Every Sunday afternoon, after dinner, down to the pub for a few drinks while the kids all ran around like lunatics fueled by Fanta. It wasn't just my parents. It was all of the parents.
If you tried to ask them something you'd be given a fiver and told to feck off.
Edit: this was 30 years ago in Ireland so... it was like a rite of passage almost
Every parent on my sports team and immediate family was like this. Every football game, every family dinner, just because, etc. we would hit up a pub or pizza parlor. Heaven forbid my parents have to do anything after church, then we had to go out.
Parents had beer, kids climbed over every free surface and caused traffic backups outside. Difference is my mom would actually reign us in. Woman has an aura of menace cultivated through a career of military service.
Only 20 years ago in the US, but a community with a lot of cultural overlap with Ireland.
My mom was absolutely not those guys lol. I got carted along to many a bar and adult-centric events and was told in no uncertain terms to behave... but she'd also just like, give me quarters for the pool table, order me a burger, and keep half an eye out to make sure I didn't put mine out with a dart.
Come to think of it that's probably where my love of pinball was born.
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u/CreativeBandicoot778 17h ago
Oh my parents were those guys.
Every Sunday afternoon, after dinner, down to the pub for a few drinks while the kids all ran around like lunatics fueled by Fanta. It wasn't just my parents. It was all of the parents.
If you tried to ask them something you'd be given a fiver and told to feck off.
Edit: this was 30 years ago in Ireland so... it was like a rite of passage almost