To ask if anyone else’s family had this belief growing up?

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NC for this as it seems like all my threads lately have been about my family and don’t want them linked

late night thought tonight is about when I was growing up (late 80s born to a mid 40s born DM) I was told that drinking from a can and eating in the street was like being a prostitute

im not exaggerating I can clearly remember being about 10 and told that walking home from swimming with my hair down and wet and drinking from a can made me look like a prostitute! What was this about?? Where did it come from?? Even now I struggle to drink from a can and I don’t think I ever eat whilst walking!

Absolutely 😀

I meant if I'm going out when I'm not at work

Wow this is outrageous! Never heard that before

If we had chips they couldn’t be eaten unless in a heavily buttered slice of bread and only 2 chips to a butty

I think I was 18 before I had a bag of chips to myself that I could eat and didn’t have to put in butty

I can remember being told that eating in the street was common 😂If we ever bought anything like a sausage roll while in the town centre, it was always taken home to eat!

I can also remember my Nan (who I loved dearly btw) telling me, as a child, that ladies don't drink from pint glasses. To this day I can't face using a pint glass 😂

There was no mention of prostitution but yes I was told that eating and drinking in the street was common. I still don’t do it and I tell my children it’s common too. Because it is.

I've never told my kids anything is common, it's a bonkers, snobby, outdated concept

As others have said, the word prostitute would not have been used, but I was absolutely forbidden from eating or drinking in the street lest I be mistaken for someone of no moral fortitude. I remember an incident in a bakery when I was about 6, a younger girl grabbed a cake from the window display took a massive bite & then put it back. My mum went truly apeshit that someone’s child could be so feral, but when the girls mother began to cry she actually offered to pay for it, but by then the girl didn’t want it. They left and there was much kerfuffle with a cloth and bleach.
I do loathe seeing people eat in the street, it is uncouth.

Definitely considered common in my family though not indicative of being a sex worker!

not hooker but my mother said it was uncouth to eat/drink in the street. She was a smoker and said ladies didn't smoke in the street. She was born in the late 20's "out of wedlock" and brought up in a tiny village in Suffolk, she had some really weird opinions!!

I think that generation described it as common. Like not washing your doorstep etc. #slattern

I don't think the word prostitute would have been used in my hearing. But it was probably implied

A colleague at work said the same thing to me and I burst out laughing.

It's hilarious how those from less than mega rich background make up stupid rules to try to elevate themselves in society. I feel sorry for them.

BTW, the richest person I know (and they are mega rich old money, dunks biscuits. Get that! I mean how common 😂😂😂

my Dad made me take out a second earring because it’s what prostitutes wore, oh and an ankle chain too. We were also told to eat, drink or smoke in the street was common. Guess what I did when I was out with friends, all three 😂

Guess we must've been terribly common as was never told anything like this. I was born mid-late 80s to an early 30s mother and early 40s father.

I hate this idea of bad manners based on arbitrary crap. For some reason I am way more comfortable eating with my knife and fork "in the wrong hands". I was told it was very bad manners. Why? What on earth is so offensive about that. Get a grip 😂

I'm about the same age as your DM and yes, we weren't allowed to drink or eat in the street although it was thought to be 'common' NOT likened to a pro.
I still don't eat outside, only at mealtimes and at pavement cafes or on a picnic nor do I swig bottles of water 'on the go'.
Dehydration was never an issue in the past so I've no idea why so many people walk around with water bottles nowadays and I'm healthier than most people.

re the period thing my Dad was the eldest of 9 children, 7 of whom were girls, he said even in the 30s/40s if he went shopping he'd always have to buy sanpro, much less choice then of course. He never had a problem with his daughters bodily functions. I always thought he was a bit ahead of his time!!

I have a great aunt who must be over 80 now. She wouldn't be seen dead drinking from a can. I remember going on picnics with her as a kid and she would bring along plastic stackable cups so if she bought cans of drink she would find a bench, sit down and then pour them into the cups.

Funny ha ha. In the 70s my DM told me that anklets were for prostitutes and I've never been able to consider wearing them all these years later. Poor prostitutes, they got a bad rap back in the day. I need to tell my mum it's not a choice!!

My grab wouldn't let me wash my horn when I was on my period! Also, smoking in the street was a big no-no. Gran used to ask me to smoke in their toilet rather than in public.

And yes to fish and chips in their wrapping, but plated! Ha!

I was brought up in a miners community where money was tight but standards were EVERYTHING. (I do love to drink out of a can though, am a rebel!)

Wash my horn??? Wash my hair!

Definitely the rat's urine thing

It's not good for your digestive system. That's what I grew up knowing.

What's not good for your digestive system?

2 chips????? Good lord

@splishsplashsploshsplish Sorry for laughing, but your typo 😂😂😂