Saturday, January 9, 2010

Modern Wood Burning Stoves Did Your Parents Embarass You When You Were A Kid?

Did your parents embarass you when you were a kid? - modern wood burning stoves

What have they done to you remember? The mine was an old wood stove, stove and not a modern washer / dryer and central heating in the house. The professor asked if any of us had seen a wood stove in the kitchen, and I lived with one!

I was ashamed, my friends, that he tell no telephone or television.

Not that they could not afford it either.

12 comments:

mrsd said...

I know how you feel. We did not have modern washing machine. My MO was the extractor old and used a clothesline. We had a telephone, television, but did not get the air conditioning until I was in college. I am not inviting people.
I think we are not alone. When I was in college, had a friend, Anita. They had no car, television or telephone. We gave him a tour of the house choir practice one day and stopped to eat in a restaurant, and was the first time he had eaten.
I believe his family in a different time. It was the mid-1970s. But she and her family as the clothes of the 50s ... Hair, clothes and glasses were 20-30 years from the time she was a girl so sweet.

Mary P said...

I do not think his parents have lived a simple life of shame. They were frugal living saving for the future, or if you prefer, in this way.
Do not think that my mother died (his father, as I have five years) is trying to embarrass me, if I had a winter coat that fit me. It was a great mother, and when I was a shy teenager, I ventured with my friends and going to a party "for a time" when he knew it was strange.
Tease me and comments about my appearance, so my skin was not perfect, it would have been embarrassing.

Mary P said...

I do not think his parents have lived a simple life of shame. They were frugal living saving for the future, or if you prefer, in this way.
Do not think that my mother died (his father, as I have five years) is trying to embarrass me, if I had a winter coat that fit me. It was a great mother, and when I was a shy teenager, I ventured with my friends and going to a party "for a time" when he knew it was strange.
Tease me and comments about my appearance, so my skin was not perfect, it would have been embarrassing.

Milou said...

We did well not all of these things, but it does not really bother me too, I think, because the master does not ask questions like that, but I remember I think it was a health care home to ask what we had for dinner Last night, I remember we had cornbread and beans, but you must listen to what I said that we have examined five basic food we eat, and guess what! That is what we had for dinner. I wonder if he is caught?

Jackie Blue said...

My mother was good for me contempt against another, when I was a child. I am sure that many adults thought it was insensitive. When I try to do something screwed, she certainly has the whole world and said to me. I do not remember promote, when I was a kid, only to Downs. "We can not do anything right," was his line. I've never understood why she felt compelled to leave, and how you might feel superior. He did so after marriage. And I knew that I did not hear. He had a way of his knife for his own pleasure. Dad does not bother me. I think he knew how difficult it was to be raised by them every day, so he was very caring, love and understanding. Dad only knew half. It worked, was a homemaker who seemed to want to take their frustrations over the child to term.

Jan said...

My father was 50 as I was born, and I have 10 brothers and sisters
We were very poor, we have no carpeting, we were blessed with wall to wall, floor, we had no bath, ate heated with coal, we all beans day, and if we chase everything in meat or fish, he has never invited her friends to a dinner by candlelight
And my father has always been his Red Man snuff, and he refused, a spittoon, just use spit, where he also wore pants rapper at the time, wore braces, and with them, yes, I would say that I was ashamed

Reve said...

His grace, it only shows a full circle, as it went ..... Today, everyone wants an original kitchen and Aga (me included!) And I do not know live with a TV or phone! I would not have this embarrassment of ...

This is really annoying is when you have completed a ballet class, then his father comes and begins to show the rest of the group, as well arabesques. CRIIIIIIIINGE!

Story of my childhood!

WACVET75 said...

As he learns his wife's family for the first time in her yard and the first thing you see when you move towards the unit to someone who goes to the toilet. I have a double room, until I realized it had been nothing moved and is now used to store some things.

Monty said...

Mom told me the camp, and then showed a half during the week. He did not do it, as he folded my underwear in your suitcase or hanging up my shirts in the closet of the cabin Rod. She screamed at me in front of all these things.

Fortunately, he does not realize he was not wearing underwear that day at all.

Nyomi said...

I think I should ... but I was just hungry for attention, so I like bits that you feel that all my sisters and brother were humiliated when everyone, not if I do not care VHA I just wanted to see what lives there! Lol

RT 66 said...

These things bother me. But I think it's a job, get their parents' embarrassing off-spring, before the members of the family in the presentation. Or have distant relatives, the work is to embarrass us?

Kembek said...

My mother has always disturbed me by my funny curly hair. My father has always bothered me to make fun of my pale skin. When I was a teenager who lived in an apartment with a garden. I do not want anyone to know.

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