Things that parents do that drive you insane!

[stunninglyAsian]

What crazy things have you're parents done to you when you're at home or when you have lived with them?

-Rather than take a message, they'll hand me the phone. While I'm in the shower.

-cleaning day = rearrange my stuff in my room and forget where they put it when I ask them.

-never have ever opened my mail while at home.

-dad will wear my shoes... when he knows he has toenail fungus

-parents will randomly shout out my name... just to make sure I'm there. But the beauty of it is I never know if they want something or if they're just checking. And they ignore me if they're just checking until I'm in their face and screaming at them.

-still do the who, what, when, why, and where whenever I go out with friends.

-if they get into a fight, it's lecture time for me. From both of them.

-when they get lazy with laundry and I'm down to 1 black sock and 1 white sock... and the refuse to let me do the laundry when they damn well know I can do it.

-when driving, they'll say "turn right" but point left... so it turns out to be a crapshoot and if I'm wrong, they'll get so angry at me.

[sinisterpanda]

- Have sex and NOT lock the door, or indicate that it's preoccupied!
- call me while I'm in class
- ask me to do their homework, office work, or complain to a company

The first one annoys me the most!

[golden_buns]

- Have sex and NOT lock the door, or indicate that it's preoccupied!

I'd be traumatized if I ever saw that

[Hiroshi2]

When they swear they know everything about me, when the truth of the matter is, if they knew everything about me, things that I haven't even shared on YW, they would flip and treat me VERY differently. They always try to tell me what I'm thinking and feeling, and they're usually dead wrong, quite frankly.

[nonamerasian]

- my mom will point that something is "right there" when the object is nowhere there and then she'll complain that no one can follow her directions

- my mom will ask me crazy questions out of nowhere (like, do you know why he did that?), expecting everyone to be psychic enough to know what or who she's talking about

- my mom has this way of blaming everyone for her mistakes. If she leaves the stove on, somehow she will make that someone else's fault because she's faultless

- my dad will call someone in from another room and ask them to get something that's just a few feet away

- my dad shamelessly lets out these foul farts in public that pedestrians look at me for

- my dad tries to talk for me when we are out, as if the person I'm trying to talk to and I need a translator

- my dad searches my things and doesn't understand what he did wrong when I chase him out of my room

[applehead]

i hate it when my mom asks me obvious questions.
or like questions that don't have answers.
like. why is the refrigerator door open.
obviously no one left it open on purpose. it was an accident.
or. why is there dog hair on the floor.
because we have two really hairy dogs. duh.
hahahahaha. i mean it's ridiculous.

why are there so many shoes out?
because we didn't put 'em away??

and i hate hate asking my father a question because
he'll repeat my question a billion times in a billion different
way in the course of answering. and he talks slow.
dad, how do we get to your store from bayside.
" so... (pause) you want to come to my store from bayside..."
"hmmm.... (pause) you're driving here from (pause) where?"
" your friend is driving you to my store(pause) from bayside..."
" who is your friend?" "okay so your friend (insert name) is
driving what car from bayside...
"she's driving her car from bayside..."
and then i'll lose patience and yell and then hang up on him.
then i'll feel guilty and call back and endure
another round.

[tommyhtown]

- my mom will point that something is "right there" when the object is nowhere there and then she'll complain that no one can follow her directions

- my mom has this way of blaming everyone for her mistakes. If she leaves the stove on, somehow she will make that someone else's fault because she's faultless


Yep, that ain't right. My mom does the same thing

And the 'backseat driver' thing, gosh my mom is the worst. I'd rather have her drive so I don't have to hear her go 'turn left, no right, that way is faster, you missed the turn ...' even though she's not really even a decent driver at all.

[Meki]

I think I can handle everything else but this is the one thing that I can certainly do without....

- Parents pushing me to get married and bear children... :rolleyes: My mother even calls me up at work... Like somehow, I got married and had children all in the course of a days work... She also tries to set me up with people... That is the worst. My parents have no clue what kind of guy is compatible with me. They like to invite me to dinner and conveniently have me meet someone. One of them was missing a tooth and kinda twitchy!! (There... for all those who wanted to know who toothless and twitchy was...) Anyway, it wouldn’t have been so bad if he had a good personality but the guy was looking at me like he just got out of prison and hadn’t seen a woman in years... So creepy.... :frown:

Ok... I’ll stop ranting now... hehe... :biggrin:

[golden_buns]

Damn I guess they're desperate,

My parents are starting to bring the subject ever since my brother got married, but at least they're at the point where they still have extremely high standards for the girl

[applehead]

- my mom will ask me crazy questions out of nowhere (like, do you know why he did that?), expecting everyone to be psychic enough to know what or who she's talking about

your mom and my mom should get together.

your mom will ask my mom questions that
she will never ever know the answer to.
and my mom will ask your mom questions
that is obvious to everyone but herself.
that'll be a hoot.
and then my dad will repeat all these question
a billion times in billion different way
while your father farts to his heart's content.

[golden_buns]

What crazy things have you're parents done to you when you're at home or when you have lived with them?

-Rather than take a message, they'll hand me the phone. While I'm in the shower.

-cleaning day = rearrange my stuff in my room and forget where they put it when I ask them.

-never have ever opened my mail while at home.

-dad will wear my shoes... when he knows he has toenail fungus

-parents will randomly shout out my name... just to make sure I'm there. But the beauty of it is I never know if they want something or if they're just checking. And they ignore me if they're just checking until I'm in their face and screaming at them.

-still do the who, what, when, why, and where whenever I go out with friends.

-if they get into a fight, it's lecture time for me. From both of them.

-when they get lazy with laundry and I'm down to 1 black sock and 1 white sock... and the refuse to let me do the laundry when they damn well know I can do it.

-when driving, they'll say "turn right" but point left... so it turns out to be a crapshoot and if I'm wrong, they'll get so angry at me.
My parents do the same except for the laundry thingy. My mom's pretty anal when it comes to washing clothes

[Meki]

Damn I guess they're desperate,

My parents are starting to bring the subject ever since my brother got married, but at least they're at the point where they still have extremely high standards for the girl

Yeah well this is where the double standard kicks in... Something about getting so close to 30 that makes parents go nutty... Especially, when you're a woman... Like the world may end if I don't get married soon and have children... I mean they already have two grandchildren through my brother... You'd think that would be enough. :rolleyes:

[YuheiCarreau]

-when driving, they'll say "turn right" but point left... so it turns out to be a crapshoot and if I'm wrong, they'll get so angry at me.

My dad does that. With him, it's an ESL thing so I don't get annoyed, but it was damn confusing when he was teaching me how to drive and shouting "Curve right! Curve right!" while pointing his hand left!

My dad and driving don't mix well. He's one of those angry drivers who, if someone cuts him off, he will either tailgate the guy for the next 5 miles honking his horn or speed up and cut him off - it's even worse when we're in the minivan. Also, when a driver ahead of us does something really dumb (like turn left from the right hand lane, or brake really suddenly to avoid a squirrel) he'll say, "That's a woman driver!" - which really pisses off my sisters, but then he's also always right about it being a woman.

But if you combine his road rage and his bad English, it's all comedy. He speaks without an accent and has near-perfect grammar, but there's still a lot of American idioms he doesn't understand or misuses - like this one time in Flushing, when the guy in front of him decided to triple-park, he pulled around and shouted "What the hell are you doing, you... NINCOMPOOP!!" He was really pissed, but we couldn't stop laughing.

- Have sex and NOT lock the door, or indicate that it's preoccupied!

Damn, suddenly my parents seem so much better...

- Parents pushing me to get married and bear children... My mother even calls me up at work... Like somehow, I got married and had children all in the course of a days work... She also tries to set me up with people... That is the worst. My parents have no clue what kind of guy is compatible with me. They like to invite me to dinner and conveniently have me meet someone. One of them was missing a tooth and kinda twitchy!! (There... for all those who wanted to know who toothless and twitchy was...) Anyway, it wouldn’t have been so bad if he had a good personality but the guy was looking at me like he just got out of prison and hadn’t seen a woman in years... So creepy....

You should just pull your mom aside and say, "Is that what you want your grandchildren to look like?!" :biggrin:

[Lt.Foo]

Hits me over the head with a frying pan --- ok this is when i was small

Uses me as a punching bag-- Mom is smaller so actually not so bad I can block this

[deez nuts]

nothing they do bothers me cuz they are perfect in my eyes.

cuz when they are gone, i would give up everything i have for them to drive me insane just one more time.

[stunninglyAsian]

I think I can handle everything else but this is the one thing that I can certainly do without....

- Parents pushing me to get married and bear children...

Make stories up to scare your parents off. It worked... but now they don't believe me anymore. Now I say things like, "I want to buy a queen sized bed for my apt. so I can have girls sleep over in my bed." A few years ago that would have launched them into the orbit. Now they look at me like I'm an idiot and say, "Sure, whatever you want to do."

-Korean style eating at fancy french/Italian/American restaurant. Naturally, we'll order different dishes and throughout the meal, knives and forks will jump across the table and take a piece of my food. They'll share their food with each other and everything. The worst is soup. My dad will reach over the table, get a spoonful and leave a trail of soup back to his place on the table. I try explaining to them that this is not proper etiquette. Doesn't work, so I'll just push my soup bowl into the middle of the table and tell them to try some. That gets them a bit self-conscious. Then they get another bite to eat.

[applehead]

nothing they do bothers me cuz they are perfect in my eyes.

cuz when they are gone, i would give up everything i have for them to drive me insane just one more time.

that's so true.
there's this korean saying.
when your parents die you become the perfect
child.
i should remember this when i'm about to lose
my temper with my dad.

I try explaining to them that this is not proper etiquette.
it's not?!

[Hiroshi2]

I think I can handle everything else but this is the one thing that I can certainly do without....

- Parents pushing me to get married and bear children... :rolleyes: My mother even calls me up at work... Like somehow, I got married and had children all in the course of a days work... She also tries to set me up with people... That is the worst. My parents have no clue what kind of guy is compatible with me. They like to invite me to dinner and conveniently have me meet someone. One of them was missing a tooth and kinda twitchy!! (There... for all those who wanted to know who toothless and twitchy was...) Anyway, it wouldn’t have been so bad if he had a good personality but the guy was looking at me like he just got out of prison and hadn’t seen a woman in years... So creepy.... :frown:

Ok... I’ll stop ranting now... hehe... :biggrin:





Man if my parents ever start doing that, I'ma go nutty.........................I don't see my pops doing it, but my mama, yeah. If I haven't had any kids say about 10 years from now, or a wife for that matter, I could definitely see my mother trying to point out girls to me. Hell she did it in high school, asking me why I didn't have a girlfriend. I told her I didn't like them dumb ass tricks at my school (I didn't say it like that though, but you know what I mean) and that the good girls that I was attracted to were already taken. And then when prom time came around (well, actually it hasn't happened yet, but I mean when it came time to plan for it) it was like, why don't you get a prom date. Well I got one and she's left me alone, but of course she asked me a million questions.



You always hear about girls bringing their boyfriends home to daddy, but you never hear people talk about how much mothers are all into their sons' girlfriends.

[ism]

I think I can handle everything else but this is the one thing that I can certainly do without....

- Parents pushing me to get married and bear children...My parents try to set me up but don't go as far as yours -- they ask for my permission first. One time my dad told me about a new drug rep he met and points out features like he's selling a car -- "she's Filipina and speaks Tagalog, 23, retained her culture and is committed to family, and is a virgin." I'm thinking how the fuck does he know this? Then I had to remind him I was seeing someone -- who I already had brought home for them to meet. Argh!

That's when I get back at them. I tell them I won't get married because it's a trap and that life would be all over. And I won't have kids because they're a hassle -- like car payments for 216 months, and the car breaks down once a month. And that I scheduled a vasectomy. My mom goes into conniptions.

[Meki]

You always hear about girls bringing their boyfriends home to daddy, but you never hear people talk about how much mothers are all into their sons' girlfriends.

Mothers in general like to get into everyone’s business... My mother won't leave me alone but my father usually stays out of it... Although, I know he's pushing for it too... :rolleyes:



"she's Filipina and speaks Tagalog, 23, retained her culture and is committed to family, and is a virgin." I'm thinking how the fuck does he know this?

That's when I get back at them. I tell them I won't get married because it's a trap and that life would be all over. And I won't have kids because they're a hassle -- like car payments for 216 months, and the car breaks down once a month. And that I scheduled a vasectomy. My mom goes into conniptions.

LOL!! What? You don't want an offering such as a virgin? hehe... Oh... And I do not confirm nor deny anything... B/c it's just too fun torturing them... Like they're thinking "Could she be a lesbian?" or "She certainly does have a lot of gay friends..." Haha... That stuff is gold... I just sit back and laugh... :biggrin:

[Craig]

Damn I guess they're desperate,

My parents are starting to bring the subject ever since my brother got married, but at least they're at the point where they still have extremely high standards for the girlWhat will they say when you tell them you are only marrying her to get a greencard ? ... and that she's only trying to get married because she's pregnant with another guy's baby (but can't get an abortion for religious reasons) and the guy dumped her.

[ahsingjai]

My parents try to set me up but don't go as far as yours -- they ask for my permission first. One time my dad told me about a new drug rep he met and points out features like he's selling a car -- "she's Filipina and speaks Tagalog, 23, retained her culture and is committed to family, and is a virgin." I'm thinking how the fuck does he know this?

ROFL

[ism]

LOL!! What? You don't want an offering such as a virgin? hehe...Only if I am to bathe in their blood to retain my boyish good looks.

[tvbdude]

my mom fucking spoils me a lot

when I was in the 4th grade, my pants are soaked from the rain so she came in the classroom and make me go to the bathroom and change.

[DragonKnight]

Hrm, my parents used to keep bugging me on when I'm getting married. Mostly cause its been 4 yrs since I had a gf. Being the oldest and the only son, I can understand their worries. But with my younger sister's (27) tremendous success and the possibility of *her* getting married coupled with my baby sister's (23) own success, they've actually stopped pressuring me altogether. Maybe both sisters can carry on the family name. :smile:

Other than that, I live too far away to actually be driven insane. Even my visits with them have been quite pleasant and peaceful as of late. Mmm, must be cause we're all getting old. :redface:

[golden_buns]

What will they say when you tell them you are only marrying her to get a greencard ? ... and that she's only trying to get married because she's pregnant with another guy's baby (but can't get an abortion for religious reasons) and the guy dumped her.
I'd probably be disowned for the 9th time.