Who has the coolest parent?

[Khephra]

I lost my virginity at home, and the woman who was with me had left...extreme hickeys on my neck. She left before my mom woke up, but the signs were clear on me that something had happened.

The first thing she asked me after looking at my neck was "I hope you used protection?" I said "yes" and then she held a party for me. No one knew what the party was for, but we did.

(I was 18 at the time and hadn't had a g/f ever.)

[HEyHEY]

1. When I was 10

I beat up two of my friends on my front lawn. My Mother was on the balcony yelling "He's pulling hair! Punch him!"

Makes me laugh to this day.

I mentioned in another thread my mother's family is from Belfast.

[sandnsea]

2. My grandmother

Raised 7 sons and 1 daughter. A very long time ago, but still...

A neighbor came over to complain about two of the boys doing something or other and was just mad as could be. Two of my uncles poured water on her from the upper story. My dad swears my grandmother didn't even get mad because the old hag was complaining all the time.

I cannot even imagine being my grandmother. I swear I'd have had to move if my kids had done something like that.

[HEyHEY]

5. reminds me of my Nana

My great grandma. She was NUTS! She'd come to a family dinner after bingo and throw her winnings up in the air. Another story is;

My Dad was a kid crosssing the border back to Canada from USA. 50 feet after th border...Nan, pulls out a bottle of scotch

"THEY NEVER FOUND THIS!" She declared.

After the death of my Grandma...we were going through stuff. Found my Grandma's birth certificate, and my great grandma's marriage license......four months apart. HAHAHA! What an adventuresome lady!
Too bad she died when I was nine. But I'll always remember going to her apartment. And when my folks weren't looking she'd slip a dollar in your hand "{Donay tell your parents I gave ye this" she'd say in a thick scottish accent.
What a woman... I'm not a religious guy, but I hope I can meet her again one day.
I remember at her funeral, another scot came to me and after my dad introduced me she said, "You're the great grandson, Surely she'd be proud of you today." I turned to hide my tears.

Gotta stop, crying now.

[sandnsea]

6. Not exactly like that

But I've got a bunch of aunts like that, the wives of all those uncles. One of my aunts, who is 90 I guess, still says a shot a day keeps the doctor away! So my grandmother must have had some spirit in her somewhere! She was just an incredibly patient person, all my uncles and my aunt are incredibly patient people, never had a mean word to say about anybody. My grandparents were actually rather devout Catholics. But the boys' shenanigans just didn't bother her. Boggles my mind.

[HEyHEY]

7. HAHA

Sound like what Nan would say.

The old timers knew how to party

[sandnsea]

9. I feel so blessed

I grew up in this huge Catholic family having kids in the 50's and 60's. Based on the stereotypes, it should have been quite conservative. But I had all these lively women around me, with very distinct personalities who always spoke their mind and the idea of submitting to a husband was nowhere to be found. And they all had to be using condoms or something, because only 1 of them had 4 children, the rest had 2 or 3 each. I like to think my grandma raised these great guys so they would choose these feisty women and I could grow up independent... and give everyone on DU hell!!!

[Susang]

3. My mom drove from Detroit to Chicago to clean my house

I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and when I'm going through a bad period, housework can be just too much for me. My cat was dying and had been urinating all over the place and I was too sick to take care of it all.

Mom took a couple days off from work and drove 5 hours to Chicago, stayed four days and helped my husband clean the shit out of the house. My mom rocks!

And that's only the most recent thing she's done for me. I have a ton of stories all filed away for future reference.

[Djinn]

4. Half of my friends

and those of my brother and 2 sisters practically lived at my house because my parents were a little more in touch than others. They had the view that their teenagers will drink/smoke pot/have sex etc and it's better for them to be doing it somewhere they were safe. As a consequence other kids seemed to feel able to talk to my folks more easilly than their own.

They even had one strange night when a couple of cops turned up on their door step one evening with an ill looking 15 year old girl they'd never seen before, saying "we have your daughter" neither my brother nor I were home at the time and they had no idea who the girl who kept insisting she was their daughter was.

She started puking all over the place and then told them she'd taken a packet of some sad act pills, can't remember what, and my doctor father was getting worried her kidneys were going to pack it in (a side effect of the particular drug apparently) they ended up calling a friend of my brother who came and identified her and the cops took her home - mum and dad followed and waited outside to make sure the cops had actually called an ambulance like they said they would and to make sure her paernts didn't go mental and/or smack her as apparently that's what she'd been scared of.

Dunno if it was a result of having kids when they were young, having 4 of them or just their personalities but I always used to look at other folks parents and be awfully thankful for mine.

[northzax]

8. was it a 'my kid's n ot queer' party?

I actually had a friend who's parents threw him a party after he got laid cause they thought he was gay and they were so relieved he was straight.

of course he was, but his brother? liked the company of men, you know.