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| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by Mekzie(m): 9:11pm On Apr 03, 2010 |
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| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by psychu: 9:16pm On Apr 03, 2010 |
I had the 9pm NTA news issues while growing up. MY dad will tune into the news only to close his eyes after 5 minutes till the next 1hr. Out of curiosity I asked mumsi, who told me that adults can understand everything going on in the news even with their eyez closed. As an adult I have tried doing it severally but end up leaving my TV on, till the following morning. I don’t want to believe my mum lied to cover 4 her husband  1 Like |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by lonelydude: 9:41pm On Apr 03, 2010 |
Its amazing to know that most of us grew up in similar ways. TheSaintz:Same with me. I remember my mum had this mighty and giant CUP specially for taking tea. Also, I can't forget her goggle-like eye glasses. For my dad, I will never forget the particular style of sound of the horn of DATSUN 180k(car). I remember he doesn't like us playing football in the next compound but trust us now. The moment he approaches the closest junction to our street, he never misses to press the car horn which prompted us to take off to the house. But on this fateful day, he didn't press the horn and just drove into the garage. We played more than enough sets that day and got so exhausted. Little did we know that our old man had waited for us for over an hour in the sitting-room with MR DISCIPLINE. But the interesting thing about my dad was that after the punishment, the next day, instead of giving you 20 kobo he increases to 50 kobo (that was during my primary school). |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by eldee(m): 11:08pm On Apr 03, 2010 |
1. I don't know why but I could tell if I'd done anything wrong with the number of names my mum uses to call me. If it's just sumn really good, she used my English name. If she wanted to send me on an errand: My Yoruba middle name. . . Debola. But when it's sumn really bad I've done she drops the combo . . . ADEBOLANLE JOHNUUUU OMO AJAYI!!!! BO SIBI!!! (Adebloanle John the son of Ajayi, come here) 2. When it was time to get flogged, my mum used to ask us where we wanted it . . . a choice between the palm, the back or the buttocks. If you said you wanted your palm, she'll use the cane on your back and buttocks. . . if you said buttocks, she flogged your palm. After sometime we just learnt to tell her the opposite of what we wanted 1 Like |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by sssob: 11:22pm On Apr 03, 2010 |
I remember my mum had this mighty and giant CUP specially for taking tea. Also, I can't forget her goggle-like eye glasses. For my dad, I will never forget the particular style of sound of the horn of DATSUN 180k(car). I remember he doesn't like us playing football in the next compound but trust us now. The moment he approaches the closest junction to our street, he never misses to press the car horn which prompted us to take off to the house. But on this fateful day, he didn't press the horn and just drove into the garage. We played more than enough sets that day and got so exhausted. Little did we know that our old man had waited for us for over an hour in the sitting-room with MR DISCIPLINE. But the interesting thing about my dad was that after the punishment, the next day, instead of giving you 20 kobo he increases to 50 kobo (that was during my primary school). same with me , they still make me lol with their love wa tin tin, everyday , funny people |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by codelady(f): 11:23pm On Apr 03, 2010 |
my folks would always watch all the obituaries after the NTA network news, they did this unfailingly. i remember once asking them why, they said they "were just catching up on old friends"! LOL! it's funny cos they knew most of the deceased folks even back then! i remember the never-ending inflows of newspapers and magazines - read every single one! it was a quarterly ritual to sell off to those "paper mallams". i remember my dad going off to meet the guy with his own ruler! and me in tow with stacks of publications. the only ones we didn't discard were TIME magazines and Watchtower publications. i recall the pains of missing out on "secret of the sands" because dad wanted to watch 8pm news. it was bliss whenever he came back late from work - mum would be worried, but i would be happily watching the tv program he would otherwise have made me miss! (naughty, huh?) dad always insisted on sending me off to bed by 8 on schooldays and 11pm on weekends (right after "Moonlighting", which we used to watch together on friday nights). one friday night, he fell asleep on his sofa and of course i watched tv till past 1am! when he woke up, he was shocked! he chased me with alacrity and i sped off to bed, full of chuckles!!! unfortunately, he banned tv viewing for the next 2 years! (still wondering how i survived that!) sadly, all the "family life" was just a mirage.  |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by ayanfemy(f): 11:43pm On Apr 03, 2010 |
i gained admission into a co-educational boarding school in '75, wen i was resuming in form 1, among d things mami packed for me was lady sept sanitary pad, wen i ask what its used for, she said 'gbe enu e soun' wen i went home for holidays, immediately she saw me, she said 'u have started, and did not complete ha statement but later killed a fowl in my name n d whole family ate! she woke me up in d middle of d same nyt t warn me that "now dat i have started seeing your monthly thing you should not be close to any boy" a phrase which became regular each resumption!! my confusion then was dt how possible s dat? in coeducational boarding sch!! 1 Like |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by McboG: 11:51pm On Apr 03, 2010 |
Really wonderful memories. I was usually sacred of asking my dad for things, I'd rather ask my mum, and of course she'd tell me to confront my dad, and go to him and say something like, "Daddy" pause "Mummy said I should tell you to please give me money to buy biscuit". Lol. There was a day we were having evening prayers and my mum was coordinating, it took so long that everyone was almost dreaming already, herself included, as a matter of fact, she got so sleepy that she unwittingly gave this prayer point, "let us pray for all the cassava in the bush that God should help them, "!!! LoL!!! It was the thundering of our laughter that woke her! 2 Likes |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by bolanleodu: 12:02am On Apr 04, 2010 |
i have to say that this is the best thr ead i have ever read on NL. i and my elder brother were banned fom playing football on the street but we often did. then neither my mum nor dad had a car . when ever we where out playing and they had arrived at the junction to our street every nieghbour would begin to pass the message till it gets to us and so we'd run off to the bathoom, wash our legs and dry them with rags cos if you dared dry them with towels you'd be in great trouble. |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by methodman(m): 12:04am On Apr 04, 2010 |
OMG!!!! We kids never really asked mum for money whenever we are about to leave for skol cuz of course we already know what she wud say, " Mi o ti gba SALARY" At times, when we see her in her happy mood we just simply say to her, shey e ti gba salary yin ni? lol Wen we were a little bit younger, dad gave mumsy a dahatsu car that we nicknamed jalopy. When mum arrives from work, we dare not open the gate for her cuz she uses the car to HIT the gate and force it open. Chei, i pity that car, When dat now bought her a Honda CRV, i told her one day that "Iya, why not use your new car to open the gates like you used to do?" Mum is someone that knows how to drive, GOOD, AND, ROUGH. All the cab drivers in my area sabi mumsy ooo. I was in town one day with one of my chicks. We took a cab going somewhere and a fellow taxi driver drove rough and guess what our driver said? O je lo ba aya Gbadebo ko ko e bi won shey wa moto olosi meaning " You better go and meet Mrs Gbadebo to teach you how to drive". My chick said dude, isnt that your mum he's talking about? I love her anyway, |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by dymmy: 12:11am On Apr 04, 2010 |
one minute they ar both declaring war at eachother, d nxt minute they ar laughing 2geda lik nothin happened. cant help but wonder my parents actually stored eachother names wit `dear' on their phones. then suddenly my dad changed my mum's name 2 `olori' when my mum got wind of this,she decided it ws a way of him preventin his girlfriends frm knowin she ws d one callin so she equalised d situation by changing his own name too to `baba oloye' my dad habit of increasin d volume of d sound system 2 d highest, that u can help but to think dt maybe we ar havin a party or he didnt get d opportunity wen he ws young my mum's way of takin things too personal e.g she gets 2 knw u hav a boyfriend, then she starts prayin abt it as if u ar gettin married to d guy d nxt day 3 Likes |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by ayettymama(f): 12:13am On Apr 04, 2010 |
leaving me all this work and thinking i would do it hilarious! |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by madlady(f): 12:26am On Apr 04, 2010 |
eldee: Oh gosh your mum sounds like my mother, psychlogical torture. My mother would send us to get whatever she had decided to beat us with that Saturday, that was more painful than the beating. |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by denzel2009: 12:40am On Apr 04, 2010 |
My dad cant go a day without dissing mum. Just ask dad to buy you something, instead of telling you he can't afford it. The response will be - Its your mother that you want to send to prison. Why cant our mum drive? We asked dad one day. He said there is no point cos he had tried to teach her to no avail and that she has special attraction to trailers/heavy duty lorries(mum gets distracted anytime she sees trailers). If he had continued teaching her, we would probably be orphans by now. Don't you just love them! 3 Likes |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by tayoast(m): 12:56am On Apr 04, 2010 |
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| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by tubabie(f): 1:22am On Apr 04, 2010 |
Funny thread, lol My mum had this annoying habit of giving you a long rope to pull then your cup becomes full suddenly when she decides and the next thing you hear is the terrible pronouncement: "My eyes are on you ". . . . . Gawd it means that for a period of 2-7days, you can never do anything right; the minutest wrong action is accompanied with a smack, slap, caning till she is satisfied you are well behaved again, the cycle was a continuous one. Those days lol. Telling tales was so frustrating when we were younger cos no matter how juicy the gist is my mum just says sharrap you are lying  That worked at discouraging the habit lol . |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by volasunkan: 1:33am On Apr 04, 2010 |
we attend church of christ where we dont use musical instruments,dance ra-ba-ba style etc,I and my elder brother would sometimes dose off but as soon as my father finds out,you will stand thru out service!Anytime I am on "all stand mode"i notice my dad regularly bit and chewed on his orogbo(bitterkola).I kept wondering why he's mouth was never still.Years later,i found out he was taking the kolanut so he wont fall asleep! P.S.I tried not to do it with my kids shah |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by OnyeBabe1(f): 1:52am On Apr 04, 2010 |
Once, a family friend bought us four plates of isi ewu and it was really much, I dont think I can even finish one and I eat a lot. However, on that faithfully evening my mum shared three plates with all of us, we were 6 at home that evening. After eating we all left the balcony thinking it had finished, only for me to return and find my mum bringing a plate full of meat from under her chair which she had hidden, she gave me some and told me not to tell. Lol I love this thread. |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by OAM4J: 3:39am On Apr 04, 2010 |
lol. How I love this thread. brought back wonderful memories. The big tea bowl, the cane, the pranks etc. God bless Parents. |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by Aglah1976(f): 5:47am On Apr 04, 2010 |
thanks y'all for sharing those wonderful memories, i laugh sotey water dey comot for my eye, Growing up was fun and i still wish i could time travel back to my primary school days and watch myself, lol, as the first son and eldest in a family of 7{5boys 2 girls}was stubborn and always doing something wrong, at times my dad will call me, KUNLE!, LO MU EGBA WA, OWO NYUN MI {KUNLE! GO AND BRING THE CANE, MY PALM ITCHES} {just for no reason at all} or at times he beats me in advance of offenses , and my Mom, remembered when i wanted to get baptized, my mom made it so important that i felt like paradise is under water, lol, she goes like' UNDER THE WATER, YOU WILL MEET JESUS, JUST MAKE SURE YOU DONT COMINT ANY SIN BEFORE GOING INTO THE WATER OR ELSE, its good to look back at those days now, i have a son and am sure one day he will be writing my own story too lol, 2 Likes |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by jumpmasta(m): 7:04am On Apr 04, 2010 |
AS A KID,I WAS STUBBORN IN TERMS OF REFUSAL TO EAT MY DINNER.ALL PLEA AND GESTURES FROM PARENTS AND AUNTIES USUALLY FELL ON DEAF EARS.SOME HOW ,I WASNT USUALLY HUNGRY AT NIGHTS,.ALL THESE STOPPED WHEN MY DAD THREATENED ME THAT A PARTICULAR MONSTER BY NAME [b][/b]"OPI MGBIDI",  WHATEVER THAT MEANT,WILL COME AND GOBBLE ME IN THE NIGHT FOR NOT EATING MY FOOD THAT WILL SUBSEQUENTLY PASS TO THE MONSTER THROUGH ONLY GOD KNOWS HOW, THAT EFFECTIVELY CURED MY STUBBORNESS OF REFUSING DINNER.WHEN I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS, I ROTFLMAO, .GOD BLESS MY PARENTS.2 Likes |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by Lolladey(f): 8:09am On Apr 04, 2010 |
my dad comes back home hungry n d 1st thin dat comes out from his mouth his 'arabirin sho ni fun mi lounje ni'(dat is woman wont u get me my food?) after eatin d 1st round he ll ask for more.half way into d extra he asked for, he ll say 'obe yin na ni odun ti ata wa legbe kan,maggi wa ni sa le, epo wan le fo loke.' dat is the pepper is on one side,maggi at d bottom of d pot n d palm oil floatin on it. 2 Likes |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by TheSaintz: 8:22am On Apr 04, 2010 |
koboko, bulala,broom,wrapper,belt,shoe, anything was a weapon for my mum when it time to teach us a lesson so when i were a bit grown up, we will go and hide everything that will be really painful then come to her like we are begging, knowing that she will definitely beat us but with less lethal weapon, if she doesnt find anything she uses her hand but she gets tired easily of using her hands then one day when it was my brothers turn to be flogged i quickly disappear everyhing lethal, then he came around after i had signaled him that the coast is clear of koboko, belt ,broom etc when my mum was about beating him she shout yeee, where is the belt , where is my broom, you boys will not kill me, you boys can never kill me and then i had my name '''', you better bring urself here you guys can tell what followed |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by madlady(f): 8:35am On Apr 04, 2010 |
^^^^^ Oh gosh mothers and their "beatings". I will email this thread to all my friends. It will make great reading.Did you ever learn the trick on how to shorten the amount of beatings you received, cry the instant you get the 1st lash. |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by Liferace: 9:30am On Apr 04, 2010 |
Dad, whenever we asked him for money especially if the demand is coming from the five of us. He will say eje kin de lale(let me come back in the evening).Trust me when he comes back in the night, the first thing he will say is-one man dropped dead today in his office, that it was heart attack that killed him saying this was due to over demanding from his family.If any one of us made mistake of asking for the money-Here is his response(Eyin omo yi , ema ni oju anun oo, eyan kan ni mosese so fun yin tan nisin, she efe je ki temi nan ri beyen ni, that is we r merciless,he just told us the story of a man that died with heart attack,did we wnt him to die with same?.One day, they were doing like a get together thing from his office n d venue happens to be our house and most of his colleagues were present and they were many, i went to ask my dad,are they gost?.Then he said no they are not giving me one eye like that.then later , he asked why i asked , i said i thought they are all dead!!.lol.He just didnt know what to say. whenever i rem now, i simply cant stop laughing, 2 Likes |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by ayettymama(f): 9:39am On Apr 04, 2010 |
^^^lol u gatta luv nigerian parents!! come up with all sorts when it comes to money! which is funny cos mom never ever complains wen u ask her for money! |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by TheSaintz: 9:57am On Apr 04, 2010 |
^^^^^one other thing i love mum for was that when ever she has finished dealing with u, u can be sure that she will fix u up really good ur best meal will come next, or u can be sure what u ve been asking for will now be granted soon, i guess just to show u she loves u the funny part is this, though she knows that that is ur best meal she will still scream ''' u better eat that food now'' i wish women this days will know how to blend these two when to use the rod and when to spoil the child |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by ayettymama(f): 10:04am On Apr 04, 2010 |
lolz its cos boys dont like to eat |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by illusion2: 11:47am On Apr 04, 2010 |
This thread is too much !!!!! Liferace:ROTFLMAO !!! Aglah1976:Ol'boy you are not alone on that count. I had a habit of sucking my thumb when i was much younger & my mum told me- masquerades(there were a lot of them going round lagos those days),were actually hunting for 'thumb-suckers' . As a matter of fact she threatened to invite them if I dnt stop. . . I honestly believed her story which was of course corroborated by my dad & other older relatives.  It got so bad that whenever i was enjoying my thumb in secret & I saw a masquereade on TV ,i would bolt to my room & start shivering seriously !  Na wa for parents !! |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by tayoast(m): 12:00pm On Apr 04, 2010 |
this thread deserves   1 Like |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by samuelk(m): 12:20pm On Apr 04, 2010 |
then after receiving a thorough beating from mumC,she would offer you panadol tablets |
| Re: Funny Things Parents' Do That Makes You Chuckle! by Bolddy(m): 12:47pm On Apr 04, 2010 |
Fantastic people great post. |
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