Signs you're turning into your parents. Name one.

[jimbo fett]

For me it is that I don't give a damn about "fashion" anymore.

Khakis and tennis shoes? Yeah, you got a problem with that?

[mopinko]

1. saying

don't make me stop this car.
when you grow up you will understand.
wait til you have to pay the bills.

[Maddy McCall]

2. Telling my son, "You've got to understand..."

and then following that up with a lecture on whatever strikes me.

[felonious thunk]

3. By Friday evening....

all I want to do is go home and relax. No more happy hours, I'll have some sauce on Saturday maybe. It's Friday night, and damn it, I'm tired.

[Maddy McCall]

6. Oh how I can relate...

and sauce on a saturday is indeed an extravagance in which I rarely indulge.

[MrMonk]

4. You start wearing a wire to Sunday dinner.

Sorry, I thought I read "Signs you're turning *in* your parents."

[NJCher]

27. Not to worry!

That's coming soon in "George Bush's America!"


Cher

[neuvocat]

5. "When I was her age..."

[Dalton Trombone]

7. "Signs you're turning into your parents. Name one."

Forgetting to put your teeth in. Only realizing this omission when you go to take them out at night and they aren't there.

[Nevernose]

8. TURN OFF THE LIGHTS!

DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH OUR POWER BILL WAS LAST MONTH? Of course you don't, it's not like YOU have to pay the bills around here. If you're not even in the room, why do you need the light on? Is it so much to ask for you to walk all the way over to the dresser and flip the switch?

(usually I don't rant quite this much, but if you're a parent, you'll understand)

[trof]

17. Especially when you live with a 59 year old "kid".

I love her, I really truly do, but...
For her, every light switch, every TV set, only has an 'on' function.
I swear, if the blendor and the vacuum cleaner didn't make such a racket, she'd walk off and leave them on too.
In retirement, I have become the 'turner-outer/offer', following her through the house.
:-(

[Rowdyboy]

21. ROTF

Trof, I am the male equivilent of your wife, and my partner behaves a lot like you sound. However, you guys must find something to like about us, even if we do waste electricity! :)

[trof]

24. Several years ago, when I was doing my nut

about some pissant, inconsequential thing, it hit me that I was doing my nut about some pissant, inconsequential thing.
So I quit.
Pretty much.
Out loud, anyway.
Life is too short.
Now I just turn 'em out and shut up about it.

[cally]

37. My husband is like that

He usually leaves for work before I do and I run around turning off lights and the TV. Drives me crazy. :crazy:

[Nevernose]

46. As God is my witness, I swear to you

That my wife's inability to turn out the lights was one of the reasons for our divorce.

(of course, there was the infidelity, the physical and mental abuse, the addiction, the endless lies, the irrational behavior...but her inability to turn the freaking lights out WAS THE LAST STRAW!)

[Jack_Dawson]

9. Went to bed at 10 on New Year's Eve

Does that count?

[Skittles]

44. I SHOULD KICK YOUR ASS, JACK

how the f*** old are you, anyway? I'm 46 and I sauced it up until 02:30 AM!

[auntpattywatty]

10. always looked like my mother - now that I'm older, I could be her twin

11. this

going to strange avant-garde jazz shows
hanging out with poets

(my Dad saw Charlie Parker)

I like "turning into" my parents in that sense!!!

[INTELBYTES]

12. How bout the rhetorical questions?

Do you wanna spanking? or, "if you don't stop crying I'll give you something to cry about".

[jimbo fett]

13. And "How many times do I have to tell you...?"

[Raven]

14. I tap or giggle my foot alot.

My mother does this and it gives me the creeps that I do it now!!!

[Insider]

15. piles of paper around this desk...

and i'm out cleaning up piles of my mother's papers, going 'tsk tsk tsk'

[teach1st]

16. Way beyond dad by now...

I turned into my father quite some time ago. Now I think I'm turning into my grandfather! (Now where the hell did I put my glasses?)

[RUexperienced]

18. I saw a cartoon once whee a guy in an elevator started

whistling to the music... Then realized it was a Jimi Hendrix tune.

[chimpymustgo]

19. Because I SAID so!

Get off that phone (computer)!
What did I tell you?
Breakfast is ready!
Get a move on!

And the killer (as the daughter heads out of the house):

Be a lady!

[dawgman]

20. I'd have to say being so tired of answering an endless series of inane

questions that I finally just reply by saying "because I said so" or "It just is."

[Rowdyboy]

22. When I hear myself using phrases that they used

that no one else under 80 has ever heard of...

[Kamika]

23. the fashion..

I remember in HS i'd literally spend an hour doing my make up..

Man now I couldn't care less.

Wish I could go back in time and slap myself

[mozart]

25. 7blades

You don't have a clue...wait a few years you might learn something(BARF)

Yeah, I said it!!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

26. your breasts are getting long and you recite the mothers curse on your kid

"i hope you have 5 just like you"

[KG]

28. never less than 7 tubes of toothpaste in the closet.

frantic searches for toothpaste on sale when number falls below that..

my dad was wierd that way.

i got about 5 tubes right now, getting nervous. :)

[qwertyMike]

29. "You'll break your neck"

Does anyone know anyone who ever broke their neck while horsing around as a kid?

Probably

Aand "You'll trip on those shoe laces". Since each stride is aboout 2 feet apart, how is this possible?

I say it anyway.

[Jerseycoa]

30. I understand people who don't think like I do nt

[qwertyMike]

31. Double Standard

Told my kids about the Double Standard. I can swear and smoke in the home but you can't

a) Because I pay the mortgage/rent.
b) Because I feed you
C) Because I'm bigger than you.


Works

[trof]

32. Damn straight.

Especially C.
;-)

[qwertyMike]

33. Thank you

Benjamin Spock :)

[jus_the_facts]

34. ".....mommy's alright...daddy's alright...they just seem a lil weeeird..."

...SURRENDER...SURRENDER....but don't give yourself AWAAAAAY!" :evilgrin: Not much in common with mine at all STILL...and it's a gooooood thing! :D

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

35. I AM AN UNCOMPROMISING BITCH!!!!

:D

[kdmorris]

36. Because I said so...

I used to hate it when my mom said that. Now, I find myself saying it alot.

That, and the mother's curse.

Said it to my 16 year old the other day. "When you grow up, I hope your child treats you the same way you are treating me! THEN you will understand". :evilgrin:

[cally]

38. 'How can you live in this pigsty'

Me about my children's rooms. My Mom said the same thing to me. I never cleaned my room but I do clean now. :-)

[GabysPoppy]

39. The classic line

They just don't have music that they had when I was your age.

I bit my lip as soon as I said it.

[Kamika]

41. haha omg..

I've said practicly the same thing and I'm 21 for crying out loud..


I have no clue what music is cool today, when I hear whatever crap is on now, I mention stuff like snoop, u2, eminem, nirvana, red hot chili peppers etc.

It's sad when teenagers now haven't heard nirvana

[HEyHEY]

40. I sit with my hand tucked under my thigh on long car rides

Just like dad

[Susang]

42. I'm getting the same health problems

Dad has thyroid disease, now so do I. My mom has joint problems, now I do too. Dad has severe allergies and now I have to take Allegra-D and Singulair all year 'round. My mom has serious weight problems; I used to be skinny like my dad until the thyroid disease, now I weigh the same as my mother.

Sigh....

[neebob]

43. I hear myself saying,

"The telephone is for MY convenience" or I suddenly slap my son on the knee while driving. Otherwise I'm doing an excellent job of not being my dad.

[cosmicdot]

45. finding 'the good ol'days' sneaking into the dialogue

:scared:

[ldf]

47. "be sweet!"

that was the last words i would hear from my mom as i headed out to have fun with friends.

"be sweet!" it worked, because i always was. well, almost always.

now i am 52. since i am gay, with partner, understandably childless, as i go out the door to work the last thing i say to our daughter, Betty the cat, is "Be Sweet!".

it just happens. it made me realize how much she influenced me.