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Fyrefox

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When you were a child, were there things that "grown-ups" did that you disliked? For me, it was kissing...both on tv and in the movies, and when a grown-up actually kissed me. I couldn't understand the appeal of having kissing depicted so often, and when a grown-up insisted on kissing me, it was usually an elderly female wearing heavy make-up that I could smell and which would then leave a scent or physical lipstick residue on my cheek. In response to kissing, I would say "Eww, mush!" and try to wipe it away...sorry, Grandma! 😾

What grown-up things or behaviors bothered you as a young child? 🤔
 

Fyrefox said:
When you were a child, were there things that "grown-ups" did that you disliked? For me, it was kissing...both on tv and in the movies, and when a grown-up actually kissed me. I couldn't understand the appeal of having kissing depicted so often, and when a grown-up insisted on kissing me, it was usually an elderly female wearing heavy make-up that I could smell and which would then leave a scent or physical lipstick residue on my cheek. In response to kissing, I would say "Eww, mush!" and try to wipe it away...sorry, Grandma! 😾

What grown-up things or behaviors bothered you as a young child? 🤔
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yup I hated that too, and the smell of lipstick back in the day was horrible ... and I hated having people spit on hankies and wash my face with them :sick:
 

Fyrefox said:
When you were a child, were there things that "grown-ups" did that you disliked? For me, it was kissing...both on tv and in the movies, and when a grown-up actually kissed me. I couldn't understand the appeal of having kissing depicted so often, and when a grown-up insisted on kissing me, it was usually an elderly female wearing heavy make-up that I could smell and which would then leave a scent or physical lipstick residue on my cheek. In response to kissing, I would say "Eww, mush!" and try to wipe it away...sorry, Grandma! 😾

What grown-up things or behaviors bothered you as a young child? 🤔
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Mushy stuff. that's what my 8 year self used to call kissing. I agree with Fyrefox, I really couldn't understand this kissing stuff, It's like your eating something. but your not. And the street term of "swapping spit" is appropriate. Even today, I'm not a big fan of kissing.. We've all had the image of an ancient aunt coming at you with neon red lips, all smoochie, smoochie. Oh, God!
 
I didn't like it when adults talked above me or in code, spelled things out, or asked me to leave the room while they discussed something important.

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Aunt Marg said:
When adults would light-up a cigarette when I was eating.

I made such waves over this my mom applied a rule in our house that NO smoking was allowed when us kids were eating.
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This reminds me of another thing that "grown-ups" did that I didn't like: it not mattering one darn little bit what we kids didn't like or were even understandably afraid of; we didn't have a say in anything. (Or we could trying having a say, but were sorry we did.)
 
Talking in code. My mom was Polish, and when she and my Aunts did not want us kids to understand the conversations, they would talk to each other in Polish. LOL, when I was closer to adult hood, and was talking to one of my Aunts about it (several years after my mom passed) she chuckled and confided in me that my mom was never good at the language...but they still figured each other out.
 

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