A 1970s/80s AIBU?

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Just been reading the brilliant and nostalgic threads about all the things parents did then that would be massively judged now so thought it would be fun to start a 70s/80s AIBU

Want to join me..?

Here goes,

AIBU to not want to have the whole of the street come and watch a football match on our new black and white TV?

AIBU to buy 11 year old DD a 36" bust school blazer so she can wear it for the whole of her school career (change of colour for Vth form). So in the first year it drowns her and in the fifth year it still drowns her as she turns out to be very flat chested.
And to buy the ghastly regulation school shoes long after everyone else has realised that you don't get expelled for having something a bit more modern.

Sorry, change of colour for VIth form.

Aibu to cut my daughter's waist length hair into a shortstop as its easier to manage. She's only 9 so her opinion doesn't matter anyway. Also she's getting a little chubby so I should weigh her in the back garden in front of my friends and her grandmother right!

Crop!

I came up with a new one at the park today

Do you think it is unreasonable to have nothing but cracked concrete under the climbing frame at the park - they won't fall off and split their heads open after all?

Larry I am almost the 2014 version of your mum - DD1 is 13 -just about to start 3rd year of high school though
Her first blazer came from a different company - she ripped it! and it was getting a bit small anyway... but now have to buy from M&S online - they size them differently and you can't try them on. Measured her up - thought better a bit big than too small - got her a size (or 2) bigger...it is absolutely hilariously massive for her.
But blazers are compulsory, her old one looked terrible -and you have to wait for delivery. So I sent her in the massive one intending to get her a smaller one and put this one away for a few years...haven't got round to it yet (6 months later)

AIBU to leave two DC in the car with one bottle of coke each with a paper straw and a packet of crisps for hours while we enjoy ourselves in the pub on a Saturday lunchtime then drive home?
AIBU to give my DD (9) a Toni foam home perm to give her hair a bit more body?
AIBU to smoke loads of Embassy No1 to collect the tokens to swap for a giant set of Lego for the DC (we still have most of said Lego 35 years later so not really U)?
AIBU to leave both DC and their cousin alone in a holiday home down a dirt track in the middle of rural Devon with no telephone and an aggressive Labrador while we go to the pub?

AIBU to not let my DC watch Grange Hill as its common and the children don't talk nicely?

Shame on you unlucky83

devilshaircut - that happened to me too.

Mum took me to the village hairdresser for a trim. Unbeknownst to either of us the hairdresser was having boyfriend trouble and as she recounted his many failings, the scissors flew like something possessed.

The 'slight trim of the ends' turned into a mullet that Kevin Keegan would have been proud of. I have (hopefully) destroyed any photographic evidence from that period.

napoleon we weren't allowed to watch grange hill either!

AIBU to take my DD to the local village hairdresser for a spiral perm? just because they're called 'Country Curls' and staffed by 50 year olds doesn't mean they won't have a fucking clue, and she'll end up looking like a half permed poodle, does it?

Am I being unreasonable to want some of that lovely terracotta Cushionfloor in my kitchen? My friend says carpet tiles are better because you can pick them up and wash them and rearrange them to even out the wear.

AIBU to stir a teaspoon of sugar into a glass of coke to get rid of the bubbles because my DD finds it too fizzy?
AIBU to spread the solidified fat (and jelly) from the Sunday roast onto a thick slice of white bread and sprinkle it with salt as a weekly treat for the DC?
Thanks mum.

AIBU to let DH drive me on a day out while smoking an entire packet of Embassy in our matt purple Mini Cooper? I know DD gets travel sick, but at least she can open the back window a crack and stick her nose out, or lie down if she feels lightheaded. I can't open the front window as it spoils my hair.

AIBU to put my DD in the same pair of brown cords for months at a time? They're hung up on the back of the kitchen chair every night without fail. I'll change them when her Infant 3 teacher remarks that it would be nice to smell see her wearing something else.

AIBU to serve Shippams chicken paste sandwiches?

AIBU to open a tin of Golden Giant sweetcorn to serve on Christmas dinner? I could mix them with the tinned carrots?

Bloody hell, I could go on. My childhood was odd.....

oh another one.....

AIBU to knit my DD several jumpers on my knitting machine? I know no one will hear the telly because of the vroom vroom of the carriage, and I know I'm shit at knitting/sewing/crochet/anything mothery so the jumpers will be made of 4 rectangles sewn together (front, back, two sleeves) and have a characteristic "slash neck". Hell, I could even make DD one for her starting high school. No one will make her life hell laugh.

AIBU to make the four dcs sit around the enormous big hole in the floor of the ford van we have? DH tied up the exhaust too high and it a burnt a hole...but they are pretty sensible 10, 8, 6, and 4. And it must be great fun to actually see the road whizzing away under you.

AIBU to buy my 14 year old daughter a Babycham to drink in the bar at Pontins. It makes her feel ever so grown up!

We did have 4 point harness seatbelts in my Dad's car until he upgraded to a car with adult belts in the back in the early 80s.

The 4 point harnesses got shifted to Mum's car instead.
I was a bit embarrassed about my friend seeing me wear it in year 8 though!

To think the Wombles ' wombling merry christmas' is a good tune? ( 80s) - shakin' Stevens is hot?

AIBU to have bought a huge American left hand drive car and let my kids sit in the back although the whole base of the back seat is loose and pitches forward when I brake?

From the very beginning of the 70s...

AIBU to refuse to buy clackers for DD (6)? I hear they're dangerous. Or am I just being PFB?

Jellyandbeans YADNBU. I shall be singing Wombling Merry Christmas for the rest of the evening now.

Aibu to leave the 4.5 and 6 year old dd's home alone while I pick dh up from work? I'm only gone 25 mins max

yes. The house caught fire. It actually did and mum and dad arrived home at the same time as the fire brigade.

AIBU to take my sick kids into work and have them sleep under my desk?

AIBU to put the back seat down on the estate car and have three kids in sleeping bags rolling around in the boot on an all night drive to Scotland?

AIBU to serve tinned potatoes?

AIBU to install a payphone in the house?

Am I being unreasonable to let my daughter ride on the bit above the gearstick in my 2 door MG? She squeezes in ok.

And of course, I think it's perfectly fine to leave her in said MG with a bag of salt and vinegar, a pickled egg and bottle of pop in the pub carpark for 2 hours while I go and have a drink. And then drive home.

AIBU to watch 'Grease' again?!