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[–] the_gamer_rises 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

my parents cooking. i didnt know it at the time but my parents were awful, awful cooks. we were really poor which didnt help. when i got a job and started buying my own food i was shocked at how delicious food could be.

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[–] GoAskErin ago 

On the flip side, was it exciting to suddenly realize that food could taste amazing and you had a whole new world to explore?

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[–] ReanLu 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Same for me! Heart disease is strong on my mom's side so she put an outright embargo on salt in our household. I guess she decided to be cautious because she didn't use ANY other spices either. No garlic, no pepper, nothing. Fast forward to starting university and having a roommate with Thai parentage. A whole new world of flavour was opened up to me.

I remember telling her "I thought only restaurants could make food taste like this"

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[–] the_gamer_rises 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

it was junk food for me. we only had take out a few times a year, when it was someones birthday. when i was older i ate fast food for about 2 years straight.

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[–] biostitute 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

"You live in a free country. If you work hard, you can be anything"

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[–] Pawn ago 

All lies.

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[–] mondogecko 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I was a chubby douche, my sister a jr. Olympics cross country runner. I got jealous, though I really didn't understand what I was feeling, I just dove in, I told my teacher that these crappy books I used to draw were getting published with my parent's help. I told my parents that the crappy books were getting published with my teacher's help. Everybody congradulated me, treated me a little better. So my mom went to the library, and I swore until the end that the books were there, my books. While my mom asked the librarian I spied from a distance, and could tell the rouse was up by their body language. Well, there was no big upset. Everything went back to the way it was. I didn't even get punished for lying, just got trusted a little less, respected a little less by everyone. I was hoping at least to be punished, to get some attention that way. It was a pretty important lesson for me as a 10 yr old.

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[–] paradigmx 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I was always told I could be anything I wanted. Growing up I had to learn the hard way that I couldn't be everything that I wanted.

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[–] UnicornMuffin 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Wally World wasn't an Amusement Park.

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[–] ReanLu 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

For no apparent reason whatsoever, my mom chose to call Walmart "WallyWorld" ...

I had never seen the move and hated shopping so I'd often complain about having to go to to Wallyworld on the weekends. A classmate of mine who had seen Vacation a few times begged me to take her with us, so we arranged to pick her up on the way...I'm sure my mom thought that an odd request, but anyways.... The look of disappoint on her face when we pulled in at the mall and not an amusement park was so real, I wonder if someday I'll bump into her in one of these threads.

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[–] ttyy ago 

That is amazing :)

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[–] UnicornMuffin ago 

This is why I have trust issues.

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[–] Weedaholic 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

As a child, i wanted that fuckin cool mickey mouse drum set so bad...one day, my biological father was going to pick me up for the weekend and he told me he had a surprise for me from his Business Trip he recently did...i was excited as fuck,rocking this badboys in my mind...i was so disapointed when he proudly handed me this over as "the surprise" (he was in bavaria for his Trip)

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[–] kjelle 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

What type of cane is that? It's certainly not a Mickey Mike drumset.

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[–] Weedaholic ago 

It's called "wanderstock" in German, so i guess you could say wander/walkingcane...see that badges on that? You can buy mostly in small villages in the alps...they increase your badassness on the hiking trails (assuming you're 60+)...would i buy a thing like that as a surprise for my 6yo? Absolutely not :)

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[–] NotAnUndercoverCop 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The year the Play Station came out I asked for one for Christmas.

So what does my mom do? She steals my NES and it's 32 games. Sells them at a pawn shop for next to free (ten bucks for the NES and a dollar for each game). Then for Christmas buys us a.... Super Nintendo. With 1 measly game.

We didn't want a Super Nintendo. We wanted a Play Station and certainly didn't want to get rid of our NES and it's 32 fucking awesome games we'd collected for it over the years.

Now all we had was a console from the previous generation and only one lousy game for it.

We never did get any more games for it because we didn't even want it in the first place.

We spent that entire year pretty much video game-less. It wasn't until the next Christmas she actually got me the Play Station.

When I think about how much that NES and all those games are currently worth it still makes my blood boil.

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[–] Superciliousthefirst ago 

I was three and I learned that when adults wrote checks, it didn't magically create money.

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