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I don't know GAF. Today when my friend told me the tale of her little brother walked in on her parents doing the deed, I was reminded of what happened only months ago. You see, my parents are Asian. As in, old generation stereotypical "you better do good in school or I no send you to college" type Asian. I mean, I realize my very existence implies they've done the deed once, and my sister implies they've done it at least twice then. But these two argue all the time. It seems like they hate each other. Sex would be miserable between these two. There's no way...

Then, I go to brush my teeth in the bathroom when I realize there's no more toothpaste. So I go to the master bedroom that belongs to my parents and open the drawer. As I scrummage through all the supplies, something catches my eye. I thought it was an alcohol patch thing.

I don't even remember if it was the right type, but it was definitely a Trojan condom.

What? It couldn't be mine, because I'm a fucking virgin. It probably wasn't my 10 year old sister's. And no one else lived in the house aside from my parents.

Right on cue, my mom comes in to do her make up and I continue scrummaging as if I hadn't seen it yet. After a half a minute, I slow down and my mom notices. I pull it out and I ask her, "Mom, what...is this?"

She doesn't turn from the mirror and acts like it's nothing, "Hmm, I don't know."

I give her quite the quizzical look, and then put it back and leave the room.

The next day, I check to see if it's still there. It's gone.

Stereotypical Asian parents going at it. Wow.

So GAF, one-up me. What are things that surprised you about your parents?
 
The realisation they were as young as I am now once

Parents are always... like... well, parents. It's really difficult to think of them as being young, unattached, stressing about exams, thinking about the future.

Also, my dad had an amazingly bad mullet back in the 70s. He's Asian. It looked terrible.
 
Jintor said:
The realisation they were as young as I am now once

Parents are always... like... well, parents. It's really difficult to think of them as being young, unattached, stressing about exams, thinking about the future.

Also, my dad had an amazingly bad mullet back in the 70s. He's Asian. It looked terrible.
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Same. Especially looking at old photos of my parents, they looked good.
 
My father looked like a damn hippie. Shoulder length hair, mustache. And my mom. The pictures of him I've seen looking like that, she's there in Daisy Dukes.

That and the one time I came home to visit and found my mom wearing an old 2Pac shirt.
 
Featheredkitten said:
How is that surprising? people have sex, sex feels good. News at eleven.
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It's like how you know the sun exists, and you know for a fact it's hot. Then one day you board a spaceship that flies straight into the sun. Then you realize what hot really means. It's kinda like that.

notworksafe said:
You're surprised you parents had sex? What the fuck
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I'm not surprised my parents had sex. I'm surprised they still do. Strict difference.
 
When AFI released their album Sing the Sorrow I was in love with it, listened to it endlessly for weeks. One day I discovered that the CD was missing and figuring that I had misplaced it I bought another copy. A few weeks later I went to the store with my mom and during the ride in her car she flipped over from the radio to the CD player to my AFI album playing. I was shocked, not because I had found out what had happened to my album, but that my mom would actually listen to and enjoy that type of music. I ended up letting her keep the album.

One of the most surprising revelations I've ever had.
 
Snaku said:
How do you think you and your sis got here?
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Reading-Comprehension GAF here to save the day.

Mariolee said:
I don't know GAF. Today when my friend told me the tale of her little brother walked in on her parents doing the deed, I was reminded of what happened only months ago. You see, my parents are Asian. As in, old generation stereotypical "you better do good in school or I no send you to college" type Asian. I mean, I realize my very existence implies they've done the deed once, and my sister implies they've done it at least twice then. But these two argue all the time. It seems like they hate each other. Sex would be miserable between these two. There's no way...
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Some of you are misinterpreting OP. It's not "Oh, my parents once had sex". It's "There are condoms in this house and any moment I am not in their presence they could be doin' it"

THE HORROR
 
My father joined the communist party as a teen to piss off my very Catholic very Nationalist (Spain, so pro-Franco) grandfather. Was threatened constantly by the Guardia Civil. Went to Mexico in his early twenties.
 
Mariolee said:
I don't know GAF. Today when my friend told me the tale of her little brother walked in on her parents doing the deed, I was reminded of what happened only months ago. You see, my parents are Asian. As in, old generation stereotypical "you better do good in school or I no send you to college" type Asian. I mean, I realize my very existence implies they've done the deed once, and my sister implies they've done it at least twice then. But these two argue all the time. It seems like they hate each other. Sex would be miserable between these two. There's no way...

Then, I go to brush my teeth in the bathroom when I realize there's no more toothpaste. So I go to the master bedroom that belongs to my parents and open the drawer. As I scrummage through all the supplies, something catches my eye. I thought it was an alcohol patch thing.

I don't even remember if it was the right type, but it was definitely a Trojan condom.

What? It couldn't be mine, because I'm a fucking virgin. It probably wasn't my 10 year old sister's. And no one else lived in the house aside from my parents.

Right on cue, my mom comes in to do her make up and I continue scrummaging as if I hadn't seen it yet. After a half a minute, I slow down and my mom notices. I pull it out and I ask her, "Mom, what...is this?"

She doesn't turn from the mirror and acts like it's nothing, "Hmm, I don't know."

I give her quite the quizzical look, and then put it back and leave the room.

The next day, I check to see if it's still there. It's gone.

Stereotypical Asian parents going at it. Wow.

So GAF, one-up me. What are things that surprised you about your parents?
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Makes me wonder how repressed they are and how they go at it.

This is a terrible avenue of thinking to go down, dude.
 
Both of my parents lived during the Cultural Revolution in China. Their families were dispossessed under Mao's government, and wound up laboring on farms as children. Somehow, despite being unable to even afford basic education, they got into college, immigrated to Canada on scholarships, went from Canada to the U.S., where they've managed to give me a pretty comfortable life despite being a first generation immigrant family. I realized a few years back that they barely even feel the recession, because it's nothing compared to what they went through in their childhood.

Also, despite both of them working in IT for years, I'm still the most computer-literate member of our household.
 
My mom and dad were very active protesters during the military dictatorships in South Korea. My dad was very nearly caught by the police. If he did, well, it'd be safe to say that I wouldn't be alive.

It kinda surprised me a few years back, and it's still hard to imagine 20 year old Mom and Dad protesting for democracy, throwing fire bottles while being shot at.
 
Congratulations OP, you found your dad's stash of condoms! You now have the knowledge that your dad rummages through the same drawer when he's feeling horny (and not wearing pants). I hope you found that toothpaste.

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For me, not so much surprising but rather mindblowing that roughly around my age, my parents were struggling to survive in a post-civil war country and spent years making plans and attempting to flee the country as refugees. Their resolve is something I'm not sure I have.
 
You're surprised your parents have sex? Did you really think they had sex twice just to have you and your sister and then decided to quit?
 
Vek said:
Congratulations OP, you found your dad's stash of condoms! You now have the knowledge that your dad rummages through the same drawer when he's feeling horny (and not wearing pants). I hope you found that toothpaste.

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For me, not so much surprising but rather mindblowing that roughly around my age, my parents were struggling to survive in a post-civil war country and spent years making plans and attempting to flee the country as refugees. Their resolve is something I'm not sure I have.
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This is something I struggle with as my parents as immigrants worked their asses off in hard times, turning $200 into what we have now. I'd like to think I hold that same resolve when I will encounter times of hardship, but I truly don't know.

3N16MA said:
You're surprised your parents have sex? Did you really think they had sex twice just to have you and your sister and then decided to quit?
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I tricked myself into believing that. Then the dream collapsed.
 
that they weren't married and that she was the "other woman" dad had another family and four other kids 20 years prior before he got together with my mom and had us three brothers.

I even met and stayed over at the other woman's (my dad's) house several times throughout the years. dad however saw us every single day went camping, boating, amusement parks, the works and I never had a want or need.

but one when I was 8 there was something on TV and my mother said "doesn't apply to us, we're not married" I was bewildered because back then I thought that people that had children automatically are married. so I asked them, "but... you guys are married, right?" my dad smiled and said no. it wasn't until many more years later that I realized we were franchise number 2.
 
That crazy-ass reveal that they are not crazy-ass rich. I mean, you can´t afford atleast one these precious bubblegums but they can afford huge packages of it like nothing.
 
Haly said:
Both of my parents lived during the Cultural Revolution in China. Their families were dispossessed under Mao's government, and wound up laboring on farms as children. Somehow, despite being unable to even afford basic education, they got into college, immigrated to Canada on scholarships, went from Canada to the U.S., where they've managed to give me a pretty comfortable life despite being a first generation immigrant family. I realized a few years back that they barely even feel the recession, because it's nothing compared to what they went through in their childhood.

Also, despite both of them working in IT for years, I'm still the most computer-literate member of our household.
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My parents took part in the Tiananmen Square protests and after it went south my dad was able to get us to the US on a scholarship.
 
My parents lied to me for almost twenty years about the year that they were married just to hide the fact that my older sister was born out of wedlock.

Then I also found out that they were hiding a.) the existence of children from their previous marriages and that b.) my mom's daughter from her first marriage and my dad's son from his previous marriage are married to each other.

And that we have no contact with them because they're violent psychopaths. My dad is probably also a rapist. Don't know how I'll ever go about getting to the bottom of that one...
 
Mad Pierrot said:
My parents lied to me for almost twenty years about the year that they were married just to hide the fact that my older sister was born out of wedlock.

Then I also found out that they were hiding a.) the existence of children from their previous marriages and that b.) my mom's daughter from her first marriage and my dad's son from his previous marriage are married to each other.

And that we have no contact with them because they're violent psychopaths. My dad is probably also a rapist. Don't know how I'll ever go about getting to the bottom of that one...
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wha.... Da.....
 
mingus said:
My parents took part in the Tiananmen Square protests and after it went south my dad was able to get us to the US on a scholarship.
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By then my parents had already immigrated, I was born in Canada one year later.
 
EviLore said:
You...found a contraceptive in your parents' bedroom and confronted your mother about it?
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seriously, why


about my parents: My mother had polio when she was child (she almost died) and it took her years to fully recover from that

my father traveled to at least half the countries in the world. His father killed himself shortly before the end of the second world war
to my knowledge he worked as a scientist for the Nazis
 
Mariolee said:
I don't even remember if it was the right type, but it was definitely a Trojan condom.

What? It couldn't be mine, because I'm a fucking virgin.

Right on cue, my mom comes in to do her make up and I continue scrummaging as if I hadn't seen it yet. After a half a minute, I slow down and my mom notices. I pull it out and I ask her, "Mom, what...is this?"

She doesn't turn from the mirror and acts like it's nothing, "Hmm, I don't know."

I give her quite the quizzical look, and then put it back and leave the room.

The next day, I check to see if it's still there. It's gone.
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Fucking lol.
 
My dad used to be part of an extremist group when his home country was under a dictatorship. His name was listed with others in a watchlist. Of course when the dictator was overthrown all that went out the window. But it's crazy how many people my dad knows that are currently in rather prominent positions back in his home country.

My mom used to be part of a rich family until an uncle sold off the land and squandered the money in gambling and other illegal stuff. Some branches of the family are rich while others are at the poverty line. So basically on my moms side my relatives are practically in all the over the place in financial status
 
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