As a kid, did you ever...interrupt your parents while they were...bonding?

[LaraMN]

Or say, perhaps, overhear your parents "enjoying" each other's company, and mistakenly think that your mother was "getting hurt"? If so, were you scarred for life when you got a little older and wiser, and reflected on the incident? I'd really be interested to know...:blush: :banghead: :blush:

[miss_american_pie]

1. Interrupted? Yes

Think she was hurt? No.

Scarred for life? No.

Celebrating that A, were you? ;)

[LaraMN]

5. Something like that.

:rofl:

[Midlodemocrat]

2. Uh, oh, methinks a littleLaraMN has been up past his/her bedtime.

[LaraMN]

7. I'm mostly amazed that he made it almost eight years without

something like that ever happening before. Either that or he's noticed alot and just never said anything. cringe.

[Richardo]

3. No.

I did walk in on my Mom sitting on the toilet once, though.

I'm still scarred from that.

[MissMillie]

4. No

never

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. I wouldn't have been scarred...

...if what they were doing wasn't illegal in 23 states. :cry:

[LaraMN]

8. Omg!

:rofl:

[seemunkee]

9. Locks on bedroom doors are a wonderful thing

If you remember to use them. Never walked in on my parents but our daughter walked in on us. Luckily it was cold and we were under the covers.

[LaraMN]

11. Well, the good news is he didn't actually see anything.

Just heard some *stuff* because one of us is unable to keep her noise level down sufficiently. :P

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. No, but

I once walked by their bedroom and heard Mom say, "You're a pervert!"

[LaraMN]

13. Y'know what my husband told him was going on?

He said he was just "tickling Mom." Poor kid is going to remember this some day, and think "Oh GROSS!"

[DS1]

12. So THAT's what the maple syrup was all about

I get it now

[LaraMN]

15. Well, although I know it's his favorite, smearing beef jerky across my

carcass just didn't seem like an apt proposition.

[DS1]

19. You shouldn't be the one supplying the meat anyway

;-)

[HughBeaumont]

14. No, thank God.

Even when they talk about it I'm like, "oh HELL no, goodbye!"

[southlandshari]

16. Yes!

And no to the second question. Well maybe a little bit. I had forgotten about it until now.

Thanks a lot, darlin'!

:rofl:

[LaraMN]

18. Lol! Sorry Babe!

See- I know I've messed him up! Might as well quit trying so hard with kid #1, now. He's tainted. Ah well, I've still got two others...

[southlandshari]

20. It's ok, because

I got rid of the memory of what I saw as quickly as it resurfaced....

















































by picturing what YOUR kid might have seen!

:evilgrin:


:hide:

[LaraMN]

27. BWahhh!

:rofl:

Boy I have missed your regular presence!

[southlandshari]

64. Me too!

Missed being here - and missed you in particular, too!

:hug:

[billyskank]

42. Hi Shari!

:hi:

:hug: You are yellow.

[southlandshari]

65. Ooooo - feeling pink today?

:D


Works for me - I feel all sunshiney today!

[jane_pippin]

17. Well...I didn't know that's what was going on at the time, but yeah.

When I was a kid I'd wake up with pains in my legs all the time and I'd scream until my mom came down to make me feel better. One night I woke up with pains and I heard a horrible noise coming from upstairs that sounded like the ceiling was falling. (Their room was right above mine and they didn't have a tempurpedic bed ya know.) So I screamed my head off. I'm sure you know it: Mom! Mom! Mom! (momentary pause) Moooooooom! (pause pause pause) MOOOOOO-OOOOO-MYYYYYYYYY!! Mommy!!!

She showed up sooner or later and I felt better. BUT, now that I'm older and know what was going on I feel kind of bad about it. So uh, sorry mom. :)

[LaraMN]

28. You feel guilty about it!

You are way. too. nice.
:rofl:

[jane_pippin]

72. Well yeah. I was raised on a healthy mix of shame and worry.

Feeling a little bad is a natural result of that. :D

I don't feel that bad. More like a "whoops! Haha. My bad" kind of bad.

[no name no slogan]

21. Mine divorced when I was four

I don't even remember them even kissing each other. All I remember is the fighting, every night after supper, and then my dad moving out. And nobody explaining to me what the hell was going on.

[Lilith Velkor]

63. Same here

I got sent to several psychiatrists for "acting out," and none of them would tell me what was going on, either. Eventually, I figured it out.

Gaah...no wonder I'm a fucking anarchist.

[Squatch]

22. It looks like Dad's trying to jump over Mom, but can't quite make it.

[Arugula Latte]

24. A case of leapfrog gone bad.

Nothing to see here, son. Move along...

[BlueIris]

23. Thankfully, no. My sister did once, however. She's fine.

Kids grow up and either forget, or try to.

[Redstone]

25. No, but our kids have interrupted us more than once...Maybe we should

"bond" a little less frequently, and not everywhere in the house, and it wouldn't happen?

Nah.

Redstone

[WritingIsMyReligion]

33. Everywhere in the house?

:rofl:

[Redstone]

71. Why not? The sofas, stairs, kitchen counter...they're all SO handy!

Redstone

[LaraMN]

40. You and Mrs. R. rule. You just rule.

:yourock:

[In_The_Wind]

26. Oh yeah!

THAT sight never left the back of my mind!

[Gormy Cuss]

29. A story from a divorced friend.

Her 5 year old boy came home from a weekend at his father's new home, the new girlfriend's small apartment. The boy slept on the sofa in the living room, probably not all that well. He reported to his mother that he thought Susie had bats in her apartment because late at night, after everything was quiet, the little boy heard sounds like 'Eek..eek...eek!" The worst part of this story for me was that I worked with Susie and had a hard time keeping a straight face the next time I saw her.

[lcbart]

30. It terrified me.

I walked in on them when I was about 8.

I started yelling and beating on my step father.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

34. LOL!

:rofl:

[Skittles]

80. it's not really funny but then it is

poor thing......what a trooper though, 8 years old and protecting mom :thumbsup:

[Oeditpus Rex]

31. Forget about your kids

Tell us about it! :woohoo: :bounce:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

35. Yeah, no shit.

*agrees with Rex*

;)

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. Ix-nay, Ara-lay!

The Id-kay's atching-way.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

45. Yeah.....

Geesh!

:P

:pals:

[billyskank]

32. One time I walked into my parent's bedroom to ask them to turn the TV down

they had it on REALLY loud and it was very late at night. I never finished my first sentence. :o

:scared:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

36. Did they know you interrupted them?

Or did you just walk in, see them, and walk out without them being any the wiser?

:D

[billyskank]

37. I didn't interrupt them

they even noticed I was there, and believe me, I was gone pretty damn fast.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

46. LOL!

:spray:

[dolo amber]

38. I did interrupt

I saw a spider the size of Oregon in my room, screamed bloody murder and dear ol' dad came hauling ass (and other dangly bits :o) down the hall to see who or what had scared his little princess half to death. It's an image I'll carry with me to the grave. :cry:

[billyskank]

41. It was worse than the spider, huh?

:rofl:

[dolo amber]

49. It certainly compunded the trauma

:D

[LaraMN]

43. Oh God- my Dad used to sleep commando, and one morning the phone rang

exceptionally early, and he went running to get it (buck-ass naked, of course) and I (pre-teenage) also got up to get it. Apparently, I saw him naked, but I swear.to.you. I can't remember ANYTHING below his neck. I seriously think I have mentally blocked it out.

I believe he purchased a bathrobe, after that.


:rofl:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

48. Bathrobes are good....

:rofl:

[dolo amber]

51. I was only about 4 or 5

I can't imagine if I'd been a pre-teen...I probably would have had to move. :D :blush:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

47. OMG!

I would die! Absolutely die! Talk about being scarred for life!

:scared:

[billyskank]

52. The devotion to his daughter is truly admirable, though

:)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

I still would have died.

Come running if you must, but remember that pants are good.

:D

[WritingIsMyReligion]

55. Effing dupes..... (nt)

[dolo amber]

56. The running was mostly the issue

I mean, the seeing...that's one thing. It was the flappity woohoo that was so very disturbing. :cry:

:D

[billyskank]

57. ...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

59. ACH! Mental image!

:scared:

:D

[Magrittes Pipe]

61. Thank you for putting the image of Big Bob's "flappity woohoo" in my head.

x(

[havocmom]

39. no but I walked in on them during sax a couple of times

Dad played alto and kept his instrument under the bed. Sometimes Mom wanted to hear him play Tenderly just for her first thing in the morning.

What? That isn't normal? :shrug:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

50. LOL!

:D :D

[WritingIsMyReligion]

53. No, can't say that I have.

Though one night I could tell that my parents were, uh, in the mood--the fact that my mom was a little (read: really) buzzed on scotch might have helped this along--and I kind of left the room for an hour.

They were still clothed when I came back downstairs, and there were no signs of any bedroom activity....

Maybe they're just....clean....at it?

:dilemma:

[cssmall]

58. Highly experienced and efficient is the more apt description.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

60. LOL....Probably.

I've never cared to hear about their....experience....but that's probably just it.

:D

[swag]

54. Fortunately for me, I did not witness that particular primal scene.

[NewWaveChick1981]

62. Once, when I was 7 or 8.

They were still mostly clothed and just pretended to be asleep. I just shrugged and closed the door. :)

[alarimer]

66. No but the thought of it is enough to give me the willies

Shudder.

[AirmensMom]

67. Just once.

I wondered why she didn't breast feed us. :shrug: Once I got older and figured out what was going on, it grossed me out. :puke: But I'm not scarred for life.

Wait a minute ... did you get caught?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

68. Well, my dear Lara!

I never walked in on my parents.....

But one time, my dad came to their closed bedroom door, and he opened it...

I was standing there, god knows why.....and he was stark naked.....

And yes, I did look.....

Oh well.....I wasn't scarred!

We have ALWAYS locked our bedroom door! Well, not any more.....the kids are all moved out!

:hi:

[Pied Piper]

74. Hi Peggy

You know I don't often post here, but I just couldn't resist this one...

I went to college in my hometown, so I lived at home to save on expenses. One night when I was about 21 or 22, I heard this terrible crash from my parents' bedroom, down the hall, followed by loud laughing and giggling by both of them (it was about 2 in the morning). The next morning, I made a big show of stomping down the hallway, and I knocked on their door. "Come in!" When I opened the door, I noticed that both the box springs and the mattress had collapsed through the bedframe that supported both items. The box springs was resting on the floor, and the mattress was on top of that - it looked so funny - the frame of the bed was above the mattress! My dad said, "I was just checking to see what time it was, and the whole thing collapsed!" My mom just blushed.

Later that day, my dad asked me to help him fix the bed, so we flipped the mattress against the wall, and an wrapped condom jumped onto the floor. My dad had a vasecetomy about 10 years earlier, so this thing had been sitting between the box springs and the mattress for quite some time. Dad hadn't yet noticed, so I debated my options. Of course I said, "Dad, what's this?" He totally blushed and said, "Maybe you can find a use for this." I said, "This thing is about 10 years old, maybe we should just throw it away." Mom never knew.

[joneschick]

75. yup. this one apparently runs in the family

JonesDad and I broke the bed at his mother's! The next morning she told us about breaking the bed at her mother-in-law's house many years ago. But they managed to break a bed they weren't currently assigned to in the middle of the afternoon.

[MissB]

69. I hate it when that happens.

Happened just the other day. :blush:

[Nikia]

70. Not my parents, but my mother and her boyfriend

I was seven. I heard my mother making noise like she was in pain so I opened the bed room door and saw her boyfriend on top of her. I asked if she was alright.
After that incident, she gave me the book "Where Did I Come From?"
I don't think that incident really scarred me. I didn't understand what was happening at the time. Once I understood it made sense. Although it was tough growing up with my divorced parents' SO's, some of who they married and others who we never saw again, it didn't bother me that they had sex. They probably still do with their current spouses.

[begin_within]

73. Oh. So that's what they mean by coitus interruptus.

[ornotna]

76. I once caught my dad

Gluing new laminate to a table top. That counts as bonding right.

[GOPFighter]

77. NO!

In fact I didn't even know where my new brothers and sisters were coming from. All I know is that every time I started a new grade at school a new baby came along.

How dare they keep secrets from me!

Edit: I'm sober tonight, honest

[texas1928]

78. YOU'RE KILLING MOM!!!!!!!

Dad "No we were just wrestling"

[Kali]

79. yeah

teenager era - walked in and dad was in the bathroom,mom all sprawled on the bed in "post" glow ewww

the imagery and realization that my parents did THAT didn't scar for life, but scabbed for a few years, heh heh


Now its MY turn to gross out the kids. bwahahahahha

[Hissyspit]

81. Yes.

[mykpart]

82. I did, but I didn't know what they were doing,

only that they were both naked. So I ran and told my little brother, and then HE walked in on them too! At that point my father yelled & cussed and my brother and I went to the kitchen and got something to eat. I was about 8, brother about 6, I guess. Anyway, I was grown before I remembered and realized what was going on back then. I didn't think my mom was being hurt; she had a BIG smile on her face.