Told off! What did you do?
What's the worst thing you ever did to get a massive telling off from your mum and dad?
Today British backpacker Jamie Neale, was found alive 12 days after getting lost in the Blue Mountains near Sydney.
His dad, Richard, was overjoyed to see him - but also announced he was going to give him a rollicking for going on a 10-mile hike without a mobile phone!
To celebrate Jamie's return, we want to know what you did to deserve the biggest telling off you ever got from your mum or dad.
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If you get her pregnant, your Mother will make my life hell.
Bill Ellis, Deepest derbyshire
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When I was 16 me and my mate skived school and went to my house while we thought my dad was at work. We smoked and got drunk. My dad came down the stairs and caught us and I was in huugge trouble!
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I got a right royal roasting when my parent s found out I was two timing my girlfriend with a lad from next door. Mother claimed that the lad next door was too nice and didn't deserve to be treated in that way.....The girlfriend got the big E!
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My and my brothers were having a bonfire in the front garden and for a laugh we rolled up newspapers and tried smoking them which unfortunately my neighbour saw me and told my mum resulting in me getting told off severely and having my mouth washed out with washing up liquid
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My boyfriend Alan was going bald at 20 and went and got his head shaved. He went to show his mum in work and she slapped him. He is also about a foot taller him and this was in front of a shop full of customers.
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I was 19 and had been trusted to house-sit my parents house. After really enjoying the house for a few days with my friends we got bored and decided to go on a long road trip forgetting that we had left a half eaten chicken on the kitchen bench. uuuuuuuuuuurgh, the smell that hit my parents when they opened the front door. I've never been allowed to forget it.
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I hung my brother upside down from an apple tree using his brand new coat. My father was furious - not for risking his life, but because the coat was only a few days old!
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ME and my 3 brothers went out the day before my mum's birthday, we ended up in nottingham without any money due to fact we spent it all on my mum's present. My dad had to come and pick us up and went crazy because he missed a movie on tv. Was really funny because next day he turned around and told us he brought my mum a present from us anyway and she had already had it so it was a huge suprise to get another one.
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My mother really went to town when I told her I was ditching my boyfriend because he'd cheated on me - she liked him and thought I should stick with him.
(I did stick with him and we've been married 47 years this year!)
Joan
Bexley
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I carved my name with the end of a compass onto the front of the rental TV we had, think I was 6 years old obviously this didn't go down well, don't know if we got charged for it!
Louise Worthy, Scottish Highlands
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I was 19 and had been trusted to house-sit my parents house. After really enjoying the house for a few days with my friends we got bored and decided to go on a long road trip forgetting that we had left a half eaten chicken on the kitchen bench. uuuuuuuuuuurgh, the smell that hit my parents when they opened the front door. I've never been allowed to forget it.
Bridget Buxton, Highgate, London
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When I was 10 years old, I rang an ambulance to my Nan's address when no-one was hurt so I could get to see inside one! I was sent to bed with no tea and the police came around to tell me off! I did it whilst my Mom was cutting the grass so she had no idea!
Kate, now a midwife - from Wolverhampton
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When I was a teen i had a few friends round,at the end of the evening i told them all to crash wherever they wanted.Unknown to me a young lady feel asleep on my parents bed.When my mother came home the next day she came down with a pair of earings in her hand. "i don't care what you do in this house but not in our bed!" No amout of explaining got me out of it.
Philip way
Lowton
Cheshire
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i was told off for using my dad's newly bought hankies for a banner in a school play.i was used to jsut getting stuff from my parents wardrobe and i knew which ones they wont be looking for...what i didnt know,was, that was part of a present for my dad from my grandma for his 50th birthday (no wonder it had initials on it). i thought i could get away with it, by not owing up to the crime i did, but the photos from the play proved i was the guilty culprit. my dad's initials were too visible..
i was grounded for a week.
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When I was 14 me and my friend got up at 5am and cycled to Manchester from Nottingham. On returning at 8pm later that day my mum was getting the washing in and shouted
"Where have you been, I have been worried about you all day"
"I have been to see Auntie Elsie in Manchester"
Smack/Wallop/Bash...
"Dont lie to me, thats 70 miles away"
"I know, that is why I got her to write you a note"
I said crying as I handed mum a note from my auntie who had suggested my mum would never believe me!
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i remember getting some nudie channels free by mistake through cable one summer holiday !, I left ithe TV on one night and my old man saw it, he thought i'd give the cable company his card details so he rang cable and wireless the next morning even though I told him it was just a blunder ! and on the phone he said "yeah my son has ordered one of the nudie channels" ect to the phone operator and 20 minutes later they explained that i hadn't and it was a blunder. So not only if he had believed me would we have had the nudie channels free on cable, but would have saved making me feeling bad all summer holidays ... brilliant 8 )
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ME and my 3 brothers went out the day before my mum's birthday, we ended up in nottingham without any money due to fact we spent it all on my mum's present. My dad had to come and pick us up and went crazy because he missed a movie on tv. Was really funny because next day he turned around and told us he brought my mum a present from us anyway and she had already had it so it was a huge suprise to get another one.
Kyle Alexander - North derbyshire
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went out with my mates in a car and we broke down, there were 3 phone boxes near by but none of them worked {this was before mobile phones}did i get into trouble when i did get home!!!!!!
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My son who is 21 is a scaffolder and was working on a job when an ambulance was attending an emergency. While the drivers left the back of the ambulance open he sneaked in and lay on the stretcher, then got his friend to take a photo of him on his mobile phone and sent it to me. I saw it and rang him immediately with no answer. I then called a taxi and with his sister went straight to the local A&E Dept 6 miles away. I tried to call his friends and girlfriend with no answer. I went into A&E to ask if he had been admitted and then was shown throughout the accident department by the head nurse looking for him. I was advised by staff that I had probably arrived before the ambulance and stood waiting outside for ambulances to arrive for the next 20 minutes. I finally got hold of his girlfriend who told me that this was a practical joke. Hence to say he has received an almighty telling off from me today and is currently apologising prefusely for being so irresponsible.
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I strolled home gloriously drunk at the age of 18 to my parent's home, I hoped to enter surreptitiously but couldn't quite find the lock with my key and decided to brave it out, sucked in my breath and pressed the doorbell, my mother opened it in her curlers, she barked at me "are you drunk", with my best effort I said "absolutely not mum", to which she turned unconvinced and I tripped and fell over the doorstep, I got a real earful.
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Trying to get into the garage when I was eight, I knocked over a large barrel of red paint that was proping the garage door open. The paint spilt out and ran down the drive into the drain. My Dad saw me, saw the red on my hands, and the red running down the drive and feared the worse. When he realised what had happened, fear turned into anger and he ran after me up into the garden. To bed early, no tea.
Chris Handshaw, York.
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My biggest telling off was when I got my Tongue pierced behind my mums back. I thought buying her a box of chocalates and giving them to her before I told her what I done would soften the blow but if anything it made things worse I was grounded for weeks. Sian from Southampton
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Jim McEwan Glasgow
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At the age of eight I told my mum she was a tucker.
Well thats what I heard in the playground I think!
Karen Stanford, Cornwall
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Me and my sister wanted a paddling pool so we got up really early one morning and turned the taps full on in the bathroom...we didn't realise that the water would seep out under the door! We were blue with cold when our mum got up and did we have a smack!!
Steph, Stoke.
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I showed my mum how I'd been taught by a chef at the place I was working how to flick a tea towel at someones legs - i meant to miss her but caught her good and proper - I was chased round the house and then given a good smack on my legs!!
Hannah, Lincolnshire
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About 55 years ago when I was 10 or 11 I got a roasting from my dad for firing coal from a catapault at a neighbours white sheets drying on her clothes line next door to my house. I tried to deny it but my coal black hands gave me away. I got the usual one off punishment of a clip around the year. Honest I didn't do it again !! Steve from Peterborough
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My neighbour and I hid in my mums car in the garage for a few hours, armed with bourbon biscuits to keep us going. We were very small and this was back in the 70's, we had no idea about bad people but my parents went off the head at us when they happened to hear us giggling. I have NEVER been told off like that before or since.
Chris, Kendal
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When I was 13, I bought an old car for £5 off a neighbour, who ran a horticulture business. Needless to say, it wasn't in showroom condition but that didn't stop me thinking it wouldn't look out of place in our back garden so I arranged for the neighbour to tow the wreck into what I thought would be a secluded part of the flora and fauna..
Getting home from school, I was horrified to see the thing right in the centre, in full view from the house; it didn't escape my parents' notice, either. I spent a few weekends pricking out bedding plants in recompense to our neighbour....
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I was showing off in the back garden as a kid. I swung a golf club and let go of it and smashed through the kitchen window...hitting my younger brother who was getting bathed in the sink by my mum!
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I was showing off in the back garden as a kid. I swung a golf club and let go of it and smashed through the kitchen window...hitting my younger brother who was getting bathed in the sink by my mum!
Andy - York
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Hi
My wife, son and I went to visit my dad up in nottingham, (we live in London)
After a night out down the pub with my dad I came home and decided to take my 3 month old son round the block in his pram. I got lost!
Everyone was panicing and I left my mobile, I came accross a public phone box but it was out of order, it was like I was destined to get lost.
They called the police and were driving around looking for me.
About 2 hours later I found my way back, I strolled down the road all happy because I managed to find my way back only to be confronted by my irate wife "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!!?" she bellowed, yes, I got told off and I am a 35 year old fully grown man. I say getting lost is nothing to be ashamed of, how else will you find your way around. He He:)
Chris
(Sidcup)
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I demonstrated to my mother how a chef at work had taught me to flick a wet tea towel at someones legs - whilst I couldn't do it at work I managed to catch her good and proper at home - i was chased around the house and then given a good smack on my legs!!
Hannah, Lincolnshire
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When I was young, I painted the front end of my dads Capri 2.8 injection, his pride and joy, with underseal.
Cheryl from Staffordshire
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2 Years ago i came home 3 hours late one night, unfortunetly i payed the cost by my mum and dad turning my internet off and grounding me, as i got bored without been able to go out or talk to my my mates on msn or facebook i decided to go down the stairs and i knew there was switches down in the garage controlling the internet, i switched a couple on and walked back up stairs and my internet was back on! a few minutes later it went back off and my dad came screaming up the stairs because there was a huge bang from the basement !! The cost was huge to repair and i wasn't suprised when they told me i was grounded for a year!!!
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when i was younger i was making a model plane and left the super glue on the chair after i was done making it and when my dad got in from work he sat down on the seat and the glue he stayed there for some time and when he did try and get up he was stuck to the chair and my mother had to cut him out of this jeans
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I think Christine Bleakley should get a big telling off for riding a motorcycle whilst wearing jeans and flip flops. What sort of example to other is this.
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When I was a toddler my twin brother and i made paint out of what my dad claimed was an empty paint tin by using it as a potty!! My dad said the lid was sealed to my mum!!! Nope we managed to get it off make a nice oh de nil colour and then throw it all over our room that he had just painted. I got the smacked bottom as my folks knew that I was always the brains of the mischievious outfit!!!
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My worst telling off was when I was 10 years old I placed a thermometer into the teapot and it broke and all the mercury leaked into it but I didnt tell my parents and still poured them tea and my father had a mouthful of mercury
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When I was in 6th year at school I borrowed my parent's car to take my friends to school. Unbeknown to them I toook my friends for a spin and low and behold I crashed the car into a wall on a country round trying to impersonate Colin McRae. I only had my licence a few weeks and it was "Comic Relief", should have got sponsored and it could have been my sponsored car crash. As you will have guessed didn't have a birthday that year, I am the only person born on the 16.08.1977 (day elvis died) that is officially 31 on my next birthday!!! My dad and I didn't speak for 2 months after this and it was the biggest telling off I have ever had.
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2 Years ago i came home 3 hours late one night, unfortunetly i payed the cost by my mum and dad turning my internet off and grounding me, as i got bored without been able to go out or talk to my my mates on msn or facebook i decided to go down the stairs and i knew there was switches down in the garage controlling the internet, i switched a couple on and walked back up stairs and my internet was back on! a few minutes later it went back off and my dad came screaming up the stairs because there was a huge bang from the basement !! The cost was huge to repair and i wasn't suprised when they told me i was grounded for a year!!!
Tristan
Kent
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i was unwell one night and had a tupperware bowl given to me in case i was sick,yes i was and decided to hide it in my wardrobe totally forgetting about it until i went to brownie camp about a week later and when i got home my mum had found it in my wardrobe and lets say it had grown whilst been in there,my mum was so mad she remembers it to this day
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At the age of 16 I thought it would be a brilliant idea to get married, but without telling anyone (not even my boyfriend). So, I trotted down to the registry office with forged signatures from my parents and booked the date. Fortunately my mum found out in advance of the 'Big Day' and put a stop to it. She even had to convince the Registrar that I shouldn't be charged with perjury!
I got quite a telling off for that!
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In my childhood I, together with my brother and 2 cousins were told off in a very big way for burning down my uncle's haystack. It was an accident and I never had the matches - honest. I know who did but will never tell!!
This was the only time my father took his belt off to my brother and I. I am sure it hurt our father more than it hurt us. I remember the fire catching hold all quite vividly now as I approach my 60's. The belt I hardly recall at all.
Steve
Now in Frome Somerset
In Crewkerne Somerset at the time of the incident
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I got told not to get drunk again and hit with a slipper from my mother whilst I had my head in the white telephone I was seventeen and celebrating on a hen night
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I signed my family up to have German Students for 6 weeks over last summer. The language school staff came round to check out my house was suitable, and I introduced them to my dad. Happy that my house was safe for the students they confirmed the placement and a fortnight later 2 fresh-faced teen boys turned up at our door step.... My mum went spare! When I asked my dad why he hadn't told her, he said that he had no idea that they were coming either - he thought that the people checking out our house were my friends!
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I was in big trouble for drawing a 'Friday Rain' weather picture on my wooden headboard - using the pointy end of a compass!
I was only six at the time!
Chris F - Picket Piece
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I have been told off so many times from my mum and dad I have lost count.
One night I told them I was going to the local club, they then got a phone call saying I was being taken to hospital. The club was cancelled so I decided to go on an adventure with my mate, which resulted in a cracked ankle bone and 12 weeks in Plaster. (I was 9 at the time)
Linda Cornwall
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At the age of 16 I thought it would be a brilliant idea to get married, but without telling anyone (not even my boyfriend). So, I trotted down to the registry office with forged signatures from my parents and booked the date. Fortunately my mum found out in advance of the 'Big Day' and put a stop to it. She even had to convince the Registrar that I shouldn't be charged with perjury!
I got quite a telling off for that!
Oops - forgot my name - Adelina from Newbury
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I signed my family up to have German Students for 6 weeks over last summer. The language school staff came round to check out my house was suitable, and I introduced them to my dad. Happy that my house was safe for the students they confirmed the placement and a fortnight later 2 fresh-faced teen boys turned up at our door step.... My mum went spare! When I asked my dad why he hadn't told her, he said that he had no idea that they were coming either - he thought that the people checking out our house were my friends!
Rowena Upton
Eastbourne
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I forgot to mention in earlier post:
My Nmae is Peter Horridge and I live in Repton Derbyshire
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In 1946 at the end of the war, I was working in a shipyard in Clydebank, at the time when troop ships were coming in to be converted back to passenger liner.
The lifeboats contained amongst the emergency rations boxes of barley sugar sweets. Along with others I helped my self because sweets were still rationed.
When I proudly took them home to my parents, they were furious, because they said that it was stealing. They would not allow them in the house. It was a long time ago, but I still remember.
smilinghovisman
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Over 50 years ago,my mum found me smoking and blowing the smoke out of a window. She didn't speak to me for a week despite going to choir practise together. She is now 90 and we spend time together as much as we can! Needless to say neither of us smoke now!
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There has been many!! at 5 years old i told my dad to ' F Off' and he chased me round the garden several times before i locked myself in the downstairs toilet for several hours!! At the age of 9 called the fire brigade to a false fire i said was happening at my parents house! cost my parents £50 fine and that was 18 years ago! for sharpening a knife and then asking my sister to hold out her hand to see how sharp it was!! several hours then spent at A&E! numerous fights about coming home drunk and late in my teens and twenties which resulted in my dad plants being ripped up from the garden and the many a front door being slammed! the biggest telling off i ever had though was when i was about 21, needed some money and me and my boyfriend at the time pushed my car into a well known spot and then made a claim on the insurance.(said it had been stolen!) My mum was livid when the insurance man came round to the house and started asking loads of questions (he didnt believe us!). Amazingly he passed it and said the chq was in the post. My mum had believed me up to that point, until she found the pull of stereo from the car under my bed!! she knew then it hadnt been nicked!! lets just say i ran out the house and didnt go back until the next day!!
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When I was 11 in 1959 Luton Town reached the FA Cup final and Dad sent my brother and I to queue for tickets. We queued for hours, got 2 tickets each but when we came out there was a ticket tout offering £5 a ticket (lots of money to me in those days). I sold 1 of my tickets! Dad was NOT happy.
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I was about 2 years old when my mum and dad got married and they had this really expensive picture done. A few weeks later they haden't put it up on the wall yet and everyone was upstairs looking at my baby sister. I was left downstairs and somehow I had managed to get my hands on a permenant marker pen. I had drawn all over it and it wouldn't come off!!!!!! They went balistic!!!!
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At age 7 I was always the first in the street to be sent to bed as I was the youngest. One evening thoroughly fed up I started to strip the wall paper off the bedroom walls while all the other kids carried on playing in the street.I got my brother and sister to help when they came up to bed and we even bumped the bunk beds around the room so we could get to the high bits. Mum just said "It needed decorating anway" when she came home from work but dad got a right royal telling off as he had slept through the whole thing downstairs in front of the tv when he was supposed to be babysitting.
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I sent my sister open letters. This was because she was abusive whenever I tried to have my say. She would then find things to blame me for and my issues never got a look in. I was feeling ill and needed to clear my head, also wanted to show her what it was like to be abused.
My father asked me what she did to me and when I tried to answer he shouted "I puts things behind me" and started to boast about himself and run me down. He then cried and played on my sympathy. He continued with shouting more rubbish until I said I was not coming over any more. My mother began to cry and he ran out of the kitchen shouting "see what you've done now?" Later he begged me to listen to him and suggested it was because I lived alone and thought too much.
I lost my temper and stormed out.
I refused to visit my parents for six months, then he came on the telephone with more nonsense. He sneered at me and asked if I had anything to be glad about. He then insisted that he did put things behind him like two things I had said thirty years previously. Once again I had to deal with my abuser's issues and not get a look in.
I was too ill to cope after these games and he was able to persuade me to resume visits, but I threatened my siblings and continued to write open letters as it was the only way I could have my say.
My issues were never sorted, my father did not retract his comments and I was diagnosed as a paranoid obsessive. The last time I saw my father he was scornful of my uncle's panic attacks, probably caused by his abuse.
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Another time my father got nasty because I thought my brother was taking advantage of him. My father's sister had died and had practically insulted him by making him a minor beneficiary. Owing to a legal cock-up my father became entitled to the lot. However, he decided to share with all other beneficiaries and he had the same amount as my brother. Having squandered most of his share, my brother asked my father for some money to invest in a caravan.
i spoke to my father sympathetically and he got nasty, telling me to take the lot. I stormed out, only to have my sister's family to bring me back so my father could somehow blame me and say "come on." Untrustworthy set-ups were the norm with my family.
One of my breakdowns had the sister who sucked me dry of sympathy,abusing me and being indifferent. I fought for my home with a nervous rash on my face and my plight was ignored. That went deep and I never was able to mention that.
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Mainly it was my sister who told me off. I would telephone her for the sympathetic ear she came to me for. She would start shouting nasty gibberish at me, then try to criticise everything I had said over the last year.
Then the usual trick of giving me issues to deal with and making everything about her.
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Although now 59 years of age I recall when 4 I left my tricycle in our driveway. My father came home to lunch and backed his lorry into the drive and squashed the trike!! Too frightened to look thinking I was on it he changed from petrified to very angry when he stumbled into our kitchen and saw me there, grabbed me and put me firmly over his knee and took out his great relief on by bot!!!!!
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When I was younger, my little sister and I would constantly fight, usually just arguing but it often got physical (once she punched me right in the nose, my Mum thought it was hilarious). On one particular day when I was about 8, we were playing in my brother's room and found his pellet gun. My sister was being incredibly annoying and I warned her to stop it or I would shoot her. She didn't stop, so I put the pellet gun against her arm and shot her point blank.
Luckily it was a pretty rubbish pellet gun, and it didn't do her any serious harm, but needless to say my parents did not react well. I felt at the time I was quite justified in shooting her, since I did give her a fair warning!
My sister and I now get on famously, much to the relief of my parents who spent the first 14 years of our lives trying to stop us from killing each other.
Alasdair, Bournemouth
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We caught the tale end of Dom's advice on complaint letters on yesterdays show and just wanted to let you know that we did download his template and filled in our details. Following a long battle with Currys over a faulty tv (which they said that they would send off to be repaired taking as long as 28 days - no refunds, no replacements - company policy etc), the in store manager agreed to an immediate replacement. Many thanks!
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I often got a telling off from a so-called Christian friend. This was because I tried to have my say. He had this tendency to heckle me in my own home when my nerves were bad and then launch into patronising lectures. If I would not let him get away with this he would make abusive calls.
I had similar problems with many people and had nobody to turn to for a sympathetic ear, so got more and more muddled with it. There were those who would insult me or launch into torrents of abuse. Others would belittle what I say and ramble on. People would tie me up in knots with ridiculous cliches and start telling me a lot of lies that went against everything they put me through.
Some say it was because I was a genius, others say people are like that, which frankly, I could apply to their boo-baby rubbish. Some call it the aplha male game, but it is just old-fashioned selfishness. I was having my ear bent big time and having to use premium rate telephone services to get things off my chest.
The Christian would shout that I had too much time on my hands, did not understand how people felt, I wanted to find out what I was talking about and I expect people to be perfect. I actually was just asking him to respect my feelings. A man who did not listen, knew better than people twice his intelligence about things they had been trained in and was so nasty about my upsets was in no position to dictate to me.
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With all the hoo-ha about food labelling I was fascinated by the notice on the back of a Tesco ready meal. It read "Allergy advice - Contains milk, wheat, gluten and egg. Recipe - No nuts. Ingredients - Cannot guarantee nut free. Factory - No nuts."
And the description of the product?
"Roasted Garlic Mushroom, Spinach and Pine Nut Penne"!!!
What's the point of these allergy notices if something like this gets through?
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