Things from your childhood you are still salty over?

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Not winning a running race

Not ever getting a bookmark or keychain with my name on
it (because it’s very uncommon)

Being made to stand facing the corner in Reception ‘for not sitting quietly’ when William kept tickling me under the table, and when I had previously told him to stop (he didn’t) then raised my hand to ask to move chairs because of it and was refused. I will carry this grudge until I DIE.

Getting beaten on a regular basis. Being told by my step mother when I was about thirteen that the house wasn’t big enough for two women. Being sexually assaulted by my father. I’m still pretty salty about many things from my fuck up of a childhood.

Not getting the English Prize, despite getting an A and the best exam results nationwide that year.

The prize went to a girl who got a C but who was an absolute Peter Perfect kissass type student.

My brother being given presents on my birthday. Yet I never got them on his.

Ah, I hear you! My parents used to buy clothes for my sister and me together in twos. Very similar items were bought. I got it in brown and my sister in pink. My patterns were stripes and my sister, flowers.

As soon as I began buying for myself, guess which colours and patterns I went for?

Being told to mime in the nativity play as my singing voice was so bad.

I understand the profound pain. I came here to say this.

Not getting the toy potters wheel.

My parents always said it’s because they were rubbish and I would be disappointed.

I got my daughter on and they were right, it was crap.

still never forgiven them though !

Being made to play a Chinese boy in the nativity. I’m female and no Chinese ancestry but did have black hair and very deep set eyes . Those eyes used to get me called a racial slur name for a Chinese person. I also had absolutely no self esteem even at five so it just reinforced that I was very ugly and looked like a boy.

Its also just struck me (at 53) that it wasn’t an all girls school so why couldn’t a boy play a bloody boy.

Me too! My mum wouldn't let me pierce my ears, chew gum or were makeup because they were 'common'. Are you Irish @Comedycook ? Spent my entire childhood feeling hard done by!

*wear

Same.

I bought an ice cream machine though which is like a grown up mr frosty but no Percy penguin.

Yes! Same

In primary school there was a competition to write a story I came second. I wouldn't have minded coming second if the first place hadn't been awarded by a drawing.

No I'm not from Irish background...there were quite a few things that were considered common and one was having a high ponytail apparently. I was so envious of a girl in my class who had a ponytail right on the top of her head...😂. Oh and never call a napkin a serviette...or use the word nan for grandma...those things were common too 😂

Having children as parents. Parents having their adolescence during your childhood is not a great combination and they weren't mature for their age.

When I was five years old, I was the first to play pin the tail on the donkey, and as soon as the tail was handed to me, up I went, and pinned it in exactly the right place, and I wondered why everybody laughed. Nobody had told me that I had to be blindfolded!

That I missed a friend's birthday party because we went on holiday. My parents were as tactful about it as they could be, but it stung because I didn't get invited to many.

Being smacked for hitting my brother when we disagreed about something trivial. Did it not occur to my parents where I might have got the idea of doing such a thing? Also for things which I didn't yet know were wrong, such as bumping into a blind man who stopped walking unexpectedly.

If it is any consolation they weren’t that grreat, maximum effort for very little frosty😂

I was a right goody two shoes as a child. Still salty that I got pulled aside in a corridor at school and told off by a teacher for causing disruption.
Denied it was me because it wasn't and was told that if there was any back chat there would be a detention.

Or pronounce envelope, n-velope instead of on-velope? That was common too!

I only had grandmas too!

I was never Mary in the nativity

The teachers allocated it to the two petite girls swapped each year and did it for the entire primary school

I still remember their full Names

Music teacher gave solo piece to someone else for concert. The whole class shouted my name as I had a good soprano voice and he knew it. Don’t know why he disliked me but I went on to be a professional singer, so up yours!

When we moved house, my mother threw out my old teddy bear, given to me when I was born by my grandmother. We didn’t have much, so it was thoughtless.

Brown Owl at Brownies said I would never be a sixer because I didn't go to Church, she also used the same excuse to stop me from being on the float in our local parade, although her son was allowed on even though he was a boy, not a Brownie and also didn't attend church.

Wearing my sister's hand me downs even though she was 8.5 years older than me