There’s wanting your kids to respect you, and then there’s making them wear socks in the pool.

"I never slept over again, but once she came to my house, and this dude drove by at 9:05 p.m. and saw my bedroom light was on. (Yes, he made her point out my bedroom window so he could check.) Then, he called my house and demanded my mom tell him why we weren't in bed. She lied and told him we were sleeping in the basement and she was cleaning my room. Then, she told him to leave pronto or she'd be calling the police on him for scoping out her kid's bedroom window."

"My in-laws had the same room. The first time my husband sat on the couch (which had been there for the entirety of his memory) was when they were selling the furniture before moving. The even funnier part is that my in-laws built an extension onto their house so they'd have a 'TV room' instead of just using the formal sitting room that was never used by humans."

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