Grounded

[Sir Pysco Sexy]

Nope, never been grounded in my life, though I think having your dad yell in your face sometimes about the tiniest things (like holding my fork weirdly)

It drives me insane how pissed off your parents can get for the most insignificant shit like that. When I was a lot younger I used to start off conversations at the dinner table that had no link to whatever people were talking about before, my dad used to get pissed off to no end for that. >_>

It was a couple years ago, but his main complaint was that when I get a girlfriend and go to her house to meet the parents, the parents would look at how I eat/hold my fork and start making horrible judgments at me. While it is true I was to make a good first impression on the parents, I don't think how I hold my fork would matter much >_>;

He also complained once as to how I put my socks on.

Table manners are generally important, I suppose, however assuming that you don't eat by shoving your face into your food and biting at the plate like some sort of lion you'd probably be okay.

And my mother complained as to how I put my socks on too ;/

I tell you what really did ruffle up my parents feathers the wrong way. When I was twelve, I started going out with this girl, like, going out as in, you don't really know what to say to one another, and all you do is hold hands type going out, yeah... well. I told my parents. First thing that my dad said was 'Is she pregnant?' ... only for my mum later to say 'I'm so disappointed, you're too young to have a girlfriend'


:S

 

[Jumplion]

Nope, never been grounded in my life, though I think having your dad yell in your face sometimes about the tiniest things (like holding my fork weirdly)

It drives me insane how pissed off your parents can get for the most insignificant shit like that. When I was a lot younger I used to start off conversations at the dinner table that had no link to whatever people were talking about before, my dad used to get pissed off to no end for that. >_>

It was a couple years ago, but his main complaint was that when I get a girlfriend and go to her house to meet the parents, the parents would look at how I eat/hold my fork and start making horrible judgments at me. While it is true I was to make a good first impression on the parents, I don't think how I hold my fork would matter much >_>;

He also complained once as to how I put my socks on.

Table manners are generally important, I suppose, however assuming that you don't eat by shoving your face into your food and biting at the plate like some sort of lion you'd probably be okay.

And my mother complained as to how I put my socks on too ;/

Yeah, I get that, the thing is though, I was about 9 or 10 years old at the time and most 9/10 year olds hold their eating utensils like holding a sword or something and sort of put in in their mouths. Now I hold my utensils like a pencil, so it's no big deal.

But I still wuv my dad bewrry bewrry much, even if he does drive me insane sometimes.

 

[MorsePacific]

I've been grounded several times for going out without informing anyone I was leaving, or of where I was going, but that was when I was younger.

 

[Flangle]

I just got in and after a short talk with my parents ended up being grounded for smoking when infact i hadn't. It really gets at me when you are blamed for something you havn't done, where is the justice in the world?

One must assume they had a reason to believe you were smoking, perhaps its your fault for not putting your case forward to convince them otherwise eloquently enough.

I've been known to smoke in the past and they smelt it on my hands, needless to say i was with a friend who smokes. I honestly didn't smoke this time though, and i really want to go and see this girl.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Yes, for three months. No games (noooo!), no bike, no going out, no friends or clubs.

How? Crashed my bike into the back of Dad's car (his prized, gunmetal Alfa 164 3litre no less), stoving in the boot lid and cracking the rear windscreen in the process. It's amazing just how much damage a high velocity 15 year old can do.
Taught me to look where I was going more though.

 

[zoozilla]

My parents are, like, so bitter. They always threaten to turn off my feed about the smallest little things, and it's damn annoying.

They never, like, actually do it - that would just be SO bitter.

One time I invited this one meg youch girl over to my house. We had music playing, and we were dancing, and it was all really jokes when my parents got back home and, like, completely blew up.

We weren't even, like, doing anything bitter at all. It was so sucky.

 

[Amnestic]

I just got in and after a short talk with my parents ended up being grounded for smoking when infact i hadn't. It really gets at me when you are blamed for something you havn't done, where is the justice in the world?

One must assume they had a reason to believe you were smoking, perhaps its your fault for not putting your case forward to convince them otherwise eloquently enough.

I've been known to smoke in the past and they smelt it on my hands, needless to say i was with a friend who smokes. I honestly didn't smoke this time though, and i really want to go and see this girl.

In which case you fudged up in two ways: One is that you got caught smelling of smoke after you knew your parents knew you'd smoked in the past. That was just poorly done on your part. Second is that you failed to put forward your case well enough.

As for your punishment: Is seeing the girl worth the risk of extra punishment from your parents should you be caught violating your initial grounding? If yes, go for it. If you get caught, you suck.

 

[Flangle]

Second is that you failed to put forward your case well enough.

If you ever got caught up in an argument ivolving my dad, or my mum backed up by my dad, you'd know just how unbeatable they are. They never listen.

 

[Dr Pussymagnet]

I was once grounded because I once put too much toilet paper in the toilet and since it was in the middle of the night I was too tired to do anything about the rising water in it. Next morning I find out that it didn't overflow(which probably wouldn't have been as bad as what actually happened) but the water seeped through the floor and fell below into the dining room. We were all asleep so we didn't know what was going on, but it ended up costing over a thousand dollars on damages.

 

[misterkittles]

Well I was banned from my computer twice. The first time I wasn't even told that I was banned, I just came home and tried to turn it on. I asked my mother what was wrong and she told me the fuse in the adaptor thingy ( the one that turns one socket into several) was broken, so i simply put my computer and monitor directly into the wall. A few hours later I was happily playing morrowind without any sound when mother shouts up
'Are you missing your computer yet?'
'What missing?'

Turns out she had taken my fuse lol.

The second time she took the fuse out of the actuall power cable, but I didn't feel I should be grounded this time (can't remember what it was i was grounded for) so I took the cable and hid it...and went to a wedding. She actually called one of my friends up to ask him if he knew where it was. She won't admit it but i won that round...But I've never lost my computer fuse again.

 

[Amnestic]

Second is that you failed to put forward your case well enough.

If you ever got caught up in an argument ivolving my dad, or my mum backed up by my dad, you'd know just how unbeatable they are. They never listen.

Sounds like you need to increase your Sneak skill or perhaps drop a few points into Bluff. How hard is it to get in, say "God I feel really grungy, running a bath."? Dash upstairs, remove smoke-smelling clothing, hang them up and open your window to air them out and then bathe the smell away. Deoderant or other such odor-removers optional.

Just sayin'.

 

[Piemaster]

Nope, never been grounded, but I've never done anything that bad.

 

[Flangle]

Sounds like you need to increase your Sneak skill or perhaps drop a few points into Bluff. How hard is it to get in, say "God I feel really grungy, running a bath."? Dash upstairs, remove smoke-smelling clothing, hang them up and open your window to air them out and then bathe the smell away. Deoderant or other such odor-removers optional.

Just sayin'.

Impossible. Now, as soon as i get in they say "Dommmm, come here.." so i have to trudge into the kitchen and if i say anything like "One sec, need the loo" they suspect i've been smoking, it's a lose lose situation.

Besides they could never just help me try and stop smoking, their opinion on life is that you can just shout at everything and expect it to change.

 

[Twaddlefish]

Got shipped to boarding school, so I guess you could say I was grounded for 4 years. Managed to have some fun though.

^ That.

Except you could get 'gated' and not let out of the house apart from lessons. Which happened every time I rolled in drunk.

 

[scoobyduped]

The closest I've come to being grounded was having my car taken away for about a week, when my dad saw me giving a friend a ride 4 months after I got my license. I never saw the logic of it, because I was going somewhere that we both needed to be, and he didn't have any other way of getting there. And it didn't really change anything. Now I just make sure I'm not going somewhere my parents might be when I give people rides.

 

[EnzoHonda]

I got into trouble a few times when I was really young (like 7 or 8). But then I just stopped being such a dick, and life became a lot more enjoyable.

 

[Flangle]

I still want to hear from some of the older Escapians to see how theyve punnished their children.

 

[Good morning blues]

My parents never believed in it. I got the "WE'RE EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED IN YOU" shit twice, once when my mother found out that I'd been frequenting a LAN cafe that I'd been told not to go to and lying about it, and once when I accepted a driving lesson from my uncle when I was 12.

Neither lasted very long; obviously, the driving lesson was more the uncle being an idiot than me, and I eventually explained to my mother that the reason that I'd been going to the LAN cafe regardless of what they'd told me was because I enjoyed it a lot, it was a regular ritual with our friends, and I thought banning me from going was completely unreasonable and ridiculous since they'd never given me any reason why I shouldn't be going. She told me that it was because they suspected that it was run by the Triads. When some kid was shot and killed there about a month later, I decided that they were probably right.

 

[SovietSecrets]

I only get grounded for grades, but when that happens it goes for a long time. Got a D+ on my report card and that earned me 6 months of not being able to play video games or tv or anything. Longest 6 months of my life.

 

[Twaddlefish]

I remember when I was younger, I used to get a reading ban. I loved reading, seeing as we couldn't afford a PC back when I was in single digits.