Did your parents ever stay up when you went out on a date?

Not really, but I'm sure my mom was peeking to try to see that long goodnight kiss in the car before bf walked me to the door.

I had an older brother and he helped smooth some issues re: my dating.
 
I was the oldest so yes, I had to be home by ten as my dad said everybody should be home and in bed by 10. They let my younger brother and sister do what they wanted. Mama said that I turned out all right so they were more lenient with them.
 
Being the oldest, I had to put up with more rules than my younger sisters, who pretty much did what they wanted. As someone said earlier, my parents were tired by then and not strict at all with them.

At first, my mother would put an alarm clock out in the hallway, set for ten minutes after I was supposed to be home. If I came home on time, I could turn off the alarm clock and everything was fine. If I didn't, the alarm clock went off and ….. well, you get the picture.

After a while, though, my parents started trusting me and I had some more leeway. All I had to do was call home and say "a bunch of us want to go for pizza after the game, so I won't be home until______". They didn't mind getting woken up for that. They just wanted to know where I was going to be and who I was going to be with.
 
When I came home from Marine Core on leave, this girl asked me to stay the night with her, my mom called the police, I was easy to find, it was the Police chief's daughter, I was with.
 
My Mom and Dad were always in bed when I got home but I knew she was awake until I walked in because she would tell me the next day what time I got in. My Dad most likely was sleeping,not because he didn't care but because he worked long hours and was always dog tired when he came home.
 
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My sister was a lot older. She was the wild child. I remember she and my parents having lots of loud conflicts over dating rules [my sister constantly broke them.] Then my mom would turn to me and say, "You're not doing that !"

The irony is... in my teenage years, my personality and interests were a lot different than my sister's. My parents had no problem with me staying out after midnight because I was usually at church or at a political meeting. I didn't have my first real date and first real kiss until I was in college.

Our older brother dated two girls in college and married both of them !! Seriously... he dated one, they broke up and the next girl he dated he married. They divorced after over 20 years of marriage. Later he reconnected with the other girl he had dated on college [she had become an old maid school teacher] and he married her.

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Nope they didn't stay up..they just locked me out when they went to bed, and I'd have to sit on the doorstep all night, regardless of how cold it was, and that I had to go to work in the morning!!
 
Yes, my parents stayed up till I got home from a date...But most of the time I was with my boyfriend and my cousin and her boyfriend....I had to be home by 10 PM....I was a Senior in High School....LOL....
I did marry that boyfriend...53 years in August...
 
My older sister used to argue with ‘em
Real knock down drag outs
I learned
Didn’t ask
Went out
Stayed out

Next day, when everbody was gone, I’d climb thru a window (mine, unlocked)

It didn’t hurt they were unknowingly in the throes of getting a divorce

When I did stay home, all we’d hear is them arguing at dinner, and thru the night
Why stick around for that?
 
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