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I was raised in a deeply Religious household.



So today is Good Friday. It's a public holiday.



I encountered some other university students taking a beach trip and they invited me. But I just couldn't bring myself to go.



Why ?


Because of my mother.



My mother always said "you shouldn't go on any fun/recreational activity on Good Friday or else something bad will happen" ... this was literally a house rule growing up.



My Mom had me convinced that if I went out anywhere fun on Good Friday... it would be "mocking God" and that some final destination freak accident would happen.



I have this fond memory of myself in high-school literally trying to sneak out of the house to play basketball one Good Friday morning...only for my Mom to meet me at the front door saying:



"Son. Do you want to get hit by a bolt of lightning? Or suffer a stroke ? Or get hit by a car? Or have a power line outside snap and fall on you?...go back to your room and change."



Thiking about it now it's kinda funny.


I swear my Mom could have written a Final Destination movie...for all the weird freak scenarios she would come up with to scare me out of going out on Good Friday.



Well. I may not be able to explain it ...but I haven't been in any freak accidents so...(shrugs shoulders).



How about you guys ?


Any weird habits of your parents you find yourselves unwittingly carrying on ?

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My mom always made quick put down jokes that others thought were funny and just irritated me. Now I do the same as my mom and people laugh and I wonder why because it really isn't funny to me and do not know why a I do it. I guess I just want her back.
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My father was compulsive about turning off lights when you left the room and weren't going back in, or turning off extra lights he thought weren't needed even in the rooms we were in. To this day I'm still very conscientious about turning off lights when I leave the room, even if I'll be going back in shortly. Growing up in NYC, we always closed the blinds, shades, or curtains at night for privacy. I've lived in Maine for well over 50 years now and still close them. I can remember when I first moved here and would take walks at night (lived in a small metropolitan area) and was surprised that the majority of people didn't seem to close their curtains. You could look right in and see what they were watching on TV, what they were cooking for dinner, etc.
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Sad as it sounds, I only remember bits and pieces of my childhood before the age of 12. I love everyone's stories though :)
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Whenever we had a snow day off from school , my mother always made us grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch and chicken noodle soup . Then we would bake chocolate chip cookies. I continued that with my own children .

To this day whenever it snows my children will text me and ask if I’m having grilled cheese for lunch !

Only recently my daughter asked why I did that. I hadn’t realized that I never told them that’s what I ate on snow days as a kid. It’s warm comfort food on a cold snowy day .
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bundleofjoy Apr 2023
i'm on my way to you. grilled cheese, mmmm.
(if you currently have no snow, no problem. i'll bring snow.)
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Fun question! 😊

My mom didn’t care about us getting dirty while playing but she always made sure that we had clean hands before sitting down at the dinner table.

I am fanatical about hand washing!
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My mother used to cover the Thanksgiving turkey with cheesecloth soaked in chicken fat. It actually worked quite well to keep the turkey moist - that is, until I set the oven on fire one year....
My father used to have a huge bowl of mixed dry cereals for breakfast, the last items added were cake or cookie crumbs. Worked quite well to get our (then) young kids to eat breakfast!
Are these odd habits?
We're Jewish, and the tradition is to leave a stone on top of the gravestone when you visit. I leave a Snicker's bar on my father's and hard candy on my grandmother's instead. I think it's much more meaningful.
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Way2tired Apr 2023
I leave French fries at my mother’s grave and tea bags at my father’s .
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We lived in an old farmhouse. My Dad believed that when it thundered and we had lightning the windows and doors had to be closed. Storms always seemed to come in the early evening when that house got hot. Mom had a gigantic window fan that drew out that hot air and by late evening the house cooled down. But of course that fan was not allowed to be on when there was a storm. So us 4 kids sat on the floor waiting for that storm to pass with sweat rolling off of us. I live in the swamp area of NJ and it was HUMID! No, I did not inherit that. My windows are up during storms as long as rain is not coming in. My AC goes on in May and off in October. I really like sitting out on my enclosed porch and watching storms.
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Exveemon Apr 2023
Lol. That's a wonderful story.
I can't imagine that.

Then again. I remember a game of cat and mouse that used to go on every night where my Dad would wait for me to fall asleep.. then switch of the fans...then I would wake up and put ir back on ....then in the morning he would tel me about the electric bill LOL.
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Watching my kids (I have 4 daughters and 1 son) I see so much of myself in them. It's been commented on by the inlaws many times, but in a loving way. My daughters and I all sound exactly the same and I used to answer the phone when their BF's and later, fiances would call and I'd pretend to be the daughter they were calling. Caught out all 4 of the sons in law--it was great!

W/O a doubt there are many things that they've inherited from me that they'd rather not have--but that's life.

I don't see a lot of my mom in me, but I do hope I am like my grandmothers, who were both amazing women.
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One of my favorite commercials out there is the insurance ad about how to prevent becoming our parents.

I had great parents, but there were a few things I found annoying, and as a kids would say to myself "Well, I will NEVER as long as I live say THAT or think THAT....."

A surprise then, several decades ago, to find myself saying EXACTLY that, and thinking that, as well.
Alas. Perhaps we DO become our parents?

Happy Easter to all. My parents made spectacular Easter Baskets, and I always had new patent leather shoes on the occasion.
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lealonnie1 Apr 2023
The Catholic school I went to forbade patent leather shoes.......the nuns said boys could look up our dresses if we wore such things. 🙄
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All those super paranoid warnings my mother issued over the years had the opposite effect on me than she'd intended. It caused me to roll my eyes 🙄 and ignore all of it. Especially the hiding in the closet when it rained out or thunder stormed. Or Keep The Bedroom Window Closed or The Boogey Man Will Sneak in To Kill You, in the dead summer heat of a no a/c home.

Once in awhile I'll hear myself use an expression mom used to say. Then I'm like WHAAAAAT? 😂🤣😃 Who said that? Not moi!

My vote is to go out today to see for yourself that it's safe to do so with no freak accidents lurking in the shadows. If something happens though, I never made that suggestion in the first place!

Happy Easter!
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Exveemon Apr 2023
Lol. I love that last sentence.
Well the day is already over. So maybe next year.
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