Remembering my 90's childhood

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And a couple of things stick out !!

I must've been about 8-9 and we went to our weekly carboot which us kids hated at the best of times but we had no choice to go due to mom loving a bargain! We'd just got there and as I got out the car my brother who was still inside decided to shut the door, with my finger still inside ! Cue me screaming absolute murder, my finger was blue and literally had the imprint of the side of the door all the way down the width of my finger, it was basically hanging off but it wasn't because no skin was broken, it's hard to explain but it was so bad. Anyway, I still got made to walk round that bloody carboot sobbing my eyes out holding my poor finger on a piece of tissue. No idea what the tissue was meant to do !

Also maybe abit younger, about 6 and we went to my aunties who could not cut hair ! My mom let her loose on mine, I ended up with the most severe fringe even my 6 year old self knew was terrible, on the way home we had to wait on the back off the car whilst my mom and dad went shopping in Morrisons, I have a vivid memory of looking in the rear view mirror crying my eyes out and my awful haircut and my brother pissing himself laughing at me ! 🤣🤣

Anyone else got any funny memories?!

Those aren't funny.

We went on our annual trip to Cornwall (staying with family) and went to the Minac theatre. I remember having indigestion and my mum being annoyed with me because I refused to get out of the car and made a huge fuss (I was about 6/7). My nan stayed in the car with me but I remember my mum being super cross! I was a very wilful child and my mother struggled a lot with me, I still struggle to do anything I don't want to do.

Well, maybe not to you. They're not something I'd do to my kids but things were abit different back then weren't they

To be honest indigestion is awful isn't it ! What is it with moms and forcing us to do stuff while in pain

I remember literally covering the wall in my bedroom with posters of pop stars and random handsome models from my older sisters discarded magazines - Smash Hits, Kerrang, Mizz, More , J17 are a few I remember.
It was a really random mix of bands/pop stars….Madonna, Janet Jackson, Backstreet Boys, Blink 182, Nirvana, Oasis, Take That, Peter Andre, Kylie, Five, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Destiny’s Child, the Spice Girls abit later on. I used to swap them out every so often. No wall space was left empty, I was so proud of my display 🤣

Also my immediate response! I know the op is meant to be lighthearted but that finger story - yikes!

Well the finger one probably isn't funny granted, more shocking !!

But I do giggle at the haircut one 😆

Your finger one is very similar to my brothers broken arm once. My mum said "oh you'll be alright when we get home and you have some ice cream". That's just how she was though 🤷🏼‍♀️ (he did end up going straight to A&E btw)

For me it was the hand me downs between the cousins. Or the dodgy clothes mum bought for us that I cringe about now. We didn't really have any say whatsoever in clothes until we got to high school so we looked a right pair at times 🙈

We often stayed in the car while mum went in the supermarket. Think both she and we were glad to!

Worse when you can hear your mum coming out of your own mouth!! Very outing but my dd broke a bone after jumping on my friends bed. I was very cross as she was about 6 so knew better, made sure she could wiggle said bone, she could so I told her off and made her make the bed with friends dd.. and yes she did have a broken bone that needed an operation to be set. Felt awful!

I had a topless, oiled up Peter Andre poster on my wall when I was 9! All posters were eventually replaced exclusively on all 4 walls and ceiling with Hanson posters. My mum went mental when I carved "Hanson" into my wooden window sill with a compass from my maths set.

I used to write out the lyrics and stick them up on my wardrobe to dance and sing along too.. then charge the neighbours to watch me perform in the front garden 😂

I think medically people were much more inclined to assume all was okay unless there was evidence to the contrary.

My dm, who is a huge worrier, to the point that she'd have panicked about us walking 5 minutes down the road to a friend's at 10/12yo (she'd have come with us to check we got there), but:

1. My dsis cut the back of her head open. It was one of those roundabouts made out of metal pipes that span round at head height and caught the back of her head. Dm told her she'd be fine, gave her a tissue and told her not to get blood on the car. Blood was running freely down her head. Never saw a doctor.
2. When I was 3yo I had pneumonia. We lived around 40 minutes from the hospital, driving there was difficult and the one way system a pain to negotiate, and we didn't go regularly enough to know the way through there. The ambulance station is 5 minutes up the road. She drove me there when (in her words) "I didn't think you'd survive the journey".

I find this odd, as both of those I would have taken far more seriously than she did, but in other matters she panicked about the potential of the unlikely happening.

@Laurdo We probably had the same one!
Mine was also an oiled up Peter Andre, he was stood in the sea, running a hand through his hair. I was about the same age as you too 🤣

I think I know what Peter Andre photo pp's are on about, I'm sure most of his pics were like that though 😂

I had so many but the one that sticks out the most was in 1998 when I was 11 and my little boyfriend I had at the time decided to ride his bike to come and see me as a surprise.
i had been playing with mud making mud cakes with my friends who were all younger then me, and when I saw him I hid in my bathroom and told my friend to dump him even though I really liked him, all because I didn’t want him to see that I’d been playing with mud 😆

the other memory I have is of my mum allowing me to have the day off school because she’d preordered the titanic video from WHSmiths and I was really excited to watch it again, after her taking me and my friends to watch it at the cinema a few months earlier. Still love the titanic now and my husband is obsessed with it which is great

I don't think they are funny either. I was actually just thinking about some stuff my parents did when I was a kid. An incident yesterday made me think of a time when I was on holiday in Spain, just turned 13 and I had a chest infection.

I did get taken to the doctors there and got antibiotics. As they do sometimes (I didn't know this at the time) I got an upset stomach. We were out at a bar near our apartment and my parents sent me back as basically I felt ill and needed the loo. I didn't make it back in time and had liquid diarrhoea. My parents didn't read the patient info sheet and I didn't know to. So I had no idea this could happen from taking antibiotics. Also that they sent me back alone because they couldn't be arsed to leave the bar is wild.

I know compared to some childhood's this is nothing but it's one of many things I do wonder wtf they were thinking. Especially as I'm now around children more and responsible for them at work or nieces.