Hey Broken Homie,
Lighter one this week. We’ve been in our feelings the last couple issues, so let’s just laugh.
So we got to talking about the things our parents used to say and do. The stuff that made absolutely NO sense to us as kids. And then we realized something horrifying.
We say them now too. 💀
“every household, same look”
⭐ The sayings that made zero sense ⭐
“Close my door? This MY house! I pay the light bill in here.”
Bro we were 8. We didn’t pay for shit. But that line got said with so much conviction we believed it.
And now? We’ve literally said “as long as you live under my roof” to a child, a roommate, our pets or a houseplant. It just comes out. It’s in our DNA.
And the all-time classic — “I’m not running no AC, open a window.” We suffered through summers like it was a character building exercise.
Now we catch ourselves eyeing the thermostat like it owes us money. 😤
“the OG AC unit”
Everybody had to be dead silent 🤫 the second the phone rang. Not because it was … could’ve been a wrong number …. but you’d get the look like you personally ruined the call.
I’m sure we can recall many times our parents avoiding the bill collector phone call like it was a mafia hitman waiting outside.
The good couch was always off limits ….. especially at grandma house. We had a whole couch we couldn’t sit on. For guests…..ahhh the guests who never came.
And if they did come, they sat on the plastic-covered one that stuck to the back of your legs in the summer like a betrayal.
And somehow getting in trouble was YOUR fault for making them get up. The walk across the room was the punishment. 😭
“classic plastic-covered couch”
⭐ And the ultimate betrayal…⭐
You know what’s coming.
You opened the butter container expecting butter. It had everything but butter in it.
Leftover rice. Sewing supplies. A mystery sauce. The audacity!
And the cookie tin? The cookie tin NEVER had cookies. It had thread, buttons, and a tape measure.
We fell for it every time! An entire generation traumatized by a blue Danish butter cookie tin. 🪡
If you just gasped… yeah. Us too.
“infamous Danish cookie tin”
Here’s the funny part though.
We clowned all of it as kids. Swore we’d never be like that.
And now we ARE that. Lights off in empty rooms. “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” Saving every plastic grocery bag like it’s currency.
Turns out our parents weren’t crazy… they were just grown. And now we get it.
That’s the whole vibe of the show. Looking back, laughing at it, and realizing we became the thing we used to roll our eyes at. 🏫
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Reply and tell us the ONE thing your parents said or did that you SWORE you’d never do… and now you do it.
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