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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Definately found it embarrassing that I had to answer my parents with
 yes sir, no sir, or yes ma'am or no  ma'am when answering them and all other adults.

When my friends came over they always  teased me about it. 
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One of my friends growing up had to call her PARENTS ma’am and sir. Her parents were southern and her dad had gone to the naval academy.
She just rolled her eyes about it, but did tell me that I had to call them ma’am and sir, too.  And if I didn’t, then they might make my parents come pick me up.

They also said grace at dinner, and when I just sat there silently (my family is not religious and I had never seen it before) they said I couldn’t eat until I said “amen”. So then my friend invited me over and we unexpectedly went to a Baptist youth group meeting, where the minister tried to convince me to come to church. I honestly answered what I had heard my parents say many many times: “my mom is a Unitarian but doesn’t go to church because she doesn’t like to get up early in the morning and thinks maybe god is actually mathematics, and my dad says we don’t do this crap in our family because we can figure out right and wrong for ourselves without needing the help of a guy wearing a black dress who wants to take our money”.

Needless to say, that was the end of our friendship - her parents said I was wicked and wouldn’t let us play together anymore. I cried and cried. And my parents were like “no, no we live below the mason- Dixon line! Always lie and say you are religious down here!” I had no idea what they were taking about and remember trying to look up the Mason-Dixon Line in our World Book encyclopedia set. So, thanks for the late memo on THAT mom and dad![/quote]

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