ickplant

Some of you had healthy childhoods...

https://lemmy.world/post/44698379

Mar 24 at 9:06pmWeb
Show threadLexamMar 24
Well yeah. Can’t hold a flashlight for a dad that abandons you.
Show threadCaptDustMar 24
You wouldn’t believe the lines at the gas station, like who has 22 years to wait for a pack of smokes, geez.
Show threadjdf038Mar 24
Should have put a 1 star review in when Google got invented
Show threadTheTechnician27Mar 24
Well no shit he never came back. He couldn’t find his way home because he couldn’t see because you weren’t pointing the flashlight in the right spot!
Show threadClentMar 24
Your dad was around in the beginning for long enough to abandon you?
Show threadAndonyxMar 24
“Not so YOU can see! So I can see! What the hell is wrong with you?”
Show threadProprietary_BlendMar 24
Just give me the damn thing and go inside!
Show threadprostatitisMar 24
Aziz, light!
Show threadmacnielMar 24
You can’t toast with water though.
Show threadTrickDacyMar 25
Thank you very much aziz, much better
Show threadGreenKnight23Mar 25
Show threadbarkybeakMar 24

Oh man. This brings back so much trauma.

Holding the flashlight for your parents is one of the hardest things to do.

I have asked my son to hold a flashlight for me. I understand what my parents went through.

However when my buddy holds a flashlight, he does a good job.

Show threadSpaceNoodleMar 24

The difference is that your buddy knows that your work needs to be illuminated, not you.

Teach your children.

Show threadickplantMar 24
Show threadAoxoMoxoAMar 25
My pops would put it in my hand then grab my arm and put it right where he wanted it …and I didn’t move it one inch from that spot
Show threadSatansMaggotyCumFartMar 24
I bet only one or two of us held our dad’s fleshlights.
Show threadswearengenMar 25
…Jesus Christ
Show threadSpaceNoodleMar 24
Oh, fudge.
Show threadIntrovertTurtleMar 24

I read that with an E instead of an A, and I wonder what that says about me…

But yeah, “NO, HOLD IT THIS WAY, RIGHT HERE!!” and I grew up with 2 mechanic uncles and a step dad so I got it 4x as hard 😭

Not that it’s a competition, but holy shit is the meme real.

Show threadhemkoMar 24
Oh lol I read it twice, some comments and still reading it as Fleshlight
Show threadEtterraMar 25
I come from a family of electricians, I feel your pain.
Show threadswitcherooMar 24

Some people never had to dig thru couch cushions and under car seats hoping for change so your mom can buy you Taco Bell and it shows.

(This was back when bean burritos were 59 cents)

Show threadAoxoMoxoAMar 25
Got to love parents. To this day the oldest item from my childhood of the late 70s is a giant blow mold spider man head bank. I always liked it as a kid and people would visit and put change in it. One day I went to play with it and there was a giant hole cut in the back which looks like it was made with a steak knife and all the money was gone. I was too young to really give a shit but i often wonder where it went. I guess mom needed the $ for something. I always knew life wasn’t shit and most people suck
Show threadmacnielMar 24
How to give your Failure, emotional damage in one easy but seemingly impossible step.
Show threadspitfireMar 25
„Mi świecisz, czy sobie?”
Show threadhomesMar 25
I don’t think my father ever held a flashlight. He made me do his dirty work.
Show threadEtterraMar 25
No hold it straight! Right there, now hold it!
Show thread5oap10116Mar 25

While holding the flashlight at 27 yrs of age while he works to install a vanity He says “give me the twisty turney”.

I replied “The twisty turney?”

He confirmed “Yehlah give me the twisty turned. Quick.”

This is the man who for my entire life taught me the name and use of every single tool in the box…im thinking socket wrench? Channel lock pliers? Hes working on plumbing…but also sort of carpentry…

I said “you’re going to have to be more specific”

He replied “The damn Philips head screwdriver”

Show threadTexas_HangoverMar 25

"Dont shine it up at the moon you dipshit! The moons already glowing! Shine the fucker over here! 🤣

Good times lmao.

Show threadHasherm0nMar 25

youtube.com/shorts/IEFlaw19yLk

KEVIN!!

Sea otters are the only marine mammal that use tools, though their tools are mostly rocks. 🦦🪨🧰

YouTube
Show threadSam_BassMar 25
My dad went to prison when I was 3 so no. The replacement was cool as hell and very family oriented, loved to work on cars with his brothers and even got me interested. But he was also an interstate drug mule