13. Human8837:
I wasn’t allowed to talk in the car at all unless I was directly asked a question. It didn’t seem like that big of deal at the time since it was normal for me, it’s now as an adult when my friends are weirded out by my immediate silence when I enter a vehicle that I realized it was not a regular rule.
14. Lousy_try_Brian:
Lots of things ITT are reminding me of my childhood. Here are some of the ones I dealt with:
-No chewing gum allowed
-No nail polish allowed
-No video games allowed
-Half hour of tv per day (until high school, when they got rid of it completely)
-“Download and Die” – no downloading anything on the computer, no matter how legitimate.
-No jumping on trampolines or riding 4-wheelers
-No sugar cereal. Wheaties or bust!
-On the rare occasion I got to have a sleepover, had to be home by 8 am the next day
-No sleeping in on weekends. My mom would pound on the intercom for like 10 minutes each morning and then come physically drag me out of bed if I didn’t get up.
-Save 50% of each paycheck, mandatory.
Punishments were also incredibly harsh. I got caught talking to people on ICQ who I didn’t know when I was 15 and wasn’t allowed to use the internet until I turned 18 and moved away from home. They even revoked my school internet permission form. Once when I was 16 my mom read my diary (where I’d been saying horrible things about her), and she took it away, wrote me a 7 page letter about what a horrible human being I was, and tried to send me to live with my bio dad.
15. Wafflebot17:
I was raised religious and my mom invented a concept called microsinning. Home by 11 make it home at 10:50 punished because it was too close to 11 and your being defiant.
