This morning, fresh with the news that, at the age of 32, we start to act like our parents, the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show asked Irish listeners to tell us ‘How do you know when you’re becoming your parents?’
From spitting on tissues to leaving the radio on to keep burglars out, it seems the Irish mammies and daddies have a very specific set of traits.
We turn into our Mammies/Daddies when we get to 32. #youknowyourebecomingyourparentswhen
— Ian Dempsey (@IanDempsey) August 21, 2013
You can search the hashtag #youknowyourebecomingyourparentswhen on Twitter for loads of responses. Here are some of our favourites:
You know you’re becoming your parents when…
- …you spend hours reading restaurant menus on holidays.
- … You spit on a tissue to clean your kids face
- ….you dress like your goin on safari #creamkakipants
- …you set aside a small stick specifically for stirring paint
- …you start asking who said mass?
- …you won’t leave the house without turning on the lights on the landing…and the radio.
- … you are sitting in the passenger seat of the car find yourself holding on to the hand rail for the entire journey!!
- … 'That pop music' is just noise..
- …you’re going around giving out to everyone for
- … you say and what time do you call this ?
- …you hear Mario on the radio and you only know him as the doctor in Glenroe
- …you insist that everyone takes a jacket regardless of weather
- …you hear a song on the radio and you have to ask your kids who sings it.
- …before leaving a building you ask everyone within distance if they need to use the toilet
- … it always takes two tries to get up off the couch
- …you start beginning sentences with when I was your age...
- …you ask ur colleague if there were many holiday makers in west cork over the weekend...
- …shhhh turn up the radio, the deaths are on
- …“potted plants" is somehow on your hobbies list
- …you go to the beach and put a hankie on your head to keep the sun off thinning hair
- …you turn off Tom and Jerry and turn on the news
- …you say 'grand stretch in the evenings'
- ...you have to ask for help working the tv
- ...your idea of a night out is sitting on the patio.
- ...you start using the phrase "jaysus, there's some heat outta that sun"
- ...you start having ‘insurance pees’. You don’t ‘need’ to go but you do anyway when you’re heading on a journey.
- ...you start telling members of your family to ‘be careful’ when they’re going into town.
- ...an unexpected knock at the front door has you in conniptions because ‘would ya look at the state of the house...’ and you actually consider NOT answering it.
