remember when parents use to get shitfaced in front of their kids?

[TurdBerglar]

or was my family just being trashy assholes?

this doesn't seem to happend nearly as much as it used to amongst today's families. i just remember almost every weekend during the summer my parents either having some sort of gathering or going to one and all the adults getting totally bombed while the kids just ran around and played in whoever's neighborhood we were in.

i have vivid memories of my parents and my aunts and uncles and all their old friends sitting in the kitchen playing cards after an afternoon of drinking out in someone's backyard. passing around a joint and laughing it up and trying to shoo me out of the room. didn't realise they were smoking weed till much later in life but i still remember it.

i just remember when that shit was totally ok. you couldn't get away with that shit now.


i also remember all the drunken fights. jesus christ my family was nuts. i stopped going to these gatherings when i was like ten. even at ten years old i was getting old enough to realise this shit was getting weird.

one christmas we were at my crazy drunken aunt's house. everybody was there. the house was packed. i was like 7 or younger. me, my cousing who is a year younger than me, another cousing who was like maybe 14/15 and an adult unkle were up in someone's bedroom playing zelda. someone had just gotten a nintendo for christmas and we were all hypnotized by it. as my uncle was playing the game and my and my cousins were watching there was this loud bang and you could feel the walls and floor shake and lots of yelling. my uncle(who was like 250+lbs at the time) bolted down the stairs in an instant. my older cousin who lived in the house and obviously knew something was going down jumped out the window and fucking booked it down the driveway. me and my younger cousing were just left sitting up in that room just looking at each other. my mother comes running up the stairs and scoops us both up and flies back down out the front door to our car that my father had already ran to and started and we were off. my parents were dead silent. me and my cousin just look at each other all like wtf and i say.... is karly(my cousin) staying over for the weekend??? and my parents very hushly were all like... yes yes shutup. me and my cousin were just all like... YAAAAAYYYY!!!! completely oblivious to what was happening.

i never found out what happened that night. i should ask.

[hardnox71]

Best Post Ever Nominee ^

[TurdBerglar]

when i got old enough to realise that shit like that was weird it started to embarrass me. but it seemed like everyone in all the neighborhoods i grew up in did this shit but you don't see it now. i think it's one of the reasons why i don't enjoy drinking or being around people who have been drinking.

[hardnox71]

In all seriousness, I remember my daughter's mother telling me about her early childhood in Wisconsin (she was like, six or seven). They used to take the kids to the bar and there was a little outdoor area where all the kids would run around and play and the parents would sit indoors half the night drinking. That one memory alone is the major reason why my ex didn't drink.

Said all that to say this...I think you're probably right, Turd. Shit's not like it used to be. Not at all. I remember getting going to the store when I was eight with a handwritten note from my dad for a pack of Pall Malls. Would that happen today? In most places, no. Things have changed. All the way around.

[TurdBerglar]

people don't even send their kids to the corner store to get a gallon of milk anymore...

[TurdBerglar]

remember when finding an old damp and weathered playboy that some older kids had stashed out in the woods and had forgotten about was fucking awesome?

that shit WAS awesome

[silence7]

Hmm, No falling down drunkenness at our house, but I was the beer boy, Son, go get your Uncle and I another beer.

And.... My Father took me to the bar a few times. I played Pool (Standing on a chair) and Shuffleboard while he drank, and then drove me home! (It was only a few blocks)

[TurdBerglar]

i would love to see a bunch of drunks playing shuffleboard. a shuffleboard at a bar? the fuck?

[like2_drink]

someday when kids grow up they'll say "do you remember when our parents used to smoke around us all the time"

My parents didn't drink around me, they were devorced and fought around me.

[silence7]

i would love to see a bunch of drunks playing shuffleboard. a shuffleboard at a bar? the fuck?

Just to clarify..... It was a shuffleboard table, like this.
http://www.recreationwholesale.com/Kansas-City-Shuffleboard.html

Now back to my Hungry Man dinner, Tonight's delicacy, Salisbury Steak
Back of box
The Maestro - "I hear a symphony every time the microwave dings"

[TurdBerglar]

ahh yeah. it had like chalk dust on the table right? i remember going with my dad to go pick up my grandfather from the "club". just a small bar with like 6 old men in it. the type of old men that belonged to a moose lodge or some shit.

[ms.peachy]

I guess it's all relative. Maybe it's a city vs suburbs thing, I dunno - the driving thing means at a bbq or whatever, some people can't drink because they have to drive, so that kind of keeps everyone in check. But in my circles no one ever has to drive anywhere so we definitely all hang out and get a bit loose, and let the kids run a bit wild. Why not.

[Helvete]

me and my cousin were just all like... YAAAAAYYYY!!!! completely oblivious to what was happening.

Haha, that's brilliant. Is that your hot cousin with the nice ass by the way? Oh yeah, and you should ask what happened.

[abbott]

it lasted at my home until I was in the 5th grade. Cards and large towers of beer cans being built by the adults... Kids playing Atari and tearing up the house... Driving with a beer in your car was no big deal either ... getting in the car on the way to soccer practice and my friends mom is sipping on a beer. The irresponsible beer drinkers ruined it for all of us.

Seems like it was all good times to me ...

I think I might just have the best drunken Christmas get together family story of all times, I might come back to this post later if I start drinking.

[TurdBerglar]

Haha, that's brilliant. Is that your hot cousin with the nice ass by the way? Oh yeah, and you should ask what happened.

no it was a different cousin.

i think im gonna ask one of my older cousins later today as to what happened.

i'm sure if i ask anyone else they're not gonna remember it.

[TurdBerglar]

it lasted at my home until I was in the 5th grade. Cards and large towers of beer cans being built by the adults... Kids playing Atari and tearing up the house... Driving with a beer in your car was no big deal either ... getting in the car on the way to soccer practice and my friends mom is sipping on a beer. The irresponsible beer drinkers ruined it for all of us.

Seems like it was all good times to me ...

I think I might just have the best drunken Christmas get together family story of all times, I might come back to this post later if I start drinking.

all this shit lasted to about the same age as me too. i think it was stopped after one time at the same house my crazy drunken aunt's husband was beating the shit out of one of my older cousins in a drunken rage. she was about 14. i didn't go this time as i was getting creeped out by the happenings at that house. my parents brought my cousin home and she lived with us for a year. we never went to anymore of these gatherings or invited the crazies to ours when we had them. everything seemed to calm down quite a fucking bit after that.

the same thing happened with this older cousin that happened with my younger cousin. my parents came home with her and i was sitting on the front porch hanging out with some friends and i was all like.... oh is she spending the weekend? and my parents were all like... uh yeah, something like that... and she ended up living with us.

[gbsuey]

My dad was always a big drinker but things rarely got raucous. He was very good at getting anyone that popped round really pissed on rough cider or home brew or homemade wine. Like they'd come by for a chat and leave in a total state.

I haven't ever been really wasted around my kids, i'm too aware of being the one who's responsible for them but my friends and I generally make a lot of the big kids parties into huge get togethers for all of us. And seeing as there are lots of kids at the grown ups parties or festivals they're all pretty used to being around some drunken adults to some degree. It's pretty cool now to be able to hang out and get drunk with some of the older kids that are now nearing their twenties. There aren't many but there's always a great range of ages at our parties, including friends' parents. We're all kind of a huge family, man.

[kaiser soze]

I remember when my friend's parents smoked weed (y)

[Micodin]

Yeah, I remember when I was 5 or 6 my dad smoking weed in our screened sun porch. On some roach clip type of shit.

Things done changed.

[kaiser soze]

I'm sure people still do it all the time

[gbsuey]

Yes they do. Weed i mean

[hardnox71]

I wish I could attribute my dad's behavior when I was a kid to alcohol but unfortunately, I can't. He was just a natural born asshole. When I was about six I saw him drink half a Budweiser and then stick the rest in the fridge where it sat for the next two months. My dad just didn't drink.

Now, as for smoking weed? Holy shit!! I remember my dad used to get TWISTED!! I would come home from school sometimes and he would be in his bathrobe asleep in MY bed. Why he would be home from work, I don't know. Never thought about it until right now but he would be high as hell. I would wake him up and he would mumble something about me doing my chores and my homework, then he would go in his room and go back to sleep until step-mom got home.

[Dorothy Wood]

I think people were just less careful around kids. Now everyone's all concerned about appropriateness.


I used to go rock shows with my parents when I was pretty little, around 5 or 6. And my parents had parties sometimes where the adults would get wasted. I usually just kept to myself, I hated adults, drunk or not. My mom was always cool though, she never got shitty drunk. Dad...well, that's another story I've already written a few times over on this board. bleh.

My parents both smoked cigarettes, but I don't ever remember anybody smoking weed. My dad was into coke and guns.

Personally, if I had kids, I wouldn't get drunk around them.
Little ones absorb that shit, man, it's scary and annoying when people are wasted. And I probably wouldn't have a gun case in my office either. :(

[TurdBerglar]

well i asked my older cousin what happened that christmas night.


she said it was either the time someone through a fucking piano across the room.... yes a fucking piano. one of those stand up ones you can place against a wall.

or when my aunt got choked slammed into the kitchen table and cracked it right down the middle.

awesome.

im glad i didn't grow up on that side of the family...

[MCAadROCKMiKEd7]

LOL The original post on this thread made my night.
My parents used to have gatherings and shit like that when I was younger, My parents were in their 20s when I was born.

I remember one time there was a beer on the table (kids running all around while all the parents got bombed exactly like you said, I get vivid ass pictures when I think of that hahah.) and I thought it was a soda, I was 4, and obviously it was a slick "I gotta do this fast before my parents notice" mission, So I took a fatty gulp out of it, only to find out it was full of cigarette ashes and warm beer.

My family partys used to be nuts, especially since were a bunch of polaks. :D