re: What’s the moment you know you’ve turned into your parents

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4 hours scrubbing away cleaning because I’m going out of town

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Damn, I thought my mom was the only one who did that. I remember her finishing the house cleaning early before we drove to WDW. So, instead of just relaxing, she went out to my dad's shop and cleaned that as well. It was a general purpose building where we worked on farm equipment, so she ended up having to do way more cleaning than anticipated. She was up until 2AM the morning we left making sure the outside room was cleaner than it ever had been before.

Mercifully, I didn't inherit that gene from her. My "parents" moment was driving home from work one evening after dark. Wife and kids were gone to church or something, and I experienced a new, weird pain upon seeing they managed to turn on just about every light bulb in our house before they left.

Thinking too much about paint colors

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When I started taking cat naps during Razorback football games. I never could fathom how my dad did that and considered himself a fan.

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I’ll admit, I’m close to this one. It helps when your team goes 11-11 over two years though and when you play ULM at 8pm.

I go back and read some of my emails and I go on and on, just like my dad does but it a written format. I’m a rambler, just like my Pops. If aggravated the shite out of me when he does it so I guess I’m aggravating too. frick

First time I told my kid, "Sit down, we have to talk".

I knew I was busted back then, and my son knew it too.

I got mad because one of my roommates touched the thermostat.

When I told my kids that if I keep feeding their friends I am going to have to claim them as dependents.

When I started walking around the house in my underwear in the earlier morning ripping farts and yelling at my kids to wake up…. I am my father.

Ear hair and new balance.

“I’m tired - y’all go to bed!”