Submitted 3 days ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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My family was always open to anyone to visit as much as they wanted so my friends came over 95% of the time. Like the third time I visited one friend’s house his mom came in, looked at me, and gave a long sigh before saying “Again?”. She also made him stop what we were doing and immediately shampoo the carpet which his did nearly every day, I assume to get the smell of weed out.
Most families I’ve witnessed were dysfunctional, but I didn’t notice until my twenties.
Dude, that sucks. A lot of shit happens as a kid you don’t realize was not normal until your brain develops. My kids friends would be able to come over as much as they like too, open door policy.
He’s also been told if he sees a kid at school not eating lunch to tell someone. Well send an extra lunch or extra money if necessary. This was long before this SNAP bullshit, been telling that since he started school.
Thinking of the shit some kids go through thinking it’s normal breaks my heart the fastest. Second is animals.
Do you see the man on the street Just fighting for a meal to eat You can write him off as a lunatic But it coulda been you or me
This is what I feel sometimes when I see people doing some deliberately stupid things online. They might just be too desperate to be the next viral thing, even as though it’s too stupid, in expectation to earn some money and make ends meet.
They don’t have much to lose and this seems like the only way to gain a moment of fame. But the platforms are rigged for pay to play to hell, and most get ridiculed all over the internet for it.
The restaurants making ridiculous food, people doing obvious stupid trends, streamers doing fake surprises, fake podcasts revelations, families doing awful shit to each other and so on.
I went over to a friend from schools for the first time and we rented a game and were playing it and I guess his dad was an alcoholic and he started fighting with his mom and calling her a stupid bitch and I was like: nope. Called my parents and got the fuck out of there.
That alcoholic father? Albert Einstein.
First she said “get that out of your mouth!”
I got my friend into skateboarding and punk music. He got into an argument with his dad in front of me and his dad threw is skateboard at me and told me “go back to the hole you crawled out of!”
His dad was my pastor at the time.
That only happened to me once. There’s no worse feeling than knowing you’re no longer welcome, so I tried to avoid it as much as possible, so I stopped going to friends’ houses who still lived with their parents.
yakko@feddit.uk 3 days ago
That’s when I really felt like family
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 days ago
Just like home. She loves me just as my mom does.