graceksjp wrote:
Oh gosh. Lemme think.
In no particular order:
1) Sleeping outside in a storm and then having to go to school sick for a week
2) Doing the ninja course till I threw up and couldnt move (Never was I happier than the day this stupid thing got taken down. Bane of me and my brothers existence lol)
3) Being forced to balance plates on my arms and being thrown into the deep end of the pool every time I dropped one (I have never been a strong swimmer- let alone when I was 5)
4) That one time my I was completely naked for a belting and it went too low and riding was excruciating for the next couple weeks
5) The Old Witch's House. Every. Time. (Honestly worse than anything painful couldve been)
6) Handstand against the wall balancing water on my feet without letting it spill (this one is torture yall ugh I sometimes I hated being a gymnast)
7) Sitting beside a speaker as it blasts seriously terrible extremely loud music in my ears. (I HATE loud music. This might not be so terrible for say my brothers, but I hated it)
8] Allowing my brothers to coat me in flour, spray me with water guns, and then dribble honey all over me. (I have a thing about stuff touching my skin ack)
9) Being stuck in a box for hours. Just a cardboard box in the garage. For every sound or movement you get an hour added.
10) Tickling. No Im not joking. All three of my brothers tickling me till I couldnt breathe and letting me have just enough time to catch a breath before starting again till I was crying and begging them to stop
My parents were very creative punishers. The traditional punishments didnt work on me because I had too high a pain tolerance. So they got smarter.
Almost all these were for talking back or breaking the rules. The Witch's House was for outbursts. Beltings were for more extreme offensives. Number 9 was for trying to run from a punishment. Number 10 was typically a brother only punishment they invented when I annoyed them too much. Oh yeah, number 3 was for breaking dishes and number 8 was for dropping the Christmas cookies (I was climbing the pantry shelves). I cant remember what number 1 was for.
Lmao that took a second. Started laughing when I was writing number 8. My parents regretted that one so much it was hilarious. My mom now has an extreme hatred of honey. Anyway I was trying to put some of their more creative ones. I probably missed a couple but its been years since Ive been in that kind of trouble. This stuff was all elementary school.
Do you prefer food from your own country more, or a foreign country?
Your parents were...hmm
I guess it was necessary n useful at the time. But reading it all compiled together, it sounds a bit much
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