Do you ever ,,,

[CW]

Do you find yourself acting like your parents did? Saying things that in some years bygone would've been coming from your parents mouth?

I did today. It took me a moment to realize where in hell I'd heard that muttered before,,, THEN I realized that I sounded just like my dad did when I was growing up. It wasn't a totally unpleasant realization,,, BUT it was a total surprise.

I realize that there are a finite number of words and ways of saying them,,, I guess that I thought I was more orginal than that though.

What do you say or do that makes you realize you are an echo of your parents?

 

[Vlad]

I am a clone of my father. I look like him, walk like him, talk like him.

 

[Weird Harold]

I think everyone at some point utters those infamous words:

"Oh my god! I sound just like my father/mother"

Usually after becoming a parent themselves.

 

[Alyrahh]

Yes, CW, I do. I come by my dry sense of humor and flippant remarks honestly. Very few people outside of my immediate family know how to take me. (That sounded incestuous)
See? I'm horrible... just like my Mother!



[Edited by Alyrahh on 10-25-2000 at 11:40 PM]

 

[Ravenloft]

I think I know how to take you Alyrahh! Bent over a chair! Or is that just hopeful thinking?!

 

[Xander]

Ravenloft LMAO...down boy down.......

Unfortunately I have to say yes to that question. And when I realize what I've just done. I just feel like digginf a big hole. Jump in it, and have someone fill it up again. Ah well

 

[insideShiraz]

Never, unless my dad is Bill Ward...

Honey, don't you think you were a little rough on the Beaver last night?

 

[Cheyenne]

My sister and I used to laugh at our mom and how she had to load the dishwasher in the same pattern every time. To drive her nuts, we'd put a big plate where a small plate "should" go, for example. Sometimes she'd take the whole thing apart and start over, especially if my dad had loaded it.

I put everything in the dishwasher in certain places now, too. And the first time I was at my sister's house and she grumbled how her husband had no clue how to load a dishwasher as she took the thing apart to start over, I laughed and pointed out we really had become "mom".

I'm still not as bad as my sister though. She alphabetizes her spice cabinet!

 

[CreamyLady]

Mirror, mirror, on the wall;
I am my mother after all.

(Runs screaming into the sunlight)

 

[SeXy ReDHeD]

LMAO at Cheyenne!

I didn't even grow up with a dishwasher, but now that I live on my own, my roommate and I get in the BIGGEST fights over how the damned dishwasher should be loaded. It's hilarious... I can't imagine how funny we must look and sound! "NO... plastics don't go in the dishwasher! And LOOK you put a SPOON in the KNIFE hole!" "DAMMIT RED, it's only a g**damned spoon! Look how you put the glass on the BOTTOM rack!" Hee hee

 

[Ambrosious]

Yes, I sometimes catch myself acting just like dear old dad. Whenever that happens I lie down until the feeling passes. If that doesn't work, I visit my old friend Jose' Cuervo. He usually radically changes my behavior.

I just found out that my pa (we don't speak cause I married a black girl) just got himself a DOUBLEWIDE with a 20 year mortgage! Oh. Hmm. Well...everyone has goals and dreams I guess.

Ain't it a bitch growing up?

[Edited by Ambrosious on 10-26-2000 at 08:55 AM]

 

[Closet Desire]

It can be a sad thing

I used to worship my dad. Wanted to be like him. I even wanted the same kind of job. It was always a mystery to me why I failed at all the things I tried. Twenty years later I figured out that I was modeling myself on someone who was a failure. I stepped out of the fold, became my own person, and found success. My family hasn't spoken to me in years.

I'm sure it isn't like this for everyone, but if you're curious and think it's a problem then check out a book called Toxic Parents by Susan Foreward...sure opened my eyes and changed my life.

 

[teresafannin]

The first time I realized I had turned into my mom was hysterical. She was visiting us & I don't even remember exactly what my son had done. I was giving him the lecture when my mom started to laugh. She told me that he had the exact same expression on his face that I used to get when she lectured me & I realized that I sounded just like her. We both started laughing & my son just shook his head as if to say grownups are sooooo weird.

 

[Juliangel]

If I EVER become my mother I hope that for the sake of my children someone would be kind enough to take a gun and blow my head off so I do not screw up their lives like she did mine.

 

[Roll-One]

OMG YES

I find myself doing things like that all the time, i think we all do that at one point in our lives.

I lost both of my parents in a traffic accident, so it kinda makes me think about them every time i do something like that...

 

[TN_Vixen]

Wow, roll-one. That's tough. My next door neighbor's parents both died in a car accident when I was in high school ... happened when one of my classmates hit them coming home from a party. They'd been Easter shopping. It was the saddest thing. I still think of them.

And, yeah.. I say stuff all the time. "Your face will freeze like that," "Did you wash your hands? Let me smell them, NO you DIDN'T use soap--go BACK!" "Go play in traffic" "Don't go away mad, just go away" hehe "No, 'ain't' is NOT a word in my vocabulary and it won't be in yours either" "I don't care if they get to do it, I'm not [insert name]'s parent" "Would you jump off a bridge if everyone else was?" "ONE more peep and I swear I'll drag you out of the car and bust your butt!"

onandonandonandon...

 

[Alyrahh]

I think I know how to take you Alyrahh! Bent over a chair! Or is that just hopeful thinking?!

How'd you know?

 

[Ravenloft]

I have eyes... IN all the RIGHT places Alyrahh!

 

[Earthmuffin]

I swear I'm my mom some days, especially when I point out something to someone (not my munchykins) how patently stupid they are in the kindest, most pleasant tone of voice. We laugh alike, cuss alike and have similar tempers. I have repeated many of her pearls of wisdom over the last few years. "Of course that's not fair, life's not fair."

And now, I'm going to go call my mom and thank her for getting me to adulthood and not duct taping me to the nearest wall like I'm tempted to do with the munchy's if they don't go brush ALL of the teeth in their mouth this time!!!

 

[Cheyenne]

"DAMMIT RED, it's only a g**damned spoon! Look how you put the glass on the BOTTOM rack!" Hee hee

Oh no, no, no! Everyone knows that glasses go on the TOP shelf! That would have to be taken apart and redone!

 

[JinxLove]

Funny... when people tell me I'm turning into my mother, I say thank you. Maybe I lucked out by having cool ass parents, but hey, I like the fact that people tell me I'm just like my folks. Kinda makes me happy.. They're good people to be like.