Things from your childhood you are still salty over?

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Not winning a running race

Not getting a cabbage patch kid😒

My brother being given a bicycle but neither me nor my sisters being allowed one.

My sister got caught shoplifting when she was 10, I was grounded as I should have been watching her. I was 11. Still pretty salty 30 years later!!

Being blamed for things my brother had done.
Being blamed for things classmates had done.

Easy to blame the child with ADHD for minor disruption etc.

Not getting a mr frosty ☃️

Coming third (out of three) in the village fete fancy dress competition aged about 9. The winner should have won, but second place went to a boy wearing jeans, a bought cowboy hat and a plastic sheriff badge - minimal effort. I had a homemade costume which fit with the theme of the fete. Still bitter 40 years on.

I got a beautiful pink and silver Slazenger tennis racquet for Christmas years ago. I used it once and it disappeared. I know one of my brothers will have nabbed it and lost/wrecked it. Thirty six years later I still periodically ask them to fess up, just to put me out of my misery. The bastards are still holding their tongues! 😂

Music class in primary school.... everyone got an instrument to play except for me as there were none left. Teacher told me once they did that song, she'd juggle everything round and make sure I had an instrument for the next one. Well class was over and there was no time. Still pissed off.

My mother didn't let me have my ears pierced because she thought it was common. I didn't get them done until I was in my twenties and they ended up being done really badly despite going to a reputable place.

Didn’t get a girls world!

I was a quiet, plain, mousey child. Therefore, in my mother's opinion, not pretty enough to wear pink.

Aged 26, when I bought my first house, I had a pink kitchen.

Parents never encouraging me, or making me, do any activities or hobbies.

Never had any chance to play a team sport properly, and I’m insanely jealous of anyone who who can play a musical instrument.

I always find it utterly bizarre when clearly a caring kind parent will make a thread about their child persisting with a hobby and people believing this is tantamount to child abuse.

We tried one music thing when I was about eleven and that was torpedoed after a wobbly week whilst I was still learning as apparently this was ungrateful as she had to drive all the way there. No reassurance, just relief from DM that she has a ‘reason’ for me not to do it any more.

same

My mother threatening to send me to the children's home when I got on her nerves. It was only down the road too. My MIL did the same to DH.

My sister got a beautifully illustrated hardback book of Disney stories - so like stills of the films Cinderella, Snow White etc which also had all the lyrics of the songs used in the films. I got a hardback factual book of sealife with photos (I had never shown any interest in sealife) which my parents then used to prop up a piece of wonky furniture.

I know quite a few people who had this said to them. Sorry you had to hear it from your mom💐

Not being in a nativity play

The year 2s were always allowed to be the characters but when we got to Yr 2 they said we were a sensible year group and so the Reception kids would be the characters and we would be the narrators.
The Reception kids did a terrible job and the following year they switched it back. Still stings

My best friend as an adult is a vicar and she was in hysterics when I told her and offered me a part in the Sunday School nativity to compensate haahahahaha

My Parents telling me that they wished my cousin same age as me was their daughter as she was better than me in every way . They told me that more than once .

Not winning the prize for modern language when I got an A in German and an A in French because my face didn't fit. (It was before A*) 6 people took both languages and they gave the prize to someone who achieved a B and C.

I also wasn't allowed to take Design and Tech at O level as I was a girl.

My mum saying she saw me unwrap my breaktime biscuits on the way to school, look at them and then throw them down in disgust. She refused to give me biscuits to take in for my break in future (I was about eight). I did absolutely no such thing (throw away chocolate biscuits in disgust? ME??) and to this day I have no idea why she said she saw it, or why she would lie.

Moving country when I was 14. It wrecked my self-confidence and I’ve never got it back.

Being blamed for breaking the sprinkler at a friend's birthday party.
It was a hot summers day and we were running through the sprinkler in the garden.
I saw another girl land on it and it stopped moving, I went over and tried to fix it.
Her grandad came out, saw me, didn't listen to my explanation and sent me home from the party.
I'm still salty about that.

Not being May Queen, or a May Queen assistant. It was supposedly a pull out of a hat random selection, but I suspected rigging.

Missing the annual trip to the cinema as I was away on brownie camp. Missed Petes Dragon.

Not being allowed to wear a ra-ra skirt. I felt so uncool!

We were in Brugge on last leg of a school trip. End of day itinerary was a portion of chips with mayonnaise and then it was an epic drive back via the channel tunnel. We all started queuing outside the shop but it was taking ages and the teachers were getting nervous that we’d miss the coach. So after the first 10 or so portions were dolled out they made people share a portion between them. We were about 25th in a line of 35 and they made us share between 3-4 to speed things up.

I was fuming, and I still am. I got about 3 chips then had to survive on a Pez sweet for the next 8 hours.

My mother used to threaten my brother with that. He didn't even do anything apart from maybe being cheeky.