What was an absurd rule you had to follow when you were growing up?

@Pinkstarburst 🖤🤗

@Pinkstarburst I'm in the shower less than five minutes. I don't have a lot of time in the mornings and it doesn't take long to get clean. I wasn't all that dirty in the first place.

@Pinkstarburst some nipples showing astound that house lol. If you only had 3 minutes of hot water to shower with.. (the nipple comment was in reference to @WonderGirl1's reply lol

@meggie where was this?

Nipples never offended me. @WonderGirl1

@WonderGirl1 who the hell told you that!? They lied, actually, nipples do offend some people who can't stop staying and get caught looking and then deny it and blame the nipple owner. PlbtThat person needed to stop being a closet perv. Show them lay, all you want. Just make sure you click the little circle next to "Nudity" 😁

@DarkHeaven
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@Niloo I love little you. 🖤🤗

@Niloo my friend. 🖤🤗

@pedrohedgerow I cried last year Liverpool won the English Premier League the bastards 😁

@nedkelly Best Premier League EVER 😂

@nedkelly As for Arsenal fans...😢

@DarkHeaven yes ma'am I could already tell.. 😊that's why I like you so much. You're genuine!

@Bang5luts thanks. 😉

@DarkHeaven 😁😊

@DarkHeaven I'm glad your experience was better than mine, That Palamino jerk of a horse ruined them for me

@SHREKPage sorry.

@DarkHeaven oh its ok!! I am glad you have fond memories!!

Yes our church preached against it... I keep meaning to watch every episode now

@Sweetone46 I have never even seen it 🤣

@SweetNSassy Same, I couldn't watch any shows with witchcraft or magic in it.

@pedrohedgerow Oh, wow. I didn’t know that. 😳

@hippyjoe1955 and it’s so cold in the winter

@TheSirfurryanimalWales Was the cooking in your house that bad.....? 😆😉

@Fluffybull aah....that was it...😅

@InstructHer what about in winter

@Jenny1234 True. That would never fly in Canada. Lol

@Jenny1234 all year round. It was school uniform for most boys in those days (usually until 12 or 13) and for church etc but my parents were traditional and I wore them always until I was old enough to be a "man". We don't get perishingly cold weather. The worst actually was getting my legs wet and cold in the rain.

@antonioioio This was a common one back in the day.

@dragonfly46 Spare the rod and spoil the child was common

@AnonymouslyYours were they worried you would break something?

Most likely, but honestly I felt the primary motivation was control. I wasn’t clumsy or careless with mine or anyone else’s belongings.@Jenny1234

@Caleidoscope Did you? I bet he had streamers in his handle bars. 🙂

@Pinkstarburst I got a lift from a guy once ,for a situation that almost looked like I was running away but I wasn't!
My parents were furious and they called the astrologer to fix it ,and he apparently gave a stone ,which I wore until college

@cherokeepatti Honestly I'm drawing a blank because I learned to just not listen to them and tune them out. 😂

@SW-User My ex’s mother had a bunch of superstition-based rules she thought everyone ought to follow. Don’t pop a blister during the daytime, wait till the sun goes down or it won’t heal up. I rubbed a big blister on my heel from walking and was at her house and she tells me this one and come sundown she brings the alcohol and needle so I could pop it. Don’t let cats in the house if you have a baby because they’ll jump up in the crib and sucked the breath out of the baby. That was just two of them. Eventually I became amused by them and started reading about superstitions in various locals.

@Soossie HA! Me too. 😂

@DearAmbellina2113 same here!

@exexec My male relatives all fish, they liken the experience as being one with Gods nature. Good thing you eventually got to fish on Sundays. Maybe if you had sold your fish for tithe?

He was right really! @MrsRachelEvans @Lostpoet

@MrsRachelEvans I agree coffee would keep me up all night if I was a kid.

@Lostpoet I only have it now in the mornings

@DarkHeaven We were farmers, but my dad was did not care. Religion can be a silly thing.

@chrisCA yeah. sorry. 🌸 My parents weren’t really doctrinally religious. They’ve always been a faith kind of people, but not really dogmatic towards organized religion. I don’t really ever talk about that on this site but I feel like you would kind of get it.

@chrisCA religion and faith is just a dangerous topic and I usually just tap out.

@ChipmunkErnie Thank you for your reply.

@dragonfly46 You're welcome, but I know it was kind of boring. I had nice, understanding parents.

@ChipmunkErnie No, not at all. Always appreciate ones answer. Glad you had understanding parents. Wish mine were more understanding.

@SwampFlower my parents did that to teach us about saving money. It worked too

@SwampFlower The allowance thing is super interesting. My parents paid almost everything, but they said I should pay for gasoline just so I'd get a sense for paying bills.

@DarlingSelah That was very popular when I was growing up. And if you cleaned your plate, you were rewarded with dessert. And they wonder why so many of a certain generation have weight issues. 😳

@DarlingSelah Same here, if I didn't eat it, it was at my next meal, cold.

@DarlingSelah My parents used to force me too until once i couldn't help it and i threw up on the dinner table. They never forced me again, so good learning exercise for them i guess.

@YoungPoet345 Oh God. Did they just say that when you were young or do they still try to hold you to that?

@BlueVeins it’s unclear. Lol. This was my father who said this. I’m unsure how it holds now. We haven’t discussed it. I don’t live with him. We have a good relationship.

I do know, had I had sex in high school, he would have been very angry

@Mamapolo2016 I’ve never heard of a no bikini rule.

@Jenny1234 Times changed REALLY FAST.

@Mamapolo2016 I think there are two other women on this thread who had the same rule

@dragonfly46 Sorry so long.

@DarkHeaven Thank you for sharing that. 🤗💙

@dragonfly46 🖤🤗

@SW-User Always good to see you here, take care. 🤗

@dragonfly46you too 🥰

@SW-User Thanks ☺️☺️

@Lostpoet still trying to figure out what swimming on sunday has to do with a donkey stuck in a ditch... 🤔

@wildbill83 I think it has something to do with if you think about having sex with your neighbors wife you have committed adultery.

@Lostpoet And all the other elements, no fun for you! 😅

@Spoiledbrat That one is unusual. Did you miss it at all?

@saintsong That's terrible. Sorry you went through that.

@dragonfly46 It was my mom who was silencing me, giving me the eye, stepping on my toes, telling me to be quiet around him. I don't know why she gave into him and why she didn't just take us away from him.

@saintsong Ive asked myself that sometimes too. Ive also had friends that needed those questions asked of them also.