Gross Things Your Parents Did

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Anonymous wrote:My mom would burp often as she got older, most the time with an open mouth. Now DH is doing it and it's not attractive.

My mom did the same and then they say "excuse the pig". I hated that.

[Anonymous]

The only gross thing I can think of (which my mom still does!) is if she has something on her contact lens (she's basically the last person on the planet still using hard contact lenses), she'll take a lens out, put it in her mouth, swish it around, and put it back in. Disgusting!

Both my parents would definitely lick their finger and use it to rub dirt off of us, but I never really thought it was gross, and I do that to my kids, too. Also showering roughly every other day really isn't gross - I do that too in the winter.

Also I'm (female) a pretty loud burper in my own home. So maybe one day my kids will be writing about how that's gross!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:not my parents but my kids talk about us.
-My husband occasionally uses my bath water.
-He licks his plate with his finger.
-He uses grocery bags as dental floss.
-We make travel arrangements and to get the cheapest flight, sometimes have to roll into town at 4 am and then work that day.

What the actual F? The rest are just gross but this is truly bizarre. What kind of nutjob did you marry?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:not my parents but my kids talk about us.
-My husband occasionally uses my bath water.
-He licks his plate with his finger.
-He uses grocery bags as dental floss.
-We make travel arrangements and to get the cheapest flight, sometimes have to roll into town at 4 am and then work that day.

How does one do this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many canned peas and canned green beans as the vegetable for dinner.

OP here. Same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are some gross things your parents did? I'm wondering if some of this will turn out to be mostly generational stuff.

My mother drank from the carton/bottle/pitcher -- as in the big one in the fridge that was for everyone. She'd grab the 2 liter of pepsi, unscrew the top, and drink from the bottle, and put it back. Disgusting. Did the same with milk, a kool-aid pitcher, etc.

My mom and stepdad probably showered 3 times a week or so. My step dad was a doctor -- a freaking pathologist -- you would think he would have known better. Nope. Rarely, if ever, saw them wash their hands. I do feel like those silent gen folks did not shower enough.

It's cute that you think your stepdad was wrong about showering or that you know better than a pathologist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom would burp often as she got older, most the time with an open mouth. Now DH is doing it and it's not attractive.

My mother thought farting was funny. And did not hesitate to do it, even at the dinner table. NOT cute.

[Anonymous]

So many things.
It was my job to dust the entire house. I used to dust the same plastic box of dental floss in the bathroom for over a decade. NObody ever used dental floss in my house.

My mother literally went years without showering. I think there's nothing wrong with showering every other day if you aren't sweating, but she STANK. Like, I didn't want to hug her. She didn't brush her teeth before going to the dentist. She was a large woman and walked around in this huge, thin nightgowns. It made my brother and me very uncomfortable. When she would taste something off your utensil, she'd put the entire thing in her mouth and suck the food off, instead of having just teeth touch the food. When she'd eat a bagel with cream cheese, she'd take a bite of bagel, and then put cream cheese on the part of the bagel now exposed. She'd go through half a tub of cream cheese for one bagel this way. I've posted before about how she poured Ragu spaghetti sauce into white rice and told us it was Spanish rice.

My dad walked around in the tighty whiteys and his undershirt. Nobody wants to see that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are some gross things your parents did? I'm wondering if some of this will turn out to be mostly generational stuff.

My mother drank from the carton/bottle/pitcher -- as in the big one in the fridge that was for everyone. She'd grab the 2 liter of pepsi, unscrew the top, and drink from the bottle, and put it back. Disgusting. Did the same with milk, a kool-aid pitcher, etc.

My mom and stepdad probably showered 3 times a week or so. My step dad was a doctor -- a freaking pathologist -- you would think he would have known better. Nope. Rarely, if ever, saw them wash their hands. I do feel like those silent gen folks did not shower enough.

It's cute that you think your stepdad was wrong about showering or that you know better than a pathologist.

I will assure you that he was absolutely filthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mom would burp often as she got older, most the time with an open mouth. Now DH is doing it and it's not attractive.

My mother thought farting was funny. And did not hesitate to do it, even at the dinner table. NOT cute.

I'm a woman and don't do it around company or at a dinner table, but farting is as natural as talking. You're the weird one.

[Anonymous]

My mother lives with us now that she’s elderly and any time I fix myself a meal or bring food home, she gets too close to it to look at it and touches it or picks it up. Drives me insane. Do not touch or breathe on other people’s food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are some gross things your parents did? I'm wondering if some of this will turn out to be mostly generational stuff.

My mother drank from the carton/bottle/pitcher -- as in the big one in the fridge that was for everyone. She'd grab the 2 liter of pepsi, unscrew the top, and drink from the bottle, and put it back. Disgusting. Did the same with milk, a kool-aid pitcher, etc.

My mom and stepdad probably showered 3 times a week or so. My step dad was a doctor -- a freaking pathologist -- you would think he would have known better. Nope. Rarely, if ever, saw them wash their hands. I do feel like those silent gen folks did not shower enough.

It's cute that you think your stepdad was wrong about showering or that you know better than a pathologist.

I will assure you that he was absolutely filthy.

Maybe he was filthy, but in general, there is nothing wrong or unhealthy about showering 3-4 times a week.

[Anonymous]

Wow you all had terrible parents.

[Anonymous]

Picking the food out of their teeth with a toothpick in front of us at the table and then eating it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mom would burp often as she got older, most the time with an open mouth. Now DH is doing it and it's not attractive.

My mother thought farting was funny. And did not hesitate to do it, even at the dinner table. NOT cute.

I'm a woman and don't do it around company or at a dinner table, but farting is as natural as talking. You're the weird one.

Yet you put conditions around it. Hypocrite.