To think my Dad could have just said 'I'm busy' (light hearted but gross)

[Danann]

Just called my parents and got 'hey, your little brothers and sisters are out so your mum and i are being intimate on the sofa, can I call you back?' I accept my parents have sex but did I really need that image in my head? how will I ever be able to sit on their sofa again?

YANBU, oh god! Yeah you can't sit there ever again.

Yikes, YANBU!

they are watching Winterwatch like the rest of us.

he is just messing with your mind.

Just don't answer!!

Why did he answer the phone ?

he is just messing with your mind.

Knowing my Dad that is entirely possible.

Tell yourself that he was joking at they were actually sitting there in their tartan slippers, having a cup of tea and watching the food channel.

Repeat until the nightmares stop.

He's winding you up, I doubt he'd have picked up the phone if they were really at it.

My parents have just had a new bathroom fitted and I asked who had the first bath...cue much blushing, throat clearing and er...well-ing...

I haven't had a bath at mum and dad's since

Bound to be a wind up!

I bet he's just fed up with you nabbing the sofa when you visit.

Yeah, why did he answer?? Way too much information! Bleugh. YANBU :-)

Ragwort, they have children who are out and frail elderly friends so never ignore a phone call

Why? Why, do they do this to us? My mum once began a conversation with " When Dad and I have relations..."

I have mentally blocked the rest of the conversation from my memory and am unable to use the word relations ever since...

Oh god, that's as bad as the time I got home from a friends house (10:30 ish at might) to find that my parents had locked the door and left the key in.

After trying (and failing) to prod the key out so I could get in, I rang the doorbell, knocked on the door, rang again, phoned the landline, but no answer.

Eventually my dad came downstairs in his dressing gown and let me in. I apologised for waking him up but explained, I really couldn't get in.

He answered 'it's Ok, I wasn't asleep anyway' to which I thought 'well, what took you so long then?'. I'm glad I never asked the question, I'm scared of what the answer might have been.

(That was 10 years ago, and I'm still scarred by it)

Good for them!! Life's for living, and bonking, get used to it!

Em, excuse me, OP, but how do you think you arrived on the planet???

I do hope for your sake he was joking!

Next time say to your Dad " now, Pater, there's no need to tell me when you're having Ladies and Gentlemen, too much informatiom"

You should have rung back 3minutes later and asked him if he had finished yet then explain when you had 'the talk' with your DM she explained that getting intimate only took a few minutes. That will teach him to put images like that in your head.

Bettercallsaul1I know (and I'm one of 8 so I know it wasnt the only time) but they weren't old then and i didn't have to hear about it!

Danann - isn't that a teensy bit ageist? And parentist? (you might just have invented a new "ism"!)