Apparently, parents who sing loudly in the car are the most embarrassing kind of parents ever ,according to 6 to 16 year olds. Another terrible thing parents do to make their childrens' lives hell is giving them a kiss at the school gates.
Imagine the shame of having happy parents who enjoy singing, or doting parents who want to send you off for the day knowing how loved you are? The cheek!
Anyway, the bad news, kids, is that it only gets worse. You think singing or being kissed is embarrassing? They actually get worse as you get older. My mam thinks nothing of telling me to strip off and try on clothes in the middle of Penneys when the changing rooms are full. “Arra, who’d be looking at you?” Ah, all of these people in the shop? No, I will not take my clothes off in front of all these people and don’t you dare do it either Mam, MAM oh my god I’m walking away now.
I’m not alone.
- “Paula, maybe that's what happened to Sia. She was in L.A. Penneys and there was a long queue for the changing room. Mammy Sia says sure just get changed there and there’s a pap just behind her, and starts snapping away. Be careful folks!” - Niall
- “Paula my dad goes to the shops in his old man pajamas. He puts a coat on and thinks nobody else can notice. Used to KILL me when I was a teenager, I was so embarrassed. Now I think people are used to it. I’m 35 and still a bit morto when I’m at home to witness it.”
- “Paula my dad is a proper culchie, we all are but dad never really left the farm. He told my cousin on her wedding day that she was a fine lump of a woman and I, my mother and siblings all nearly died.”
- “My mam banned my dad from my GAA matches when I was a teenager, to my relief. You’d swear we were playing a World Cup final the way he’d carry on.”
- “Paula, I was about 21 and living in London. My dad was over one weekend and we were in my local, when two girls came in. In front of everyone in his thickest put-on West of Ireland accent, he asked one of them if she would take on with me and went on to tell her that I was a well propertied man. We had nothing, he was a Ba#@%rd and always embarrassing me and my siblings!” - Ollie
- “Hi Paula, when I brought girlfriends home to meet the folks my dad used to always ask when he’s getting grandkids. Mortifying!”
- “My father is on Facebook, lord give me strength, some of his posts will send me to an early grave!”
- “Paula this is my boyfriend’s story but he’d rather forget it so I’ll tell you. He lives at home, he’s 28 and a secondary school teacher. He left his packed lunch at home, his packed lunch that his mam makes for him every day. Anyway, he left it at home one day and his mam brought it up to the school and handed it in just as his transition years were passing the office and heard. Hi Dave!”
- “I’ll never forget the day my parents dropped me off to college. I was the last out of 5 kids and my parents were about to retire. My mum made this massive spectacle of being heartbroken, like over the top bawling and wailing and everyone was staring and thinking, aahhh she will really miss her. She was totally putting it on, when we got to the car she burst out laughing and say we love you BYEEEEEE and she and my dad started dancing and screaming. Still hails as the most embarrassing thing they’ve ever done to me!”
