List stuff your parents did that make you WTF? now

[Balto Bob]

My dad had 4 smoke detectors in the hallway by our bedrooms. Also had 2 or 3 downstairs.

I can see 2 for backup purposes....but 4?

[PurpleBlast]

My dad used to paint the christmas lights that he would put out front when the paint would chip off. I think lights back then weren't as cheap at the stores.

[aur0rafungirl84]

used to pretty openly have swingers parties/wifeswap get-togethers. they'd tell me and my brother, "OK, so and so are coming over so you need to go to anne's house for a sleepover..."

That worked until we were in our teens...then it was "get lost guys, you know whats happening"

[Non-Conquering Wolf]

My mom would do crazy sh*t like pour chicken blood on my baseball cards and throw them in the trash. Real mean spirited woman that mom was.

[volleyballmaster]

My step-dad would get us up at the ass-crack of dawn during vacations, mostly ski-trips, and then he and my mother would be worn out by noon-1ish and head back to the condo.

In HS I convinced my mother that sh*t was retarded, she was a grown ass woman, and didn't have to deal with that on vacation.

After that we started sleeping in.

[ProneToEpisodes]

They were married @ 22 and had my brother and I @ 23

[Mr. White]

My mom hit me in the head with a frying pan

[Bergundy]

@volley

My father used to get up at 5am on Saturdays to go grocery shopping. He hated dealing with crowds/lines (i'm the same way). So we'd get woke up at 7am to him asking for help unloading the groceries.

[Cybrus]

my mom would throw a chair at me when she was angry

told me she loved me but called me a failure in the same sentence

my dad would rage in public if i said no to a question he asked

[Malakai the guy]

Beat me for not finishing my food. Every single grain of rice had to be gone.

Beat me for not playing the piano.

[Blexrude]

mom chucked an unopened can of refried beans at my head from across the room. missed.

[Vladimir Kortensky]

My dad flipped his sh*t after a floppy disk with his taxes on it got corrupted. He decided to blame it on my brother for no reason, dragged him out of bed that morning and kicked him out of the house (to go back with our mom). My brother was like 13 or 14.

[Ja(v)ie]

My parents were UBER religious as well. To the point where talking about things such as sex, drugs, whatever else, was just as forbidden as actually doing them..

[Alexander]

My mother tells a story about my father pissing her off to the point that she threw a cast iron frying pan at him. He ducked out the door into the garage, shutting the door behind him, but she threw it so hard it went through the balsa wood door and hit him anyway

[Eric Matthews]

When i was in my teens my parents would just accidentally break sh*t and figure they paid for it in some indirect way so i am sh*t out of luck . Shorted stereo recievers, broken sunglasses, shorted computer (cleaning it out with a dust buster ). Every time i visited home in college i was holding my breath to see what had been broken in my room.