Anonymous wrote:OMG we were just reminiscing on this... My parents were so fun. We were definitely the house all the kids wanted to hang out at. They did not smoke or drink and would have beat us if we did, but they'd make jokes about it (mum had a character we called "Reefer Steve" and would pretend to be baked and they were cool discussing anything with us. We'd riff on things and just laugh for hours. We'd talk sex and politics a lot, and just tell funny stories about things family members did/experiences we'd had. They gave good advice and listened and got sad or mad at the right points... and they let us have our emotions. Education and manners were really important to them, which made it even funnier when they acted up.
They would also let us make them the brunt of jokes/let us dress them up like it was 'cool' and do silly things we asked. My mum did a great werewolf howl and a textbook overacting of turning into a werewolf and she'd do it whenever/wherever we asked. On time we made her hair into a greasy mullet, put a sleeveless plaid shirt on her and made her get ice cream for us in a Joe Dirt accent. She's British and sounded like she was having a stroke and we were dying! She was a really great dresser and had good taste but would also do crazy things like she would make glittery headdresses out of the turkey carcass after Christmas and pretend to tell the future on new years eve.
My mum had been a teacher and I think she was the reason we extended our playfulness so long- and my dad was just straight up funny- my siblings and I still joke about everything. We will literally tell each other something horrible about our day and after the usual consoling we will say 'too soon?' and then start to make fun of the other for whatever horrible thing happened. We got this from my mum who would listen with 100% eye contact and then say insulting or superficial things because it would make us laugh and help us get over ourselves. Nothing was off limits except being mean for the sake of being mean.
My dad would usually make an appearance, chat about our day/tell jokes/offer insights... then he'd leave us alone to hang out with friends but when I was in high school we put my (huge tall muscular) dad in my sister's wife beater/belly shirt that said "beat it" in glitter and he let us just LOL at him and take blackmail photos. He then proceeded to steal it from her without us knowing and just be seen around the (fancy gated) neighbourhood wearing it while mowing the lawn, picking up the newspaper etc and when we'd cringe/cry laughing and beg him to put something normal on he'd say because we'd be in front of other friends who hadn't been there to understand the 'joke'... "but you kids said I looked so cool...!" He still has it tucked away and the grandkids do not 'get it' yet but they still laughed like hell. He also used the blackmail photos in an attention whore way... 'accidentally' slipping them into albums, glove compartments, etc.
They'd sneak up on us and scare us when we were down at the beach having a bonfire. They'd yell things out the window when they were driving, like my mum would whistle at men and make animal noises. My parents were self-aware attention whores who were just funny as hell. We all have the same personality.
My mum once picked out the 'queen bee' of the school based on watching behavior at pick up time and she would affect this OMG accent and yell crap at her as we drove by and pretend to run her off the road (it wasn't obvious to anyone not in the car)... loud enough that it passed for talking to us/she wasn't bullying this bully... but she'd say things like "O my freaking gah.... I only wish my flat iron could...like...get my hair... flatter..."
So much randomness. So we just do the same with our kids. If an idea occurs to us, we do it.
They seem awesome - thank you for sharing!
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