To really not want 'hilarious' things I did two decades and more ago brought up?

[justlikekatycarr]

'Friend.'

'Oh, ha ha, remember when you ...'

My dad still talks about when he had to wipe my bum when I fucking 3 years old like it's a fucking funny anecdote. Ffs drives me fucking mental.

I need to practice saying something. My 'defence' at the moment is to pretend I don't remember it. Why? Why do I do that?!

When I started working at my current job it turned out one of the women in my office was good friends with my parents . She decided to share an "anecdote" about me taking a shit in a flower pot at a family bbq aged about 3.

I had no recollection of this, and even if I had would hardly have felt it a good story to share when meeting colleagues for the first time...

YANBU

I have friends and family who think this is hilarious to do this, it isn't. It's tedious.

Urgh I hate that. My parents were the worst for it, if I bought home a new boyfriend or friend it was always 'ooh remember that time you got drunk in a park at 15 and came home in a police car?'

Of course I fucking remember, you never let me forget!

We all know some right twats, don't we!

My family do this to me.

Remember the time you took off all of your clothes and got in to the pool.

argh! I just look stony faced every time.

Yeah, yanbu! I had a ex friend who liked to remind me of how many times I had when I was in my twenties, and how pissed I often got, not mentioning though this was due to me grieving deeply for a family member. It was like said ex friend revelled in my past misery and hard times?! Odd.

My DSis does it too, albeit in a less hurtful way but it still gets right on my tits!!!

Sorry -how many sexual liaisons I had, that should have read!

It's funny with families though. I revert back to angry sullen teenager around my family, and my parents play out their long-held grudges with their siblings.

It's like you just settle back into the age-old grooves of relating and people don't realise you have changed.

I lost my shit spectacularly at one aunt (who is a bitch anyway) when she commented how I 'used to give you mother a hard time' over one specific issue we had when i was 13. I am 43 now. Fuck OFF.

Yeah i know one or two who have form for that.
the last time someone did that to me, i politely reminded her in front of all her newer friends about the time her and her friends utterly trashed a stranger's flat from ceiling to floor - doors pulled off hinges, windows smashed, the whole nine yards - for no reason and caused one of their friends to end up in hospital.
that shut her up.
she never did it again. especially when i warned her that i have plenty other ammo on her to use in front of other choice people - such as the time she was drug driving and so forth.

I would look 'friend' in the eye, put on my most pitying face, and gently ask her if her life is so empty that the most interesting things she can speak of were all so long ago. But I am a bitch that way.

Yanbu. My family have form for this. Sometimes I feel like they've never let me move on from being 15.

We are enduring hell with teen DD and my only consolation is that I will be able to embarrass her endlessly when she is older retelling tales of her utter shouty unreasonableness. Sometimes it is all that gets me through the day - you think you have the power now, my pretty, but I am playing the long game (insert maniacal cackle).

Seriously with family it is fairly goes around/comes around and I think you have to suck it up. But I wouldn't expect it from my friends & would ask them not to.

My sil does this. She's 12 years older than me. I was 8 when I met her and she saw me grow up and go through various terrible teenage fashion disasters, awful boyfriends etc. I'm 51 now and she still acts like I'm 14 and drags up embarrassing shit. I avoid her now, haven't actually seen her for about 5 years.

lol at fluffy's sister telling stories that happened before she herself was born. that's hilarious

My siblings do this, in quite an unpleasant way. I think that because I'm the youngest they feel they have to 'keep me in my place'.

Eldest sister and her husband used to bang on about something that happened years ago and was a very distressing time of my life.

Of course it only went one way, I'm supposed to have a sense of humour about it but if I retaliate with an amusing story about them I get shut right down.

My siblings genuinely wonder why I keep my distance from them

Smile pleasantly and say "hmm....I could probably dredge up some pretty embarrassing episodes in your past life but I prefer to remember nice things about my friends".

Yanbu, its beyond tiresome.

I'm not ashamed by most of the things I did 20 years ago, but that doesn't mean I want to be perpetually reminded of them.

I wore clothes that I felt happy and looked good in back then too, but I'd probably look ridiculous if I wore them over my much older body now, and was judged by how I appear wearing them now.

What I mean is; it was obviously quite funny at the time, but what was amusing coming from drunken 18yr old me, isn't quite so hilarious when retold 20 years later to my matured and largely different self.

Yanbu
I hate this.
Tbh though the things I'm reminded of are far worse than breaking phones or spilling wine on the bed. & actually the things I'm reminded of I usually can't remember from being in such a drunken state myself.

Smile brightly and say "Oh, we're doing that?"
Then launch into the worst tale of theirs you can remember.

I had a few of these family stories that I shut down by prepping a response-

1. hilarious bad bahviour aged 6 - yes these days if you left a six year old alone/to do that someone would report it to Social Services for neglect wouldn't that auntie ha HA HA
2. some other accident/scrape/embarrassment aged 14 - yes it's hard to believe that was now over twenty years ago uncle ha HA now I'm in my mid thirties my teen years seem so long ago, not making you feel old am I? Them stories don't get rolled out any more

I know someone like this and to be honest I've distanced myself from her partially because of this.
She takes something that happened then puts her own spin on it to make the other person look bad/worse and accuses them of having no sense of humour if they defend yourself.
I took to just looking at her like she was speaking a different language, pretend to think for a minute then laugh and say something like 'I don't remember that but I've slept a lot since then' or 'life's been too busy for me to remember crap like that' (heavy emphasis on the words To Me). This one worked a treat for a while but we had other issues and I don't really see her anymore.

I went to my freinds funeral and her SIL came up with one of these funny stories about the one and only time my freind got a bit tipsy. That broke my heart as my freind did alot of caring for her husband grandma ( she was only one who could cope with her) and this should mention.