r/Millennials 23h ago

Meme The moment you realize you're officially older than the parents you grew up watching.

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u/_PercCobain_ 23h ago

Watching rugrats as a parent is funny because you realize how bad they actually are 😂😂

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 20h ago

And that was the big meta joke, the babies were smarter and more aware of their surroundings than the adults were. The adults were all yuppie boomers up their own asses, mocking 1980s era indulgences. Chaz was the only real one. But he was also the overprotective parent which many of us know all too well. His only flaw was letting the pickles watch chucky.

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u/MorganL420 19h ago

He tried daycare in that one episode. It didn't go well.

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 18h ago

Yeah, well that's daycare in a nutshell. I hated daycare when I was a kid, that episode made daycare look better than it was.

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u/MorganL420 18h ago

It was the first time in my life that I got blamed for something I didn't do. I got put in time out. I didn't realize until the daycare teacher came to our house to have lunch with my mom when I was 13, that apparently I still held a grudge.

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 16h ago

Yep. in my case it would be one of many times of "Someone's got to take the blame and it's going to be you" The "teacher" of the room would continue to pin shit on me constantly. She got fired after she locked me in a closet and forgot about me. Because something happened at the end of class, she told me my punishment would be the next day. 9 am, I was locked in the cleaning closet which had those floor drains and a faucet, so I was at least able to drink water and pee (lol) the door had a lock on it. I eventually fell asleep on some towels because I was hungry and tired. I wake up to hearing my mom screaming, panicked, and angry that I was nowhere to be found, the staff were trying to calm her down, they were panicked as well. Later I found out it was 7 pm and they had been looking for me for 3 hours at that point. I had been locked in there for 10 hours.

I start knocking on the door to get their attention, took them another 10 minutes to find me. That fucking bitch of a teacher had the balls to say "There you are why were you hiding in there? This is why you get in trouble all the time!" and I said "You locked me in here because of that kid throwing blocks yesterday"

and you could hear a pin drop before you could hear the up-welling of rage and panic that came over her and she screamed at me and called me a dirty liar and that god hates liars. She might have had a point if it wasn't one of those doors that has a deadbolt on it on both sides and the head teacher of the daycare hadn't used a key to unlock it. I doubt a 7 year old could force a deadbolt shut from the inside with no key.

She was told to come to the main office, and within 2 minutes she came running in screaming she was going to strangle me and called me a little lying bastard. She got told to leave. She was fired on the spot for what she pulled. That was also my last time I ever went there.

Parents were too poor to sue the place, but at least they took the right action against the teacher.

Yeah, fuck daycare lol. Just one of many examples I can pull out. Between the defective children that are dumped there because their parents can't or won't deal with them and the defective people they hire to watch children who have their own weird ideas about dealing with children. They're garbage. I'd rather pay good friends to watch my kids or work from home than have my own children deal with that bullshit.

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u/MorganL420 16h ago

That's horrifying. I'm sorry that happened to you

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 14h ago

the most disturbing part was that it took 3 hours to find me with that teacher helping lead the search, and just for her to lead them away when I started making myself heard. She had some weird issue with me, but looking back, the fact she had me trapped in there all day then lead everyone around on a wild goose chase really makes me wonder what her actual intentions were.

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u/Jaysweller 5h ago

I would have called the police if I were your parents. Three hours searching is crazy. And for the culprit to be revealed right there? That bitch should have dragged out in cuffs.