Lies Your Parents Told YouI once overheard a neighbour use the phrase "nig nog". I asked my father what it meant. As quick as a flash he said, "It's a type of biscuit. A bit like a hobnob." Can you beat this? BTW: We're keeping this thread open for an extra week as we're enjoying the stories so much.
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Fraser has joined the Moomins., Wed 14 Jan 2004, 13:29)
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I'm the parent in this storyWhen my daughter was a young teen, she and some friends often taunted a neighbor woman with calling her old, beat-up, turquoise tank-of-a-car a "nerd-mobile." This apparently upset the woman, who showed up at my door one evening to complain. Quite pathetically, she sobbed and whined while expressing how cruel my daughter and her friends were, as she was unable to afford a nicer vehicle. Being the apathetic person I am, I scoffed with much disdain, telling the woman to grow up and stop getting offended by the antics of children. However, because I was subjected to the likes of this pathetic woman crying on my porch, I decided punishment was in store for my daughter when she returned home.
Later that evening, I detailed the scenario with much disgust to my young daughter, as if I were scolding her for her cruel tauntings. Being the great antagonist I am, I explained her punishment for name-calling and causing the woman to cry would be riding to school in the nerd-mobile every morning for a week. I let her suffer with that thought for quite some time, while she cried, begged, and promised to do anything I wanted if I wouldn't force such humiliation on her.
At last, I could hold back the laughter no longer and admitted the punishment was all a joke. Ahhh, sweet revenge... Only a parent can understand and appreciate the delicious satisfaction of such retribution. ~
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Ophillia does the fire dance, Sun 18 Jan 2004, 14:15,
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