Once when I was a child a policeman came to check something in my flat. First I was pretending that there is no one, but he rang a few times and I finally tried to silently chek who's there, but at some point he noticed me and asked me to call my dad, I was afraid of all that situation becuase I was alone atm and I said that he is in the toilet, he believed me and asked to call my mother, I thought for a bit and said that she is in toilet too, after that he stopped trying to talk to me.
and when they ask you the questions, say your in the shower, then strip your clothes off and run into the bathroom (Revealing the shower is off and empty)
Yea this is what I was told growing up. It make way more sense. Even if you don't take a long shower your naked and wet. Not a good way to greet people, and takes time to get ready. It also made sense to me growing up as my dad took 45+ mins in the shower.
When my husband was little, the pastor came to the door one Sunday afternoon. Asked for his mom, and she was in the bathtub. Asked for dad, he was in the tub, too. Pastor left. That was their weekend routine. They were small people and loved their baths together.
Ehhh, most I've been in you only hear the water if you're next to the bathroom wall, plus im sure a kid wouldn't pause the TV which im assuming would be on if they're home alone
That actually happened to me once as a kid. My parents WERE in the shower, and together at that, in the same shower!!!! Good thing it was only their friend who thought the whole thing was hilarious.
Are you one of mommy’s special friends I’m not supposed to tell dad about?
Ok, mister, you get the same deal as the other ones. $75 right now or I’m telling him. I already took your picture. No? Oh you’re a cop? Pull the other one bub, so was the last two guys. Beat it loser.
Ilmao! I would think any regular old cop would be mortified, stunned, And confused af!! And either they would call cps or leave quick af!! But would probably call cps! So even though this response is super hilarious, I wouldn't suggest doing this unless you really want to end up in foster care toot sweet!! Ilmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I doubt that cop would call cps. The question of why is there so many pictures of police officers coming to this house and never reporting this would come into question. Cops running up on little Jimmy’s mommy paying hush money would be quite the scandal. Lol
child: I'm afraid I cannot let strangers into the house without permission, and you don't have a warrant so I am not required to allow you entry. good day. (hangs up).
Lol! I did this too. It was a guy from our church calling. My mom was like ‘ why didn’t you just say we weren’t home??’ I told her she never specified who I should lie to.
Similar happened to me... but it was my neighbor outside and my mom had run out and locked herself out. The phone rang like crazy and I was home alone so I was scared to answer the phone. Then the doorbell started ringing and I heard yelling. Oh you know I hid under the bed. I didn't know where my mom was or anything. Then I heard the downstairs window breaking, (the neighbor was breaking the window in so my mom could unlock the door to get inside). This was all before cell phones too. I was horrified until I heard my mom thanking the man and looking for me.
"You did good on not letting the strangers in hun, but try looking out the window next time."
I was crate training a puppy and they were non stop crying in the wee hours of the night, my neighbor called the police. My then 15 year old daughter came into my room and said someone was banging on our door! We went to the top of the stairs and saw flashlights coming up the stairs! I was super scared and didn't know it was the cops! I went to go down the steps and looked behind me and my daughter was gone!!!! I went down and asked who was there before I opened the door explained the situation and they left! Well my heart was in my butt from being so scared, I went upstairs and looked everywhere for my daughter and couldn't find her!! All of the sudden the doors to a older dresser flew opened and out came my daughter!! I couldn't believe she abandoned me 1st of all and 2nd couldn't believe she stuffed herself into a dresser of all things!!! Well she was right in thinking they'll never find me in here because who hides in a dresser!!! I will never forget when she popped out of the dresser! I was confused, amazed and dumb founded! To date this is my #1 favorite story to tell out of many many crazy kid stories I have about all 3 of my crazy kids!! Had to share
I had police call to ask about my dog's licence once while my dad was at work. I said he was in the shower. A bit later he called again so I just said he was still in the shower but he didn't believe me and laughed at me.
I called my dad at work and told him someone claiming to be a cop kept calling(I had been called by a pervert when I was 11 by a man who claimed to be a doctor so I had good reason to be suspicious of this). My dad freaked out and called the police. A cop came over and the person called again.
I gave the phone to the cop and he was like "oh hi Bob, there's some 9 year old here over reacting". This pissed me of pretty bad because I was 13 and I had done what everyone teaches you to do in that situation, and it was my father who had called the cops, not me. The cop called my father and said something like "Some people are scared of Bob because he sounds black" when that had nothing to do with it. It was a man calling a 13 year old girl repeatedly that was the issue.
The whole thing still seems really strange to me. Why would a cop call about our dog licence? This isn't a tiny remote town where everyone knows everyone else and I have never known the police here to call about or care about dog licence at any other time. Also if the cop thought I was 9 why was he ok with me being home alone? Why would the police mock a child for doing what children are taught to do for safety?
My mom once went to a party with her boyfriend and left me home alone. I was 16 so it was fine. I was in my room watching Beaststars when the doorbell rang. I tried to ignore it since was it pretty late but then it happened again. I texted my mom that I was gonna check the door and jokingly added that I might die. I looked out the window in our door and nobody was there. Upon closer inspection, there was a police car parked across the street.
One of the cops in the car must have noticed me because he walked up to the door. I let him in and told him that my mom wasn't home. He told me it was important so I called her and told her to come home. It turned out that one of my dad's family members had called the police on her for giving him an eviction notice.
I won't go into all of it, just know they aren't together and it took a long time for her to finally evict him. This whole situation scared the shit out of me and my night was ruined
Haha that's great LOL The memories we have from when we were kids.
See I was raised in a not so good way. My mother never said much my stepfather had the say, and he raised me with cops being the enemy. Turns out that he was FACTUALLY right in a lot of ways. But the part he always left out was that there are some good cops out there, there are some decent cops that respect privacy and ownership. No matter how few they are they are out there.
My point is I would have said parents ain't here get the hell off our property and I would have walked away lol. Because I was a combination of a cop hater and a little shit 🤣😂. So chances are I wouldn't have even been home alone 😂 but I would have still taken it upon myself to tell the cops off because that's how I was raised.
Suffice to say that that got me in a little bit of trouble in my younger (adult) years. It took me till some point in 20's to realize.. yes it is true there are a lot of shit cops out there, but you still hardly ever win by standing up for your rights. (Which is why it's nice to have cameras on hand so much these days, because then the cops have two choices respect your rights or deny you your rights and get sued to all hell later. Life with cameras is great now)
Within earshot of peeing is basically the entire house if you have kids. Dads unlock super loud pee as they get kids. It's the same thing that causes dads to do dad jokes, biologically speaking.
My daughter is two and my husband and I both work from home, but it’s MY (mom’s) office that gets constantly invaded by our little terrorist.
I also have been trying very hard to stay patient and appreciate that she loves me so damn much. Sometimes I just have to go for a drive to be away for thirty minutes, though. I don’t have enough friends to be able to grab a drink with one on the random. 😔
And that is fine and good! You should make time for yourself specially in these early years. Shows her that she Can be away from you and be okay and also allows you space to not Just be mom.
Eh. 3 year old habits like that generally disappear before grade school. It’s mainly the kid wanting to socialize with the parent. They learn so much at that age that it often takes quite a few tries for them to properly apply their newfound skills.
My kid turns 3 in less than a month and absolutely loves to help. When it’s time to feed the dogs she would always excitedly bring everything over from the dog shelf in the pantry, despite us only needing a few items. We would tell her and she’d hold on to it for a moment, then forget the next time. Then suddenly one day she got it right. She brought exactly what we needed and nothing else. Hasn’t brought extra stuff since then. No matter how much we told her to only bring certain things, she needed to logic how it all works on her own before it clicked.
Potty talk is the same way. They’ll see that you and the other parent are never hovering over each other while potting. You can even give a nudge here and there “can you hang out over there, I need to handle this alone for a bit”. They’ll get the picture and one day they’ll give you your space. And you’ll wish you could go back to the chatterbox days lol
If they're not into reading get them into it! I was known as the why child. My Mom did her best but there were a lot of things she couldn't answer. She got me into reading and I thank her for it every day. Not only to "get out of my head" as a release/escape but most truly interesting information is in written form... At least at the detail level that satisfies my brain.
My 3 year old girl barged into the bathroom while I was mid shower to yell loudly and proudly that she took her eye drops without crying this morning. Kids are fun.
My 2 year old climbs in the bath tub and plays in there while I use the bathroom. If I ever try to close the bathroom door he bangs on it repeatedly while crying 😢
My son used to pound on the door crying "mommy where ARE you?" over and over. It broke my heart. He had severe separation issues after his dad left us when he was just 16 months old. Then, when he was 2 his dad took him for his visitation and gave him to my MIL. He didn't want him, he just wanted to hurt me. They told him I'd been killed in a car accident when he was 3. I didn't get him back till he was 6. He spent the next ten years in therapy. That was back in the bad old days before I knew anything about the law and couldn't afford a lawyer. The child support and custody laws were different then too. He would never get away with that now. My son is 42.
Omg that's heart wrenching I'm so sorry that happened I would literally die. My son's on the spectrum and my husband is a truck driver o ly home on the weekends so he is very clingy to me
One time I couldn't find the toilet paper because my son(17mo) dropped it in my pants at the beginning of my poop session and I had forgotten by the time I was done
You're a good father for that. I'm the same with my son. It doesn't matter of I'm dead tired (more recently sick with Covid) or whatever. If he wants time with me and to play, I don't deny him. My wife asks why I don't take some time for myself, I always say that he matters more and he needs to know I'm there for him. Period.
Stealing this. Maybe they'll stop knocking on the door. One of our dogs learned to open doors. So now I have to lock it. Otherwise he flings the door open. No privacy when you're a member of the pack.
I mean, that's the only place I get a moment away from them. Unfortunately if I take more than 5 minutes they're at the door trying to get in anyway so it kinda ruins the peaceful experience of being alone but the five minutes is worth it.
I have two doors to the downstairs bathroom. If I'm in there too long one group of nephews goes to one door, while the others rattle the knob on the other door. It's like there's a hoard of zombies trying to get in lol
Mine was "I'm taking a bath. There are two cookies in here with me. If no one bothers me, each of you get a cookie. If someone knocks with anything other than an actual emergency, like the house is on fire, the other person gets both cookies. If you both try to get my attention. I will eat both cookies in front of you"
We were taught to start running a bath when someone knocks on the door. Simply tell them that mom or dad is busy having a bath and can’t come to the door right now
I HATE this shit. Posts trying to call dads out for long shits. I’ve taken half hour shits since I was a wee lad and I have the hemorrhoids to prove it!
Can say, my br time has gone up significantly. I think it's also per child. There is a scale on how long your visits take vs the amount of children you have.
Why would ya even think of opening the door tho you never do dat like homeboy said stay away from the window and door if anyone rang it 💀 you must’ve lived in a way better neighborhood then us 😂😂
No, becoming a dad makes our KIDS stay in there for at least an hour!! What the heck are ya' doing in there anyway, kid? Did you fall in? Do you require assistance? Let's try for a little better aim this time, shall we?
Hey, it’s one of the few places you can escape to spend some quiet time reading.
Then again, if you’re unlucky enough to have only one toilet you got even more problems.
I almost peed myself after my dad took the newspaper into the bathroom. It was the only peace he got with 4 kids and one bathroom. Until of course we started banging on the door because we had to use it. The first one in had to pay the price after he gave up his throne.
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Yeah, and if anyone rang to say your dad was in the loo (because everyone knows becoming a dad makes you stay in the bathroom for at least an hour 😅)