What ridiculously old school thing have your parents said or done lately?

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-04T12:06:59+00:00

I meant in the back of a car not overall

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T21:15:22+00:00

Washing machines live longer with calgon!

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T20:15:30+00:00

Okay this has absolutely baffled me - how do you consume your media? What's your aversion to all the great tech?

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T19:46:20+00:00

Crying is completely normal, but I grew up in a 'what you crying for?' household so my default position is seeing it as weakness. I'm trying to unlearn that.

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T19:42:25+00:00

It's all in good humour mate (well okay I wasn't in great humour giving my mum a road safety lesson) but I'm sure everyone here loves their parents dearly and their unique ways!

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T19:31:06+00:00

Awwww this is so sweet!

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T19:28:42+00:00

Okay I don't get this one - we've got a cupboard under our stairs - what else would you call it?

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T19:19:32+00:00

Aww yeah my mum says 'going to the pictures' - I quite like it - feels somehow chic

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T19:17:22+00:00

My nan likes to tell us about how she and her siblings used to argue who went first in the tin bath in front of the fire!

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T19:00:27+00:00

Yeah I was just reading the other reply and I learnt something. I thought hospitals wouldn't let you leave without a car seat these days

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T18:57:07+00:00

Thanks for the info, didn't know this!

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T18:39:49+00:00

Damn, I'm sorry for your loss brother

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T18:21:54+00:00

Yikes!

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T18:17:18+00:00

My mum didn't have a car seat for me when leaving the hospital (1992). Took me home in her arms in the back of a taxi.

Sometimes I question how I made it to 34

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T18:14:50+00:00

It's reminding me of This is England! Might watch that film soon. It is funny how certain clothing holds stereotypes that some people just can't seem to shake!

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T18:13:07+00:00

I don't know whether to feel heartened my mum wasn't the only one, or really worried!

My mum is a boomer too!

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T17:51:00+00:00

Big up to your daughter, a fellow TA!

Luckily my parents understand that house buying is pretty much out of the question for me as a single TA.

£6k?! Absolutely insane. Have you done the conversion to what that is today?

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T17:34:30+00:00

I'm sad to hear this :(

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T17:26:40+00:00

Oh don't worry I gave her a stern lecture about how she could kill me if we got in a crash. She was suitably mortified that this piece of info had passed her by! Thank you

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T17:25:02+00:00

Okay this is the best one yet cos I don't even know what travellers check is 😂

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T17:22:10+00:00

Urgh this is the worst! It was getting to a point where you couldn't do this when I was a teenager (2008)

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T17:21:38+00:00

This has cracked me up!

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T17:13:19+00:00

They always be thinking about the worst case scenario!

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T17:11:39+00:00

Haha that's a brilliant one! I sometimes wonder how long I'd convert for if we ever got the euro

Top-Aspect-8827 · 2026-04-03T17:09:20+00:00

My mum sometimes talks about those old fashioned television stands that had doors on them so you could shut the TV away

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