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Frequent pizza eaters in Italy have been found to have a relatively low incidence of cardiovascular disease and digestive tract cancers compared to infrequent pizza eaters.
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Braille began as a military code called “night writing.” Developed by the French army (1819) – soldiers could communicate at night without speaking / using candles. Louis Braille learned the code & developed the more user-friendly, optimized version of the Braille alphabet we know today.
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Jackie Chan is actually a trained opera singer and has recorded over 20 albums with over 100 songs in over 5 different languages. In the 80’s, he would sing the theme songs to his films over the closing credits. In 1984, he won the Best Foreign Singer Award in Japan.
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Amish beards have no mustache because they associate them with the military, and they’re pacifists.
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Oh, boy, here we go…
Backing up into parking spaces. Filling the water in the coffee machine the night before so it will be ready in the morning. Getting to the airport four hours before my flight.
These are all things that I’ve found myself doing over the past couple of years…and it suddenly dawned on me that I’M TURNING INTO MY FATHER.
Which isn’t a bad thing. My dad’s a cool guy, but I definitely used to laugh at the kind of stuff that he did when I was younger…but here we are, people!
When did you realize that you were turning into your parents?
Let’s see what AskReddit users had to say about this.
“When I was cleaning the kitchen and didn’t want anyone else to help because I felt like it wouldn’t be done right.”
“There is a shower in my basement that no one ever uses.
There are a couple dead bugs in it that I’ve never bothered to clean up. When our niece came to stay with us for a few days, she planned to stay in the basement.
My wife asked why I hadn’t cleaned the dead bugs out of the shower, I opened my mouth and heard my dad say, “They go with the decor.””
“The first time I yelled at a kid that biked across my lawn I was 23…
The realization hit me like a brick wall..”
“Yelled at my kid and at the same time saw myself out the corner of my eye in the mirror.
I was yelling something my dad used to yell at me, and I look a lot like him.
I hated it when I was a kid, and immediately apologized to my kid.”
“I rearrange the plates in the dishwasher if my boyfriend put them “wrong” so I can do full loads and use up all the space.”
“Getting annoyed when my roommate was throwing Tupperware lids and containers into the cupboard without ANY organization.”
“When I went thru my house the other day, yelling to my two young kids, “When you leave a room, turn the LIGHTS OFF!! This costs money!!”
I’ve officially become my dad.”
“Going grocery shopping or folding laundry on a Friday/Saturday night.
Thinking 8pm is too late to leave the house to do anything.
In my defense it IS a pandemic, so not much to do otherwise.
It’s also winter, and I’m pregnant.. so maybe I’ll be cool again someday.”
“Last night, when I got worried because my fiancé was 5 minutes late coming home from the gym and I caught myself saying “I can’t help it, I worry about you.”
Bam, I have become my mother.”
“When I get takeout sometimes I think, this is a nice container I’m gonna keep this and add it to my Tupperware.”
“My parents were always early risers.
On Sunday they’re up and banging around in the kitchen by 7am. They made enough racket that even though we had a pretty big house that they’d always wake me up. Always pissed me off.
When i moved out six years ago i thought “finally, I’ll be able to sleep in.” But i can’t. Even without an alarm, on vacation, I’m awake by 7-7:30. If I’m really exhausted i might be able to sleep in until ALMOST 8:30, but no later.
It’s advantageous in a lot of ways but just once in a while I’d like to sleep in.”
“I no longer tolerate clutter.
This past week alone, I sorted out the spice cabinet to the degree that I ended up trashing about 50 vials of expired herbs, spices and sauces, the oldest of which was a bottle of soy from 2013. It was a long overdue task and normally I HATE doing anything resembling housework but LAWDY, it was immensely satisfying to see everything neat, tidy and easily accessible.
I also have started a binder/folder system to store all important documents that were building up on the overstuffed noticeboard, I’m about to tackle the hoard of books under the coffee table and sometime during the weekend, I might even clear out the medicine cabinet.
I also spotted a box of “Microwave Cleaner” on sale in the store today and my first thought was “ooh, €1.50 a box! That’ll be handy.”
I can’t believe I’m saying this but doing housework has made me feel so much more productive in this pandemic along with giving my depression a bit of a kick up the arse.
It’s not an outright cure-all but I’m more happy going to bed exhausted by a busy day and feeling accomplished by the end of it rather than lying awake all night lamenting the fact that I’ve wasted my waking hours once again.”
“I started falling asleep during movies.
I used to get so mad at my mom for doing that, but now I have a job and I understand why.”
How about you?
Have you realized that you’re turning into your parents yet?
Talk to us in the comments and fill us in!
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I remember hearing that phrase over and over and over again when I was growing up in school, from family members, and from sports coaches.
And I still think hard work is a really important part of life…but as you get older, you realize that it doesn’t always pay off the way you think it will.
AskReddit users shared stories about when they realized that hard work doesn’t always pay off in the end.
“Easily retail.
Those performance based raises are deliberately rigged to not give people the best raises. I only really understood how much when I became a manager and was overruled on how much to give my employees a raise when I gave them a 5/5.
I was told, and I quote, “No one is a 5/5″
She came in whenever we called. Stayed late whenever we needed. Was the epitome of the perfect employee and was well loved by everyone that shopped there.
They changed her evaluation from a 5/5 which was I believe a 50ish cent raise (still not enough) to a 3/5 which was a 10 cent raise.
She quit a few weeks after I told her and no one we’ve hired has been half as productive as she was.”
“I never ever called off sick.
And yes, I understand now why that is not a good thing, but when I was young I thought you went to work unless you were on your death bed.
At a staff meeting, boss was reading everyone the riot act for calling off too much and his second in charge said “Well, except for (me), they’ve never missed a day.”
Boss said “Hmmmm, really? I never noticed.”
Lesson learned.”
“Worked this office job for 9 years, ever since I turned 16.
They kept giving me responsibilities, never any pay raise beyond the minimum they had to, all the while telling me how I was indispensable. Then Covid hit and they laid off all my coworkers.
They told me I could stay, but for less hours than before and definitely no pay raise — just more responsibilities, either working from home or in an empty office.
I declined the offer and quit right then and there. Felt pretty cheated though.”
“The first time I had a real job.
Turns out that working harder than your coworkers does not impress them.”
“Worked hard at my first job for an entire year after a $0.20 raise. Got a $0.10 raise after that year, while a guy that avoided work got $0.40.
So I avoided working too hard for a year and got a $0.40 raise. No bullsh*t. Also passed up a “crew leader” position to work in an easier area, then they made me a crew leader anyway in the new area, I didn’t even ask.
The company I work for now does some *ss-backwards stuff too. It drives me nuts. Progress takes time and there’s a fine line between getting stuck because you’re too good at something and getting moved on to promote you.”
“When they reward you for getting your work done well by giving you everyone else’s work to do.
Pretty much every job I’ve ever had.”
“I worked 4 years at a Walmart almost constantly being praised as one of the best employees on my shift / team
Now what kind of reward did I get for this
A raise? A promotion?
Nope
I got a small pin I was “allowed” to wear that just said something like “Management Appreciates Me”.”
“I worked for a few years at BJs.
First year I got a 59 cent/hour raise, which was unheard of because I’d been hired far higher than what cashiers were hired at. I got glowing reviews by the person who reviewed me.
By the time of my next raise, a trusted person had told everyone who would listen that I was gay. This led to a LOT of gossip, harassment, and bullying on the job. My reviewer, the same woman from before but who just HAPPENED to also be a devout Christian, gave a harsher review and I got something like 9 cents.
I went from being super well liked to suddenly a pariah all because of my s*xuality. It was f*cking awful and I knew that it didn’t matter how hard I worked if some Bible thumper was going to use it as an excuse to hate me.”
“I was a really bit of a people pleaser when I was younger.
Tried to do everything to make life for everyone easier, turns out that they just took advantage on me”
“When I realized I get paid the same as coworkers who are putting in bare minimum.”
“By being taken advantage of repeatedly.
Go above and beyond the expectations in hopes to advance? You now have to do that advanced job with way more work for no pay increase and in less time than the people getting paid more than you.
Don’t ever let an employer know you’re capable or willing to do significantly more work than anyone else for the same pay.
If an opening arises and you have been consistent, you’re more likely to get the position than someone who does twice the work you do for the same pay just because you “follow the book” more.”
“There wasn’t one particular moment for me, but the saying “It’s better to be lucky than good.” is oh so true at times.
Sure working hard helps, but being at the right place at the right time is often overlooked by those that purely equate hard work with success.”
“My first job.
I was working at a pizza place known for letting you, the customer, bake the pizzas at home. I was working minimum wage, but I felt like I’d been there a while and wanted to move up. So I talked to my boss about a possible raise. She said she’d keep an eye on my performance over the next month and see if I deserved it.
Now, there was another employee they’re by the name of Jimmy. Jimmy was great of the was a rush because in those instances, just having an extra pair of hands makes a difference. But in all other aspects of running the store, he was useless. He slacked off and left his work for the rest of us to do. Of course, the manager loved him.
After a month of picking up every shift I could and doing every unpleasant task assigned to me, my boss tells me that I’ve been doing a fantastic job and that I earned my raise. I looked in my check and I was now making an extra $0.50/hr. Not great, but I was 16 at the time and it felt like the squeaky wheel got the grease!
Until I find out that Jimmy also got a $0.50 raise. And everyone else did too. Turns out the minimum wage was increasing nationally and they were legally obligated to give everyone a raise. When I confronted her about this, she turned the tables on me, telling me that talking about my pay with other employees was unprofessional.
She went on vacation shortly after that. I taped my two week notice to her door the day after she left.”
Now we’d like to hear from you.
In the comments, tell us about the times you realized that hard work doesn’t always pay off.
We look forward to your stories.
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I can’t possibly imagine what women have to go through when they are pregnant.
The anxiety, the pain, the uncertainty…it must be a truly terrifying experience the first time it happens.
But that’s why we think articles like this are really helpful to the ladies out there.
Women talked on AskReddit about what they wish they’d known BEFORE they became pregnant.
Let’s take a look.
“I was absolutely SHOCKED when my first pregnancy ended in miscarriage.
I thought that I must have done something to cause it. When my second pregnancy ended the same way I started to think that I had some kind of physical malfunction.
Only after talking to several other women about it did I realize how common it is. Still heartbreaking though.”
“The hair loss!
I had read about it, but i was not prepared for just how much i would lose or how long it would last.
My daughter is 2 now and i still have some patchy spots.”
“My f*cking bo*bs hurt so bad.
I hit one in my sleep and woke up in excruciating pain.
Like…wtf.
I knew they got bigger, but the pain was a surprise.”
“The sickest joke of all: you stop being able to sleep way before the baby gets here.
Everyone loves to tell me to “sleep now while I can” but pregnancy leads to unexplained insomnia and I’m a total wreck already.”
“Each pregnancy is different, even with the same person.
I have 3 kids -the 1st pregnancy was very typical and followed the normal timeline. 2nd pregnancy was awful.
I was miserable and sick the entire time. 3rd pregnancy was easy peasy and I finally understood why some women liked being pregnant.”
“That not all gynecologists are competent. And if you have a feeling yours isn’t, find a new one.
Mine was very personable, did my d&c for my miscarriage before my first born, didn’t really give me any red flags until after I was pregnant again.
Long story short, he forgot (I guess?) to have me tested for gestational diabetes, and I had it. There were OBVIOUS signs that he didn’t catch, that I didn’t even know were signs until my new doctor told me. My son ended up having to be in NICU for 3 days after he was born because he couldn’t regulate his own blood sugar.
Every doctor and nurse I talked to along the way was appalled I hadn’t gotten tested. He also didn’t catch that I was anemic the whole pregnancy either.
Thank God we’re all healthy and happy now but looking back I should’ve changed doctors.”
“I wish I’d heard the term ‘mother’s apron’ before I had one.
Like, there’s warnings all over,”Your body’s going to change!” and some specifics on how, but everything I read and heard was reassuring me about how it would all mostly go back eventually.
I’m still pretty bitter.”
“Your hormones are crazy, literally making anything and everything that happens to your body a pregnancy symptom.
Bloody nose? Pregnancy.
Hands dry? Pregnancy.
Itchy skin? pregnancy.”
“That no matter how much you planned and wanted your baby, postpartum depression can happen to you and it is very, very real.
It is not something you can control. Hormones are liars. Partners of new moms please pay close attention.
Get help. Do not try to tough it out. Get. Help.”
“Baby kicks don’t feel like butterflies .
They feel like something crawled across your skin quickly; but from the inside”
“Sorry to be the Debbie Downer, but knowing things can go wrong in any situation.
My first child was stillborn at 41 weeks after a healthy and normal pregnancy from a umbilical cord accident.
Always trust your gut, count kicks, and advocate for you and your baby’s health.”
“How being pregnant seems to make other people think they can make incredibly rude observations about your body that they’d never make otherwise!”
“That you can get a horrible full-body rash.
It’s a rare condition called PUPPP. PUPPP occurs in about 1 in every 200 pregnancies and 70% of sufferers give birth to boys.
I gave birth to a girl. So I was in the 0.15% of women who get this horrible, itchy, mind numbing rash that I suffered with for over two months. I couldn’t sleep, I sat half of my day in oatmeal baths. I cried A LOT.
The only thing that stopped the itching for a few hours was Grandpa’s Tar Soap because it left a coating on my skin that soothed or protected it somehow.
I NEVER want to go through that again.”
“How tired you can be in the first trimester. I was falling asleep at my desk most days.
I always hear that labor pains were like really awful period cramps. Nope. Mine felt like someone was stabbing the front of my hip.
And, I had heard about sciatic pain but was 100% unprepared for how bad it could be. I had a c-section and the gas pain was no joke. Had to sleep on an incline for days.”
Okay, ladies, now we want to hear from all of you out there.
In the comments, tell us about some of the things you wish you’d known about before you got pregnant.
Please and thank you!
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If I’ve learned one thing from people I know who have been pregnant, it’s that every single pregnancy is different and each woman is affected in their own unique way by it.
And by that, I mean physically AND emotionally.
And we hope that women who haven’t been pregnant before can learn about what might be in store when they decide to have a child.
The ladies of AskReddit shared some insight into what they wish they would have known before they became pregnant. Let’s see what they had to say.
“Your body produces a hormone called relaxin that helps loosen your pelvis in preparation for birth.
Some women get waayyy too much too soon and it loosens everything to the point you lose mobility and every day all day is painful.”
“I wish someone would have warned me about the constipation.
Corollary: I wish someone would have warned me that “fiber supplement” does not equal “stool softener.”
Today, we’re at 26 weeks gestation.”
“The stuff that stays with your body afterwards.
I developed allergies after I had my second.
My feet definitely got bigger.
Hormones are no joke.”
“I wish someone had told me that no, your body does not magically go back to normal once the baby is out.
You have weeks of healing, either your ripped vag*na or cut open stomach, your bo*bs are still on baby mode and have a whole new set of problems now, pooping will be terrifying lol depression risks are higher, just a lot of stuff continues on after the baby.
I don’t know WHY people insist on visiting right after delivery. I am tired, I am busy with this baby, I am tore up from the floor up, please come in a month when I can at least have some sort of a routine.”
“I wish someone had warned me about muscle cramps.
I had to learn a new way to pop my ankles because every night I would pop them and get massive charlie horses in my legs that my fiance had to massage out.”
“Hair loss! After I had my kid I lost a ton of hair.
I would pull fists full of hair during my showers. I thought there was something wrong with me because no one told me about this.
Went to Google, totally normal and it happens to everyone. It grows back eventually and you’ll go through an awkward baby hair phase.”
“That morning sickness isn’t in the morning
And that I would be puking the whole time not just in the beginning.”
“During labor the “water breaking” is not one rush of liquid.
It’s continuous and can occur for several hours. It’s horrendous and messy and incredibly awful to deal with.
It feels like peeing but you have zero control over anything and if you tense up then everything is much more painful and weird feeling.
Nobody ever told me that and I was VERY surprised to find out for myself.”
“Miscarriage is ridiculously common.
I say this as someone currently carrying a dead baby waiting for the NHS to give me a surgical removal.”
“How I’d get loads of random skin changes.
Skin tags, so many skin tags!
Moles growing into skin tags then dropping off, like WTF body
Sandpaper dry skin, which I still get from time to time, just this one patch on the back of my right hand
My facial skin changing from t-zone oily to t-zone flaky and never going back
My psoriasis on my scalp going away, this did come back but not as bad.”
“Nosebleeds.
When I was pregnant, I got nosebleeds every few days during the first and second trimesters.”
“That cravings aren’t just food.
I craved dirt, particularly beach sand. The smell of the beach was excruciating, I just wanted to shovel handfuls into my mouth.
I never ate dirt or sand and the craving went away when baby was born.
A friend of a friend told me she craved freshly poured asphalt so in a way I’m glad my craving was just dirt.”
“From my mom: I paralyzed her from the waist down for a few hours because I decided to take a nap on her spinal cord in the third trimester.
The doctor’s response was “yeah you’ll be able to move again once they wake up.”
Pregnancy is pure body horror.”
Are there certain things you wish you’d known about before YOU got pregnant?
If so, please share your thoughts with us in the comments.
We look forward to hearing from you. Thanks!
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I have a friend who is a 911 dispatcher in Kansas City and he occasionally likes to text me about some of the calls that he receives at work.
I think the funny, ridiculous calls help offset the terrible and depressing things they have to deal with, because you know they get plenty of those every day.
For example, he told me a guy called and hysterically told him that Tom Hanks was driving a pickup truck down 75th Street! Tom Hanks! In Kansas City!
What a job that must be…
911 operators talked about the funniest calls they’ve ever received on AskReddit.
“A guy calls from a payphone to complain that he has a pipe wrench stuck up his butt and he needed an ambulance.
He gave his location as the corner where the payphone was located. I asked him if he could tell me his appearance so I could be sure the medics could find him.
His response, “look dude, I’ll be the only guy on the corner with a pipe wrench in his butt.”
I couldn’t argue with that…”
“My department dispatches our area’s animal control after hours.
Once received a call from a guy freaking out because he caught a possum in his house. I asked him which room he was able to confine the animal and he didn’t tell me which room, but said he trapped it in a microwave.
I had many questions.”
“While working for the Airport PD we would commonly get a call from a lady that lived nearby and thought aliens were scanning her brain.
To solve this we would have to “launch the alert fighters” (which we didn’t have). She lived close enough that we could just wait till a plane took off and tell her that sound was the alert fighters.
She would be fine then for a couple more months.”
“Woman calls up to allege that her car has been s*xually soiled by a car washer.
She had left her car with a valet service while she was shopping, picked it up and drove it home before she noticed a white mark on her passenger seat. She’s convinced it was spunk, so she calls the police to report it. Operator asked if she had complained to the company, which she had.
They had advised her that the soap they use for fabrics sometimes leaves a mark when it dries and if she just gives it a quick rub, it will go. She then tells the operator that she knows the company is lying because she put her finger on it and then tasted it, and it was definitely spunk and she “knows very well what spunk tastes like.”
Somehow the operator convinced her to complain further to the valeting company and ended the call before falling off his chair laughing.”
“A man called to say he’s wrestling with deadly 10m (32-33 ft) snake in his backyard.
He was very scared and although I wasn’t sure how did a 10m snake appeared in his backyard I send the emergency to the police. They even called him back, but his father answered. The conversation was quite funny:
Hello, sir. Police here. Is this Mr. Y?
His father.
Do you know where your son is?
I don’t know. Went to the backyard I guess.
Maybe you should check on him. He might be fighting for his life against a deadly snake.
Turned out the guy was a little high and was wrestling with a bush.”
“Dude wanted an ambulance because he needed to check if his girlfriend was pregnant or not.
I heard her in the back saying “But my period is over 2 months late!” and he was like “no, no, no. A doctor needs to see it first”.
He didn’t want to accept that it was not an emergency, and couldn’t understand how gynecologists usualy aren’t in an ambulance.”
“Some guy called about 2 am flipping out becuse his meth batch smelled funny, and he wanted the fire department, but no cops! I got an address out of him after a ridiculous run around, and sent it over to the dispatch people across town.
They didn’t send cops. He was in the county, they sent deputies, and the fire department, and the DEA, and the hazmat team, and he got to come visit and then go spend an ungodly amount of time with the state DOC.
I think he got 50+years. the house/ property he was renting was demolished and is a hazardous area now because he was making so much meth, and I think explosives.”
“I used to be a 911 operator from 2014-2018. I was also responsible for training new hires on answering phones.
One day, I get a medic call for a guy wanting an ambulance because he has hemorrhoids. I try to get more information from him like his name, phone number, and where he’s located. I get all of that he starts screaming “MY *SSHOLE, MY *SSHOLE”. During his screams about his *sshole, I turn to my trainee and blankly stare at her.
That was about 6 years ago. We still joke about it to this day.”
“A young kid called and asked to talk to the fire trucks.
It was pretty late at night so I told him the firetrucks were already sleeping and asked him to put a parent on the phone.”
“We’ve had people wanting the police because those a-hole McDonald’s employees refused to sell them a whopper.”
“I had a guy call in to try and rat out a Chinese massage parlor for giving out “happy endings.”
It was clear that he had some kind of religious guilt about it or something with a deal gone wrong (clearly not a case of molestation, so this is okay to laugh at)… and was trying to make amends. While the premise alone is funny, he REFUSED to say “hand**b”, jacked off, etc. He kept beating around the bush about it and wouldn’t give details, just heavy implications
. Over the course of this five minute call, every other dispatcher picked up on the line and muted their mics, but the room was howling with laughter as this dude danced around getting a tuggy. Eventually, I passed it off his call to the detective/vice division, but that was a very funny five minutes of worksafe masturbation humor
I had another call from a neighboring town that called us because the local department wouldn’t take him seriously. His issue was that a co-worker threatened to, and I quote, “punch his dick off.”
The second he said it, I started laughing because I wasn’t expecting it. He said it with what felt like a comical tone to it as well. I recovered well enough and eventually told him there wasn’t exactly a lot we could do, as it was out of our jurisdiction, but he kept repeating that he was going to have his dick punched off and… I dunno, something about that still makes me laugh to this day.
Almost cartoonish levels of violence enters my head where a weiner just gets Falcon Punched clean off and it makes me giggle.”
“I had a man call because he was locked in an Exxon station.
Just trying to take care of business and the workers shut down, turned on the alarm (which he immediately set off when he opened the bathroom door) and left. I stayed on the phone with him until the state police got there.
He was like… My car is still at the pump! This alarm is so loud….”
“My mom was a 911 operator in the SF Bay area in the 80s and 90s. I asked her to tell me a story to pass along, so here it is:
I got a 911 call and I couldn’t understand the caller. He was slurring his words. I knew he was calling from a bar so I asked if he’d been drinking and after asking many times I asking, I was able to determine that he wanted the police, not an ambulance.
He wanted to file assault charges because a woman pulled his tongue. I asked, “how was she able to pull your tongue?” and he said, “because I stuck it out at her.” I had to keep muting the call because I was laughing so hard.
Apparently my supervisor went on to play this call in seminars for years and always got a ton of laughter.”
Have you ever had to call 911 before?
Or maybe you worked as a 911 operator?
If so, please share your stories with us in the comments.
Thanks in advance!
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I usually don’t pay too much attention to the commercials on TV or they annoy the hell out of me, but I gotta say that those Progressive Insurance ads about turning into your parents are totally hilarious.
And they’re 100% spot-on.
Because most of us can relate to that stuff as we start to get a little bit older, no doubt about it.
People on AskReddit talk about the moments they realized they were turning into their parents. Let’s take a look!
“Every time I get angry.
My mom is this type that always explodes when she’s angry, everything and everyone near her will burn because of her wrath.
And it happened multiple times to me and when it happened my brain goes “sh*t, dude, we’re just like her! Stop!”
I hate it.”
“When I was a kid, I was constantly going outside and coming back inside. It annoyed my mom to no end. She used to say “In or out!!!! Pick one!”
About 20 years later, I have an amazing kid. Now that he’s old enough, he is constantly going outside or coming inside and NEVER closes the the sliding glass door.
Hence, either heat or air conditioning is being wasted for most months out of the year. I caught myself telling him “In or out!!!! Pick one…..oh crap, now I understand my mom’s frustration…..”
And yes, I’ve told him to shut the door. Many, many times. He’s never closed a door or turned off a light without my reminding. I’m hoping it sinks in soon. Sigh.”
“My wife and I went to visit my parents a while back.
It’s about a 1.5 hour drive so we stopped to pick up some coffee in the morning before the journey. I took a sip them went on a rant about how everywhere serves coffee too hot it’s undrinkable and I hate it.
A few hours later my dad started complaining about how he hates Starbucks because they serve their coffee too hot he can’t drink it, and my wife busted out laughing.”
“I know the exact moment.
I was 29, driving my dog somewhere and he climbed in the back seat and was acting up.
I turned around and heard myself say, completely unironically, “If I have to pull this car over, buddy, are you gonna be sorry.””
“When I started watching movies and making sure everyone knew what each actor had acted in before and who their parents were (if they were famous as well).”
“When my father had to go to work and my mother was free, she still woke up with him and prepared him lunch.
I never understood why, since she could sleep for a couple more hours and he was perfectly capable of making his own lunch.
Well, a couple of years later my boyfriend just started his first job while I have a few weeks off between clinical rotations, and here I am waking up with him and preparing his lunch.”
“Yelling at the news.
I remember constantly asking my dad if he realized the people on tv couldn’t hear him.
Sometimes you just have to yell, though.”
“Tearing up and becoming emotional when watching even slightly sad movies/shows.
Never used to be like this until I got into my 20ss.. what’s happened? I’m just like my mom now.”
“Waking up before 5am everyday, drinking massive amounts of black coffee, getting extremely grumpy when prepping for vacations…
The list goes on…
I am my dad.”
“When I was a kid and we were watching family movies, if the kids in the movie were cheeky to their parents or a smart-mouth my mother used to get angry at the movie and make declarations about how she would slap the little brat into next week if they spoke to her like that (she actually would have – and did, plenty of times).
I’m 40. I don’t watch a lot of television but in the past week I watched Uncle Buck and Bad Moms at Christmas (don’t judge me), both of which feature kids being cheeky / smart-mouthed to their parents.
I felt my blood rise and caught myself thinking that I would slap those children into next week if they spoke to me like that as a parent.
Send help.”
“The first time I yelled “DON’T TOUCH THE F*CKIN’ THERMOSTAT!”
Now, to be clear, this was directed towards my wife, who for some reason has about a two degree comfort range. My kids were confused, because they aren’t old enough to know what a thermostat is or what it does.
A few weeks go by, and I hear my wife in the living room tell my son “Tell Alexa to turn the thermostat up.” I lean into the doorway a bit, and my son locks eyes with me.
He then looks my wife dead in the eyes, with the most serious look he can muster and says “No way Mommy. Daddy said don’t touch the f*ckin’ thermostat! Are you trying to get Alexa in trouble too?!”
We both died.”
“Mumble rap, this is not music.
And that’s exactly the same thing my mom said when she came into my room while I was listening to Rage Against the Machine!”
“Daily yelling at nobody in particular about lights being left on and doors open.
Grunting when standing up.
And investing a hearty sum into various pain relief creams/ointments.”
Now we want to hear from all of you out there.
In the comments, tell us your “I’m turning into my parents” stories.
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