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Unusual topic today

viva923 — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 21:58:33 GMT

This morn listening to my favorite radio station the DJ's asked what did your kids do to you to embarrass the life out of you. The listeners called in with some stories that were very cute. Some I can't tell on this post (the language the kids used-they heard from their parents-announcing to whole world an episode of something your parents wanted to keep private).

One that stands out in my mind for me is . My parents were having a gathering of friends at their house when I was maybe 2 years if that, when I toddled up to where my dad was sitting talking to someone he placed his drink on end table I drank the whole thing. I was looped, my mom said i couldn't walk, stand up without toppling over. I don't remember how much alchol was in the glass but for my age is just have been enough to make me loopy. My parents didn't take me to hospital they just put me to bed and I slept like a baby all night long.this was over 70 years ago.

there are probably other instances I embarressed the heck out of my parents or MY kids embarrassed US (my husband and myself) this was the only story I could think of for now.

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PA Mom-mom — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 22:31:23 GMT

@viva923 WOW! I'm glad you were OK! My stories involve various stages of undress and a race down the street. When I was 2 or 3 I decided to pull my dress over my head in our very straight-laced Mennonite church. Unfortunately, my Mom had forgotten to put on my underpants!

When my two youngest children were 2 and 3, they decided to run down the sidewalk, to our friend's house, while I was using the bathroom. It was November, and they were just wearing underwear. Our friends lived on an adjoining street in the small neighborhood. When they got there, they told my friend that "mommy went to the store." The phone started ringing, as every house on the two streets called me to describe who they had just seen run by.

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chrystaltree — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 22:50:00 GMT

tMy middle brother did the same thing when he was about 3. My parents were entertaining and they were drinking and and playing cards. My mom said my brother woke up and came down stairs, he was making a fuss about going back to bed so she just let him stay up. Some reached for their drink and the glass was empty. Then someone else commented that their glass was empty too. To make a long story short, my little brother no one noticed that when my little brother was looking at them play cards, he guzzled their drinks. The just let him sleep it off and I believe he slept for about 12 hours. They checked him but no one thought about alcohol poisoning or that they should call a doctor or take him to the hospital. This was back in 1969, maybe 1970. It's a wonder our generation survived. My sister had a habit of spilling the beans about what was happening in our house. My mother always scolded her for telling family business. My parents didn't always get along and they separated briefly a couple of times. Never long, for a month or two. It was family business and mom didn't feel the need to make it public, she knew it was temporary. Some of her friends were over and apparently one of them mentioned she hadn't seen my dad's car in the driveway in a while. My mom told a little white lie, she said the car was in the shop for repairs so a co-worker took him back and forth to work. My sister jumped right in and said "No, he left." "He put his clothes in the big suitcase and he left and it was a long time ago". My mother said she was so furious with my sister than she didn't feel embarrassed or humiliated about lying or that her business was out. She just couldn't think beyond which relative she would give my sister to. My dad came home about week or so later and my mom insisted that he park his car on the street, not in the driveway, so that the neighbors could all see that he was back.

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Pook — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 23:49:16 GMT

When my sister was about 4 years old, we had company and they were at our house for hours. My sister turned to my mother and loudly said "when are these people going to leave?".

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dulwich — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:10:56 GMT

Two of my closest girl friends came with their toddlers to our home for lunch. This was in U,K.

My daughter - then aged 3 y.o. - decided, with help from the other two toddlers, to serve 'tea' in her tea set to us all.

We all sipped from the tiny tea cups and played along.

Much later, after they had left I suddenly thought from where did my daughter get the 'tea' we were drinking - asked her to show me - which she did ver proudly - the downstairs toilet!

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Cakers3 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:16:11 GMT

@PA Mom-mom wrote:
@viva923 WOW! I'm glad you were OK! My stories involve various stages of undress and a race down the street. When I was 2 or 3 I decided to pull my dress over my head in our very straight-laced Mennonite church. Unfortunately, my Mom had forgotten to put on my underpants!

I still do that.

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PA Mom-mom — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:32:14 GMT

@Cakers3 Hahaha!

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LonestarBabs — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 22:33:45 GMT

My story involves me as an adult child (20) embarrassing my Dad. Mom and Dad had moved to another state when Dad's employer relocated its corporate office and I stayed behind in my hometown to set up my first apartment. My Dad was government accounts representative and an engineer, and had a long career with a leading, established HVAC company.

Dad still made trips back to the original corporate location as part of the relocation process to transfer offices and the test lab, and often flew on the corporate plane -- bringing me things from Mom or souvenirs, food, etc.

One trip Mom sent a vacuum cleaner with Dad -- she had an extra and wanted to give me her older (fancier) model. So I'm on the tarmac to greet my Dad as he deplanes while holding my new vacuum cleaner -- he appears on the top step and I yell "Hey Dad -- if the company would pay you more $ you wouldn't have to sell vacuum cleaners on the side!" My Dad started to grin but then got a funny look on his face and grimaced. The company president and CEO were immediately behind him! They thought it was pretty funny and laughed heartily. Took awhile for my Dad to see the humor, however.

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Shanus — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:47:24 GMT

@Cakers3 So funny. LOL

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hippiechick7897 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:09:15 GMT

I was a precocious child and had no filter. I embarrassed them on many occasions which are still brought up occasionally.

I asked my dad’s bald friend if the wind blew his hair away

Same bald friend I asked why his car was so ugly (to be fair it was an orange yugo)

I asked a little person working behind a fast food counter why she was standing on her knees

At a dinner party where they were serving ham I refused to eat it because I didn’t eat hamsters

I was separated from them at Mount Rushmore and turned myself in that my parents were missing

My dad was having technical issues with getting something to work and was swearing at it. Later that week while the neighbors were over I said daddy, what’s a son of a *****

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KKJ — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:11:50 GMT

@hippiechick7897 Ha! That last one especially had me ROFL!!

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ECBG — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 01:50:54 GMT

@hippiechick7897

I'm sure they never stopped laughing!!!!

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viva923 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:02:11 GMT

oh my gosh, these stories are toooo funny,thanks for sharing guys

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Biftu — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:16:55 GMT

My cousin was a wild child but because he was so much fun and adorable he got away with so many things. We were at the mall and he disappeared. He was "swimming" in the water fountain with a crowd of people laughing and cheering him on. My aunt was so embarrassed to have to claim him.

When we went to a restaurant and no one was looking he would get on the table and start singing. Again to the delight of customers. When he grew up wouldn't you know he started a pretty popular rock & roll group that had plenty of gigs. Some things are just meant to be I guess.

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CAcableGirl2 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 03:05:31 GMT

I was shopping at my local grocery store with my very young son, and we were at the end of the aisle and there was a very large "curvy" lady in the middle of the aisle shopping, and my son blurts out rather loudly, "WHY IS THAT LADY SO FAT?"

I was mortified and hurried him out of the store.

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Eileen in Virginia — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 03:56:43 GMT

While we were on a cruise to Bermuda when our son was 5 years old, we stopped into a very nice shop in Hamilton, thinking to buy some Waterford crystal wine glasses. Although you could get them there for a much better price than at home, they were still expensive. Someone must have made a comment about the price and DS piped up and said loudly, in his most angelic voice, "In our family, when we can't afford something, we say 'Charge it'." I was mortified, but everyone else in the shop just chuckled. He didn't know what they were laughing about.

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rms1954 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 05:06:38 GMT

You remember what you did at age 2? Wow. It's really surprising you didn't get sick. I've heard of tring a cocktail when an adult wasn't looking but they repelled the taste, made a face, and set it down.

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rms1954 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 05:12:33 GMT

I taught my son impeccable manners. As far as burping and having gas goes, I taught him they were bodily functions that everyone experienced and instead of laughing and giggling he should just say excuse me. So, we were at a local football game and I was across the field and he was in the bleachers with my sister waiting for me to bring him a drink and he had passed gas. He yelled "Mom, excuse me." I didn't respond verbally and just waved to him. He would not accept that and he kept yelling it over and over "excuse me Mom, I had gas." My sister was so embarrassed. I finally yelled back to him "OK." Just so he would stop. My sister was mortified.

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DianeJ2 — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 05:17:17 GMT

Thank goodness @viva923 you slept it off safely wow! All these stories have me laughing lol

I was just 9 and at a family dinner with my grandarents and Aunts. My sisters and I had just been to the movies to see Airplane. My Aunt was being quite loud and annoying everyone with her bragging so I turned to her, rolled my eyes at her and said "looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue". That was a quote from the movie. She did not find that as amusing as I did 😄

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Carmie — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 06:22:06 GMT

One Christmas season, my son who was about 4 at the time sat on Santa's lap and proclaimed he wanted bread and meat for Christmas, no toys.

The same child came down the stairs while we had company with my bra on his head which completely filled out one of the cups and said " Hat, Mommy, hat." He was around two.

Again, he got into a box of tampons and opened up most of what was in the box and removed the applicators and tied the strings together. He proudly showed off his project to our neighbors and his friends.

My daughter was an only child until she was five. She really wanted a little sister and was always telling me how We could " get" one. Once in church she loudly announced that we should pray for a new baby because what we were doing wasn't working. Even the priest laughed.

At the grocery store in the winter time, she said we should buy a watermelon. I explained that watermelons weren't in season and we should look at other fruits instead.

She said, I had to buy a watermelon so I could have a baby. I asked her who told her that. She said no one. She just figured it out. If you ate the watermelon seeds a baby would grow. I kinda smiled...so cute.

Then she said, if we want a white baby I would have to eat a white watermelon seed and if we wanted a black baby, I would have to eat a black seed. There were plenty of people around who heard her. I couldn't get out of that store fast enough.