What's one thing your parents used to tell you not to do, that you actively do in adulthood?

[Sadmac]

I'll start: Sticking the knife in the toaster to pull out a stuck slice. I haven't died yet

Ahhh "danger toast". The most delicious of all the toast. 🤤

I'm very careful when I jab the knife into the toaster. The riskiest thing about it is that it makes my DH yelp about electrocution which is liable to throw me off.

My parents used to tell me not to "throw myself" onto the sofa. My sofa. My rules.

@TurquoiseDragon
Like many things my grandma told us, these were very nuch rules for us, not for her!

@MrsTophamHat

Walk in the kitchen with bare feet.

Why specifically the kitchen? 🤔

@Bellafrenum

Run with scissors.

😂 Intrigued to know why you feel the need/ urge to do this? 🧐

Leave doors open indoors
Put elbows on table while eating
Sleep with wet hair
Use a bath towel only once
Leave food on my plate
Watch American tv
Swear
Speak while the news is on
Spend money in amusements / at a fair
Eat whilst outdoors
Speak before you’re spoken to
Be noisey
Thump up and down the stairs
Dance in an upstairs room

Be a lesbian......

Sleep with wet hair
Wear yellow

Mines daft when I see it written down, but I was never allowed white things as a child - so no school shirts or socks other than grey. No crisp white sheets on beds or flimsy white underwear.
Needless to say my favourite shop now is 'the White Company', and all the beds in our home have fresh crisp white linens on. I even wear white jeans ! Bliss .

@RubyFakeLips

Eat entire plates of salty tomatoes- a constant battle ground in my teens. Leave the light on. Eat before swimming.

Salted tomatoes are delicious.

Buy branded clothes
Eat out in restaurants
Turn up the heating when I'm cold
Not wash my green bin

Swear
Leave all the sockets switched on when we go to bed
Leave doors open
Drive everywhere - I’m disabled now so have to
Wear shoes in house
Use a car wash

@Sadmac

I'll start: Sticking the knife in the toaster to pull out a stuck slice. I haven't died yet

I always thought that was a thing because parents couldn’t trust their kids to remember to turn the toaster off first.

I do it all the time, but turn toaster off first. Just have to make sure I’m not accidentally turning of coffee machine plugged in beside it instead of toaster.

@sunnyandshare

Eat before swimming. I remember growing up and being told that was certain to cause death!

Ouch. It's such a risk to choking to death. After eating the food is sort of stuck in your throat for 20 mins and you've a high risk to choke.

I live near a beach and 80% rescues are related to people swimming straight after food and choking.

I'm a nurse and we've been told this since the end of time.

@ScruffyBlanket probably don’t walk in the kitchen with bare feet because of knifey accidents.

We’re in Australia so don’t wear shoes inside. Last week my partner stabbed himself in the toe when he knocked a knife off the bench, it’s happened to my kids too.

But we still don’t wear shoes in the kitchen. 😁

Had braces, my mum likes my teeth, I spent £3k getting them fixed.

Change my first name by deed poll (According to my mum it is illegal).

Ride a motorbike.

Eat meat on days of fasting and abstinence. I can't remember most of them these days but when I do a really enjoy it.

@lousanne I'm sorry but I do question you being a nurse if you post such ignorance. My nurse partner burst out laughing at your post and said you're trolling. There is no a health or nursing body in existence anywhere in the world that would say what you've said. It takes a mere 10 seconds from swallowing food to when it hits the stomach (it takes longer than 10 seconds to walk into the beach water). It does not stay in your throat. And if it was trapped in your throat, you'd know about it and would be too busy coughing to even think about swimming.

Also the fear was about muscle tiredness when you swim, not about choking.

theconversation.com/mondays-medical-myth-wait-30-minutes-after-eating-before-you-swim-10653

newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-minute-should-you-wait-30-minutes-to-swim-after-eating/

www.britannica.com/story/is-it-really-dangerous-to-swim-after-eating

www.goodrx.com/well-being/diet-nutrition/can-swim-after-eating

www.dignityhealth.org/articles/is-swimming-after-eating-really-dangerous#:~:text=Swimming%20right%20after%20you've,severe%20that%20you%20could%20drown.

Also, I live in Australia surrounded by beaches, (which is partly how I know you're trolling, having family in the Surf Lifesaving Club) and NO ONE has got into trouble for swimming after eating in at least 5 decades. It's impossible. It just does not happen.

@lousanne The only way you'd 'choke' in the water is if you took a gulp of sea water.

@lousanne

Where are you a nurse?

Just so I know to avoid

@lousanne

Lives in cloud cuckoo land

Last month posted that her husband was a multimillionaire in double digits…. And I'm in no way as successful as him but I have a great job in tech

So you’re a Nurse AND have a great job in tech?

I think not swimming after eating is the UK equivalent of Korean fan death.

Watch TV
Eat sugar

That’s it, I think. Otherwise I’m largely my parents’ daughter through and through.

I’ve always stuck the knife merrily in the toaster, really jabbing it too, and always thought DP was being a fanny about it, but this thread has now put the fear into me so I shan’t.

I'm a nurse and we've been told this since the end of time.
Ah, the end of time. When is that coming, and are you living backwards from it?

Save clothes for ‘best’. She still has a whole load of ‘best’ clothes she never wears.

Watch TV in the daytime

Korean fan death
Say, what?

After eating the food is sort of stuck in your throat for 20 mins and you've a high risk to choke.

I live near a beach and 80% rescues are related to people swimming straight after food and choking.

This is brilliant, thank you! One of the funniest things I've read on MN so far.

Must move a bit nearer to the beach so I get informed of the reason for every rescue and how many minutes ago each person ate!