sales guy while I just stood there looking around, wondering when the fck we'd be leaving.

whisky_galore · 12-03-2014 04:05PM

Getting clothes and shoes bought for you.
Maths/Irish/School in general....best days of your life, what a load of bollocks.
Vegetables, esp turnip.
Mass.
Getting haircuts.
Jumpers from aunties, nearly always itchy yokes made from brillo pads.
Travelling in back seat of car.
Assh*le neighbour's kids.

smileyj1987 · 12-03-2014 04:07PM

One thing I hated as a kid was going to dunnes stores .

ElleEm · 12-03-2014 04:08PM

The smell of the car, or long car journeys. I get motion sick!

Knowing we were having "mashed" potatoes for dinner. My ma was feeding a tribe of us, so her mash always had lumps.

If we didn't get our baths on a Saturday night, it would happen on a Sunday day. No matter what, baths in the day were always horrible. Freezing and just crap! Even now, I will never have a bath in the day time.

Knex* · 12-03-2014 04:09PM

Hated shopping, of any kind.

Apparently when I was really young I was a pain for wandering off when bored and talking to strangers, which my mother would explicitly tell me not to do. To which I usually replied, but they're not a stranger, I asked them their name.

Really don't know how my parents put up with me.

Oh, and putting on my shoes. Runners and stuff I was fine with, but I remember one pair of shoes in particular that started an hour long war.

Banjo String · 12-03-2014 04:12PM

Budget day.

No Den/Andy Peters and Ed the duck (depending if it was Irelands or Englands)

Nidgeweasel · 12-03-2014 04:13PM

The end credits of Glenroe. Bed time, school in the morning.

Although you'd give anything to be back there again wouldn't you.

Banjo String · 12-03-2014 04:15PM

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

Although you'd give anything to be back there again wouldn't you.

Fcuk. No.

maguic24 · 12-03-2014 04:15PM

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

The end credits of Glenroe. Bed time, school in the morning.

Although you'd give anything to be back there again wouldn't you.

No, not if I was paid.

Gokei · 12-03-2014 04:17PM

Procrastination of ten minutes of homework all weekend, then getting up in the dark to do it Monday morning.

Every fecking week I'd say that was the last time.

Nidgeweasel · 12-03-2014 04:17PM

Banjo String wrote: »

Budget day.

No Den/Andy Peters and Ed the duck (depending if it was Irelands or Englands)

Haha! Great shout. Christ that was horrific. Used to go back to normal for 5.30 though, did it?

Also, what was the program with Blaithnid and Dara O Brian? Treasure Ireland. I hated that show apart from the premier league scoreboard thing they used to do.

Pinkmoon19 · 12-03-2014 04:18PM

I HATED sharing the bath with anyone. I also Hated wearing jeans, they were too "scratchy". My poor Mum all I would wear was pink, frilly crap. She even bought me pink and orange jeans to break my phobia but I would just cry and cry anytime I had to wear them.

Washington Irving · 12-03-2014 04:20PM

ElleEm wrote: »

The smell of the car, or long car journeys. I get motion sick!

Knex. wrote: »

Oh, and putting on my shoes. Runners and stuff I was fine with, but I remember one pair of shoes in particular that started an hour long war.

Above, plus homework.

Didn't mind school up to sixth class, but I'd almost be in tears some nights when someone would act the eejit and get everyone a ****load of homework.

Additionally, teachers who punished everyone because of one knobhead's actions.

Nidgeweasel · 12-03-2014 04:20PM

Banjo String wrote: »

Fcuk. No.

No nostalgic sentiments then? We lived in the house with the granny. Some are dead now, others away off emigrated etc.

I meant more along that angle then having to sit through Glenroe again!

foggy_lad · 12-03-2014 04:21PM

Mashed banana sandwiches.
All vegetables because they were usually boiled in to a sloppy tasteless mess.
Getting up early for mass, going to mass, nuns and priests.

iDave · 12-03-2014 04:22PM

School was torture.

Banjo String · 12-03-2014 04:25PM

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

No nostalgic sentiments then? We lived in the house with the granny. Some are dead now, others away off emigrated etc.

I meant more along that angle then having to sit through Glenroe again!

College? Maybe.

School? Primary, yea I suppose. But fcuk secondary school. Hated it.

maguic24 · 12-03-2014 04:27PM

Banjo String wrote: »

College? Maybe.

School? Primary, yea I suppose. But fcuk secondary school. Hated it.

I would burn down my primary school. :P Secondary school was a bit better for me.

12-03-2014 04:27PM

Being driven back to boarding school after a break, was always trying not to cry.

Calling home on the school phone and nobody answering - there were no mobiles allowed until my final 3 years at school so calling home meant queuing for the payphone.

The Princess Bride · 12-03-2014 04:42PM

The smell of the incense when there was benediction at mass.
Plus the awful singing.
Both nauseating.

None of it made any sense at all,just awful memories of the same old same until I was old enough to say, " hang on,there's gotta be more to living than this repetitive gobbledygook."

buck65 · 12-03-2014 04:43PM

Sneaky Snake

WesternZulu · 12-03-2014 04:44PM

Going to the bog!!!

You know you'd arrive home 14 hours later black from turf dust, hardly able to walk from a sore back, sunburnt, and eaten alive by midgets.

But the sandwitches and tea that was had while at the bog were like nothing else.
Something great about drinking tea from a flask/whiskey bottle and eating your weight in your mothers finest sandwitches while sitting out on a pallet in the sun.
It seemed like there is no-one else about for miles and miles.

It was a love/hate relationship really I suppose.

maguic24 · 12-03-2014 04:46PM

Not being allowed to leave the table until you finish all your dinner. It was awful because my mam was a terrible cook and she enforced this rule. I still hate her cooking. Bleurgh!

Also cucumber sandwiches for lunch....just bread, butter and cucumber!!! What was my mam thinking? >.<

I used to eat all my veggies for my granaunt. She was a great cook.

jimgoose · 12-03-2014 04:47PM

I found the whole thing rather an unpleasant bore, to be honest. I didn't make a very good child, I was just sort of no use at it. :pac::pac::pac:

Things you hated/really disliked as a kid

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