To preface I have dyslexia. I’ve always had trouble with words and getting words and phrases jumbled up in my head. I also had an issue with overstating as a child.
I am currently a woman in my 30s and grew up on an old country road with lots of neighbor kids to play with and a brother that was a few years older than and a bad ass.
This is just a few random memories that popped up after visiting with my childhood neighbor friends.
#1. One weekend My brother was suddenly no longer allowed to play with the neighbor girls because I told them that he got a playboy for his birthday. The next day I told an older kid at children’s church that my bother brought his playboy and it was in the van. Suddenly he was the coolest kid at church. At some point the phone started ringing off the hook with angry moms. Turns out my brother got a Game boy and a play station for his bday.
Oops my bad…
2. A few months later my neighbor friends said they were not allowed to come over anymore because my brother smokes pot. I explained that he doesn’t even know how to cook. He burns everything. I thought to myself that their mother was super snoody and a bitch. I had no ideas what pot even was…..
3. My parents relationship hit a rough patch and they separated for about three months and my dad moved out. I was about 9 at the time. One day I overheard my mom gossiping with someone on the phone. She mentioned something about being pregnant and so I told every one I know that my mom was pregnant. Everyone in our small southern town knew that my mom and dad had separated. They all assumed my mom had an affair. Which was not true. Someone ended up. Breaking the news to my dad that my mom was pregnant and he laughed about it. The guy was like wtf…. My dad said that after I was born my mom had a tubal ligation.
When my mom found out what I had said she called my dad, I got a “talkin’ to” from both of them and sent to my room. Then I heard laughing from the kitchen. Fast forward to a few weeks later, my dad moved back in.
And that is how my dumbassery saved my parents marriage.
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Backup of the post’s body: To preface I have dyslexia. I’ve always had trouble with words and getting words and phrases jumbled up in my head. I also had an issue with overstating as a child.
I am currently a woman in my 30s and grew up on an old country road with lots of neighbor kids to play with and a brother that was a few years older than and a bad ass.
This is just a few random memories that popped up after visiting with my childhood neighbor friends.
1. One weekend My brother was suddenly no longer allowed to play with the neighbor girls because I told them that he got a playboy for his birthday. The next day I told an older kid at children’s church that my bother brought his playboy and it was in the van. Suddenly he was the coolest kid at church. At some point the phone started ringing off the hook with angry moms. Turns out my brother got a Game boy and a play station for his bday.
Oops my bad…
2. A few months later my neighbor friends said they were not allowed to come over anymore because my brother smokes pot. I explained that he doesn’t even know how to cook. He burns everything. I thought to myself that their mother was super snoody and a bitch. I had no ideas what pot even was…..
3. My parents relationship hit a rough patch and they separated for about three months and my dad moved out. I was about 9 at the time. One day I overheard my mom gossiping with someone on the phone. She mentioned something about being pregnant and so I told every one I know that my mom was pregnant. Everyone in our small southern town knew that my mom and dad had separated. They all assumed my mom had an affair. Which was not true. Someone ended up. Breaking the news to my dad that my mom was pregnant and he laughed about it. The guy was like wtf…. My dad said that after I was born my mom had a tubal ligation.
When my mom found out what I had said she called my dad, I got a “talkin’ to” from both of them and sent to my room. Then I heard laughing from the kitchen. Fast forward to a few weeks later, my dad moved back in.
And that is how my dumbassery saved my parents marriage.
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